Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

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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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$$: Groceries, an Odwalla, & “Harvey”

The painter showed up with her crew at 7:30 this morning.  Must have been 7 or 8 guys.  We confirmed the colors and where they would all go.  Then she took off, they got to work, and I was stuck home all day answering little questions here and there and basically just holding down the [...]

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$$: Allowance, Fuel, Dining, & Hot Date!

A busy, busy day with but with nothing more than the regular, expected expenditures of a normal day.
Had an appointment with a roofer, logged a couple of volunteer hours at The Son’s homeschool co-op program,  took The Son to a corn-maze outing with some friends, and attended the ballet with The Son.  Lots of driving [...]

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$$: GE Stock, Ballet Tickets, & Cell Phone

Ballet — $104.15
Two tickets for The Son and I to go see a traditional production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.  The Son mentioned an interest in seeing this particular ballet about two months ago but I put off buying tickets because I was unsure of how my thyroidectomy was going to pan out.
Now that the surgery [...]

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Day 259: Cultural Experiences & Plastic Bins

Total Spent Today:  $220.86
Audition — $15.00
The Son’s teacher and I convinced him to audition in hopes of being moved to the next level in his community orchestra.  I fear he won’t be advanced but I’m glad he had this experience — the work of preparing a piece and the agony of auditioning.  In other news, [...]

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Day 258: Activities

Baseball Coach — $67.00
This check covers two baseball-related activities.  First is The Son’s share of a tournament fee.  I can’t remember exactly what the date of the tournament is but it should be a little more fun than the last one because they don’t allow any “ringer” tournament-only teams to come in a make themselves [...]

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Day 235: Dinner & The Theater, etc

Total Spent Today:  $223.60
Costco — $3.87
Lunch for The Son. He dined on a soda and a Chicken Bake thing while I dealt with the cell phone kiosk person and shopped.
Costco — $83.97

Capri Sun 100% juice boxes — $7.55
3 boxes of Kashi organic Cinnamon Harvest cereal — $6.49/ea.
box of Goldfish crackers — $6.23
house brand chocolate chip [...]

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