Money Monday and Staycay Day 5

 Listen. This day was just errands with a couple pf fun things thrown in. What can I say? Solo parenting for 3 days just hits differently when no one goes to school.

Minnie has enough hair for just one braid again-- she was excited.

We drove to a nearby teeny town to hit up a truly bananas shoe store (parrots just flying around!) because Dorothy and Cooper needed new tennis shoes (Minnie needed no shoes, but she got some anyway because she could not resist the pink "birGenstocks" as she calls them.

But then! We added Culvers and a super fun park to make the day seem less errand-y

We park hopped when we got home and walked Annabel to the school playground

I listened to the news on my way to the grocery store and shopped accordingly.

And! I lucked into this at the library (the tl;dr is that it;'s not very good , but I was so excited to sang it**whomp whomp**)

I tracked my spending last week to see if I could put a price tag on fun, AND I CAN.

 

All in, I spent $684, which is solidly cheap, IMO, since it counts 3 pairs of shoes! But does NOT count the 400 other dollars of random spending last week (all that wine, some finishing touches for the girls' rooms, a water filter for the fridge that will probably die before the filter runs out, etc) and of course doesn't count the groceries I bought for the week, etc.

Even buying $6.35 movie tickets, we spent over $100 to see Dog Man and gorge on junk food-- not sure if that was a good spend or not.

We also spent another $160 for food (mostly pizza and ice cream LOL) out and over $250 on stuff (stuffies, 5 below novelties, sweats, shoes).

Definitely worth it, though, because the week was almost entirely stress free.