By: Revanche

Good Things Friday (40)

November 15, 2019

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” James Baldwin

1. Carrying on with the task of getting ourselves removed from mailing lists, this is the Direct Mail link for The Container Store. This is the link for Prana. Someone put me on the American Girl catalog list. It irritates me that my name got on there in the first place and that they require a birthdate to “check out” even for catalog cancellation when that’s none of their business and their form is crappy.

2. I just had an epiphany that I didn’t have to do a work thing I hate doing manually and figured out a formula for it. WOO. It should not have taken 9 years for that to occur to me but the important thing is that it did.

3. I had several days as a solo human taking care of the household and dogs, and wow did I get so much done! Not only did I get caught up on a lot of work, I took the dogs on longer walks gradually and even still had some time to myself to read a book and clean. Bonus: refusing to meal plan or cook at all was an amazing break. I just ate leftovers and threw together random pantry things until I ran out. Happily.

4. This was last week but I forgot to record it and I am still happy about it: I caught the one day Sprouts sale on gift cards ($100 gift card for $89.99). We shop there a fair amount and I love saving 10%.

5. I caught the last day of the Petco $30 off $100 purchase and replenished our supply of XL dog Advantix for much less than I’d get it anywhere else. Normally the 12 month supply is $130 before tax. I paid $109 after tax. Flea-free and savings – an excellent combination.

It feels like I accidentally opened the floodgates for spending.

6. After several years of ill-fitting sweatpants (two pairs “borrowed” from PiC and a pair that were a silly purchase because they were totally oversized), I indulged myself with a pair of sweatpants that actually fit ($12). Pockets, warm, and they fit! Pure luxury.

8. I also picked up a really warm pair of slipper socks ($11) which are also pure indulgence. But my feet are cold constantly and this is another way to keep warm without running heat.

9. I picked up four packs of underwear for PiC but none of them were right so they all went back and instead I picked up two spare sets of flannel sheets since we have entirely abandoned our cotton sheets. Originally we were going to have one set of cotton and one set of flannel. But it’s cold all year round here, there’s no good time to go back to cotton sheets.

10. I made a $300 goof. I have about 13 subscribe and save items that I skip most months because it takes 6-8 months to need enough items to make up a full 5 item order and maximize the S&S discount. This is partly because we aim to keep consumption to exactly what we need, and partly because I’m trying to shop at Target more. Well. I forgot to cancel this month’s order and I woke up to a horrifying notice that all my items had shipped. 😱 Luckily I went into my account just to see if I could cancel anything and was able to cancel all of the orders. WHEW. I won’t do that again!!

11. Even if we both feel overwhelmed, I generally feel like we have evenly divided all our household chores. I asked PiC today if he feels our distribution is still even. He thought about it: including all the bookkeeping, grocery runs, daycare duties, etc?  Yes. He thinks so. It’d be nice to have less work to divide but he also feels like it’s pretty equal. That’s good.

:: How was your week? Do you have a good distribution of work in your household?

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