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snowbound pt 2: still have power

January 19th, 2012 at 06:24 pm

Lots of people don't. School is closed, so lots of writing practice scheduled for boy. Woke up to ice pellets striking the windows. Nice feeling to be able to turn on the lights, though I did bring the battery-powered lantern into the bedroom last night.

Regretting not making Costco trip earlier in the month: ran out of flour, brown sugar, best-tasting coffee, apple juice, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes. What good is a price book when you are limited to carrying your groceries on foot from two local supermarkets?

Update: We are now without a landline. It wasn't good value to get repeat phone calls from spoofed numbers saying "this is your final notice" for reducing credit card rates. Also somehow landline voice messaging costs $13+/month and that's more than half of what I pay for Voicemail, unlimited texts and internet with Virgin Mobile.

YNAB four weeks later: $437.27 increase in assets, $493.82 decrease in liabilities. Net worth is $6818.54 (excludes stocks, retirement funds, personal property, precious metals and house equity).

coffee without honey and cream = 41 cents/cup
saving at least a dollar by not visiting a coffee shop.
turkish coffee = 53 cents/cup
saving $1.22 by not visiting a coffee shop


7 Responses to “snowbound pt 2: still have power”

  1. CCraw Says:
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    It's 80 degrees here in South Texas! I have the air conditioner on!

  2. My English Castle Says:
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    Stay warm, Paulette! Hope you have cocoa at least!

  3. PauletteGoddard Says:
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    @CCraw: I remember air conditioners!

    @My English Castle: I have Hershey's Cocoa now, and Kahlua, so I am good! I used the King Arthur Flour Dutch-process Bensdorp on some brownies. I'm making pot roast. Madison, WI has the coldest temperatures 160 days a year on average, but this snow dump on the Left Coast is so unusual my up-north friends are Tweeting me for updates. Would you believe down in the Willamette area of Oregon it's 50F?

  4. baselle Says:
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    Hang in there, Paulette! And my advice for the price book in this situation: if you need it, it provides comfort for you, you need only a bit of it, and the price is not a complete ripoff, ignore the price book for the moment. A good walk with some fresh air might be worth the extra cost.

  5. PauletteGoddard Says:
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    @baselle I'm still only out $27 for car and scooter gas, with twelve days left of the month and $113 budgeted. There's still Target for that brisk walk!

    Also, for the "Who's Weak This Week" The NY Daily News has a disheartening update on baseball HOF Gary Carter's brain cancer.

  6. baselle Says:
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    And there's Etta. R.I.P.

  7. PauletteGoddard Says:
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    @baselle: Cold comfort indeed. I've updated my home version of FCC and the two other dead pools. Learned Larry Hagman's now vegan, signed on for 30th anniversary of "Dallas". I am listening to Etta James on Spotify.

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