{"id":18993,"date":"2018-10-20T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=18993"},"modified":"2018-10-20T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T16:19:40","slug":"what-i-spent-this-week-2018-10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20181020-18993.htm","title":{"rendered":"What I Spent This Week (2018.10.19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I married Daniel, I barely drank coffee. I barely liked<\/em> coffee. <\/p>\n

And then he started serving me coffee from Wichita’s Spice Merchant<\/a>. It was wonderful. I took it with sugar and sipped it all day long at work – until I realized the hypocrisy of telling parents to avoid letting their child walk around with (even just a splash of) juice in their sippy cup. I asked Daniel to wean me off the sugar and he did, putting less and less in my morning coffee over the course of a week or so.<\/p>\n

I don’t miss the sugar one bit – unless I start drinking something other than Spice Merchant coffee. Then I need all the additives.<\/p>\n

So really, the huge amount of money we spend at the Spice Merchant each month is for my health, right?<\/p>\n

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Saturday, October 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

We always go to the Spice Merchant on the second Saturday of the month, where our “Second Saturday” bag gets us an extra 15% off our purchase. We got our normal coffee – and then I went a little crazy with the teas. And they had red curry paste, which they’ve been out of for what seems like forever, so I had to get a couple of jars (’cause when you want a red curry, no other curry will do!) <\/p>\n

Spice Merchant 2018\/10\/13<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing I went under as much as I did last week. I have $199.85 to work with this week – or at least, I did, until I spent all of $93.08 at the Spice Merchant!<\/p>\n

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Sunday, October 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

I made an expensive mistake. I forgot to pack Tirzah Mae and Louis a snack for church. And since the snack is about the only thing that keeps them from talking the whole service long… I had Daniel run to a nearby grocery store to get some snack mix while I was setting up my Sunday School classroom.<\/p>\n

$11.59 for snack mix and dried cranberries. The kids ate almost half. (My homemade mostly Cheerios snack mix is tons less expensive!)<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, October 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walmart 2018\/10\/16<\/p>\n

I still have lots in the freezer for this menu cycle, so my grocery pickup (once I subtract the training pants and the vitamin D for the kids) is a very
\nreasonable $22.38.<\/p>\n

More Walmart 2018\/10\/16<\/p>\n

I’ve still got $72.80 left for ALDI on Thursday. (Hooray for eating out of the freezer!)<\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

$28.25<\/p>\n

ALDI 2018\/10\/18<\/p>\n

Folks, This feels nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I married Daniel, I barely drank coffee. I barely liked coffee. And then he started serving me coffee from Wichita’s Spice Merchant. It was wonderful. I took it with sugar and sipped it all day long at work – until I realized the hypocrisy of telling parents to avoid letting their child walk around … Read more What I Spent This Week (2018.10.19)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19022,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions\/19022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}