Everyone Knows You Need to Spend Money to Save Money… Don't They? | How Much Did I Spend Last Week? Oct 10-16, 2022
I'm genuinely not sure how this happened.
My obsession with Sarah Nicole @thebirdspapaya has gone nowhere, let me tell you – so when I saw her talking about how she does three meals a week, her husband does three, and they order takeout for the seventh, I thought, why don’t we do that?!
We sat down and talked about it and decided that I’d take Mondays (Brandin picks the boys up after work and usually comes home feeling a bit, er, tense), Wednesdays and Thursdays (both days he goes to the gym after work), while he’d take Tuesday, Friday and either Saturday or Sunday, whichever of the two we’re not ordering in.
No prizes for guessing how this plan played out.
Monday
I have always been easily influenced, but lately things have reached a bad pass. Just now, I nearly signed up to Beautypie’s annual subscription just so that I could order Jenna Lyons’ Unlipstick (what a stupid name, honestly) and a pair of her LoveSeen fake eyelashes (me! fake eyelashes!).
Anyway, Monday is no different because, upon seeing that Karrie Locher has a discount code for Kyte Baby – and having heard her raving about their sleep sacks – I decide to buy two winter sleep sacks for Atlas. ($101.86)
To be fair, the sleep sacks he has will very soon be either too small or too light for the coming winter (or both!), but I really didn’t need to order two $59 sleep sacks when Amazon has the same tog available for around $25. But here we are.
I have a surprisingly productive Monday morning – I make porridge for Atlas’ and my breakfast and empty the dishwasher while it’s cooking, then tidy up the kitchen after we’ve eaten and put on a load of washing. (V good 1950s housewife vibes.)
When Atlas goes down for his nap, I do some writing, and when he wakes up we head to Kroger to pick up a few little grocery bits. ($25.34)
I also decide to rejoin Costco, and split the annual fee with my friend H. ($30) I follow another influential person (aren’t they all, to me?!) on Instagram who splits her weekly food shop between Costco and Trader Joe’s and I truly feel like this is going to make me a healthier eater and a more strategic shopper. Thus: saving loads of money! It’ll happen, I can feel it.
I get a text at some stage during the day to let me know that I owe a small amount to Lutheran for my recent visit to A&E. I thought I’d paid all of those bills, and I’m ever so slightly suspicious of the text, but then I remember I did sign up to text billing and think, what the hell. (I’m still hoping it was legit, but the amount is so small that I feel like it’d be a ridiculously dumb scam.) ($16.54)
When the boys get home and we reveal the plan for dinner – spaghetti bolognese – there are very vocal objections, mainly based on the fact that they had spaghetti bolognese at their mum’s yesterday. That’s one of the awkward parts of shared custody that no one talks about: the food planning!
Anyway, I have a rubber arm – and as it’s my night to cook I’m even more likely to fall at the first hurdle – so agree to order a family box (two pizzas, breadsticks and some boneless chicken wings, ie very dry chicken nuggets) from Pizza Hut. Finn and I drive to pick it up. ($30.87)
Once the boys are in bed, Brandin and I catch up on our Rings of Power and go to bed early too.
Daily total: $204.61
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