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$$: Groceries, Clothes, Gas, Gifts, Soap & Donuts

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 24, 2010
Today I cov­ered all the bases and, really, I don’t feel like I did all that much shop­ping.  Okay, here we go with a tour of today’s spending: Kroger — $15.95 The Son and I started the day with a stop at Kroger on the way to church.  Yes­ter­day at the bas­ket­ball game I got the word [...]
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Diaper Service & Dairy Products

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 28, 2009
Local Dia­per Ser­vice — $386.65 Last week one of my kids’ favorite teach­ers became a father for the first time.  He’s a won­der­ful young man and his wife is equally lovely.  And they’re dirt poor.  I remem­ber those days — with just a touch of nos­tal­gic fondness. Last week I sent out an email to my fel­low [...]
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Electronics & Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 26, 2009
Well, back to the real world.  I knew it couldn’t last forever. Tar­get — $6.53 Yes­ter­day, Santa gave The Daugh­ter an 8gb micro SD card (and adapter) to use in her phone.  But Santa did not pro­vide her with an SD card reader.  My first stop was Best Buy (I was there to look at DVD play­ers, too [...]
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More Party Prep

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 22, 2009
So today I got sev­eral more loads of laun­dry done, baked another pound cake, took a 3-mile walk with a friend, lit a fire under both kids, cleared store inven­tory out of the great room in the base­ment, and gen­er­ally worked to trans­form my chaotic mess of a house into a warm and wel­com­ing party [...]
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Gas, Groceries, & Gifts

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 21, 2009
A crazy day for Sub­ur­ban Wife. Ritzpix.com — $3.36 Placed an early-morning Inter­net order for fif­teen 4x6 copies of one of the pho­tos from a photo shoot at Tar­get this spring.  How can you not love the con­ve­nience of order­ing pho­tos online, pay­ing via Pay­pal, and hav­ing your pho­tos all ready to do when you walk in the door?  [...]
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