Last week my mother treated the children and me to a Christmas party put on by one of the clubs to which she belongs. There were snacks and, excitingly, a raffle for which not many attendees bought tickets, apparently. I bought 6 tickets for $5 (the party was a fundraiser for a Good Cause) and won a $20 gift card to a local toy/bookstore and a $10 gift card to a local cafe with a pound of coffee. Each child got a craft kit. My mother (who bought 12 tickets) won a giant Christmas wreath and a journal. SCORE! We used the cafe card the very next day.
Thrift store this week: I got a bag of miscellaneous candles — I want to make luminarias with the children; a holiday dress for #2Child; a pair of knee-high boots, real leather; 4 tops; and a puzzle for #2Child for Christmas. $35. The dress was the most expensive item at $9.99.
Had free lunch at work twice.
All this, and we’re buying a house and about to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and see our monthly expenses rise, not in rent/mortgage so much as in utilities. Lalala!
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