In the effort of gaining financial transparency through this blog, I’ve adopted the idea of the weekly spending re-cap.  The thought behind a Friday posting vs. Monday is that having the cold, hard numbers in front of me going into the weekend will hopefully be more beneficial in terms of cutting back frivolous spending. Without further adieu….

Saturday,  9/25
Condo Decorating:  $49.88
Wine for upcoming girl’s night:  $16.99
Restaurant.com GCs:  $8.00

Sunday, 9/26
No spend day!
 
Monday, 9/27
No spend day!  

Tuesday, 9/28
No spend day!

Wednesday, 9/29
Breakfast/lunch items:  $11.64
Wine rack stock-up:  $30.04
Dinner out:  $25.34

Thursday, 9/30
Job-related misc:  $8.00
Lunch out:  $8.16
Restaurant.com GCs:  $8.00

Friday, 10/1
No spend day!

Total:  $166.05

If you’ve never checked out restaurant.com, I highly suggest doing so.  Read the fine print carefully and you can easily save $100s on restaurants, especially if you live in an urban area.  The best part is that the gift cards don’t expire, so when they’re having one of their famous 80% or 90% off sales (yes, you’re reading that correctly!), you can purchase gift cards for restaurants in cities where you may know you’ll be visiting at some point.  This week I purchased over $200 worth of GCs for $16.  

Additionally, the influx of wine purchases is due to a recent buy one for $9.99, get the 2nd for 1 cent sale.  However, writing about two wine purchases in one week makes me wonder if I drink too much wine.  Is there such a thing??