A Weekend in Frugality

The wallet behaved itself the weekend and I am very proud of him/her. This weekend was especially long because I did not go to work on Thursday or Friday due to a severely sprained ankle. So what did I do the entire time? Absolutely nothing! Most of my time was spent in a Ibuprofen 800 mg induced sleep or watching Michael Jackson videos on every other channel (I never can get enough of MJ).

I did step out for a little bit on Friday evening to head over to a coworker’s place for a tame house party. Or so I thought it would be tame. Definitely partied a bit too hard that night and I was paying for it all day Saturday. If you follow me on Twitter you would have read about the mean hangover. The good part about it is that the wallet did not take a hit as I only spent $17 Friday on a case of Molson Golden cans, $4 cheaper than the bottles!

I spent all day Saturday drinking water and trying to sleep off the pulsing headache. I finally made it out of my state of feeling horrible and hit up a BBQ at my friends place. We spent the rest of the afternoon lounging out on beach chairs, soaking up sun, and shooting the breeze, all while simulating us being at the beach, when we were really sitting on his front lawn. Another financially mindful day for me, as I was sleeping by midnight!

Finally, Sunday rolled around, and it was another wedding for myself and the fiancee. Another all day event that was going to drain every ounce of energy from me and my one legged limp. The venue was gorgeous, The Crystal Tea Room inside Macy’s in Center Center Philadelphia. Parking was taken care of the entire day, so other than my contribution of $50 combined with the fiancees $50, costs were minimal on this day.

The wedding intrigued me though, because I did not understand why anyone would invest so much money into an event that occurs on a Sunday. Just as I suspected, at 9:00 PM, after everyone finished dinner, the place started to empty. Everyone has work the next day and is eager to leave, so why book the hall for anything past 10:00 PM? Just a thought that I asked myself on the tiring drive home. It was an extremely long weekend, but I have no fears when it comes to looking at my checking account from the weekend. One step in the right direction!