I spent $8 for lunch today. $8! I usually eat off the dollar menu the few times I do splurge on lunch. But I've been planning to get Mexican with an office mate for a week now, so today we finally got it. And, as lrjohnson says so often, when you have something seldom - it sure does taste good. What a treat. I even had some leftover nachos to bring home to snack on later.
Of course, this did disrupt my South Beachin'. But I can handle that. I am on Phase 3 now, which is the "maintain" phase. I have lost the 5 pounds that I needed to lose. I weighed myself this morning (before lunch!) with our dietician's scale in the office - 139.5. My goal weight is 140, so it's all good
My mom asked me to stop and get 4 things for dinner. But, while I was at Wal-Mart, I thought that I might as well get diapers. And then they had the big cans of coffee on sale for $3.88, and you just can't beat that. Oh wait, there's sweetened condensed milk 2/$1, and I have $1 coupon off 2...Libby's pumpkin was also on sale, and I had a BOGO coupon...so I ended up spending $28 when I should have spent $5. Oh well - everything will be used. And we were out of coffee, much to my caffeine-addicted DH's dismay. I did have one total impulse buy - crumbly blue cheese for our salads. Yum. (but I did have a coupon, at least)
I made it through the two weeks without dipping into savings, thanks to a few unexpected cash finds (prize money, rebates). I think I will get paid tomorrow instead of Thursday due to the holiday. That $584 is supposed to last two weeks, but I have to pay the following bills:
car payments $200
cell phone $90
Uh, I had another $100 bill to pay that I am blanking on right now. Anyway, my point was that I am not going to get out of this pay period without going to my EF, especially if I want to do any shopping.
A few more cash surprises: $5 in Walgreen's rebates, $10 Staples rebate.
Money out
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