Spending the last couple of weeks

The last couple of weeks haven't been too spendy.  I reported last time about how I backed into my husband's car, dented his bumper and broke my tail light. We actually wound up having good news for both cars.  Our deductible for each car is $250 and I wondered if maybe I could fix the tail light myself.  So I found a couple good videos on Youtube and watched them over and over, and convinced myself I could do it.  I ordered a used OEM part from ebay for $104.26 including tax and "free" shipping.  And.....I did it!  I had to have help from my husband to get the old part loose but I'm happy to say it's working and looks good as new.  

We made an appointment for an estimate at a local body shop for his car, and when he got there, the man went under the car with his heat gun and popped the dent out.  When my husband tried to pay, the guy said no, because there are things more important than money.  Such a nice surprise, and of course they have us as future customers in case we ever need them again.  

Non-regular Expenses Sept 22-October 4

Ebay 104.26 (tail light)

local coffee trailer 10.75 (husband)

Groceries 46.11

Political donation 10.00 (husband) 

Groceries 61.10

Lunch out 59.51 (after husband's dr appt in another city)

Groceries 96.60

Chewy 61.36 (dog)

Political donation 10.00 (husband)

Ice for cooler 6.71 (for our Costco purchases 2 1/2 hours from home)

Lunch out 38.90 (after another dr appt for husband in the big city) 

Costco 284.41 

Chewy 125.09 (dog)

Wendy's 10.72 (broke down and got French fries for both of us and a Sprite for me)

The dog continues to give us some extra expenses and that's ok.  Not one bit of regret about that.  I think we are on a good path now with his food and meds so expenses will continue to be there but should become more regular and spaced out a bit.  

We always eat a meal when we go out of town for medical appointments and I don't see that changing. 

Ice for cooler because we forgot to bring the cooler packs we keep in the garage freezer.  

Costco was lots of produce, bag of rice, OTC meds, canned goods, nuts, a pack of Beyond burgers, olive oil, soap, bread, coffee.  

Wendy's was our only unplanned "slip" and I can tell you how that happened.  My husband took his mom to an appointment and then decided to get Starbucks after.  He then called me and said "Hey, you want anything" at which point I said "I haven't had fries in forever."  The end.  

Overall we are doing pretty good about being careful with our money right now.  We have enough to pay off the big credit card bill in full that comes from the vet bill and foundation repair work we had done.  Our goal was to not have to touch savings to pay those off and it looks like we will be able to do that.