Would you like Green Beans with that???

This weekend was a Poor Little Rich Girls fieldtrip.  This week I was exploring ways for us to leverage our numbers (ok there's really only 2 of us) to buy things cheaper.  I started with ordering some peanut butter from Amazon using subscribe and save.

For those who aren't Amazon aficionados let me fill you in.  Amazon has this great program they call Subscribe & Save.  This program is cool because they give you a discount off their regular prices, plus free shipping, on items that you use a crap ton of anyways.  I love it for vitamins since most come in 6 month or less supplies so I can set it up to auto ship right before I run out.  The bummer is sometimes you have to order a lot, since it's Amazon (aka 6 jars of peanut butter), but if you have a buddy that makes this a lot more realistic.

Now back to the field trip.  Bright and early yesterday morning the Poor Little Rich Girls met up at their local Sam's Club to leverage their buying power and get some healthier eats (because quite frankly I cannot continue to have rice make up such a large portion of my food intake).  So we each spent about $25 and we got lots of delicious eats!

Here are our great finds!  A lovely assortment of bell peppers, 3 pounds of bananas, some Mediterranean hummus, a double pack of Bolthouse Green Goodness (we each got our own 2 pack), ORGANIC baby spinach (we each got our own), a box of larabars (not pictured here), and last, but not least, an industrial size can of green beans.  I mean this is serious green beans.  And it was less than $3.  We split it in 2 and it was still a crap ton (these are 7 cup dishes I believe).  Usually I prefer no salt added, and BPA free cans (and organic would be FANTASTIC), but alas we're trying to accomplish something.  I figure subpar green beans are better than the absence of any green beans.

"The Goods"

Our lifetime supply of green beans...

Happy Weekend!

<3 Jen

New Years Eve 2011... A lesson in Cost/Benefit Analysis

So up through New Years Eve I've been pretty much rocking the whole not spending money goal.  So going into the week I was all hardcore that I was gonna lay low for New Years like I did for Christmas, no big deal.  Then midweek when talking to a good friend I asked "so what are you plans for New Years".  ORIGINALLY she had said they probably wouldn't do anything since their best couple friends (me & the ex) were going through a divorce.

Oh no.  Apparently at my former residence everyone was having a party.  Well everyone except me.  I was obviously a little perturbed by that, particularly when the response was, "well I figured someone would have told you by now...".  No you kind of have to have people talking to you for that to happen...  But neither here nor there, my plans to be alone at New Years definitely held less no appeal.  So wtf was I gonna do???

So on Friday night I got invited to join a friend from college out with a big group for dinner then drinks at Blue Moon Dueling Piano Bar of course thinking of the Poor Little Rich Girls pledge to get our finances straightened out I initially declined dinner but figured I could meet up for drinks with them later.

Well after weighing the pros and cons with my partner in crime (a cost benefit analysis if you will) we decided the benefit of me not sitting at home being unhappy far outweighed the cost of a little financial slip up.  So in the name of happiness, and starting 2012 on a positive note, I changed my mind about dinner and went out for the whole night.

Although I'm not a huge fan of spending money I'm glad I did because the emotional "cost" of staying home alone was quite higher than the actual cost of ~$25 for dinner and drinks.

So we're back on the wagon this week, more brown rice is in the oven as we speak... Time to be continue our quest to financial awesomeness!

<3 Jen