$$: Dec 9 — Recycling on the Cheap
Total Spent Today: $84.48
The Home Depot — $47.94
Our “waste management” company recently announced that they were greatly expanding the list of recyclable materials they’d collect. This, combined with the fact that they went “single stream” a while ago and the fact that they pick up recyclables only every other week means that our old recycling tub just [...]
Home Economics Ingenuity 101 - Re-purposing
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, my moniker of choice, Suburban Wife, is a little poke of fun at myself. On the surface, I am very much a suburban wife. We live in the ‘burbs and I’m a wife. Not only that — despite the fact that I’m employed full-time, [...]
$$: Dec 5 - Baby, It’s Cold Inside
Total Spent Today: $82.27
Murphy showed up today and as we all know, visits from Murphy can be expensive.
Our portable electric heater broke. While I was using it. In the basement. It was cold outside. It was warm in the basement until the heater broke.
Honestly, I felt betrayed. The malfunction was completely unexpected. The heater wasn’t all that old. [...]
$$: Sleep Study edition
Total Spent Today: $228.48
I spent last night in the local hospital’s sleep lab. The hope, now that my thyroid has been completely removed and my throat (for the most part) healed from the surgery, was that I’d no longer suffer from obstructive sleep apnea.
Let me assure you, there is very little sleep done during a “sleep” study. If [...]
$$: Another Saturday in Suburbia edition
Total Spent Today: $70.82
Qwest — $51.76
This particular bill is a very mild point of contention between me and The Husband. I say we should consider dropping our land line altogether or, at the very least, our long distance service through Qwest. He’s not interested in either option. *sigh*
Safeway — $19.44
The Daughter used her credit card to fill up [...]
$$: Coyote Sighting Edition
Total Spent Today: $1,954.94
A coyote crossed the road in front of me this morning as it traveled from one section of greenbelt to another. I can’t remember ever being that close to a coyote before and seeing it there, in the middle of an upscale suburban development, was a glorious testament to the will and drive to survive [...]
$$: More Clothes, More Food, and Some Returns
Total Spent Today: $133.22
As predicted, my no-spend-day streak did not extend to a third day. I managed to procure a vehicle for the better part of the day but to do so I had to get up and get moving earlier than I wanted to. I won’t insult you regular working stiffs by telling you what [...]
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