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

$$: Meat and Potatoes

Ugh.  Friday’s are tough because The Daughter gets one car and The Husband and I have to share the second one but we both have busy schedules because The Son’s in class on Friday and I volunteer.
Whole Foods — $11.06

2.83# organic russet potatoes — $2.80
@ 3# ground turkey thigh — $8.10

The plan is to make [...]

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$$: Dec 9 — Recycling on the Cheap

Total Spent Today: $84.48

The Home Depot — $47.94
Our “waste management” company recently announced that they were greatly expanding the list of recyclable materials they’d collect. This, combined with the fact that they went “single stream” a while ago and the fact that they pick up recyclables only every other week means that our old recycling tub just [...]

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$$: Dec 8 - Medical Expenses and Christmas Gifts

Total Spent Today: $324.01

Ugh.  Still trying to catch up on my Daily Dollar postings.
Physical Therapy — $25.00
Another physical therapy session for The Son.  His range of mobility continues to improve; he’s so very close to full range.  Actually, the therapist says he has an extended range of mobility — one that a baseball pitcher would envy.  For years [...]

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$$: 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.
[Just in case you're [...]

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A Son’s Epiphany and A Mother’s Lesson

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 [...]

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$$: Just Another Sunday in the ‘Burbs

I’m still feeling like dog barf so I sent the kids to church by themselves this morning.  There really are great advantages to having a child with a driver’s license.
When they got back, The Son elected to stay home to play on the computer and complete some chores (including cleaning the kids’ toilet and his [...]

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$$: Gas, Juice, & Small Loan

Total Spent Today: $53.00

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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