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The final grocery run before another no-spend challenge

August 12th, 2006 at 12:45 am

I like this blogging thing! I get to talk about money whenever I want to and not worry that my post is going to be lame. Big Grin

I went to Aldi's with my boys in tow this afternoon, which I something I vow never to do again each and every time. This time was no different. [sigh] Individually, they are angels. Together...well.

It was a successful trip, but not as successful as I would have liked. I only spent $93 of the budgeted $200, but I thought it would be less than that. We have enough meals in the freezer for 16 meals, so none of it was dinner related. It was lunch, breakfast and snacks. I'm going to take a closer look at my receipt later. Of course $8.36 of was on milk alone! LOL! We now have 5 and half gallons of milk in the fridge! I didn't realize DH bought some last night. Oh well. We certainly will drink it. I usually try to limit it to 2/wk though.

In any case, I allocated all the money exactly as planned.

I've been conserving water today. I've been collecting water from our drippy sink and am amazed and a bit disgusted at just how much we waste! It's ludicrous, really! I read a tip from some wonderful person on the board which I am going to try, just for fun. (Boy, has my idea of fun changed. LOL!) I'm going to start collecting the water in the shower that runs while it is waiting to get warm. I'm going to use that water to flush the toilet! Not exclusively, of course, but for my own use of that toilet and only if I happen to have the bucket full. You just take off the lid, hold up the floating bulb, flush and fill the tank. Neat idea!

Well, I'm off to read some more interesting blogs!

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