Date Night In

A friend and I planned to see a movie this weekend, but at the last minute she reneged on me — something about a last-minute work deadline or some such nonsense. I was like, so whatever. (Hi, Erin!)

Just kidding. Going to a movie is a pretty big treat for me: the finances, yes; but also just the getting away. And going with a friend is that much more rare — it usually means two moms have the time and money to make it happen at the same time. I don’t know about your world, but in mine that’s a rare occurrence.

We were either going to see “Julie and Julia” or “The Time Traveler’s Wife” — not exactly the type of movie I would ever go see with The Hubs. Chick-Flicks, bah-humbug. Erin and I might try to make one of them next weekend instead, but in the meantime I realized how much I’d been looking forward to going to see a movie, girlfriend or no, and I asked The Hubs if we would go see one of them with me instead.

“No way!” He just laughed. I guess he thought I was kidding.

Then, to my surprise, ~~after I laid on a major guilt trip~~ he acquiesced and said he’d go. But he needed to get some stuff done and we’d have to go in the evening. In other words, no matinee price.

Fast forward a few hours and I realized that I really had no desire to go to the movies with my husband and spend $14 on something he didn’t even want to see. I’d rather spend the time with my husband, so we agreed on spending a date-night in instead, curled up on the couch with a drink and maybe finding something already recorded to watch on our DVR.
I realize $14 may not sound like a lot of money. But with this journey we are on that is how careful I am trying to be about every dollar I spend. August has proved to be quite the expensive month… Looking at the progress of our debt snowball is great motivation to make every one of them count.