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$$: Groceries, Investment, & House Painting Services

Before bor­ing you with today’s pur­chases, I want to share the fun.  The Husband’s Christ­mas present was deliv­ered yes­ter­day.  I spent the bet­ter part of the after­noon uncrat­ing it, get­ting adjust­ing the brakes and mak­ing nec­es­sary adjust­ments, and then rid­ing it around the neigh­bor­hood.  I had to make sure every­thing was safe and secure, right? Man, [...]
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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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$$: NPR, Gas, Groceries, Health Care, & .…. Paint

Oh, what a day!  I had a car at my dis­posal all day.  It was heaven. Spoiler Alert:  Son, if you’re read­ing this stop now or spend the next two months already know­ing what you’re get­ting for Christmas. NPR — $120.00 Sev­eral weeks ago The Son dis­cov­ered NPR.  Since then we’ve gone from debat­ing whose iPod to lis­ten [...]
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$$: Chocolate Milk, Chocolate Candy & Snow Pants, etc.

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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Day 234: Groceries & An Electrician

Total Spent Today:  $ 244.62 This garage door opener is eat­ing my lunch! The issue isn’t com­pletely resolved and put to bed, plus I’m beyond exhausted and in a great deal of pain, so I’m not going to go into all the hairy details right now.  Suf­fice it to say that my $227 garage door opener [...]
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