Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

a financial voyeur’s dream come true: all the intimate details of how, where, and why I spend money

$$: Dec 4 - Groceries & Sweat Pants

Total Spent Today: $82.67

Please forgive me.  I’m still catching up on past Daily $$ posts.
Kroger — $63.18
Who wouldn’t love getting $100’s worth of groceries for $63?  Here’s how I did it.  First, I saved $7.56 by using my Kroger loyalty card.  Then I applied $30 worth of Kroger grocery checks — earned through using my Kroger 1-2-3 Rewards [...]

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Counting My Blessings: #9

Just in case you’ve missed any of them, here are my earlier posts in this thread:

Blessing #1 — Connection to Nature and Universal Truths
Blessing #2 — The Husband
Blessing #3 — My Health
Blessings #4 and 5 — My Children
Blessing #6 — My Circumstances
Blessing #7 — The Husband’s Health
Blessing #8 — My Mom

Today’s blessing — The Husband’s [...]

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Counting My Blessings: #7

I didn’t post a “Counting My Blessings” post yesterday — I guess because Thanksgiving was over and everyone else had moved on to Black Friday and the big build-up to Christmas.  But it isn’t sitting well with me — leaving off without counting all of my blessings.  So, please bear with me as I continue [...]

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Good News - Update on my IRA

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 [...]

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$$: FUN & Outrageous Spending

Ecobikeusa.com — $1,174.00
More Christmas shopping.  This time I was shopping for The Husband.  There’s a story here:
A few weeks ago the whole family attended a little BBQ party.  One of the party attendees arrived with his wife on the back of this cute little scooter.  Over burgers, he told us all about his new “ride.”  [...]

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Day 261: Car Stereo, Nalgene Bottle, & Skirt Hangers (plus incoming $)

Total Spent Today: $298.31
Net Spent Today: $243.33
REI — ($50.13)
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I collected all of our old Nalgene bottles (well, all the ones the kids could find — one of The Daughter’s is still missing) to return for a refund/store credit.  The return process took a couple of minutes but overall went very [...]

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Day 255: Book & Sunglasses

Actually posted on May 16 — catching up with daily expenditures.
REI — $9.22
When I got home late on the 8th, The Husband announced that he wanted a new pair of sunglasses for his birthday.  Since we had some many other things going on and since The Husband’s not particular about getting his gifts on his actual [...]

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