I'm ahead of myself here since the day is not over yet, but I don't think I'll get back on the computer again today. Bowling night, so we have some expenses there. We also took the boys out to Wal-Mart today b/c ds1 needed a haircut, and not many other places around here are open on Sunday. If I had any talent at all, I would be buying clippers and doing his hair from now on. $11 ($8.95 plus tip) for a haircut that I really did not even like! I am so paranoid that I would screw up majorly if I tried to do it myself though. We'll see...maybe I'll screw up the courage for the next cut. I guess at this age you can always just shave it off and thye really don't care

Expenses today: $11 haircut, $65 groceries (including $16 for Star Wars Episode III that DH had to have now instead of waiting for Christmas) - we had to stock up on some essentials for the South Beach diet that we are almost out of, like a big container of olive oil, balsalmic vinegar, cereal - hopefully things that will last us a while. I also got online to pay off a few credit cards. I use them a lot, but pay them off every month. Technically, I guess I shouldn't count them as expenses, since I document the amount I spent on the day I spent it. But, for the record, I spent a total of $273.93 paying off two cards this month.
$30.75 to Gevalia coffee - DH's luxury. He loves the coffee, but only gets it delivered every 12 weeks because it is SO expensive. He uses Folgers the rest of the time. I had to write Gevalia a nasty little note a few weeks ago. They sent us a postcard saying we will be sending you two boxes of some specialty coffee (and billing you for it) UNLESS you write us back and tell us not to. I sent my note back asking them not to and telling them that I thought that was a terrible way to do business. I should not have to go out of my way to tell them I don't want something - they should send me only what I order. I was hoping for some type of response, but nothing. If DH didn't like their coffee so much, I would drop them in an instant.

Expenses tonight: $20 bowling (I may write a check and prepay several weeks - I hate having to run around for cash every Sunday night), $15 babysitter

November expenses: $903.33
November income: $4400.00

Some ways I saved money today: We are eating in instead of getting pizza out tonight, like we sometimes do on Sundays before bowling. No snacks tonight at bowling either. We took drinks in the car and snacks for the store trip today so the kids did not start asking for things. I washed a load of laundry in cold water.