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
snowbound pt 2: still have power
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@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?
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Also, for the "Who's Weak This Week" The NY Daily News has a disheartening update on baseball HOF Gary Carter's brain cancer.
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