Before I post the spending and embarrass myself, here are some savings:

About $120 savings on ride to and from the airport next week. A friend will drive us there (at 5am - good friend) and will pick us up. We will leave him the car to use while we are gone and also won't need to worry about parking it.

I saved about $150 on car rental in Hawaii by searching the net for a while for coupons and promotions and finally finding one for the rental we needed - and very convenient one - that Hertz is right in our hotel! We'll also get triple reward points for it.

I also got red leather sandals (and I really needed them, I have a nice rouge clothing items for spring season) from my mom. She saw them on sale and thought I would like them. And I do!

And a co-worker who came back from her trip Egypt (to meet with her husband who was going on leave from his job in Pakistan) brought me back a silver necklace, also my style.

And now the spending:

24-Apr
grocery store $16.94
Tahari skirt (OK, not a need) $108
Hotel for 2 days on Priceline $302

25-Apr
amaretto $14
lemons $3

26-Apr
restaurant in the West Village $86
(it was a lovely day to go out)

27-Apr
bagel $0.5
grocery store $24.59
lunch DH $5
lunch me $5

28-Apr
breakfast $5.5
dive shop (prescription mask for DH and a wetsuit shorty for me) $159.7
Mexican restaurant $56.2
Barnes and Noble(guidebook to Kauai - a need, and a practice pad for chinese characters) $36.74
Free People top from ebay (NWT) $51
(it is spring and I wanted something casual for weekend outings)

When you go day to day, it does not seem like you are doing anything extravagant. When you write it down and see it all at once, it looks much worse.

Yes, I have not been very frugal. In my defense, we plan on saving most of our refund.