We celebrated my daughter’s birthday today. It’s her third, so I went over my weekly budget a bit. OK, here’s the breakdown. Twenty five dollars for pizza, five dollars for the rest of the food, two fifty for a gallon of ice cream. We already had the pop—.50 per 2-liter I had paid at Kroger. Twenty dollars on decoration and paper goods. Two dollars for the cake (cake mix, frosting, and decorative gel were on clearance) and three dollars for gifts: the complete set of Beatrix Potter in presentation box $2.50 at the Salvation Army and .50 for a treasury of bed time stories (handsome, large hardcover). Both were 75% off at the Salvation Army. We all had a good time, and it was a lot of fun. All in all, I spent about $60 for an afternoon of fun.
