Um, um, um….what did I spend today? I almost made it through without spending a penny, but I ended up spending $4.50 for dinner for me, my dad and Jake (dad kicked in $10) and then $8.58 for Taco Bell for Kayla, Katie and Dakota and then $5.53 for McDonald’s for Tom, who was craving…

JoAnn (materials to make a bow-holder for Katie’s room) – $26 (so silly that even with sales and coupons it cost $26 for a yard of fabric, three spools of ribbon, some batting and some decorative buttons!) Target (make-up needed for a dress rehearsal Tuesday plus some haircare products because I’m out of good stuff…

I did OK today. I spent $6.29 on two pounds of beef, which I needed to add back to the stew I made in order to make sure there was enough meat in it for dinner (after we ate some for lunch). I also spent another $18 on milk. We went to Dairy Queen for…

Silly since I’m striving to live a more intentional life. Sometimes circumstances call for extreme measures!  Several days ago, I made a huge grocery trip to Sprout’s, where I purchased large quanities of {expensive} organic grassfed beef in the form of stew meat, ground and sirloin steaks.  I asked Jake to put all the meat…

Lucky #10! 😀 I spent not a cent today, although my oldest daughter did her best to persuade me to make a trip to Dairy Queen/Orange Julius tonight!  As yummy as an Orange Julius sounded (amazingly to me I prefer those over ice cream!) I held on and refused to go.  It’s rainy anyway…not a good…

Dairy Queen – $15.17 Home Depot – $78 (paint, painting supplies, light bulbs) I’m trying to think I really should have just called this a “low-spend” month.  I’m really trying hard not to spend on things that aren’t a true NEED but I’m having trouble balancing being frugal, being practical and having fun.   *sigh*   Like the…

Grocery shopping @ Trader Joe’s – $154 (yes, I was going to wait till Monday to shop but I was close to TJ’s and didn’t want to make another trip back…) **brings January’s running grocery total to $446 and we are again out of milk…saving grace is that I have enough meat and veggies on hand…

An easy day not to spend frivolously, until dinner time at least!  I had a chorus rehearsal from 12-3pm, so that kept me busy.  Once back home, Katie and Dakota had a trial tumbling class at 5pm.  That cost me $183 because I registered them both for a month of tumbling and signed Katie up…