mom-from-missouri's Journal

Spent around $50 today. Renewed my paper subscription-I did it for the year-was $43 (you save $7 if you do it a year at a time). The subscription actually ended 2 weeks ago, but the kid kept throwing it till Thursday. I do use the coupons, so it ends up paying for itself. And since I do the PR for my daughters school, I really need the paper to see that what I have submitted has been printed correctly. Spent $5 on lunch at work today-got sweet and sour chicken--have a ton left over-I'll add more rice and it will be lunch for the girls and I tomorrow after church, and will probably still have some left for my lunch on Monday.
Bought shampoo and conditioner at walgrens-was on sale for .79 a bottle, and I had coupons for .75 off-so got 4 bottles at .04 each. Came to .22 with the tax. Not bad.

I spent no money today (Friday). Spent no money yesterday (Thursday), did spend $30 Wednesday getting gas.

Spent no money yesterday. Spent no money today! I am trying to clean out all the cabinets and the pantry, but eating our way down. I think I probably have enough canned goods to feed the town, and now that winter is on its way out, I want to use that before I restock. That will save on the grocery bill the next couple of months.

I switched trash companies today-after 7 years of complaining about the old one-they keep skipping me. $16 a month seems high to me, but that is what they all charge-I called them all. I lost a front blinker lens today. Dealer wants $198 to fix it. I went to the autoparts store and they ordered it for me. It will be $25 and I can put it on myself, or the guy behind the counter said they could do it for me at no charge. Had no choice, the bulb is left exposed, and will be getting wet, and I will get a ticket. Other than that, spent no money today. The twins have to take snack to scouts tomorrow, but I made cookies for that from frozen dough I bought from them when they did their 4H fund raiser. Hung a load of laundery to dry again today, and ate leftovers.

Thought I'd try this and see if it would motivate me to not spend money, because I am putting it in writing. We will see. I did 2 loads of laundry today, hung both to dry, before I went to work. Also one load of dishes-I did make sure the dishwasher was full this time. I have a bad habit of running it when it is not full. Ordered delivery pizza, but tonight is 1/2 price night, so $7 instead of the usuall $13.97, and the leftovers from tonight will be in the girls lunch tomorrow, as well as mine. So $7 for 4 people for 2+ meals-I can accept that. I do wish I could find a cheaper way to keep the salt off my truck in the winter. The cheapest automatic car wash is $5. I am afraid to use the self serve wand for $3, since last winter the door froze shut while I was outside rinsing it off, with my children inside and I couldn't get it back open. A policeman had to rescue me. But, I don't want it to rust out the body, so I have no choice.