Week One

So, as it is apt to happen, pretty much the evening after I posted about my desire to stop spending money, that I discovered that I was out of at least 4 of my essentials - I should have known that would happen. Sometimes life's sense of humor is seriously irritating.

Without further ado, here's what I ended up buying this weekend:

Saturday - I had time to kill between dropping off my sister at a volunteer event and picking her back up, so I had to go pick up a couple of my essentials that I discovered I was actually needing - mascara and concealer. Granted, I used a gift card for that but I consider it buying what I didn't absolutely need. 

Then it was to the UPS store where I had to pay $1 for taping for a return I was mailing back - kind of a racket but they do know how to capitalize on a person's need.

After that it was stopping at Walgreens to pick up facial pads (more things I had just run out of - although I probably had some in one of the boxes I have yet to unpack but convenience trumps time I suppose).

Next it was some fast food from McDonalds - because I had been craving fries ALL AFTERNOON. 

Later that evening I had this intense desire for Starbucks (the fiend!). I had to refill my card because I was like $1.50 short of what it cost and it will only let you pay $10 at minimum *eye roll*. 

Oh and I had to purchase a new shirt because my favorite one ripped under the arms (which irritated me to no end) but I found one at a discount so with tax it was $20-ish.

I did make one other return so that alleviated my pain a little. 

Sunday - Lunch with my Sunday School group - I think I spent $8 on pizza and a drink. 

Actually, that was it - and a few of those things were almost-but-sorta-not-necessities. Maybe having to put it on here is actually going to work....but we'll see. ;)