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$$: Dec 7 — Pool Fees

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 9, 2008
Today was a no-direct-spending day.  It was a quiet, stay-at-home (other than church, of course) day.  I didn’t spend any money directly but I did receive an email this evening to con­firm that my credit card had been charged for The Daughter’s pool fees this month. Swim Team — $140.00
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$$: Pool Fees, Swimming Gear, and Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 1, 2008
The Daugh­ter and I were sup­posed to do some shopping/errands today but she had a mid-afternoon babysit­ting gig that took longer than expected.  Thus we got a late start and only got one errand run because the stores start­ing clos­ing and I had to be home to fix din­ner (hey, don’t you call hav­ing the kids [...]
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$$: Gas, Juice, & Small Loan

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 31, 2008
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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$$: The Day’s Expenses plus Swim Meet Tips

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 26, 2008
Today The Daugh­ter attended her first swim meet since rejoin­ing a com­pet­i­tive swim team.  She took a 2–1/2 year break from com­pet­i­tive swim­ming and in that time I’d man­aged to for­get both how much I hate swim meets and every­thing I’d learned about what to take with me. As a reminder to myself and per­haps to help [...]
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$$: Chocolate Milk, Chocolate Candy & Snow Pants, etc.

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 13, 2008
The Hus­band and The Daugh­ter did a “driving-day” switch (DD usu­ally dri­ves her­self to school on M, W, & F; DH gets the other car on those day; I get noth­ing) so I had a car at my dis­posal.  Thus, I got some errands done. Kwal Paints — $25.16 I lied.  There’s no way I’m going to [...]
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