Weekly Spending Roundup

I'm trying to get back into tracking our expenses weekly, as it quickly shows me when/where we get off track. Here's how we did tihs week!

• Monday -
• $32.38 - Rite Aid. A stock up on my night time & day time face lotion (Neutrogena), plus face wash cloths that I keep in my gym bag for after my runs.
• Tuesday -
• $250 - cashier's check for our HELOC, as part of the refinance. I don't understand it, but it's a fee of some sort. I *love* fees. ;-)
• Wednesday -
• $.95 - Gatorade at Rite Aid for a sick kiddo. I actually got a bunch of stuff (4 giant Gatorades + kids shampoos/body washes, since I had a $10 UP). This was just the tax.
• -$160 - refund for a relay race that got cancelled.
• Thursday -
• $88.89 - Costco. Other than our typical weekly produce buys, the big expense here was citrus vodka for the pomegranate martinis we're bringing to Christmas. The vodka was $45.10
• $7.76 - groceries at Fred Meyer. Picked up what I need for my appetizer for Christmas Eve, plus an extremely cheap pound of Italian chicken sausage ($1.50).
• $14.48 - two bottles of Aveeno lotion for my son with skin allergies.
• $.35 - two additional bottles of Aveeno (after an UP award)
• Friday -
• $33.04 - holiday lunch with M!
• Saturday -
• No spend day!
• Sunday -
• $23.07 at Fred Meyer. $1.18 on yeast (attempting to make my own bread. Again :-)) & $21.89 on new rain boots for S. I swear, his foot has doubled in size in the last month. His socks stopped fitting. Socks! Over night, really. He needs new shoes, rain boots & ski boots. The latter will be a big expense. At least the rain boots were on sale!

Total spend for the week = $290.92. Not too shabby, considering the bank fee. Luckily, the race cancellation credit showed up in time to offset that charge. Yeah. :-)

How did you do this week? Lots of holiday spending?

One of my favorite pictures of me + the quickly growing S, from a few years ago.