Monday & Tuesday Damages (8/9 - 8/10)

Monday

• $0

Tuesday

• I.O.Kiki $2.49 - for some delicious macaroons she picked up for me at Russo's (the local grocer in Waltham, with the best salad bar in the world). Sadly I was too busy at work to tag along myself for lunch. :(
• $45.55 - Roche Brothers

Not a bad start to the week. I mean my biggest purchase was food, and a girls gotta eat. 

Horrid Omission

I made a frightening omission from the weekend loot!

My mother, the modern day Martha Stewart...who smokes, tells you exactly what is on her mind no matter how painful it may be to hear, dislikes small talk, has never been imprisons for insider information, and bakes and cooking like a maniac...brought me some goodies.

• Key Lime Pie - with heavy cream (apparently she expects me to whip up some fresh whipped cream topping to go with said pie...riiight)
• Sugar Cookies with Butterfingers
• Cappuccino Crunch Cookies
• A Dozen Allie's Donuts

While I have been enjoying the cookies and I'm sure I will enjoy the pie as well...the Allie's Donuts have been crucial to my sanity. I even managed to come home from work today and get a little done on my master's project...super productive if I do say so myself...and I attest my productivity to Allie's. Let me explain. Allie's Donuts are the most delicious donuts ever made, AND they're made locally (well local to my parents in RI). Bonus! They are made in North Kingstown, RI by the Drescher family. Oh yeah, and I used to work there. The fact that I am not completely turned off by these donuts based solely on the fact that I used to be immersed in the reek of fry-o-lator and elbow deep in donut filling (I can no longer each jelly donuts, they disgust me), and frosting (no issues eating frosting, none at all) should tell you something. Hmmm....donut....

Oh yeah, and the eggplant parm from last week...freaking AMAZING! I was by far the best thing I have ever cooked, ever! AND it looked way better than the picture that I posted, I'm not even being dramatic. For serious.

Weekend Damages

Saturday

• $5.03 - Dunkin Donuts (Iced Coffees for moving day...all moved into Aaron's place, it's official)
• $1.00 - USPS (change of address online charge)
• $27.58 - Homegoods (stuff for Maggie Mae)
• $35.03 - Pet World (more Maggie accessories)

It should be noted that Pet World is NOT a corporate chain like your standard Pet Smart or Pet Co. I actually called a couple of local places in the area to see if they had what we were looking for (raised pet dish...which Aaron bought, I just got her some toys and raw hide, a.k.a. chewies) before we went, I was determined not to buy anything from a corporate giant, Maggie hates them. Even the bowl itself was made by a man in Maine. Success.

She's a very conscious consumer.

Sunday

• $57.82 - Nordstrom 

Today I went on a bit of a shopping spree...well technically my mom and aunt went on the shopping spree. I was just the happy recipient of their spree. I walked away with about $380ish worth of Banana Republic clothes, which was needed...my work clothes are old and terrible, a Max Mara dress, Anne Klein flats, and my very first pair of Tom's shoes. The Tom's shoes were the only thing that I paid for myself.

Here are some of their fabulous features.

• Vegan friendly, using no animal products
• Made with recycled and sustainable materials
• Insole features EVA cushion, latex arch support, and a canvas cover for breathability
• Outsole utilizes recycled EVA scraps

How's that for conscious consumerism!

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Damages (8/4 - 8/6)

Wednesday

• $0

Thursday

• $6.57 - Exxon 
• water, chipwich, gatorade...it was a long day in the field and this was all necessary to keep me standing until the end

Friday

• $21 - Charlie's Kitchen...Katie's going away party :(

Really Target, Really?!

Okay so yesterday I got an email from moveon.org asking me to join in the boycott of Target. This was the first I heard of it. So I had to do a little research. This is essentially what I found out...

Target donated $150,000 to a conservative right wing political campaign in Minnesota...AKA Anti-Gay.

I am for NEITHER of these aspects of the problem.

1. Corporations need to stay the hell out of politics...ALL corporations. Buying your vote is not democracy. Read the definition. Thank you supreme court justices for your recent decision to entitle corporations to personhood. Super. 
2. I'm against anything anti-gay. period. Mind your business Target. 

So in summary, yes I will be joining the boycott.  BUT I'd be lying if I said that I can boycott Target without getting a little teary eyed. I mean I have already stricken Walmart from my life (not really all that hard, that store is my hell), and while I realize that Target stands for pretty much the same principles as Walmart (a big box mega corporation with too much power who is leading the charge in globalization, absolutely nothing local or sustainable about it, end of story), I will miss it. I have always turned to Target for my random life needs. Let me explain, it's just a great place to go on a lunch break to pick up everything you need and don't need in any way shape or form in one, single, beautiful shopping trip. I mean it's just so freaking convenient to buy your toilet paper, greeting cards, excessive amounts of toiletries, kitchen gadgets, and endless odds and ends under one roof...but I suppose that's their business model, eh? Jerks. They got us/me.

So friends, I will most likely be spending a bit more dough more for my trinkets and hair dye (yes, that's right I said hair dye...I inherited my father's silver locks, and am not at all ready to fully embrace it, not at all...sigh). It's probably good that this happened, it's time for me to take my conscious consumer experiment one step further.

Screw you Target, I'm out.

Monday & Tuesday Damages (8/2 - 8/3)

Monday

• $1.25 - Diet Pepsi
• $0.80 - Snackwells Cookies

I was in the office today, a rare occurrence during field season, and being in the office makes me depressed, therefore I need snacks to get me through the day. 

Tuesday

• -$38 - Nordstrom (return...there's been a lot of returns lately, which may have something to do with the plethora of purchases...hard to say) 
• $23.65 - Hess
• $13.37 - Roche Bros (dinner fixins...I'm making eggplant parm people! This is a milestone, for you see I don't cook. Wish me luck.)

I expect it to look something like this...

Totally realistic, right?

Weekend Damages (7/30 - 8/1)

Saturday

• $6ish - Panera (bagel and an obnoxious frozen drink with an over-sized and unnecessary straw)

Sorry for the inaccuracies in my spending lately, I keep losing my receipts and when I pay for things in cash I can never remember the exact amount.

Sunday

• $0