Monday Check-In

It’s Monday! Let’s assess the financial promises we made to ourselves over the weekend and whether or not we kept them.

I got a cookie and an iced tea and a beer from the beer vendor at Grand Central in order to ease the pain of dealing with that place during rush hour. ($9.50) and I bought my ticket to my dad’s house in Rhinebeck ($41.48, I forgot that it costs a lot to go home). My sister and I took my dad out to dinner for his birthday at Terrapin ($33.81). I had a sour beer that my sister said tasted like vomit and I will now never be able to drink said beer again. All I did Friday night was fall asleep in front of HGTV and fight for the blanket on the couch with my sister.

Saturday was the Sheep and Wool Festival. It cost me $9 to get in. I also bought: two skeins of yarn ($51.90); one very mediocre gyro and a lavender iced tea ($12); an apple crisp I had to eventually throw away because it was full of bees ($6). Dinner was pot roast at home. Sunday, I ate half a bagel for breakfast, got an iced coffee and a cider donut ($6) and plopped myself on the train.

The rest of Sunday was spent wandering in a daze in the city, attempting to feel confident in the things I was purchased. I spent $32 on hair stuff, a make-up brush and eyeshadow; I bought jeans(!) for $28; I got earrings to wear to a wedding this coming weekend for $15.90. For dinner, I ate tacos from the taco truck ($9) and resisted the siren song of a Kit-Kat, eating an apple instead (disappointing, but free).

I estimated I’d spend $175 this weekend and I actually spent $239. Christ! Maybe it was the dinner? The unnecessary yarn? The fact that I thought a train ticket home cost $32 instead of $42? Who knows!

How’d you do?

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