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

$$: 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 [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

$$: Doctor & Panda Express (plus unreported expenses)

Doctor co-pay — $50.00
Today’s activities and expenses centered around The Son’s third visit to the pediatric orthopedist to check on the status of his broken left clavicle.  Once again, they took x-rays and did a physical exam.
The good news is that The Son is finally rid of that hated sling.  He’s not supposed to pick [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Day 141: Church, Books, Groceries, & the Rodeo

Church — $15.00
Weekly offering.
Church — $15.00
Bought a novel from the “books for sale” shelves.  A book called Dancing in the Fire by Shirley Latessa.
Kroger — $15.68

Meadow Gold Buttermilk — $1.99
Dole Orange/Peach/Mango juice — $3.34 (saved $0.35)
Horizon chocolate milk — $2.99 (saved $0.50)
Amy’s cheese pizza snacks — $3.29
Smokey Robinson Seafood Gumbo — $3.69 (saved $0.50)

Cash — [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Day 140: A Full Day Of Entertainment

The Son, The Daughter, and I all spent the morning diligently saving money.  But the rest of the day was dedicated to spending it 
The morning The Son and I ran to turn in his baseball registration.  On the way home we stopped at Wamu where I made my own deposit (a portion of my paycheck into [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Day 139: Great Underwear Search of ‘08 (update 2)

After dropping The Son off for his Friday classes, I made the trek northward for my appointment with the auto body shop.  I had, literally, a fender bender in December after a very icy snow storm.  Apparently the entire metro area was involved in one accident or another because today was the first day they [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Day 105: A Busy, Budget-Busting Day in the ‘Burbs

Ugh.  Another crazy-busy day involving much driving and sitting on butt-numbing metal bleacher seats and cheering myself hoarse.
I started out the day with a 45-minute drive all for the privilidge of forking over $4.00 in cash to some massive-mega church to watch my son play in the first game of a tournament.  We spanked the other team.  [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Day 104: Returns, Tortillas, and shhh (Subway)

I’m exhausted.  So tired, in fact, that I was tempted to just go to bed without posting today’s expenses.  But I’ve come this far, I can’t let something so small as a very long, very busy, and exhausing day break my resolve to keep at this daily $$ blogging thing.
 So here’s the quick rundown:
I returned the [...]

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
keep looking »
  • Categories

  • Tag Cloud

  • Archives

  • Pages

  • Recent Comments