31 Days of Nothing Days 13-15
So day 13 was pretty good. I cancelled a back ordered book on CBD (I ordered it in APRIL!) and got it off Amazon for $5 less. So it doesn't really count since that was money I actually spent in April and in the end I saved money anyway.
Day 14 was a bomb. See, we live in the Sunshine state. It's like 900 degrees year round (okay, I exaggerate a bit). And I have one bathing suit. One. And it's gone missing. Now personally, I could NEVER wear a bathing suit and be fine, but since going nude is socially unacceptable (and even more mortifying than a bathing suit) and never going in the water when you live in FL is dooming your children to cruel and unusual punishment, it's kind of necessary attire. And did I mention mine is missing? Not such a big deal, but I owe my littlest a trip to Aquatica since she stopped sucking her thumb, and bathing suits are required attire. I need to take her sometime in the next week because she starts Pre-K after that. I'm running out of time. So I needed another suit. And they are on sale for 60-70% off right now, but when you wear a size HUGE, that still translates into $40 for a suit that covers me the way I like. Mimi also needed a suit that didn't gape at the butt so much that you can see through from one side to the other. And Scott needs a few since he will be sailing year round, and bathing suits are only available during summer. And they were all on sale. So I splurged and got Sari one too since she was with me. That was another $20. And then since we were out and it was lunch time, and we had a place to be after lunch, I spent $5 at Arby's for the three of us to eat. Nope, not a good day.
It spiraled from there. I wasn't home to make our usual pizza/cinnamon rolls for our Friday night/Saturday morning tradition so the hubs had to stop by the store for frozen pizza and some Sister Shubert's Orange Rolls (YUM). Not a good day financially at ALL.
Today I had to go to the store, and my coupons aren't organized yet, and I haven't looked over the deals yet, but I was out of lunch meat and stuff for the hubs to smoke along with the pork from the other day. So I went to Albertson's and stuck to the sale produce/meat, and stuff we really really needed. I had NO coupons except the $5 off $50 in the paper. I did pretty good anyway. I spent $77.66 and saved $38.90. I bought 3 lbs of lunch meat, 1 1/2 lbs of sliced cheese, 2 1/2 lbs of bananas, 2 lbs of grapes, 1.5 lbs of peaches, 3 lbs of Tilapia, and about 9 lbs of chicken. I did buy a very small amount of things that I *might* have been able to dig up a coupon for, but they were either BOGO, or on sale, or a real need so it was justified.
Not too bad, but not as good as it could have been. I'm still learning.
Day 14 was a bomb. See, we live in the Sunshine state. It's like 900 degrees year round (okay, I exaggerate a bit). And I have one bathing suit. One. And it's gone missing. Now personally, I could NEVER wear a bathing suit and be fine, but since going nude is socially unacceptable (and even more mortifying than a bathing suit) and never going in the water when you live in FL is dooming your children to cruel and unusual punishment, it's kind of necessary attire. And did I mention mine is missing? Not such a big deal, but I owe my littlest a trip to Aquatica since she stopped sucking her thumb, and bathing suits are required attire. I need to take her sometime in the next week because she starts Pre-K after that. I'm running out of time. So I needed another suit. And they are on sale for 60-70% off right now, but when you wear a size HUGE, that still translates into $40 for a suit that covers me the way I like. Mimi also needed a suit that didn't gape at the butt so much that you can see through from one side to the other. And Scott needs a few since he will be sailing year round, and bathing suits are only available during summer. And they were all on sale. So I splurged and got Sari one too since she was with me. That was another $20. And then since we were out and it was lunch time, and we had a place to be after lunch, I spent $5 at Arby's for the three of us to eat. Nope, not a good day.
It spiraled from there. I wasn't home to make our usual pizza/cinnamon rolls for our Friday night/Saturday morning tradition so the hubs had to stop by the store for frozen pizza and some Sister Shubert's Orange Rolls (YUM). Not a good day financially at ALL.
Today I had to go to the store, and my coupons aren't organized yet, and I haven't looked over the deals yet, but I was out of lunch meat and stuff for the hubs to smoke along with the pork from the other day. So I went to Albertson's and stuck to the sale produce/meat, and stuff we really really needed. I had NO coupons except the $5 off $50 in the paper. I did pretty good anyway. I spent $77.66 and saved $38.90. I bought 3 lbs of lunch meat, 1 1/2 lbs of sliced cheese, 2 1/2 lbs of bananas, 2 lbs of grapes, 1.5 lbs of peaches, 3 lbs of Tilapia, and about 9 lbs of chicken. I did buy a very small amount of things that I *might* have been able to dig up a coupon for, but they were either BOGO, or on sale, or a real need so it was justified.
Not too bad, but not as good as it could have been. I'm still learning.
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