{"id":561,"date":"2008-07-16T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T08:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-07-16T08:53:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T08:53:53","slug":"561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/07\/16\/561\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gail&#8217;s Receipt Game<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know that everyone keeps talking about how much gas costs these days, but that&#8217;s not really my big problem.&nbsp; I drive a Toyota Corolla that (after 12 years) still gets 30+ mpg from its 10 gallon tank. And not driving to CU in the summer makes a huge difference as well. So gas is not killing my budget, thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand&#8230;my budget has been seriously affected by this whole pregnancy thing.&nbsp; Of course, I&#8217;ve heard that big list of how much a kid will cost from birth to age 18.&nbsp; But why didn&#8217;t someone mention before how freakin&#8217; expensive <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">having<\/span> the kid is?&nbsp;&nbsp; This is particularly true in my grocery\/household shopping.&nbsp; To illustrate, I will play Gail&#8217;s receipt game from my last trip to Meijer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$10 &#8211; fruits and vegetables<\/li>\n<li>$17.75 &#8211; dairy products (including milk, yogurt and cheese)<\/li>\n<li>$22.75 &#8211; other groceries (most of which go towards my snacks and not toward actual meals)<\/li>\n<li>$2.99 &#8211; a travel sized pillow to put between my knees so I can sleep<\/li>\n<li>$4.99 &#8211; a pack of dishcloths (okay, this isn&#8217;t a pregnancy thing, but mine keep falling down the drain and being eaten by the disposal)<\/li>\n<li>$16.00 &#8211; 2 big plastic tubs for basement storage of things that didn&#8217;t need to be on bookshelves. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;there it is.&nbsp; Of course, we are not poor, we are highly blessed, and for crying out loud, we&#8217;ll get two babies for the price of one.&nbsp; Oh wait&#8230;that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been forgetting to do.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t been dividing the costs by two, half for each twin!&nbsp; Never mind then&#8230;babies aren&#8217;t really that expensive after all! <IMG height=15 src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/Images\/smiley3.gif\" width=15><\/p>\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail&#8217;s Receipt Game I know that everyone keeps talking about how much gas costs these days, but that&#8217;s not really my big problem.&nbsp; I drive a Toyota Corolla that (after 12 years) still gets 30+ mpg from its 10 gallon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/07\/16\/561\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}