$$: No More Filing Papers on the Floor
The Container Store — $16.15
Now, I’m not accepting any flack on this purchase. I know I could have spent a lot less filling this need elsewhere but not without a great deal of time and effort expended. In my current SWI (shopping while impaired) condition, time and effort are in very short supply [not to mention [...]
$$: Should Have Been a No-Spend Day
That’s right, today should have been a no-spend day — but it wasn’t.
On Monday evening, I made a late, quick run to the mall then hopped across the street to Whole Foods where I stocked up on dinner ingredients. I’d planned to try a oven-baked potato chip recipe (not a flaming success) and make a meatloaf [...]
$$: More Clothes & Gas
As I’ve already written, I spent most of the day working for the Obama campaign on one final GOTV push.
But I did manage to spend a little bit of money.
Gap — ($19.33)
During the one break in my volunteer duties, I stopped in the Gap store and returned the two pair of canvas pants I’d [...]
$$: Food & Clothes
Although I was tired and feeling very impaired (… still can’t decide if I have the flu or a bad Fibromyalgia flare-up), I managed to make myself go out and run some necessary errands once a car was made available. I had two lunches to prepare and realized that we had no lunch meat and [...]
$$: Church & the Mall
Talk about both ends of the spectrum. I spent the morning at church with both kids and the late afternoon at the mall with The Daughter. Sadly, today was a Shopping While Impaired (SWI) day — the first in a very long time. I still can’t tell whether I’m facing a major Fibromyalgia flare-up or if [...]
$$: Pool Fees, Swimming Gear, and Food
The Daughter and I were supposed to do some shopping/errands today but she had a mid-afternoon babysitting gig that took longer than expected. Thus we got a late start and only got one errand run because the stores starting closing and I had to be home to fix dinner (hey, don’t you call having the kids [...]
$$: Gas, Juice, & Small Loan
Today was a very loonnnnnnnng day.
I went to bed at 11:30pm last night. I woke up this morning at 4:45am — about 15 minutes before my alarm was due to go off. The Daughter’s volleyball team made it into the state Regionals tournament which was being held today — in a very small, remote town over [...]







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