As if!

Trish just called and asked to borrow my scale. Umm, no. Call me crazy, but I would probably never get it back.

So....finances. We closed our equity loan/line conversion and what it actually turned out to be was a separate loan for which we received a check. I deposited it yesteday, then paid 14,600 of it on our equity line today. I went ahead and paid for a few things that I needed to just go ahead and pay for - car tags, AJC subscription, A/C service contract. I also scheduled Stanley Steemer to come out and clean the filthy stairs, landing, our bedroom, the rug, and the sofa. I'm not going to have them clean the boys' rooms this time around.

We are going camping this weekend so I had to buy more groceries than normal today. I only spent $85, though. I had a pile of coupons, and I got a LOT of groceries.

eBay auctions are rocking along. I am thinking seriously that I need a manni or form. I found a St. John Knits dress at the thrift on Monday and I wish I had a manni on which to display it. The Levi's twisted seam jeans that I bought at the bag sale for thirty-seven cents are bid up to $37 now; the auction ends tonight. I'm a little nervous about them, though, because I keep getting ASQ's about the cost of shipping from foreign bidders with zero feedback.

Auctions are rocking along.

Last night my cashmere sweater set ended at $102.50. My old Dansko clogs ended at, I think, $36.50. I am waiting to be paid for the Earth Shoe clogs, and there are two money orders on their way. I have thirteen items up now, six of which have bids. I have three holiday items waiting to be written up, a pair of Dansko sandals (Those black ones, I love them but they just don't look right on me) waiting to be photo'd and written up, and a few things hanging in the closet upstairs waiting to be ironed/photo'd/written up. I'm planning to hit Last Chance on Monday after the recall thing is done on the Forester (which hopefully will be quick). I need to buy a few more things to carry me through listing into November.

After the winner of the twin set paid me, I had more than $200 in my Paypal account so I transferred $50 to checking, and I'll transfer it again to ING (where I added $30 to our account, and the $50 will put the balance over $800). I also paid $15 on my eBay fees, and am going to snipe an auction for 25 bubble mailers.

Still am on a plateau WRT grocery spending. I spent $64 today at DFM, and thus far have spent $241 this month. That is too much! It's only the 7th. Quite honestly, we have plenty of food. The outside freezer is full. So is the fridge and the pantry. I'm going to really, really try to see if I can keep the grocery spending to a minimum.

The scholastic book order form came home today and it went right in the recycling. Those are the kinds of things I'm passing up in order to save money. I also, after much thought, decided not to renew my Mothering subscription. I can live without it. And I can renew it later on if we come into an inheritence or something. ;-)