Homebody Getting Back to My Roots

Okay I have a hair appt for a trim. I work hard to get my work done before I run into town.

I stop work at 3:00, get ready to go, stop and pick up my paycheck and pick up a coffee. I get to the hair salon about 15 minutes early for my 4:30 appt. Well no my appointment was at 9:30, not 4:30. I wanted to cry. This is the second time I have missed my appointment because I didn't have the correct time. In this case I think my 9:30 looked like 4:30 to me!! I swear my hairdresser is going to fire me.

So I am desperate and run down to Master Cuts at the mail. It takes the young hairesser about 3 minutes to trim my very thin hair. How much I ask?? She says $5.00. I gave her a $9.00, a $5.00 bill and 4 $1.00 bills.

Then I go get Nexus shampoo, then onto Costco where I purchased a new vacuum cleaner and two of their chicken cesaer salads. Oh and picked up my first Costo downloaded photos. We downloaded a picture of YD and new husband made into wallet sizes to put into their thank you cards.

I totaled my 1/2 month purchases and am a little shocked!

Groceries $263.72!
Eating out $31.39
Car expenses $963.33!!! 4 new tires for truck, air conditioning fixed in YD's car.
Personal care $69.00 (Bare Essentuals)
Household $54.50 (pets and miscellaneous)
Movies $15.00 (Not going to do that again anytime soon.)

Anyway today's spending certainly didn't help the end of the month totals!

Oh well, this is why I stared writing things down to see where it all went. I guess I'm finding out!

After two no spend days, I needed to go to the grocery store.

YD has not been feeling well so I wanted to make something she would like for dinner and I decided on tortolini soup.

All I needed was the tortolini and spinach. I also purchased 3 bananas, and Safeway croutons that were 2/$3.00.

So spending today;
Safeway $13.45
Dollar Store $8.07
Video Store $3.22

Our locally owned video store offers older movies 3 for $3.00, 4 for $4.00, etc. I picked up three movies I knew my husband would not enjoy since he is gone hunting.

I went to the Dollar Store to pick up a couple of birthday cards and ended up finding three new toys for my dog and a couple of nice picture frames.

I am surprised I have only had two no spend days this month. Between myself and my husband we have spent money every day except August 15 and 16 and that is probably because DH is up in the mountains somewhere!

This was my fourth day of a headache, from migraine to nagging. Hopefully tomorrow I will wake up with no head pain.

Well I've been opening my big mouth replying to everyone else's blogs. So I guess it's time to start my own.

First of all I want to thank everyone who participates in the blogs and forums. The blogs are very helpful in keeping me on track and giving me new ideas to save money.

My original reason for wanting to start the blog is to keep track of my spending.

DH and I are at life crossroads with our last little moocher moving out in December across the country from California to North Carolina to set up housekeeping and wait for her DH to come home from Iraq. We are moving her as soon as her college semester is over so she can start the Spring semester in NC.

The last year has been an expensive one for us buying a house with OD, loaning MD $15,000 to buy a house and paying for YD's wedding that we had 13 days to plan!!

My husband and I are both self-employed. It's easy to work too much because I get paid by what I produce (medical transcription).

My goals are to be more organized with finances (and life in general) and actually have dinner ready when DH gets home once in a while.

It goes without saying, I want to get the most for my money based on my values and our "codependent" family's needs.