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June 25th, 2009 at 06:57 pm

So I was good and talked myself out of upgrading to a new TV with the $400 gift card hubby got (mainly because they changed it to visa instead of just Target/Walmart). We were going to use it to buy the stones for our landscaping instead. Went to the first store, they are out. No problem, we go to the next store. That one is out. Start getting nervous, ask if they have more on order, nope.

Gah. Are you kidding me? They of course have nothing like it. Great, now we get to try to pick a replacement and they have nothing at Home Depot like it. Managed to find something at Lowe's that we can use instead but this stuff is smaller so we would be better ordering it by the pallet for transportation purposes. So no spiral path this year because we don't want to spend all that money at once. Looks like we will just spiral in the mulch/plants and leave the grass where the path will go when we are ready. The stone we already have will be used to do a path in the back since that needs to be replaced anyways. *Sigh*

So I figure this weekend will be spent getting the house in shape for the visit from the inlaws. Now I am not sure how to use the gift certificate/visa card. Obviously will be easier to use it up on big expenses instead of little ones but besides stepping stones, we really don't have any expenses large enough to make it worthwhile. When we eat out its usually about $13 at the high end so whittling away at the food budget would make tracking a pain (I switched to all cash so I didn't have to try to track things to the penny).

I really don't feel like wasting the money just because I can. Groceries aren't really an option because at the current rate, that might take six months to use up. We don't need any clothes, we don't have that many books, cds or video games left to buy and most anything we want would eventually eat up more than the gift certificate amount in the short or long term (such as the TV or the Kindle which I am not sold on yet anyways).

I think my biggest problem is figuring out how to spend it in a responsible way. Wasting money is easy, spending it appropriately in that size chunk, not so much.

6 Responses to “Thwarted”

  1. jillybean Says:
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    Maybe save it to use to purchase gifts? Kindof your own Christmas/Birthday fund?

  2. Caoineag Says:
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    We don't spend a lot on holidays. I tend to do things for people when its needed or wanted instead of waiting for an arbitrary date (and most everyone has used up their allotment for a year or two,lol). Though my friend would love it if I bought myself a new TV as she would inherit the old one. I just don't know that I can justify that. Yes it hurts my eyes to have the smaller screen that far from me when I use it as a computer monitor but I don't need a new TV, maybe a new living room arrangement but not a new TV.

  3. cylenchar Says:
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    Maybe use it to buy another shovel, all the mulch, alot of plants, and a birdfeeder/birdbath?

  4. cylenchar Says:
    1245959298

    maybe buy the iron fence for the front yard?

  5. Caoineag Says:
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    You know I had been thinking the first part but the second suggestion would work nicely as well. Still keeps us at a department store that is comfortable splitting the costs while getting things we need over the long run.

  6. cylenchar Says:
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    That's what I was thinking, besides that way the dogs could join us in the yard well we work which they will enjoy

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