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

$$: Bagels on Sunday

Total Spent Today: $43.38

Church — $30.00
Weekly offering 
Einstein Bros. Bagels — $13.38
The kids asked if we could stop for a bucket of bagels on the way home from church.  We haven’t stopped for bagels since the middle of August.  We bought a Dozen Bucket which includes 13 bagels and two tubs of plain schmear.
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$$: Charity plus Gas Receipts

Total Spent Today: $120.67

Church — $50.00
It’s been a while since I made an offering at church so I wrote a larger-than-usual check this morning.
Plus, The Daughter finally turned in three old gas receipts:
Safeway — $28.56 (she pumped 10.313 gallons @ $2.769/gallon) on 10/21/08
Farm Crest — $21.57 (she pumped 10.278 gallons @ $2.099/gallon) on 11/11/08
Western Convenience — $20.54 (she [...]

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$$: Church & the Mall

Total Spent Today: $158.98

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 [...]

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$$: NPR, Gas, Groceries, Health Care, & ….. Paint

Oh, what a day!  I had a car at my disposal all day.  It was heaven.
Spoiler Alert:  Son, if you’re reading this stop now or spend the next two months already knowing what you’re getting for Christmas.
NPR — $120.00
Several weeks ago The Son discovered NPR.  Since then we’ve gone from debating whose iPod to listen [...]

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$$: Church, Dining, Groceries, Cosmetics, & Swimming

Church — $50.00
It’s been weeks since I’ve made an offering at church — either because I didn’t attend (after my surgery) or because I didn’t have a check with me.  Today I wrote an extra large offering check to make up for all of those skipped weeks.
Whole Foods — $31.67
The kids are definitely preferring Whole [...]

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Day 232: Food & Church

 Total Spent Today:  $67.52
Church — $45.00
Wild Oats — $22.52

2 Red Raspberry spritzers — $1.39/ea.
vegetable combo sushi tray — $4.75
avacado roll sushi tray — $5.95
muffin — $1.89
bag of frozen strawberries — $2.29
Celestial Seasoning tea bags — $3.99

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Day 211: Dining, Church, School

Church — $15.00
Weekly offering.
Starbucks — $3.41
The Daughter and I made a “designer coffee” run this morning while The Son attended religious instruction.  The friend ordered and purchased her own coffee; The Daughter had a mini scone and a hot chocolate.
Wild Oats — $21.65
Both kids voted for lunch at Wild Oats instead of Einstein’s Bagels.  I’m [...]

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