General Goals 1) to be debt free in 3.5 years 2) save lots of money

Friday, October 28, 2011

Murphy Came...

We battled, I won!

Yes after I declared no more spending for 7 days, Murphy showed up at my door not once but twice!

This morning when I got to my car it had frost on it. I thought I could just get by with the windshield fluid and wipers. As a drove to work it became increasingly clear to me that the more I spayed the more the window freezed over. The thing is I don't have a snow brush yet, after all I got my car in July, no snow. I pulled over to the side and popped my trunk to see what I could use to get the frost off.  There Murphy was waving at me and saying "Best go out and get a scrapper." I wasn't willing to be beat so I took the little funnel I keep in the back and did the best job I could scraping the frost off.

When I got to work I realized that the  lunch I had made last night and packed this morning I left at home. There he was again saying "you'll have to buy your lunch." I decided that I wasn't going to give in and to curve my desire I didn't go to the caff for lunch but sat at my desk. Often people will leave in the Kitchenette things that they don't want to eat, someone left an orange and a banana which had for the outside seen better days. So I had that and 1/2 a cookie a friend shared with me with two cups of tea. So I made it though the day.

Before I got home I picked up my dry cleaning which was a planed for expense. I had two coats that needed to be picked up and winter is coming.

The end result was Me 1, Murphy 0

6 comments:

  1. Sarah: 1, Murphy: 0! Good job.
    (Ha, I actually typed that line before I read the full post.)

    Great job. Definitely keep it up. It is an interesting challenge to go without buying for any extended period of time, and you did very well!

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  2. You did great! Both my husband and I try and keep a few cans of soup in our lockers in case this happens to us.

    And my son has also used a cd case to scrape his windows

    Judy

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  3. A credit card works wonders to scrape windows. It is actually the only good use for them. Good for you sticking to the plan, but I would so quickly have been at the snack machine.

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  4. Well done!!! I use my (debit) cards to scrape the windows, they work really well, but I'm impressed with you not buying lunch, I'd proabably have caved and bought something.

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  5. A funnel??? Lol.

    Murphy got his butt kicked by a funnel.

    You really want to make it through those seven days.

    Keep up the good work. Just try never to go extremely hungry for too long. That is never a good thing.

    You really are awesome.

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  6. Sarah - I just kept spraying until the defroster killed the frost! I have a brush/scraper but it's not in the trunk yet - better do that today!
    Good job taming Murphy, I think the score should read Sarah 2, Murphy 0!
    And YES to the scissors in December!

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