Sew Sue Me

Posted on by Dri

I spent some time today playing with this beautiful face: I almost caught her scrunching up her nose, her new favorite way to smile! And working on some sewing projects I’ve been putting off: I got this cute scoopneck tee on sale […]

Clean up, Clean up

Posted on by Dri

Every body do your share…

Well, I guess not Avie. Yesterday (forgot to post this before Ansen’s post!) we finally got around to cleaning up after our week of vacation and various traveling.

The Great Cell Phone Experiment

Posted on by Ansen

When I (Ansen) look over the line-items in our budget, the cell-phones category always catches my eye. And not in a good way. The amount we spend on our wireless bill is over twice what we spend on television and broadband combined. It’s one of the most expensive categories in our entire budget, only behind the likes of our mortgage payments and grocery bills. Dri and I both own smartphones with service from Verizon Wireless. These phones have served us quite well and we’ve come to be pretty reliant on them. However, our 2-year contract with Verizon recently expired, giving us the opportunity to evaluate our options.

Challenge Complete!

Posted on by Dri

It’s officially over! The $30/week challenge is over! I have proved we could do it and depleted our stores in the process, but it was a good cleansing. At last update I had $10 cash. I now know why I don’t use cash: I have no way to account for it. If I spend a dollar here and a couple at a garage sale… I don’t have any way to go back and track it.

Anyways… $10. With that $10 I spent $2.09 on a gallon of milk, $1.04 on tortillas, and $6 toward a dresser (the one I still need to post about). I have $.38 left and I guess the rest probably went toward tolls from last weekend. So basically I had a surplus of $6.87!!! Can you believe that I not only fed both of us on $30/week, but that I had $6.87 left over!?! I can’t.