I love the end of the month/beginning of a new month time.
Ok, let me rephrase that....the money nerd in me loves this time. ;-)
* It's 3 days to the end of April and looking back...... I am over my $200 food budget limit I imposed for April. And that's even with using free or paid for last year gift cards. Oh well. Still, spending $260 OOP for food for a month for 3 adults(and stocking up on some "deals")is awesome in my book.
* I have still got about a half a tank of gas in my car and have only filled it once in April. Go me.
May will change all that in a big way.....I'll be putting miles on the Sonic and paying for lots of gas.
* I didn't take any cash withdrawals this month and still have $36 in my wallet from March's cash.
I decided when April started not to take any cash out of the bank automatically on the 1st and just see how far March's leftovers took me....to the tune of $36 evidently. lol
I think I had $72? in my wallet at the end of March.
So $36 is leftover from that $72 after paying cash for about $20 in prescriptions I picked up, a few of gallons of milk at the store($13 approx.) and I did do the drive-thru for a burger or two in April so that came out of the leftover March money too. I took myself to the movies in April but that was using a gift card that was paid for 2 years ago.
Sounds about right. I really didn't spend on much besides groceries this month.
So I am going into May(really? May already!?!)with $36 in my pocket and half a tank of gas.
Woohoo! ;-)
* I've only got 1 item left on my To-Do List for April-a Sallie's donation to finish gathering and taking in. I guess I'll get the rest of it gathered today and loadedd into Hubs' car when he gets home and see if Hubs can drop it off on the way home from work on Friday. Then we don't have to make a trip there over the weekend.
* I bought a total of 14 bags of coffee this past sales week at Weis(PMITA)Markets while they had this brand on BOGO sale.
6 bags of the Alert type(highly caffeinated)cost $7.47 after sale and $1.50/1Qs or $1.25 for each bag.
8 bags of assorted regular types/flavors cost $10.96 after sale and $2.50/2Qs + 1 x $1/1 Weis Q or $1.37 per bag.
$76.86 worth of reg. retail coffee for $18.43 or $1.32 on average per bag.
I also have a rain check for 8 more bags of the flavor they were out of that College Boy prefers + 4 x $2.50/2Qs to use with that rain check, netting me 22 bags of coffee at a cost of $30.39 or $1.38 per bag average.
Not too shabby. ;-)
Some of it is whole bean coffee so it will stay fresher longer and we can always throw some into the freezer to keep if it gets "old" sitting on the pantry shelf.
* Ok, I am serious about id-ing this mystery flowering tree!
Reader Tina left a comment Monday(thank you for that!)about it being a Saskatoon Serviceberry tree. I looked and the photos I found are not quite right plus it does not grow berries. sigh.
So here is a better up close shot with my lovely whitest white woman hand in the picture......
The flowers are small(about 1.5 inches diameter)and have thin petals. Most of the flowers are now past their prime bloom and you can see the leaves are beginning to sprout. It's an oval leaf much like a beech tree I think?
And it's definitely not a bush or a short/dwarf tree.....
The two trunks behind the swing are the tree in question so it's as tall as our 2 story house + another story +.
This is a photo standing under it looking up.
And here are the petals that it sheds all over the yard........
I looked around while I was driving to Weis this week and noticed about 4 more of this same tree along the roads on my route. None were in anybody's yard so I couldn't just go up to a door and ask them if they know what was growing in their yards.....because you know, if I got desperate enough, I'd do just that. lolz
So I am off to work on my End of Month Grocery tallies, a blog post or two(1 geneaology, 1 road trip)and get that Sallie donation sorted out.
What's going on in your world today?
Sluggy
Ok, let me rephrase that....the money nerd in me loves this time. ;-)
* It's 3 days to the end of April and looking back...... I am over my $200 food budget limit I imposed for April. And that's even with using free or paid for last year gift cards. Oh well. Still, spending $260 OOP for food for a month for 3 adults(and stocking up on some "deals")is awesome in my book.
* I have still got about a half a tank of gas in my car and have only filled it once in April. Go me.
May will change all that in a big way.....I'll be putting miles on the Sonic and paying for lots of gas.
* I didn't take any cash withdrawals this month and still have $36 in my wallet from March's cash.
I decided when April started not to take any cash out of the bank automatically on the 1st and just see how far March's leftovers took me....to the tune of $36 evidently. lol
I think I had $72? in my wallet at the end of March.
So $36 is leftover from that $72 after paying cash for about $20 in prescriptions I picked up, a few of gallons of milk at the store($13 approx.) and I did do the drive-thru for a burger or two in April so that came out of the leftover March money too. I took myself to the movies in April but that was using a gift card that was paid for 2 years ago.
Sounds about right. I really didn't spend on much besides groceries this month.
So I am going into May(really? May already!?!)with $36 in my pocket and half a tank of gas.
Woohoo! ;-)
* I've only got 1 item left on my To-Do List for April-a Sallie's donation to finish gathering and taking in. I guess I'll get the rest of it gathered today and loadedd into Hubs' car when he gets home and see if Hubs can drop it off on the way home from work on Friday. Then we don't have to make a trip there over the weekend.
* I bought a total of 14 bags of coffee this past sales week at Weis(PMITA)Markets while they had this brand on BOGO sale.
6 bags of the Alert type(highly caffeinated)cost $7.47 after sale and $1.50/1Qs or $1.25 for each bag.
8 bags of assorted regular types/flavors cost $10.96 after sale and $2.50/2Qs + 1 x $1/1 Weis Q or $1.37 per bag.
$76.86 worth of reg. retail coffee for $18.43 or $1.32 on average per bag.
I also have a rain check for 8 more bags of the flavor they were out of that College Boy prefers + 4 x $2.50/2Qs to use with that rain check, netting me 22 bags of coffee at a cost of $30.39 or $1.38 per bag average.
Not too shabby. ;-)
Some of it is whole bean coffee so it will stay fresher longer and we can always throw some into the freezer to keep if it gets "old" sitting on the pantry shelf.
* Ok, I am serious about id-ing this mystery flowering tree!
Reader Tina left a comment Monday(thank you for that!)about it being a Saskatoon Serviceberry tree. I looked and the photos I found are not quite right plus it does not grow berries. sigh.
So here is a better up close shot with my lovely whitest white woman hand in the picture......
The flowers are small(about 1.5 inches diameter)and have thin petals. Most of the flowers are now past their prime bloom and you can see the leaves are beginning to sprout. It's an oval leaf much like a beech tree I think?
And it's definitely not a bush or a short/dwarf tree.....
The two trunks behind the swing are the tree in question so it's as tall as our 2 story house + another story +.
This is a photo standing under it looking up.
And here are the petals that it sheds all over the yard........
I looked around while I was driving to Weis this week and noticed about 4 more of this same tree along the roads on my route. None were in anybody's yard so I couldn't just go up to a door and ask them if they know what was growing in their yards.....because you know, if I got desperate enough, I'd do just that. lolz
So I am off to work on my End of Month Grocery tallies, a blog post or two(1 geneaology, 1 road trip)and get that Sallie donation sorted out.
What's going on in your world today?
Sluggy
