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She’s Baaaack!

Yup.  Here I am.  The prodi­gal Sub­ur­ban Wife returns. I’ve really missed post­ing.  I’ve really missed bud­get­ing.  I really miss YNAB [http://www.ynab.com].  Jesse has promised to release YNAB3 before the end of the year.  There aren’t that many days left before the end of the year.  They’ll be busy, hec­tic, and slightly expen­sive days but, still, [...]
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Day 90: Gutter Balls!

Ninety days!  Wow, who’d a’ thunk it — that I would have the stick-to-it-iveness to bore you all with every minute detail of my daily $$ expen­di­tures for three whole months? As usual, I’ll list the money I spent today but then I’ll also list the house­hold bills that The Hus­band him­self took care of through­out [...]
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Day 84: Printer Ink and More Cement

The tem­per­a­ture has dropped here from the balmy low 70’s on Mon­day to below freez­ing.  I love the win­ter but I hate being cold (if that makes any sense at all).  Any­way, the point is that I didn’t want to leave the house today.  Such is the life of a mother and home­owner.  I actu­ally [...]
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Day 80: The Claritin Saga Continues plus 1/2-Ton of Cement

Kroger — $89.20 The Clar­inex saga con­tin­ues.  To recap: we switched insur­ance car­ri­ers on Oct. 1 but due to a paper­work snafu, we didn’t receive our insur­ance cards until about the near the end of the month.  I refused to pay out of pocket for Clar­inex so I went with­out for the month of Octo­ber.  When my [...]
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Day 14

The Home Depot — $87.25 First trip — wait­ing to hear from the handy­man so we can fig­ure out which jack ham­mer I should rent. While wait­ing, I nat­u­rally shopped around and found a few things I just had to have. Tools: rake, square “trans­fer” shovel”, and an inex­pen­sive, sim­ple elec­tric trimmer/edger. Con­sum­ables: Revive lawn con­di­tioner [...]
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