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$100 spent, during a no spend week.

September 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 am

I was trying to go the whole week without spending money on anything other than gas and bills. However, I needed pullups ... and I had two coupons that expired today. Somehow, I managed to spend $90 at walmart. OUCH! $33 of it was in pullups, which will last us ... around two months, I think. I know Julie still has some at school, she has about a month supply at my mom's ... so now she's got some here plus a ton for the next month or so. Here's to hoping that she get potty trained soon!

The only "grocery" thing we bought was skittles ... and that's for potty training. She gets one skittle when she pees in the potty and two when she does number 2. Number two is something we're really working on in the potty ... she doesn't like to go, which I'm hoping we can change.

The rest was all pretty much $2 and $3 things. And that my friend is where walmart gets you. You think "Oh, since I'm here, I might as well get ..." I bought wipes, toothpaste for Julie, a new toothbrush for both of us *well, two for me*, hairties for both of us, more soap and detangler for Julie ... see, I bought into the walmart curse. I also had to buy coolant for my car b/c it's been leaning towards the "hot" part of the temp guage, so I am thinking it might be getting low on coolant. I need "Cars for dummies".

I honestly don't know how I spent so much money. I hate that!

So ... and I'm putting it here to keep myself in line ... no more trips to the store. We are STOCKED! On the upside, I bought paper towels, garbage bags and laundry detergent last, and my roomies and I rotate on that. So, even if we do run out ... it's there turn.

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3 Responses to “$100 spent, during a no spend week.”

  1. baselle Says:
    September 3rd, 2007 at 04:57 am 1188795421
    1188795421

    I do that all the time too. I want to buy 1 thing, and 5 other ones pop in my basket. And its why I rarely use the cart. I use the cart and that's it!

  2. LuckyRobin Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 12:47 am 1188866855
    1188866855

    Most kids don't get enough control of their bowels to go in the toilet until they are closer to age 3. But even having the potty part down will save you tons in pull ups. Don't push her too hard or she may get stubborn and stop peeing in the potty just to spite you. No matther how sweet she is normally.

  3. all4money Says:
    September 14th, 2007 at 01:19 pm 1189775956
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    For my 2 girls, they both did the same thing during the potty training stage... which was odd since they are 3 years apart. Anyway, the pee pee part went fine. They would use the potty. But at the beginning, they would go fetch a pull up when the urge to do #2 came around. It ended up being a cute thing but eventually they'll realize that they can do #2 in the potty as well. A tip that my pediatrician gave us was to cut a hole in the pull up, encourage them to put the pull up on and then sit on the potty... their business would then come out of the hole into the potty and they could visualize seeing that the pull up was not necessary. Now, we never needed to do this really so I'm not sure of the effectiveness of it... but it was recommended so maybe it would help for someone out there too... anyway, good luck!

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