Monday, February 22, 2016

Weekly spending roundup - 2/15-2/21

We were traveling on Monday, so you'll see some miscellaneous travel charges, in addition to our normal weekly spend.

Monday - 2/15

  • $9.93 - Target at the airport for cold medicine & kleenex for Sam. Used a gift card, so total out of pocket was $0.
  • $20.80 - Chipotle for lunch before our flight
  • $69.99 - car rental
  • $17.96 - Uber from the airport home
  • $51.09 - Chevron, gas

Tuesday - 2/16

  • $3.99 - M missed dinner due to a late meeting, & ate at the Costco food court after picking up groceries. ;-)
  • $77.95 - Costco, groceries
  • $19.75 - Costco, laundry soap. We didn't need any, and Costco is usually not the cheapest anyway, but M saw that it was on sale & picked it up.
  • $10 - school lunch money
  • $16 - field trip


Wednesday - 2/17 - no spend day
Thursday - 2/18 - no spend day

  • $90 for the cleaning lady. I got it down to just one time this month! She really isn't doing a better job than what I can accomplish in a couple of hours on a weekend, so it's time to find another option or go it alone. 

Friday - 2/19

  • $5 - Rite Aid, for two bags of Lifesaver, spearmint flavor. I have one after dinner sometimes to stop myself from eating dessert or snacking. 

Saturday - 2/20

  • $75 - rental application to get our names on the wait list for our vacation house. Not sure if we'll take advantage, but the wait list can be up to 7 months long, so we want to have all options available.
  • $91.76 - Costco, for groceries. All of the basics.
  • $6.20 - lunch at a kebab place, after using a $20 gift card
  • $30 - combined dinner/pizza party after Nick's last game & our donation to the coach's end of season gift

Sunday - 2/21
  • $26.07 - Costco, soil for our planters. 
  • $10.22 - produce stand for lavosh bread, two bunches of radishes, and apparently, over $7 worth of Persian cucumber. They are very expensive these days - $2.99/pound!
  • $46.46 - Costco for more groceries. M has a real Costco addiction, as you can see. ;-) 
  • -$125.63 - returned a few birthday items that were gifts & didn't fit. 

Total spent for the week = $542.60. Not as low as my $350 spend a few weeks ago, but all in all, pretty decent. I need to do a better job of minimizing grocery trips (M is a man on a mission with the produce), but other than that, things were pretty reasonable. 

What about you? How did you do with your spending last week?

2 comments:

  1. Hope your little guy is doing better. At least he is on a mission with produce-that's something.

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    1. Sam is feeling better. The cough isn't gone yet, but he's certainly feeling better, which is great. And yes, life could definitely be worse than buying lots of produce! ;-)

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