Clean up, Clean up
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
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!
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.
Avie’s First Baseball Game
I kind of forgot about the whole July picture challenge. Sorry to double up on posts today, but I’m getting started on this a week late, so I’d better start before it’s not worth it!
Today’s photo:
Declaring our Independence…
from travel. This past week we have spent 14 hours on the road. It wouldn’t be so bad, except we have a baby who hates the car and doesn’t sleep for more than an hour. Needless to say, we are happy to be done traveling for a while. So happy, in fact, that we did pretty much nothing Saturday. Avie was the only one who got dressed today and that was only because she had a blow-out in her jammies.
But that is not to say that we didn’t enjoy our time with our family! To begin with, we went to Wichita to see my (Dri) family. My grandma was visiting at my parents the whole time, so we got to spend time with her. Apparently she used to always make cream puffs, but I don’t remember ever having her cream puffs. I guess she stopped making them at some point. BUT she made some for us and the were quite tasty! AND now I not only have the recipe, but I also watched her make them, so I can do it too!