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Jan. 11th, 2013 07:25 pmI still have Fridays off until my new job kicks in, so I decided to take advantage of a daytime event at Whole Foods called "Health in a Hurry" to sample favorite healthy meal recipes. This turned out to be quite disappointing. They were giving out a few more samples than usual, but only one of them pretended to be attached to a recipe (a quick pizza made with some fancy expensive bread). And the store was just as crowded as on Sundays.
In other news, I've been enjoying Jeffrey Strain's new Living Well on Minimum Wage Challenge. The man who's sister dared him to eat well on $1/day for 100 days has now dared him to live well on minimum wage for a year. He doesn't pretend that people who actually earn minimum wage could live like he's going to, but he plans to spend no more than those who work for minimum wage full time would bring home. It looks to be a pretty exciting ride, starting with housesitting while visiting national parks.
And, since for the first few days of his challenge, I thought I would be earning just a little more than that with my half-time job, it's been especially fun comparing expenditures. I spent less than him the first four days because I spent nothing at all (if you don't count utilities, property taxes, and other things like that which I am building up, which you do have to count, but still). He has mostly bought post cards and tea.
But today I took the opportunity of a day off to make a trip to a couple of thrift stores on the other end of town. I bought cloth napkins and crutches. The napkins are beautiful, well-made red cotton cloth napkins ($5 for 6 napkins). I think we now have enough that we will never run out, no matter how extravagant our use.
And I've been wanting my own crutches because using them is good exercise and because when you need some, it's nice to have them handy. The one time I really wanted them, I remembered hearing that you could easily rent some, so I did so. But you can easily buy them at thrift stores (or at least Thriftland always seems to have several pair), so today I finally got some ($8).
Weird purchases of things I don't need adding up to more than half of Jeffrey's total for the whole year. Plus I've also bought groceries, oil filters, a Groupon for a Tex-Mex place, a Woot shirt, and dance lessons. Over the top!
In other news, I've been enjoying Jeffrey Strain's new Living Well on Minimum Wage Challenge. The man who's sister dared him to eat well on $1/day for 100 days has now dared him to live well on minimum wage for a year. He doesn't pretend that people who actually earn minimum wage could live like he's going to, but he plans to spend no more than those who work for minimum wage full time would bring home. It looks to be a pretty exciting ride, starting with housesitting while visiting national parks.
And, since for the first few days of his challenge, I thought I would be earning just a little more than that with my half-time job, it's been especially fun comparing expenditures. I spent less than him the first four days because I spent nothing at all (if you don't count utilities, property taxes, and other things like that which I am building up, which you do have to count, but still). He has mostly bought post cards and tea.
But today I took the opportunity of a day off to make a trip to a couple of thrift stores on the other end of town. I bought cloth napkins and crutches. The napkins are beautiful, well-made red cotton cloth napkins ($5 for 6 napkins). I think we now have enough that we will never run out, no matter how extravagant our use.
And I've been wanting my own crutches because using them is good exercise and because when you need some, it's nice to have them handy. The one time I really wanted them, I remembered hearing that you could easily rent some, so I did so. But you can easily buy them at thrift stores (or at least Thriftland always seems to have several pair), so today I finally got some ($8).
Weird purchases of things I don't need adding up to more than half of Jeffrey's total for the whole year. Plus I've also bought groceries, oil filters, a Groupon for a Tex-Mex place, a Woot shirt, and dance lessons. Over the top!