Shopping, shopping, la la la

Before heading off to the grocery store little Abe and I made a stop at the dollar store. The cotton balls in his big helper jar had reached the line again so he needed to pick out his third big helper reward. He really cracks me up. Last time we went he told me specifically that he was going to pick out "a breakable toy" for his big helper reward. He ended up picking a very non-breakable snake. This time he remembered their being a ball with Donald Duck riding a skate board on it and he said he was going to pick that for his reward. He ended up picking out a two pack of kids scissors. I promise you I in no way hinted at the scissors, nor did I point them out. He had decided on a rubbery spider but while I was looking at school supplies he changed his mind and insisted that the scissors be his reward. Of course the rule is that he can have anything in the store. He's still quite young so I will be supervising him as he uses his new scissors to cut up scraps of paper. I know that he will actually get a good deal of amusement out of this round's reward despite how odd of a choice it seems.

I picked out two school items for him while we were there as well and then I notice a Jake and the Neverland Pirates kite. I've seen this same kite at the stores I work in for at least four times the cost (this is a true dollar store we shop at where everything in the store costs $1). I'd been thinking of making a kite with him but I really couldn't pass up the $1 Jake kite. In the end we left the dollar store spending $4.24. And after all of our shopping for the day was complete my little guy got to fly his brand new Jake kite with his cousins. It's the first time he's flown a kite and I realized I cannot remember the last time I did either. We all had a good deal of fun with this little treat. It was well worth the $1.

I had budgeted $60 for today's shopping trip. With the dollar store spending my total came to $63.27. I will not even consider complaining about going $3.27 over budget. I'm pretty sure I got all the necessary items to pull off another 3 or 4 no spends after today. So we're looking good, and another dreaded shopping trip is over! Since I wanted pizza so badly last night I bought some of thee cheapest frozen pizza's at the store (they are actually the ones we like best) for tonight's dinner. A successful shopping trip, a fun stop at the dollar store, an afternoon at the playground (sort of, the ground was too slushy and muddy to play on the actual toys), and a super easy yummy dinner; I'd say today has been a success all around!

Average daily spending for 2015: $17.49
$185.93 left to spend in March