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Double Dipping

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 12, 2009
As you know, I home­schooled our two chil­dren for 12+ years.  Now they both attend a pri­vate high school that’s a good com­mute away from home.  The one part of this arrange­ment that I hate despise dread:  lunches.  I strongly dis­like mak­ing lunches 5 nights a week.  If that makes me a bad mom, so [...]
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A (qualified) No-Spend Day

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 1, 2009
Ah!  The plea­sures of not spend­ing money. Of course, I’m talk­ing specif­i­cally about money com­ing out of my wal­let — not the money I saw The Hus­band shell out right in front of me. Well, come to think of it, I guess I did spend some money.  I trans­ferred $42.00 this morn­ing from my check­ing account into The Daughter’s. Being [...]
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Updated Allowances

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 12, 2009
Just about the only major change to our fam­ily finan­cial poli­cies made dur­ing my blog­ging sab­bat­i­cal was in regard to the children’s allowances. To recap the old policies: The Daughter’s allowance was $6 per week.  In addi­tion to her weekly allowance she was also “given” a hypo­thet­i­cal $100 per month with which she was expected to buy [...]
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$$: Allowances

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 27, 2008
Tech­ni­cally today was a no-spend day because allowances were actu­ally doled out ear­lier this week.  As The Hus­band is the man with the money, how­ever, I wasn’t party to the allowance pay­outs.  I learned that both kids had col­lected their allowances when I reminded them that the month was com­ing to a close and any [...]
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A Son’s Epiphany and A Mother’s Lesson

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 15, 2008
photo credit: Ti H²O The Son had a finan­cial epiphany recently.  As silly as it might seem, it was one of the proud­est and most grat­i­fy­ing expe­ri­ences of my moth­er­ing career so far — akin to watch­ing him take his first step or learn to read. The Son is 14.  He has gen­er­ally shown very lit­tle inter­est [...]
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