Do As I Say, And Possibly As I Do. Maybe.

Tip For The Day:  Finally, I’m busting out my Weekly Recap for Thanksgiving week.  Read on to thrill to the heights of frugality and wallow in the pits of needless spending.

Tip For Tomorrow:  Guess what?  Really, guess.  No, I’m not on Oprah… YET.  But I will be on Fox 9’s Morning Buzz tomorrow, so tune in if you can.  I’ll be following up my appearance with a companion post, as always.  Tomorrow’s topic?  How to give so it doesn’t hurt.

Further Elucidation Of My Cheap Deal:  For the last 2+ years, I’ve been bullying, brow-beating, and berating The Cheap Chick readers to be frugal and fabulous.  Get the biggest bang for your buck!  Revel in your own thriftiness!  Brag about the savings!  Glory in pictures of hot men!  Wait, that’s for later in this post.  Moving on.

And one of the ways I’m trying to – a. have a greater awareness of my spending pitfalls and b. show the world my bad habits so it can learn from my mistakes – is with the Weekly Spending Recap.  Each week I show you my wallet’s highs and lows, and hopefully we all walk away a little bit more cognizant of where our money goes.  That’s the theory, anyway.

Weekly Spending Recap, The “I’m Thankful For Sales” Edition:

Monday, November 23

Target Trip One, snazzy belt and mineral makeup and carrots, $26.75 ($5 instant coupon on the makeup – yeah, baby!)

Cub Foods, the rest of my groceries, $19.31

Tuesday, November 24

Target Trip Two, treats for the road trip and a Totino’s Party Pizza, $9.16

Michaels, more spray paint, $8.02 (plus, now I have a coupon for my next spray paint purchase)

Wednesday, November 25

Holiday Station (how appropriate), gas for my car and breakfast, $12.56

Walgreens, DRUUUUUUUGS, $14.58

Holiday Station again, gas for my Mom’s car and coffees, $16.25

Thursday, November 26 – Thanksgiving

Monkey Island, playing on the inflatables with Piglet, $4.20

Friday, November 27 – Black Friday

Nameless store, gift for someone, $4.33

Nameless store, gift for someone, $1.08

Nameless store (two visits), gift for someone(s), $19.33

Two Fish Art Glass, fake votive light Piglet wanted, $1.44

Saturday, November 28

The Buzz Café, tip for breakfast, $7.00

Red Hen Bread, sticky bun OF GLORY, $3.02

7/11 Store, bottle of water to wash down sticky bun, $1.01

Winberries, lunch for Mom and I, $16.00

Mitsuwa, shopping at the best Japanese grocery store ever, $17.80 (Holy Crow, are their items cheaper than local stores – take note Twin Cities)

Sunday, November 29

Mobil Station, coffees for Mom and I, $3.12

Target Trip Three, groceries for the next week, $11.43

Total For The Week: $196.39.  For a road trip/holiday/major shopping day, I think I did kind of outstanding *toots own horn, toot toot*.  Granted, I still haven’t bought more than, oh, one freaking Christmas present.  But still, I thought my tally for last week would be much, much worse.  So, yay me.  Now let’s get to my reward – no worries, you know I’ll share it with you.

Jensen Ackles – aka Dean on Supernatural, aka, THE HOTTEST MAN EVER.  Don’t believe me?  Fine, here he is shirtless:

There you go.  And now we know why I love Google so much – instant access to endless pictures of hot, hot, HAWT men like this.  Bless.