Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

a financial voyeur’s dream come true: all the intimate details of how, where, and why I spend money

$$: Christmas Shipping & Shopping

Total Spent Today: $166.08

I had the car today and had to take The Son into the city for a school activity so I took the opportunity to get some Christmas errands done.  It was a very productive day.
Apple — $48.42
During my last One-to-One session, I mentioned my database woes (currently using Access but want to move everything to [...]

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$$: Dec 17 — A No-Spend Day!

Total Spent Today: $0.00

‘Nuff said.

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$$: Dec 16 - Groceries & Supplement

Total Spent Today: $77.96

Whole Foods — $52.26

Whole Foods organic Farfalle pasta — $1.99
Whole Foods organic Fusilli pasta — $1.99
365 Lasagna pasta — $2.99
1/2-gallon Horizon chocolate milk — $3.99
1/2-gallon Horizon 2% milk — $3.19
91% lean ground beef — $5.35
fresh mozzarella log — $7.99
Organic Valley ricotta cheese — $7.49
Whole Foods grated Parmesan cheese — $3.99
fresh fruit cup — $3.74
2.08# navel [...]

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$$: Dec 15 - Physical Therapy, etc.

Total Spent Today: $91.85

Physical Therapy — $25.00
This was, for now, The Son’s last physical therapy session.  His range of motion is excellent though not quite 100%.  His strength needs more work but he’s going to have to work on that on his own.  If The Son should run into range of motion issues at some point — ie [...]

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$$: Boosting the Economy

Total Spent Today: $1,920.17

Well, I did my part to help the economy today 
Kroger — $141.86
I went shopping with the kids today so the shopping bill was higher than normal 

nacho Doritos — $2.98 (saved $0.32)
Oberto jerkey — $5.49 (saved $0.50)
2.10# organic Grannie Smith apples — $5.23
2.08# Navel oranges — $4.14
1.91# bananas — $1.28
2.66# butternut squash [...]

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$$: a cappella

Total Spent Today: $20.00

Church — $20.00
The Son and I attended an annual Holiday concert.  It was fabulous.  Terrific.  I’d have given up any two skills/talents if I’d been born with a voice.  I have a range of two notes — both of them bad.  Really, I sound like a sick cow.  But I do love vocal music.
The check [...]

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$$: Meat and Potatoes

Ugh.  Friday’s are tough because The Daughter gets one car and The Husband and I have to share the second one but we both have busy schedules because The Son’s in class on Friday and I volunteer.
Whole Foods — $11.06

2.83# organic russet potatoes — $2.80
@ 3# ground turkey thigh — $8.10

The plan is to make [...]

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