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November 13 - Christmas shopping and house showing

November 14th, 2005 at 02:56 am

Busy day! Sundays are my day to sleep in (DH gets Saturdays), so I rolled out of bed around 8:30. I used to think 8:30 was early before kids, but now it's a luxury Smile I headed into the city (Syracuse, not a huge city, but it is to country folk like me) to do a little shopping before meeting my client to show houses. I stumbled upon a huge sale at Old Navy. All of their clearance was an additional 50% off. I wish I had more time to stay and look around, but my client called and said she was ready to meet me. As it was, I got four pieces of adult clothing and four pieces of children's clothing for about $28. I usually only buy clothes secondhand, but a deal like this makes new clothes cheaper than used! I stopped at Marshalls later and got a bunch of books for the boys for Christmas - ds1 loves to "read" and I hope ds2 will also. And I found this toy plane that comes with it's own tools for taking it apart and putting it back together - a screwdriver, wrench, etc. I think ds1 will really enjoy this. He loves to help his Papa fix things with his little tools, and he loves planes too. For some reason I am really looking forward to Christmas shopping this year. I usually make it a rule to not even think about it until after Thanksgiving, but I am really into it already. Maybe because I don't have to worry about how much it is going to cost!
I would like to pay for all the gifts in cash this year and keep a running tab. I was thinking about putting $100 or so into an envelope at a time and taking cash from there for gifts. Then I can keep a running tab on the outside of the envelope and throw all the receipts in there as well. Now I just have to convince DH to go along with it. He thinks I am a little (ok, a lot) too anal about money, but I really enjoy doing all this. I tell him it's like a game, and that there are far worse habits to have!
Bowling night - so we spent another $15 for the babysitter and $10 to bowl, although we paid in advance last week so it was no cash out of pocket tonight. I also had to eat out tonight as I was gone from 11:30am-9pm! My buyer did not find any houses tonight, but we are going to look again on Tuesday. We looked at 10 houses today, which makes for a really, really long day. It does not sound like a lot, but I usually only show 3 or 4 at a time.
Expenses today: $28 Old Navy on Christmas gifts and one shirt for myself, $49 at Marshalls, $1.62 for dinner, $15 babysitter, $1.25 for soda at bowling (DH), $4.00 for a book off E-bay (Christmas gift)
No income today, although I finally did deposit all those checks, so I can pay down some loans tomorrow.
I'll add this all up later - time for bed now.
(DH just read this and said "fat chance" at going along with my Christmas tracking system. Grrr.....I told him all he had to do was give me his receipts and I would take care of the rest. He's so stubborn.)

Saved money today by: finding clothes at a huge discount (cheaper than used), buying a slice of pizza for dinner instead of a meal, drinking free water at the bowling alley instead of buying a drink, showed a lot of houses at one time instead of making multiple trips to the city (60 miles round trip).

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