It Will Be One Long Ass November: 3 Economic House Rules to Find Balance
Right before walking out the door for our long weekend vacation we foolishly decided to open the mail. Let’s just say the new car’s worth dip in our stocks this month gave us something to chat about on our way to the land of outlets and gluttony. Perhaps we need to tighten our belts a wee bit more than we thought. (Although after a week of eating chocolate things seemed to have mysteriously tightened all on their own.)
So…for the month of November we have created a few house rules to help us save a few nickels without completely peeing on anyone’s fun parade.
Rule #1…No new STUFF can come into the house. I have mentioned before how much we fight the craptide…well we are building a bigger crap dam. This includes a ban on buying toys, books, house wears, clothes, etc. Now…most of these goods come from larger Big Box stores so it shouldn’t have too much of an impact on our local favorites.
Rule #2…No bought lunches. Now this really only applies to my husband but it kind of falls into my lap. After all of our years of marriage the section of the male brain dedicated to the complicated art of assembling a sandwich or putting leftovers into a tuppy seems to have shriveled up like a forgotten pea.
Rule #3…And this one hurts. We are going to actually set a wine budget. Which means either drinking cheap CA wines…or actually drinking a reasonable human amount of good wine. Haven’t decided which is worse. Tell me honestly…is there a fate worse than Fetzer’s?
It will be interesting to see how much of our income is freed up by these three rules. Obviously December will mean complete debauchery. But isn’t that what Jesus would want?
Come now. There is some perfectly nice California wine that’s reasonably priced. You don’t have to drink two buck Chuck!!
Yes…I will admit…there are good CA reds. I, however, have yet to have a white that sent me over the moon. There are also some very good expensive CA wines…but that would defeat the purpose.
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I find Chilean wine to be the best. I like reds myself
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