So this month is September… in our family, we do a No-Spend
September, where we only try to spend money on food, gas, and bills. We don’t
buy Starbucks. We don’t go out to eat. We don’t buy new clothes or shoes. We
don’t get haircuts.
Because of all this, we save any gift cards we do have for
September. Usually we can go to a movie or two with gift cards. We can usually
have one meal out and I usually have a free drink saved up for Starbucks. We
don’t cheat and we don’t spend any of our own money.
This year, I had 3 drinks saved for Starbucks; 2 free ones
and a $5 gift card that my sweet friend gave me. I was pretty excited to start
September off with 3 drinks! (I have since used one.)
But… this week I attended a baby shower of a friend I’ve
known for 20 years. And I won two games! One game was a baby word unscramble
and the other game was when you can’t say the word “baby”. The prize for each
game was a $10 Starbucks gift card and a nice bar of chocolate!
I was so happy for the Starbucks gift cards. That brought my
total number of drinks for the month up to 7! That I wouldn’t be paying for!
Now, I never drink 7 Starbucks in a month so I’m not going to start now!
I will take one of the gift cards and add it to my Starbucks
totals so that I could have up to 5 drinks this month; but I have plans for the
other one…
Let’s just say that card will make my Christmas cost $10
less!
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