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It's Snowing!!!

January 31st, 2007 at 05:54 pm

Well...it's snowing and they're fixing to let schools out here...DD1 called and told her to get home now, roads are starting to get slick. Cost $76 for dentist copay, plus $6.04 for scrip...$32.50 for puppy2 shots...vets says she's doing great...put on 2 lbs in three weeks... pot of beans on for supper tonight, cooking on the gas stove, they turn out better then in the crockpot

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$142.38 +$76 +$6.04 + $32.50 = $256.92

$20 Challange
$15.67

another spend day

January 31st, 2007 at 02:13 pm

Hub has gone and headed for the dentist this morning,(he called yesterday afternoon and they got him in before 8 this morning) interested in seeing how our new insurance is going to do. Gave him two checks just in case. Going to take puppy2 in for her second round of shots and coming back home and spend the day cleaning house. May put on another pot of beans (it lasts four or five days) Then I'll figure out what I'm going to take for lunch. Know I have a couple cans of fruit I think I'll split up and take those as my snacks. Need to do exercise but my chest still hurts from all the coughing I've done the last few days. will update with totals for the day this evening.

why is it the one thing you need....

January 31st, 2007 at 12:35 am

why is it the one thing you need, but never really use that much, that's why you don't have it...is suddenly needed...

Hub came home with killer toothache (made appt. tomorrow for it, getting him in first thing in the morning)and of course, there is nothing in the med cab to work, so fast trip to town (10 miles one way) went to Walgreens and got the cheapest they had still $6.47 and DD2 wanted taco's (it was right next door) so 4 crunchy taco's and 2 soft (for MIL) another $5.82, so that's $12.29 to today's total

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$130.09 + 12.29 = $142.38
$14.59 + 1.08 = $15.67 for $20 challange

Not a no spend day

January 30th, 2007 at 09:01 pm

Already knew it wasn't going to be a no spend day for me...so, here goes what I spent

$65 for hair (highlighted, cut, and tip)
$11.49 lunch with DD1 (worth the price to spend time with her)
$11.85 for jeans (for her, first thing I've bought her since before Christmas, on sale suppose to have been $40)
$27.75 for tags for my truck
$14 at ex-company store (before discounts, after discounts $10.68) (sm pocket notebook to keep spending written(.40), 2 five subject notebooks for DD2 (3.52@), cold/hot bag (1.40), 2 toothpaste (1.06@)
bag noodles (.60), dog treat (2.00)

total spending for day $130.09
total savings in pocket $4.16
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$20 challenge
$14.59

Another day

January 30th, 2007 at 02:24 am

Well, made through the day only using one box of kleenex...not really good thing to do answer the phone while trying to blow your nose. ewww!! It was a no spend day for me (I spent nada)...but I did give DD2 $10 for the ballgame (she plays and she wouldn't have made it home in time to catch the bus to the game) But she just got home and handed me back the change...$4 and some change...so it was only a $5 for her.

I went through my purse and found change this morning...$6.43 so that's what I'm going to start my $20 Challange with...then I'm also going to add the $4 DD gave back so, I'm starting out with $10.43...(yea me!)

Filled out online survey at JCPenny this morning (hub had bought some shirts over the weekend..receipt says he saved $60!!!...yikes) but the survey is for 15% off next purchase reg or clearance (my favorite word)...may try to find DD's some clothes, since they both wear the same size and are 7 yrs apart (I save money on clothes but not the headache of Mom!!! I was going to wear that....)

Going to get my hair hightlighted tomorrow (already had the money put back) I only do it once a year, help hides the gray...lol

Also have to get tags for my truck...but they're not that high $25 for the year for mine. Hoping that's all the money I'm going to spend tomorrow...Day after I have to take Chole puppy to get her next shots (she's a pomapoo, and so adorable...and she was free...) So hopefully that's all I have to spend out of pocket this week...
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1-29 $20 Challange
10.43

Day 2

January 28th, 2007 at 11:49 pm

Well, this was my first no spend day. Went to work and took all my goodies with me. I do most of the time anyways bring lunch and all. The big prob I have is buying pop at work. So, today, I grabbed two from the garage and took those, so no spend for me. Came home and didn't have to cook. Hub made to big pots of homemade soup (he'll eat most of it for the rest of the week), youngest DD made homemade biscuit pizza's. She learned how to do it at school. (she had to call me last week to figure out how to turn on stove and the timer) She had cooked extra for me so, no cook for me either for tonight. Which is a good thing, I've come down with a wicked cold. Which is not a good thing when you have to answer phones all day. Gone through a bag of cough drops in two days. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll feel better, if not, I'm off Tues and Wed (it's my weekend. I work TH-M). The good thing is when everyone is dreading Monday, I look forward to it (it's my Friday...lol) But starting this new job, it's kinda screwed up our lives, where I would be home in the evenings with the girls, now I'm home in the mornings and not there on the weekends and evenings until later. But I'm hopin' its only a temporary thing (looking to get a job in a different dept., same hours, but weekends would be free)...well I need to go and rest up and watch "The Devil Wears Prada" before masterpiece theater comes on with the rest of "Jane Eyre"...

day 1

January 28th, 2007 at 02:30 am

I have been lurking...so to say...for the past couple of weeks, reading everyone's blogs. And I appauld everyone for laying open to the world some of what most consider to be "off limits"...our finances. I know I'm a little off for the New Year, but a year is a year, whenever it starts, so I'm starting today, Jan 27, as my new year. I have a rough idea of what debt I (we) have and I know that I am the one. So, I figure if I'm accountable to someone else besides my family, I'll do a better job of getting my and my family in better shape financial. I'll be 40 this year and I think it's time I grow up and learned to be very responsible.