Money Comes, Money's Gone

For the past year, P and I have been dropping loose change into one of two piggy banks for T-Boog. I'd normally empty my purse a couple times a week of singles and silver change, and I'd empty P's pockets nightly of his change too. We also recycled bottles and cans for a couple months, but it was too much work and too messy, so now we just throw them in the big blue bin and let th egarbage folks take care of the recycling part.

I counted up the money today from both biggy banks and was shocked shitless to find out she had over $150 in them. Only about $30 was actual bills, the rest was mostly quarters and dimes.

I'm glad I thought to do this, and what trips me out even more is that The change collected was mostly from the last six months, since I've been back from maternity leave. Because before that, I wasn't contributing much since I paid for everything on my credit cards, and P was off for a while too and wasn't using as much cash.

I'm planning to add another couple hundred dollars to this and open up her college account this week. Then I can start deducting $25 per paycheck to deposit into it, until I get my raise. Yay!

And of course, I spent another $75 on party favors for her birthdy today. That's like $100 just in stuff, no food yet. I think I'll have to bring some back, because this is just craziness. But I'm excited for it, and to finally see all the kiddies all otgether and just hang out like we used to do.