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Low-Spend July: Days 23-25
Sometimes it feels like you rip a bandaid off your low-spend month, and a bleed starts, and it’s really difficult to stop that bleeding. I’m still failing enormously at eating out! I’m not sure why it’s so difficult. I like to cook and I’m a decent cook. But meals out creep into our consciousness…
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Low-Spend July: Days 9-22(!)
My “low-spend” July hasn’t been AS successful so far as it could have been! I’m seeing a trend here. Haha. I’m continuing to simplify our space and my routine, so that’s fun but sometimes requires spending a little money. Is it essential, or non-essential? That’s personal and only you can answer. But I’ve decided that…
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Low-Spend July: Days 3-8
I’m going to go over several days at once; I haven’t had a chance to log on daily so I’ll just go over the past 6 days now. I need to go back to keeping track daily, because I THOUGHT I was doing really well, but it all adds up to way more than I…
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Low-Spend July: Day 2
Today’s spending was very low, which is nice, right? We needed two 27.5″ bike tubes with Presta valves for Jake’s bike (Tom rode it through thorns and the tubes were shot), and $18 was the cheapest price with tax. We also dropped $200 at the SRP machine, which gives us roughly 12 days of electricity.…
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Low-Spend July: Day 1
Wow, de ja vu! Haha…here we go again. New month, another chance to do better. Hubby and I went to brunch this AM…had a great time and it was $30 after tip. We went to Auto Zone and got a fuel injection cleaner for my truck and a couple light bulbs he needed for a…
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Low-Spend June: Halfway Point Recap
June is halfway gone already! Hard to believe. Two of the three paychecks we’ll receive in June have arrived. I would have liked to have had a huge surplus from check #1, but that didn’t happen. Mostly the issue was that spending in the prior months was pretty unchecked, and I let a bunch of…
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Low-Spend June: Day 16
Needed another grocery run, and got a great unexpected haul! I went to Safeway to pay our power bill (they have a kiosk and it’s the only way to pay it electronically currently) and I decided to browse around. I’d heard Safeway had sweet corn for 5 cents an ear, but I couldn’t find that.…
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Low-Spend June: Day 15
I had to order new character shoes! I’m in Shrek and we open a week from today. I’m only in ensemble and have very little stage time, so even though my character shoes have become WAY too large, I was going to make due. When wearing two pair of padded peds didn’t help, I decided…
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Low-Spend June: Day 14
I spent $102 at JoAnn this AM. I didn’t NEED to make my own costumes for our show, but being larger, hard to fit, etc. I decided I’d feel better if I did. I have been planning to make costumes for the ren faire and every year I don’t start in time…so I want to…
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Low-Spend June: Day 13
Pre-camp breakast, $8.26 at Jack in the Box. Their breakfast sandwiches are WAY overpriced. I met my oldest for a scary Dr’s appointment that turned out not to be scary…we went to Ihop to celebrate. She offered to treat but I didn’t want her to spend the $$, so I spent $28. We needed a…