Author: cheaplify

What I Spent I was thinking…I often spend around $110 in a week, and even if that was feeding only me, that would average out to a little over $5 a meal (dividing by 21 for three meals, seven days a week). Given that I am also feeding Zoe a number of meals during the […]

This week, I am thankful: that my badge says “staff nurse” now If you haven’t passed your NCLEX before you start your nursing job, your badge is printed with “nursing graduate”, not “staff nurse”. And even though I’d passed my NCLEX before I started, my badge showed up with “nursing graduate” on it. I’d tried […]

I found a message in my Instagram DMs asking for a post about the small kitchen appliances that I use. I don’t think I’ve written about this before, so let’s run through them. It’ll be a fairly short tour because I lean slightly to the minimalist side, and I don’t usually buy unitaskers. I’m going […]

What I Spent I spent: $66 at Aldi $8 at Safeway $36 at Giant (where I got my meat markdowns!) So, $110. What We Ate Saturday I had one of those work shifts that went so sideways, I didn’t take my “lunch” break until close to 5 pm! So, I wasn’t hungry for dinner when […]

Hello, hello! We’re gonna take a little tour through some randomness from my brain. 😉 I don’t get a spring break I realized that the eight-week class schedule does not have any room for a spring break. BOO. So, my first spring class ends this coming Sunday, and the next class starts on Monday. However, […]

1. I activated my monthly Safeway student discount This discount shows up as a “coupon” that you have to clip in the app each month. And yesterday, before I stopped in for a rotisserie chicken, I remembered to clip it! Every 5% helps, you know? 😉 As long as I’m suffering through discussion posts and […]

1. I used leftover cherry “juice” I finished a jar of cherries from Aldi, but saved the colorful syrup, which is not at all syrupy. It’s more like a juice; very different from what comes in, say, canned peaches in syrup. Anyway, I used it to make some of the three-ingredient chia seed drink I […]

I started February with an excess of fun money because I only spent $36 at Ikea last month. So, my fun money balance was $164 on February 1st. How did I spend it? Here’s the breakdown. JBL portable speaker: $59.99 Ever since I moved here, I have thought that it would be nice to have […]

What I Spent I spent: $70 at Aldi $11 at Safeway $30 on a Hungry Harvest box So, $111, which is oddly satisfying. And I maintained my rather unintentional no-food-out streak, which I will probably break tonight! What We Ate Saturday This was the use-it-up meal I mentioned on Tuesday: the last of the box […]

This week, I am thankful: that we can get Zoe’s windshield fixed for free Her windshield has a crack spanning the whole windshield, and it seems to have been started by a single ding, perhaps from a rock. Luckily, this is not my first rodeo with cracked windshields, and I knew we had full, no-deductible […]