Spending money in Day to day life from a woman that turned 60 in Oct 2014 and who lives on a farm and Retired on January 2, 2016. I plan to do more sewing, work outside in the yard and just enjoy my retirement.

The new frig was delivered by 10am yesterday. Have to say I'm glad it is in the garage as it does make some noise when it is running. Have put a few things in the freezer part and some tea in the frig part. Just to test it out I guess, plus can't seem to have anything empty.

My printer/fax/scanner died yesterday afternoon. I was trying to reprint a picture of the Owen and Raylee when they were taking the bath bath ever in the house. They were the first ones to use the bathtub and it was on the 1st of March 08. I thought it was in April until I looked at the date. Good thing I date some of the pictures. Anyway I had one in the main bath room pretty much all this time. I had reprinted it once I think and the last time it was a tad dark. I had made a 3d frame last week and used little 3d fish and it looks really cute. Both of my oldest kids have asked me where the picture of the babies in the bathtub were so I figured I best put another back in there. I ended up with a "printhead" error. I tried everything I knew to try and then some but couldn't get the error to go away. I looked up a replacement print head and lordy they were as much a new printer. So.....this morning I went early and bought an Epsom printer. It was easy to get set up and configured to my WiFi and have printed and framed and put up the babies in the tub picture. It is cute. It is a black and white print and I have a color one of the two little ones in MY shower. That one is color and they actually had clothes on during their adventure into my shower. Don't think I need to reprint that one as it seems to be holding up pretty good.

So. I have purchased and new frig and a new printer within the same week. I really hate spending all that money as it will make me pinch pennies for a long time. However, both items were reasonably priced and both will be used a lot. I did need a working printer as I do A's books and print the balance sheets out for her. So, by the end of this month, I would have had to have replaced the printer anyway. I also went ahead and bought extra ink/toner so I'm not caught without which usually happens when something must be printed. Hopefully I can take the new black cartridge for the old printer back and should be able to since it wasn't opened.

It rained most of the morning so now it hot and humid outside. I was going to work outside a bit and maybe burn some personal mail but the winds are blowing and even though I don't think there would be a threat of fire, I don't want it blowing everything either.

Haven't made much progress on my list although I'm whittling away at it. The zip I had seems to have zapped and I'm just piddling with different projects. Did find (FINALLY) 3/4" D rings at Walmart. They've been out for months. There were 3 packages on the hook and I bought all 3 of them.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Take care and God Bless.