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$$: All The Usual Suspects

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 1, 2008
Ah, another day in sub­ur­bia; another day in the life of a sub­ur­ban wife and mother. Phys­i­cal Ther­apy — $25.00 We started the day with a phys­i­cal ther­apy ses­sion for The Son.  His bro­ken clav­i­cle is heal­ing nicely and PT is com­ing along nicely too.  The ther­a­pist gave The Son sev­eral addi­tional Range-of-Motion exer­cises as well as [...]
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Good News — Update on my IRA

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 22, 2008
Well, not to gloat.… I’m fis­cally con­ser­v­a­tive.  The Hus­band, even more so.  There­fore, when we started mak­ing annual con­tri­bu­tions to my IRA, we choose to do so in the form of a CD. The inter­est rates are noth­ing to write home about and cer­tainly far less than the IRA gains some peo­ple were brag­ging about a year ago.  But [...]
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$$: Coyote Sighting Edition

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 18, 2008
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 [...]
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Burdened by Parents; Thwarted by Banks

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 17, 2008
A quick back his­tory:  In Decem­ber ’07, my mom decided to sell her house and move across the coun­try to live with my youngest sis­ter, her hus­band, and their three chil­dren.  In mid-January she put her house up for sale and it sold almost imme­di­ately.  She closed on the house in early March.  Since her [...]
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$$: Groceries, Investment, & House Painting Services

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 28, 2008
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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