Has anyone seen my wagon?

As the end of the month approaches, it would be fair to say we’ve … uh … fallen off the wagon a bit.

Perhaps jumped off the back of the wagon and ran the other way might be more accurate. Like an Oregon Trail leader on bare bones rations. Okay, I’m probably exaggerating a little bit.

While I’m going to save our final accounting for my next post, I wanted to give you a preview of things to come.

Items of note that you can eagerly anticipate:

• My dear daughter needed new shoes. Have I ranted yet about how expensive kids’ shoes are? Don’t worry, it’s coming.
• The siren song of the mall finally won – a couple times. Darn you, Azrieli.
• The store that stole my yogurt money has mischarged me a total of NIS 86 this month – and yes, I’ve fought to get all of it back and have won. In Hebrew. For which I deserve an award. In other news, I’m going to avoid shopping there like the plague going forward.
• I have no self restraint when it comes to watermelon.

Our final tally is coming on Thursday, July 1. You can also join me on Thursday when I’m interviewed on Rusty Mike Radio (click the “Listen Live” button) by Nettie Feldman on Afternoon Schmooze – the program airs from noon to 2 p.m. and I’m expected to be on around 1:20 p.m. Israel time. Topics to be covered:

• You went on a spending diet. Why?
• What’s included in your allotment?
• You actually spent a lot of money on things that one would think you wouldn’t, like NIS17 for iced coffee.
• Did you starve?
• Did you actually only spend NIS1000?
• How did your friends react when you told them you were going to try this? Family?
• What have blog reactions been?
• Are you going to do this every month?

Hope to see you later this week!

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