One Hundred Dollars a Month

This post was written by Mrs. HB.

It’s been two weeks since I’ve checked in and boy did it go by fast! I do have to say that not having Ms. Mavis over my shoulder relaxed my spending a little. Not anything totally shocking but I did buy a pair of shoes that I probably didn’t need to buy.

I have been needing to buy HB girl new dress shoes, she has grown out of hers, so I stopped by DSW one day while working in that area. I haven’t been in that store in over two years. I forgot how many shoes they have. Well on this particular day they were having an extra 20% off any shoe bought. I found a pair on the sale rack for HB girl and then started looking for myself. Oops, I should have just walked out but I didn’t and there they were, a pair of black heeled open toe and heel with strap shoes. They were so comfortable, on the sale rack plus an extra 20% off.

Like I said I didn’t NEED them but I walk a lot for work and am very hard on my shoes. This pair I can wear to work as well as on days I want to dress a little trendy. I love them! By the way HB girl didn’t like hers so I had to take hers back but didn’t look for me a second time. Just in and out. So that’s progress.

I also had to travel this past week. Ms Mavis and I walked one morning earlier in the week and I was telling her about my travel plans and how I really don’t like it when I have to travel overnight. If you haven’t figured it out yet she is very bold and does things most people wouldn’t do. As well as asks for things most people wouldn’t ask .

That’s actually one of the things I admire about her. Anyway we were walking and I was talking and she all of a sudden asked, “Can I go with you?” At first I thought, that’s an interesting question, you know I am going to work? But she explained how she would be working too while I was working and then we could do a few things together before and after.

She really liked the hotels I was staying at and they were both downtown so she could walk around and sight see. So I thought why not? And with that we set out on our adventure.

You do really learn a lot about a person when you travel and spend time with them for three nights. I have always thought of myself as low maintenance but next to Ms. Mavis you would think I was high. We determined that I am low and she is no, no maintenance that is. Lol and we are very different. But don’t they say opposites attract?

We had a lot of fun going in thrift stores. I bought a cute Spring skirt for $5 and tried on many funky shoes but buy the end of the trip I had had my fill of thrift stores. Ms. Mavis has it down though. She goes in, scans the area , and if it doesn’t jump out at her she is in and out in about 15 mins.

Thank goodness because I have had this annoying cough and the dust in these stores just made it worse! We were able to check out a couple of bakeries and ate out at a couple of great places. We even did a wine tasting on the fly. Well I did the tasting, Ms. Mavis just smelled. Though if Ms. Mavis hadn’t been there I would have been suckered into buying into the wine club… yikes old habits.

But she was my voice of reason and choose to “think about it until the next day” . We didn’t go back and I am not a member, yay! Now I must say that if Ms. Mavis hadn’t been there I too would have not been there. But it was nice having company and getting out and about.

Normally I just get room service and tend to use this time away from family to catch up on my sleep. Ms. Mavis thinks I sleep a lot but at home I go to sleep at ten and wake up between 5 and 6. That’s 7 to 8 hours a night. However this cough thing has keep me awake most nights and I am just plain ole tired!

I also feel the need to defend myself a little on this chap stick thing. First of all I have dry and fair skin. I use my lip balms daily if not hourly to provide not only moisture (and yes I do drink a lot during the day), but also sun protection. I have had skin cancers and on my lip today is what they call a keratosis. Its a little white spot that I fear will become cancer. We are watching it closely.

Most of my lip stuff I get free and like most of you I stash them everywhere so that I have when I need. You can see form my trade show that I just attended this past week, I picked up many. But because I have so many, I plan to donate to the local shelter as well as most of the other stuff. I also use every tube to the last drop.

You can see this EOS egg. Its been on my bedside table for I don’t know how long. I really hate how much is left in the tube or egg when it is all “done”. So I use my finger, toothpick or Q tip to get to the bonus left over balm. 🙂

As far as groceries, I have been on task. I didn’t take any pictures of this weeks {or last weeks} purchases. I Didn’t go to Costco last week but will be going this week. I plan on sticking to that every other week thing as it has really cut my budget just doing that!!!

Well, that’s it for today. I’ll check in again next month,

~Ms. Hillbilly