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Recently in the personal finance blogosphere there have been some posts about helping family members financially, so I thought I’d share my own “helping family members” story.
Week 3: Monday September 21 to Sunday September 27
Last week we borrowed from this week’s grocery budget and were left with $140.30 for the week.
I was actually a little anxious sitting here entering the receipts, hoping we met our goal to stay under the budget amount. Mr. A is the one buying the groceries and trying to stay under budget. I’m just reporting the facts.
If you did file an extension, and if you haven’t already been working on getting your taxes prepared, you better get busy because your extension lasts only until October 15th. Oh, I scared myself just for a minute there, I was hoping it was October, and not September. Whew.
I was able to stop by a “ranch” produce market on Monday afternoon, and quite surprised to see that most of the vegetables and fruits were product of the USA. It is common in Arizona to see that a lot of our produce comes from Mexico.
If you watch or listen to the news, you’ll hear a lot about H1N1 aka Swine Flu, but you can do things to lower your chances of getting this or any seasonal influenza. The main one, which your momma should have taught you, is to wash your hands!
Just about a year ago at church camp my son and I were targeted by a member of the group trying to sell us Xango Juice, “The Original Mangosteen Supplement”. She touted all the things it would heal. I was suspicious, as the ingredients seemed to be mostly fruit juices. I still have one of the free bottles she foisted off onto us.
We made the last co-pay of $145 to Mr. A’s COBRA insurance in August, so his coverage is probably over by now. Of course, last Thursday we get a notice in the mail that his insurance company can’t pay for some prescriptions filled back in December and January.
My post Cash System for Groceries Week 1 has been included at the 196th Festival of Frugality over at Green Panda Treehouse. Please pop on over and check out the Festival, it is chock full of great frugal articles today!
Week 2: Monday September 14th to Sunday September 20th
Every Monday we start out the week with $160 for groceries.
My garden is still producing. The watermelon plants have done wonderfully, and I was able to harvest a watermelon a couple of days ago. It is a Malali watermelon. So far this is the largest one, although I believe this variety is supposed to be 10-15 pounds. It came in just under 5 pounds, at 4 pounds 14 ounces. This grew on the netting I made, and I’d given it … click here to continue reading September 2009 Gardening
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