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January 16th, 2011 at 12:07 am

I just signed in, spent almost half an hour composing a long and detailed blog entry, went to post it and got a notice saying I am already signed in as me. Yeah, duh, I know, what's your point? Give me back my entry. Of course it's gone into the ether. Between that and having to sign in every single time I come here this week instead of it saving it like it's supposed to when you hit remember me, it's getting really frustrating. I don't even have the energy now to recompose the whole thing. Too bad, for it was light and witty and would have changed your world. *snerks*

So the basics for yesterday:

Medical--$20 co-pay doctor visit
Medical--$11.81 prescription for kidney infection
Allowance (six weeks) kid #1--$60 @ $10 per week
Allowance (six weeks) kid #2--$30 @ $5 per week
Utilities for my mother--$300
EF deposit--$100, bringing total to $8,100.00
Parking meter at library--$0.25

Added all the ones in my purse to the coin jar for the computer fund and dumped out all my change save a quarter for the meter.

Got another hold from the library yesterday. This one is significantly more useful. It's called $3 Meals by Ellen Brown. A more appropriate title would be $3 per serving Meals, but otherwise I'm quite happy with it. I think I might be able to cut out about $50 a month from my grocery budget using her strategies. It was published 2009, too, so it's not terribly outmoded when it comes to how much stuff actually costs. I just wish it didn't rely so much on some of the things we're allergic to here like vinegar (allergic to grapes and apples so wine and cider based vinegars are out) and mushrooms. Still it's not all beans, rice and lentils. It actually has meat, poultry, and fish, so yay. We'll see how it goes.

I have more bills to pay out of this paycheck but will do that tomorrow or Monday.

Posted in Goals, Cutting Expenses, Spending Journal, Paying the Bills, Meal Planning, Medical Issues and Spending | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “More on Yesterday”

  1. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    January 16th, 2011 at 03:46 am 1295149619
    1295149619

    Yeah, I've had that happen to me a few times too. It's very frustrating.

  2. LittleGopher Says:
    January 16th, 2011 at 03:25 pm 1295191516
    1295191516

    Me too on losing entries! I now automatically do a quick highlight and copy before hitting the save and publish button - saved many an entry.

    I like your idea of collecting your ones for a want (your computer fund.) It'll be interesting to see how long it takes. You may inspire me to try it out for a definite want on my part - hmmm :-)

  3. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    January 16th, 2011 at 03:55 pm 1295193320
    1295193320

    Could you use rice vinegar? It's expensive, but an alternative. Actually, you might research white vinegars. I think some of them are not biologically produced through fermentation, but chemically produced now so that they would be pure, devoid of any plant/yeast allergens.

  4. baselle Says:
    January 17th, 2011 at 06:03 am 1295244215
    1295244215

    Been there on the losing entries too. Sigh. What I sometimes do if its an intricate entry and I would be upset if I lost it would be to compose it in Word, then cut and paste into New Entry. The issue with that is you have to go on apostrophe patrol. Word apostrophes turn into that funny symbol on the blog.

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