Expensive Wednesday ~ Day 28

I was reminded of a quote today 'a fool and his money are easily parted' however today I was no fool and trust me it took a while to 'part' with my money!  Today I had to go and PRE pay DD12's school fee's lets just say there were a couple of 0's behind the main amount.... I think the thing that MOSTLY annoys me apart from the huge sum is the fact that I pay $100+ for a stationary pack that I could get for next to nothing because half of the things that are in there, glue stick, eraser, etc etc etc we have MULTIPLES of from last year and then the things like exercise books I am sure DO not cost the price they are guessing they are!  There were display folders in there that she still has all from last year no wonder you end up with so much clutter in the house!

I was lucky with the fact however that I didn't need to buy any school uniform things either so far which is good.  I have already bought her school shoes though!

I remember when I was at school and you use to go with your list and go room to room collecting everything you needed they have boxes full of pencils, rulers etc and you just crossed off what you didn't need.  I swear my mum still have piles of pens and pencils that she bought when I started school so I never needed to buy anything when school started she was always in the know!

By the way that adventure I will admit I didn't do until 3.30pm (as I had to go to the bank get the cash and then drive straight to school to do the deed and banks close at 4pm LOL) and you can only do it today from 8am - 6pm or tomorrow from 8am - 12 noon and if you forgot or miss out - tough luck they say! Hmm I never want to find out how 'tough' is tough!

Apart from that I stayed home until tonight when I went to teach Zumba.  It's near my mums house so I drive down there and pick her up and now she comes to shake it twice a week she's going really well.  I'm so proud of her!  

On the way down we dropped in at savers dropped of another bag - another stamp thank you and then swapped over a book and got $2 back.  I still can't work out how that all works we had a credit note of $5.98 and got a book for $1.99 and then they handed us a $2 coin I just took it and left as you are meant to do a swap to the 'amount of' and the shop was closing but it's ok, I'll just be confused about it all night LOL.

After Zumba took the long way home to pick up 33 pavers from the pay it forward group and got a workout moving those LOL my poor mum offered to help too I said no but she got out and did it.  Picked up a few other bits and pieces too.

That's it from me, pretty tired this evening.  Hope you all had a great day XOXO