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Keeping Money at Home…

I’m a fan of dining out. In fact, I LOVE dining out. I like it when someone else cooks and I love it when someone else cleans.

Most of my siblings are still in town. They flew in for our family reunion and decided to stick around until after the 4th of July. Since all but two of my six siblings have children, we are limited on how often we can afford to dine out. Feeding multiple families of 6 can add up fast so they all shop at the grocery store together and cook at my parent’s house whenever they are in town.

I drove to my parent’s house on Monday and my ears were immediately assaulted by the noise of nearly a dozen children yelling while running around the yard. My sisters, sisters-in-law, mother, grandmother, and I were in the kitchen making pizza dough and sauce from scratch while talking about men, babies, and differences between authorized users and co-signers on credit cards (yeah, that last subject contribution was mine… obviously) while my husband, brothers, brother-in-law, and father were outside yelling at the kids to stop hitting each other with light sabers.

The pizzas were created, cooked, and came out of the oven to form an assembly line of cut slices for everyone. Grandma made a garden salad and fresh strawberry lemonade and one of my sisters made Olive Garden style breadsticks.

The house was in complete chaos and the noise level rivaled a Metallica concert.

I sat at the crammed dining table and felt sorry for everyone dining in a restaurant that night. Who would possibly want to miss out on a scene like this?

Leaving the house took about an hour as each nephew and niece threw their tiny arms around my neck in a goodbye hug. They all followed it with a pat to the belly saying goodbye to the baby.

Yes. My sisters spent a heck of a lot of time putting together the dough balls into perfect pizza bread shapes. Yup. The kitchen was a mess and it needed a good cleaning. Yes. There was an argument or two about the use of too much salt/onions/water/you name it. But there wasn’t a bill to pay at the end of the night. No one glared at the kids for being too loud. And we didn’t have to tip our servers anything other than praise for the good meal.

I guess I don’t love dining out nearly as much as I thought I did.

Posted by Beks on July 5, 2011 at 5:00 AM in Life Experiences, Money & Relationships | 9 Comments »
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Happy 4th!!!

Have a wonderful, wonderful 4th of July!!

Posted by Beks on July 4, 2011 at 5:00 AM in :) | Comment First »
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Sales Tax Reduction!!

After a miserable year at 8.75% (and 9.75% for our neighboring city), the state of California was forced to reduce the sales tax amount back to 7.75%. And yes, I am aware how sad it is that a 1% reduction in sales tax is the highlight of my July 4th weekend.

To my fellow Californians…

Go out and buy something big before they change it again. *wink*

Have a good weekend!

Posted by Beks on July 1, 2011 at 8:00 PM in General Personal Finance | 5 Comments »
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