My Debt Reduction Blog » Spending Report http://www.mydrblog.com/blog Our road down debt reduction to elimination, and living without a budget Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:27:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Bought a $110 pair of shoes today, and had a $4 Starbucks coffee http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/10/12/bought-a-110-pair-of-shoes-today-and-had-a-4-starbucks-coffee/ http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/10/12/bought-a-110-pair-of-shoes-today-and-had-a-4-starbucks-coffee/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:06:29 +0000 Chad http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/10/12/bought-a-110-pair-of-shoes-today-and-had-a-4-starbucks-coffee/ Yup, you read that correctly. Certainly not what you should be reading on a blog of a family trying to get out of debt, but it is true. My feet have been hurting from my old and worn out work shoes, and I’ve been looking for a long time for a nice ‘inexpensive’ pair of shoes, but haven’t had much luck. Well, mom to the rescue; she insisted that I go to a local ‘old style’ shoe store where they actually fit you and sell high quality shoes. Then she would reimburse me. It’s been a long time, probably since I was a kid, since I went to a full service shoe store. Well, I ended up buying the first pair of shoes I tried on. They fit really well, and weren’t the most expensive shoes they had at $110. The good news was they were having a sale and all shoes were $10 off, so total cost with tax was $105.50.

It felt so good to have a nice, new pair of shoes that I fell victim to the near by starbucks, and wanted one more treat. I got myself a medium white chocolate mocha. I hate paying $4 for a drink, but I love that drink.

So there, I fell a bit off the debt wagon, but really only by $4.

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]]> http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/10/12/bought-a-110-pair-of-shoes-today-and-had-a-4-starbucks-coffee/feed/ 0 August spending report is done http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/09/11/august-spending-report-is-done/ http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/09/11/august-spending-report-is-done/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:02:15 +0000 Chad http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/09/11/august-spending-report-is-done/ I went though all our spending from August and made a spread sheet of the totals. Some of the totals were a wee bit shocking. 19 trips to the grocery store for a total of almost $600(We need to work on reducing trips), and the other big shocker was over $1700 to the pre-school. That will return to normal($1300/month) this month. Everything else was fairly normal or even below normal.

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]]> http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/09/11/august-spending-report-is-done/feed/ 0 Weekend Spending Report http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/27/weekend-spending-report-3/ http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/27/weekend-spending-report-3/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:43:46 +0000 Chad http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/27/weekend-spending-report-3/ One trip to the grocery store for $15 and that was it. Though we had no choice. The checking account is almost wiped and I didn’t get my paycheck on Friday because I was out of the office all day. Was hoping the paycheck would have been sitting on my desk this morning when I got in, but it wasn’t. Just had to send a little reminder to the boss.

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Saturday, my camera club had a photowalk at the Tall Ships festival which cost $10 to get in. Then I was there for lunch, so a brat and bottle of water set me back another $5. Sunday, we took the whole family ice skating. Admission was free because we are members but I had to get 2 skate rentals for a total of $6. Over all, not bad. And skating was fun, it was only the second time my daughters have been ice skating and they did pretty good for a couple of 4 year olds.

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]]> http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/12/weekend-spending-report-2/feed/ 0 Weekend spending report http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/06/weekend-spending-report/ http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/06/weekend-spending-report/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:37:28 +0000 Chad http://www.mydrblog.com/blog/2007/08/06/weekend-spending-report/ I decided to start a new segment called ‘Weekend Spending Report’ where I will summarize a bit where some of our cash went over the weekend. Why? A) I need to post more, and B) weekends generally are where we spend the most unnecessarily; and this could help teach us more control.

We were actually well behaved this this weekend for being out with the kids twice, well with the exception of the Recplex membership which set us back $1,035. Other than the membership, we didn’t spend any cash. Saturday we went to a Family Day put on by a local village and let the kids stock on freebie junk and came home for lunch instead of being gouged there. Then later Saturday, I met up with our photography club for a photowalk at a historic reenactment on our lakefront where plenty of stuff was being sold, but I didn’t get suckered in to buying anything. The membership cost was a somewhat expected cost as we planned a portion of our tax return this year to get the membership.

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