Monday, April 18, 2011
Once again, I let the surplus cash sit too long in our checking account and sure enough, Murphy came to call. Friday evening, Mr. Struggle called me from work, where he was stuck with a dead car battery. After getting the car running, we bought a battery and he replaced it himself on his lunch break Saturday. Luckily, Mr. Struggle is handy with this sort of thing. The battery cost us just over $100, after coupon.
Sunday, I drove out-of-town to attend an event at our son’s university. While there, we packed up all of the winter things and nearly everything else in his dorm room. Hopefully, he will be able to bring everything else home on the bus after his exams are over, and I won’t need to drive back. I also did some shopping at the outlet mall while I was there and bought a few gift items for Easter baskets, mostly spring clothing. I discovered several of the outlet stores give an additional 10% discount with a AAA card, and one store gave me an additional 20% discount just for asking!
My main purpose in going to the outlet mall was to check out a certain store I had not been in before, because we have a new branch opening here in town and I have applied for a supervisory position there. I wanted to be more familiar with the company in case they call for an interview. I bought two small items at this store that I didn’t really need, but can give them as a present to a relative. We’ll call that “research.”
Here are our expenses for the weekend:
Starting balance: 1246.86
56.93 gasoline
100.20 car battery
12.93 research for job interview
9.69 household
122.00 family clothing, including Easter gifts
14.98 dorm supplies
44.88 groceries
13.42 plants for garden
This left a balance of $871.83. I moved $800 of this to savings to make sure it didn’t trickle away any further. This will be our spending money for next month’s trip, to see our daughter graduate and do some sight-seeing near her home.
We have a balance of $71.83 to last until Friday. Not bad, comparatively.
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