Date Night In

by jolyn on August 30, 2009

in On Entertainment

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.

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Jerilyn September 1, 2009 at 7:38 pm

I am so proud of you all for doing what you're doing!

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$5 Dinner Mom August 31, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Hi! Waving!!!

Good call on staying in! I'll call you with dets for next weekend!

E

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