Friday night is our normal "date night" I had expressed to my DH that we could just cook at home and save some money. We actually ended up with leftovers and then hit the golf course - we pay a monthly fee for unlimited golf - to hit a few balls. I was glad that we did not spend the normal money on going out to eat but he says he really looks forward to date night since he never eats out during the week. From some other posts I have read I understand that some things are just too important to stop so I guess date night will be back in. Both of our mom's are still living and so since we had bought a digital camera several months ago it seemed like a good time to put it to good use. I had loaded photos my grandbabies to the computer photo program and made photo DVD's for our mom's. Ran into to one problem and had not bought the right kind of disc for their DVD players so back to the store for another pack. Could not return the first ones I had purchased but thankfully they are re-writeable and we can use them on ours. I did not buy my mom a card as I have a box of all occasion cards at home that I chose one from. My husband spent $5.00 on a card for his mom as he did not know I had some at home. Oh well, next time.

On Saturday we did eat breakfast at home but lunch at McDonalds. What was I thinking. Never again. Too much money of semi ok food. Saturday night I did fix dinner at home using a recipie on the back of a bisquick baking box. It was for their impossible cheesburger pie. I had looked at the recipie several times but had never taken the time to try it. Well pantry and fridge were both in need of supplies so using what we had we were able to prepare this. It was delicious and we will make it again. Afterwards went to the grocery store and only spend $63.00 dollars. This is good for us. My DH normally gets a $20.00 allowance for two weeks but agreed to take only $10.00 to see if he could get by on that. If he finds he needs more can always get more from the bank. My theory is you spend what you have. We still have not been able to add to our savings as all the money we have saved in the last few days was money necessary for other items.