Good Things Friday (5)
March 15, 2019
1. Friday: It bode ill that JB was waking up at random hours of the night BUT instead everyone got up unusually early around 6 and got out the door by 7:11. It was like a Friday morning gift!
2. Saturday: We watched Marie Kondo, though PiC was initially skeptical. He KonMaried our freezer later. 😂
3. Sunday: We sent PiC out to the gym while we made pancakes and then weeded until I couldn’t move anymore. Then I got a nap. We both got what we needed!
4. Monday: AND the nap gave me the brainstorm I needed for a work problem.
5. Monday: The sky was a gorgeous clear blue for the first time in weeks.
6. Tuesday: Ah ha, TMobile Tuesdays promotions are usually useless for me with their focus on entertainment discounts but this week we snagged a $10 promotion for Rover for each of us. $20 off a future booking! This is one area that’s really tough for us to save money – the quality of care for our kid and dogs is not up for compromise and that costs $$$$ since we don’t have enough friends in the area to trade services with.
7. Wednesday: I purchased a second set of Pyrex from Target at full price to fill out a $35 minimum order for free shipping and I’d had my eye on it for some time. It chafed to pay full price but I’d done research into local outlets and it would be a 90 mile round trip to get 50-70% off a $15 set before tax. That math doesn’t work out. Our local Goodwill is pretty slim pickings so it’d take a great deal of precious time and energy to find a full set with lids. The same day that the set arrived, there was a 10% discount on the set so I happily hit them up for a price match refund on chat help and ta da! Set minus 10%.
8. Thursday: D’oh! I had all the checks covered in our checking account, but then our twice-monthly transfers to savings cut in two days early and emptied our account just in time for the check to be returned for NSF. OOPS. I hopped onto customer service chat and pled my case, and they immediately refunded the $29. For my part, I immediately transferred some cash into our buffer savings account which I had unwisely let drain down to below the amount of the check, and sent the check again. Kind of an important one, it’s my life insurance premium.
9. Thursday: The time change plus a new whealth challenge meant this week was utter misery. I was barely functional by the late afternoon. PiC and JB to the rescue with some takeout!
Please share your good things this week!
I got the bank to reverse a fee it lamely charged (technically I’d earned it, but it was dumb). I changed the type of account so that this won’t be a problem again, and I finally paid the bills lingering on the counter.
And it’s 60 here today. Gray, but damn!
We have been sunny most of the week, which is also awesome.
And my best friend–who I don’t usually see more than once every few years–will unexpectedly be within an hour of me tomorrow so we’ll meet for lunch. This means I’ll see her twice in a whole year, since we drove to Ohio to be at her wedding last summer. TWICE IN A YEAR!
I took a day off from work earlier this week so I can take both BwC and MwC to their appointments at the hospital. BwC for his yearly check up and MwC for her monthly OB/GYN appointment. I didn’t want to spend the day to drive back and forth from home to the hospital then drop him back to the in-laws then work. This saves the trip driving to work. And also took care the required flu shot for BwC and blood shot for MwC so we didn’t need to go back another day for that. Felt great to get everything done for them all in the same day.