FCL’s Alternative Frugality 2023
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Floridacat, $2.50 is my "buy price" for cereal. I remember when it was $1.00 - wow! I do like a bowl of cereal for breakfast on work mornings when I sleep in - or sometimes even for supper in summer when it's too warm to cook.
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I remember when $1 was my go to price for cereal, too. It wasn’t that long ago!
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I got my electric bill. (Actually I had to call because that was one of my lost bills.) It was $70.83 which I thought was high for January (covers mid-December to mid-January) and thought rising prices and it’s been a colder than normal January. But I looked back and the same month in 2022 was $85 and in 2021 it was $66. So not bad after all. I did read that all of the power companies in this area are going to ask the Public Service Commission for another rate increase in March. I expected it after reading the flyer in my bill a month or two ago.
The extra money that I’m taking from my IRA doesn’t start until next month. But still looking at my one remaining bill which should arrive in a day or two, I think I’ll be able to transfer about $330 to the account I’m calling sinking funds (insurance and travel).
The extra money that I’m taking from my IRA doesn’t start until next month. But still looking at my one remaining bill which should arrive in a day or two, I think I’ll be able to transfer about $330 to the account I’m calling sinking funds (insurance and travel).
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My lunch today ended up to be less $$ than budgeted by $13 ($27 instead of $40.) That’s the nice thing about having four of us to split the birthday girl’s lunch. I’m $25 under my monthly entertainment budget but plan to spend about $15 on Tuesday, the last day of the month.
Today I bought a Southwest ticket to Rhode Island for the end of May. I haven’t been up there since 2019. My cousins have so many medical appointments that I can’t coordinate around their schedule. They like me to stay at their house but honestly I’d rather stay at a hotel. So I’ll plan my trip that way and see how it goes and tell them when it gets closer. More than anything I want to visit the cemetery.
I am still hoping/planning to go to Paris for a week. Not definite even though I feel healthy. I have a $700 credit from Delta for the unused flight home from Stockholm. I could have applied it to my emergency trip home from Copenhagen - and I thought I might have money remaining - but I just wanted to get home and didn’t ask enough questions. No complaints with how it worked out.
Today I bought a Southwest ticket to Rhode Island for the end of May. I haven’t been up there since 2019. My cousins have so many medical appointments that I can’t coordinate around their schedule. They like me to stay at their house but honestly I’d rather stay at a hotel. So I’ll plan my trip that way and see how it goes and tell them when it gets closer. More than anything I want to visit the cemetery.
I am still hoping/planning to go to Paris for a week. Not definite even though I feel healthy. I have a $700 credit from Delta for the unused flight home from Stockholm. I could have applied it to my emergency trip home from Copenhagen - and I thought I might have money remaining - but I just wanted to get home and didn’t ask enough questions. No complaints with how it worked out.
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I have decided not to renew Amazon Prime. I just don’t want to spend the $139. I never thought it in the past, but right now it seems a waste to me. (Last year I paid $119, just in under the wire.)
I have it until the third week of February. I’ll see if there is anything I want to watch before then. I don’t watch a lot of TV. I still have Peacock and the PBS streaming app and there are the free streaming channels plus Redbox and the library (my favorite). I’ll see about the photo storage. I can buy it separately if I think I need it. They don’t start deleting photos from there photo storage for six months. I still have iCloud.
I would rather put that $139 towards “fun” day trips and travel. More and more I’m feeling certain about Paris. There is a day trip (tour) to Giverny (Monet home) for about 100 euros.
I have it until the third week of February. I’ll see if there is anything I want to watch before then. I don’t watch a lot of TV. I still have Peacock and the PBS streaming app and there are the free streaming channels plus Redbox and the library (my favorite). I’ll see about the photo storage. I can buy it separately if I think I need it. They don’t start deleting photos from there photo storage for six months. I still have iCloud.
I would rather put that $139 towards “fun” day trips and travel. More and more I’m feeling certain about Paris. There is a day trip (tour) to Giverny (Monet home) for about 100 euros.
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FCL, that is what being frugal is all about - spending less on what is not so important so we can do or have what is more important.
DD's SO pays for Netflix here so I am enjoying that.
DD's SO pays for Netflix here so I am enjoying that.
"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. After all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."
Charles M. Schultz
Charles M. Schultz