I’ve spent a lot of mental money this week. My closet? 90% donated to clothing recycling, 10% retained, and off on a second-hand store spree. Thanks to graduate student finances, and a pile of papers all due on the same day, I have exhibited great restraint. That restraint is why we’re still debt-free, despite [...]
It’s official. My record keeping is a mess.
While cleaning today, instead of paper writing (the ultimate avoidance technique as the house always needs cleaning), I came across a receipt that I don’t want to lose. It’s not for much, a total of $8.33 (cash) spent on a pound of strawberries, a package of over-priced semi-sweet [...]
Expenditures: $20 (cash) on food at Momofuku with a group of fellow food studies grads, one prof and a visitor whose name I do not recall, but has recently published a book on Bengli food. My mental discussion of this expenditure eerily resembles a previous post (What happens if you never accept invitations to socialize [...]
$2.75 (cash) on a slice of pizza from the campus eatery, because I failed to pack lunch, and knew that if I did not eat something, I would find myself a raging mess of emotion and headache in a matter of hours.
$11.81 (cash) at Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable on dinner supplies, plus a splurge on [...]
We spent $28/person to take round-trip weekend excursion to Washington DC to play at Easter bunnies and egg dying with my brother-in-law and his family
$13 (credit) at Macy’s–I broke my 5 year pledge not to shop there through a last-minute realization that it was my sister-in-laws birthday and as she is one who lives a [...]