maybe if you sweet talk him a bit...tell him how much better it makes you feel...
hey so we are going to be downtown on the 26th, spending the night of the 25th in Seattle, taking Megan to see the Smuckers Ice Show so thought it would be fun to spend the night and hang out in the city until we meet up, are we still good to go to meet up in Renton???
If you go every 6 weeks it saves 1/3!!
I think I'm using this as a confessional.....
I have been waiting for Joanns to have their albums on sale again for 5.00 which starts today. I am conscieniously (SP?) jumping off the wagon. I scrapped alot last year and my pages of my trips are each laying in individual Iris boxes. It doesnt make it easy to look through pages when they are not in a book. And I figured that while Im watching tv with fam I can load pages into albums.
So I will get back on but Im planning on being a bad girl today.
I spent $17.00 yesterday.... 12 for mats; 5 for adhesive.. The rest that came home with me mom bought.... she wanted to waste some money...Dad said she had to buy me stuff since I was driving... My dad rocks! LOL (I limited my request to sale items).
I confess--I pushed Lisa off the ban wagon by taking her to Hobby Lobby today We only bought what we would be using soon, but, still I feel kinda bad taking her to such a fun store.
Tsk Tsk Cheryl....now you both need a pull over!! LOL
I bet you guys had a nice time though...so that makes it all worth it!!!!!!
OMG Lisa- last yr when i took my students, I swore that I would not need to buy anything Disney - wrong!!! Went to the gift shop at our ASMovies, and they had just received the most incredible huge pack of Disney papers, mats, stickers etc.... Needless to say, they get put to good use!!
February:
-Eat out only once a week first two weeks went well...last two weeks not so much
-Scrap spending at or under $30 Yay!!!! Only spent $25!!!
-Clean out cabinets nope...still in the plans!
-Start diet...down at least 10 lbs Down 6, so a start at least...24 to 29 to go!
-Continue picture orders did some, but waiting for some super discounts!
Alrighty then--our February wasn't so great. Too much eating out = too much money spent on food
We're starting fresh. We all sat down and made a menu for the week (hopefully we can stick to it).
February's goal:
budget for the month - First 1/2 of the month is done didn't budget the 2nd 1/2 of the month and paid the price financially
no scrap spending - use only stash Bought 12 sheets of paper (on sale) but only colors I needed, green, black, and brown and bought 2 packs of 8 1/2 x 11 paper for Kansas trip. Using the same color palette throughout to save time.
I do have an allowance for adhesive but it must be either on sale or bought with a coupon. bought adhesive today, didn't have a coupon only because I haven't been shopping at Mikes so I didn't have one LOL
clip more coupons tanked!!! Rarely used coupons but I did use reusable bags and soda/water bottle redemption
NO EATING OUT!!! - eating out last year for Feb was $1064. NUTS!!! tanked again!!! Between Snow days, sick days and crazy schedule days we did terrible.
All coupon and card savings, as well as meal out savings will go into the WDW fund. what little we saved, will go into the WDW fund
February Goals
Get 2008 Disney Album done and Keep moving. No so good on this one. The month flew by too many sickies and not enough days off. i got 15 pages done and the rest of the pics ordered
Eat out 2 times this month. Short month I hope we can do it! I think we ate our WAY more this month. I blame it on
Get all bills caught up, got a little behind when my car broke down on the way to Disneyland in December, $1,200 to fix it plus, $200 tow, $200 cab ride to nearest airport, $275 for rental car to get to Disneyland and back while car was being fixed. Bills have been caught up!!! except dance, thats a work in progress, i did pay costmes and a huge chunk of tuition
Try not to go overboard on stuff for the new house so that I can pay someone else to load and unload a truck. VS taking time off work, renting truck, gas/mileage, depending on everyone to show up. still waiting on the final approvals for the stinking house, but we did finally buy 2 new dressers, 1 for us, DBF has half a drawer and 12 inches of closet space, hey I had my scrap stuff in the closet first and one for the little girls, they have outgrown their "baby" dressers so they got a big one to share, DBF spent hours putting it together last night it!! and new nightstands. DBF didnt have one and mine is soooooooo old. All old furniture is being re-purposed, DD#1 is getting mine, throwing hers out, and so far one of the little girls' will be the dress up closet, since its old and has drawers and a closet side to it. Still debating on the other.
Thats it for February, gonna keep it simple.
We did a lot of fun things this month too. Spent $144.00 at Build a Bear for DD#2's bday. Not bad for 4 girls.
Also had to buy DD's new dance shoes- $55, and bought DD#2 a super cute new dance bag on Etsy for $24 shipped. Her old one has kicked the bucket.
March Goals
Scrap my tushy off!!!! I am going to plan to spend 1 whole day off a week, scrapping and working on swaps. No matter what!
Teach DBF to cook so we can eat at home more. Maybe do a menu so he knows what he will be cooking.
MOVE! Well I will settle for keys and the renovations to start. We need space!!!
Clean out and Clear out in preparation of the move. Not that we have a lot, I try to keep up on top of it, but there is a few things that could use purging.
Hang out with Lisa again. DD wants to go skating
Wow....rambling
would love to hang out again soon, but will probably have to wait until after we get back from WDW! have something going on every weekend until we leave.
Megan doesn't know how to skate and I haven't been on roller skates since jr high and never on ice skates, so I wouldn't be any help for her!
Well E doesnt really know how either. So they could help each other. And we can watch