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Random bullets of IT’S COLD

Posted in *sigh*, house, money stuff on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

It’s almost the middle of April and I wake up to snow twice last week and measurable snow yesterday. This. Sucks.
Furnace died Wednesday. DH built a fire and then messed with the furnace and got it to blow hot air again for a while.
Woke up Thursday morning and the house was 60 degrees. We [...]

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Grocery Shopping and Enculturated Beliefs

Posted in money stuff on April 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

We went to the grocery last night to pick up a couple of things and it reinforced a the suspicion that I’m really not going to want to add up the grocery bill for April. We got our tax refund check the beginning of the month and even though it all went to pay [...]

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March Recap – budget and school

Posted in money stuff, school stuff on March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I know the month isn’t over yet but I have hopes of not going to the store again until Saturday. I was terribly afraid to add the stack of reciepts up but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. We came in at around $240 and that includes cat food [...]

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Belated February budget recap

Posted in money stuff, recipes on March 11, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Sherri wins for February. I finally got around to adding things up and it was just under $250 for groceries. We’re already at $80 for March.
On the crockpot front I have the Easy Southwest Casserole in the big pot, Double Chocolate Mess with banana pudding and bananas in one of the medium pots, [...]

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Contemplations on age and budgets

Posted in money stuff, random stuff, techno stuff on February 10, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Well, another birthday came and went unceremoniously. Not that I mind. After I hit 30 I tried to stop counting. Now that I’m closer to 40 than 30 anymore I really want to ignore them. DH and I are actually going out to dinner tonight sans BabyGirl for the first time [...]

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Friday the 13th and Budget Update

Posted in *sigh*, money stuff on January 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Well, the grocery bill for the month is now up to around $130 – at least in part to the great re-stocking I had to do after the great purge of the expired canned goods. Unfortunately I may have trashed any savings by hitting a particularly pointy curb last night on my way [...]

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Happy New Year!

Posted in money stuff, recipes on January 1, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Happy Hogmanay! For those who don’t know what Hogmanay is, follow the link.
Never one to keep resolutions, I stopped making them years ago. Well, okay, I just stopped telling people I was making them. That way when I stopped exercising and never lost that weight and started drinking caffeine again no one could say “I [...]

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