Tag Archives: Shopping While Impaired (SWI)

Addendum to November 11 Spending

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 13, 2008
Ever wake up in the morn­ing and have no rec­ol­lec­tion of where you went or what you did the day before?  Okay, ever have that hap­pen with­out the influ­ence of alcohol? All day today I’ve been freaked out by the fact that I posted Tuesday’s expenses think­ing I was com­pletely coher­ent only to dis­cover that I [...]
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$$: Cases of Lemonade & Fuel

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 9, 2008
Not only am I SWI (shop­ping while impaired) but I’m also sick.  I’ve com­pletely lost my voice, my throat is killing me, and I ache!  Boy do I ache. So the last thing I felt like doing was leav­ing the house to go shop­ping.  Too bad for me we were com­pletely out of milk.  Run­ning out of [...]
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$$: No More Filing Papers on the Floor

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 6, 2008
The Con­tainer Store — $16.15 Now, I’m not accept­ing any flack on this pur­chase.  I know I could have spent a lot less fill­ing this need else­where but not with­out a great deal of time and effort expended.   In my cur­rent SWI (shop­ping while impaired) con­di­tion, time and effort are in very short sup­ply [not to men­tion [...]
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$$: More Clothes & Gas

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 4, 2008
As I’ve already writ­ten, I spent most of the day work­ing for the Obama cam­paign on one final GOTV push. But I did man­age to spend a lit­tle bit of money. Gap — ($19.33) Dur­ing the one break in my vol­un­teer duties, I stopped in the Gap store and returned the two pair of can­vas pants I’d pur­chased last [...]
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$$: Food & Clothes

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 3, 2008
Although I was tired and feel­ing very impaired (… still can’t decide if I have the flu or a bad Fibromyal­gia flare-up), I man­aged to make myself go out and run some nec­es­sary errands once a car was made avail­able.  I had two lunches to pre­pare and real­ized that we had no lunch meat and [...]
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