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no spend (so far), no soda

January 4th, 2007 at 12:10 am

No spending so far today--I will get gas when I get off work, but thats already in the normal budget. I've drank 96oz of water & NO soda! Day two of being anti-soda is down. I am going to allow myself a few days of the week with 1 soda a day, but no more.

Tonight I'm taking down my Christmas Tree & instead of paying to have it picked up (thanks a lot, new County Trash Law), I'm going to shove it in the trunk of my car & haul it to the local park for recycling. So I'll use some gas, but no cash.

Aside from pack up the Christmas stuff, I plan on making a tomato & cucumber salad for lunch and pasta salad & tuna fish sandwich to take to dinner tomorrow... very yummy.

Tomorrow's also trash day & when I took some stuff out today I realized that all my trash is made up of grocery bags. I haven't used a single 'real' trash bag in over a week! NICE!

Also, I gathered all my dry laundry from the basement today. I let everything air dry from the last 2 loads. I only use the dryer for socks & undies & for towels & sheets. I'll have to take a picture of the drying laundry sometime, its not a pretty sight. I use a drying rack and a pole attached to my basement ceiling that the previous owner left. Hey, whatever works, right?

Posted in saving on food, no spend, Savings | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “no spend (so far), no soda”

  1. boomeyers Says:
    January 4th, 2007 at 12:17 am 1167869832
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    Wow! No soda! That is hard! Good luck and keep up the water!
    We used to have a rope that zigzaged around the basement for drying, you are right - whatever works!

  2. Sunshine Suz Says:
    January 4th, 2007 at 09:14 pm 1167945246
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    I am trying to cut down on soda also. I'm a HUGE Dr. Pepper junkie. I have found some 8 oz. bottles of "Real" Dr. Pepper's that are made with pure cane sugar. I figure they are healthier (He-he!) than the one's with High Fructose Corn Syrup...plus they taste so much better. So instead of going "Cold Turkey" I am having one tiny bottle a day instead of 2 to 3 12 oz. cans.

    What kind of soda do you drink?

    I have been adding a small splash of cranberry juice to my water...kinda makes me think I'm drinking something beside plain water....anything to trick the old brain! And just think of all the exercise we are getting running to the bathroom all day!

    Good luck to you. Maybe we can cheer each other along!

  3. HouseHopeful Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 09:58 pm 1168034299
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    Suze,
    I used to be a hard-core coca cola drinker, but now I like diet cherry coke or wild cherry pepsi. I also like diet dr pepper. I started drinking the diet soda about a year ago & now I have a taste for it over non-diet.

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