I've always had the magical ability of making money flow through my fingers like water. (My husband does not think this is a magical ability. He has other words for it, but he doesn't use them out loud.)
If my husband starts the week out with $100 in his wallet, he'll finish the week with maybe $87.75 and know exactly where and how he spent the $12.25. If I start the week out with $100 in my wallet, on the second day, I'll ask my husband if he has any money I can have.
Then we'll have a exchange something like this:
He'll say, "What happened to the $100 you had?"
"I don't know."
"Well, what did you buy?"
"I don't know. Give me some money."
"What do you need it for?"
"I don't know. Give me some money."
Then he won't give me money, I'll go to the bank machine instead and the cycle begins again.Despite having managed to blow over $600, I'm feeling guilty about not having made much effort to get out to small local businesses yet. I feel like shopping is my job and I'm not doing it very well. (Imagine the look on my husband's face as he reads that. I am and it's making me giggle.) But I have been stuck at home most of the week doing my other job, the one that actually pays me money, so exploring small local stores had to wait.
We did go to Taverna Greka on Columbia St. last week for dinner. I'd been there before, but not for seven or eight years. And, other than the Keg, I don't think we had ever gone out for a family dinner on Columbia St. Taverna Greka has a great view of the river and the food was good, especially the dolmades and a wonderfully creamy, custard-y dessert. (I have to stop writing this blog at night, I'm getting really hungry.) We will definitely go back.
From Oct. 15 to 21, we spent just over $600 in New West.
We bought:
- Girl Guide cookies
- Food at the Royal City Curling Club
- Lightbulbs and toiletries at London Drugs
- Cleaning products at a Norwex home party
- Groceries at Price-Smart and M&M
- Haircut at Gem Barbers on Sixth St. (That was my husband.)
- Dinner at Taverna Greka, part of Zest of New West
- Coffee/food at Starbucks
- Scholastic book order (Someone should do a year of buying stuff only from school and kids' group fundraisers.)
- LEGO and Halloween candy at Wal-Mart (My son saved up his allowance money for a few months to buy LEGO.)
- Piano lessons
