I'm still marveling at how much money we spent this weekend--but it was all planned and budgeted for, so I don't feel bad about any of it.
First we rented a car--$100 (we budget for 1 car rental per month). Then we went to a bunch of yard sales--about $60 of our personal spending money (though some was materials for AS's sewing business, so that will get deducted from that account). After that we ran around to a few stores--$320 for groceries (we took advantage of the car and really stocked up)--we used up most of our household budget for May, but we won't need very much for the next couple weeks, and in June our CSA starts delivering fresh produce, so our grocery bills will get much smaller for the rest of the summer and fall. Then to a sushi restaurant--$100 of our spending money. Sunday we went to a few stores and bought about $200 of home improvement things, which we still had money set aside for--we got paint, storage containers, a stepstool and a low-flow shower head among other things. All told, we spend almost $800 in two days--wow!
What's just as remarkable as our spending that much is the fact that we had the money in the bank and in hand. There were many times in my life when a weekend like this would have been a guilty splurge, with me taking a deep breath and blindly waving a credit card everywhere we went.
The next few weeks should be cheap but equally fun. We don't have any more big spending planned for a while.
Expensive but fun weekend
May 18th, 2009 at 07:51 pm
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Glad you had a fun weekend - sounds like you got a lot accomplished.
I just had to plunker down $215 for the '09-'10 school year's sport participation that my girls are doing (both volleyball and both basketball). Funny that with having a good plan in place - I only exceded the "extraneous" fund by $15, easily absorbible/able (spelling?) across other categories.
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