I had a cheap, cheap week.

Not including rent and student loan (fixed expenses) we have spent under $200 this week (not including tolls - I won't the amount until EZ pass statement comes).

How is it possible? The main contributing factor, besides than my incredible restraint, was that DH was on a business trip to Dallas starting Monday - he is flying home today.

So all his days were NSDs -- his food and expenses were covered by per diem. Lucky him was having Texas bbq and Mexican food, breakfasts cooked for him, the bed made after him, and it is all free. I am a little jealous.

So I did not have a temptation to go out or a need to cook. I got a hot meal every day at lunch (thanks to my cooking coworker) and just grazed for anything I found around the kitchen in the evening - though mostly due to lazyness, not desire to save money.

He also saved some money by not driving to the office.

I stayed away from all stores.

And keeping it up, we are not going out today (even though it is Friday and we have not seen each other in 4 days).
I will just make a nice fresh meal at home.

Yesterday I prepared sangria so it would be ready for tonight. I used nicer wine (I got a hot deal on) organic fruit(oranges were so delicious!) and contreau for sweetening(also a very hot deal). So it should still be a nice dinner.