Day 237: Auto Floor Mat Insanity
Total Amount Spent: $50.35
Yesterday’s trip to the car wash, fairly expensive in it’s own right, got a little more expensive today.
This morning, while driving home with my from the closest drive-thru Starbucks window (her coffee habit, she paid), I looked down for some reason and realized that I’d left her passenger-side floor mat at the car [...]
Day 227: Food & A Lampshade
Daily total spent: $ 89.13
Today was all about food. There was no deck contractor payment to make — too windy to stain and finish. An inevitable expense put off until another day.
Tuesday Morning — $12.90
One of the “treasures” I came away with from my mom’s move across the country was a lamp. It’s a pretty [...]
Day 167: Stupid Tax, Co-Pay, more Underwear, & Chocolate Milk
Doctor Co-Pay — $25.00
The Daughter left me a novel-length note this morning before she left for school. The gist was that she’s feeling yucky and wanted me to make a doctor appointment to make sure she doesn’t have mono. I knew she was being alarmist but since we’re getting ready to leave town for a [...]
Day 106: Car stuff, Church stuff, Christmas stuff and a big Stupid Tax
Kroger — $15.05
We all slept in this morning and had only 15 minutes to get ready to leave for church this morning. I promised The Son that I’d run out for bagels during his religious instruction time. However, it turned out that another mom had gone for bagels so the daughter and I went for [...]
Day 61
Library — $6.00
Argh. I hate these stupid taxes! This was for late fees on a couple of books and DVDs that I thought I’d taken back last week; turns out I put them in the car only to have The Husband take them back out of the car. Out of sight, out of mind. Dumb!
Whole [...]







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