$50.55 More Monies Out

Last night, we bought postage stamps, large envelopes, 5 highlighters, an eraser, a staple remover, a check organizer, 4 of our favorite blue Pilot Precise roller pens, and one red, rubber bands and an organizer for our purse. 
 
There are 40 stamps because we figured yesterday that we have 22 bills to mail.  The large envelopes seemed more practical then the smaller ones we’d been using and we found they now come in self-adhesive flaps.  The highlighters are an extra nicety, and the eraser was a must.  We’ve nearly used up the little ones that come with the automatic pencils.  The staple remover was a .69 cent “deal,” the check organizer part of a solution for our retention/poor memory needs. 
 
We figured after one of our work pens ran out, we needed another, plus we are giving into our extravagance to have the same trusted writing utensil at each of our four writing stations.  We write from this computer table, the kitchen table, our at-work computer desk, and our at-work writing desk.  The red pen was just an impulse buy and we figured for another .69 cents the rubber bands were quite the deal.
 
The organizer is black with a snap and looks like leather.  It contains a place for cash, a place for cards, a calculator, a lined note pad, a 3 plastic sleeves to hold receipts, a zippered hiding place, a pen, and dividers for the calendar, to do list, notes, information, and addresses.  Oh, and there is a small plastic straight edge that cross dresses as a page marker.  All told, pretty spiffy, we figure! 
 
We haven’t had anything like a “wallet,” for the last couple of years.  Our old one had fallen apart; we’ve been using the smaller pouch on our backpack/purse which seems unefficient now.  We haven’t maintained a real address book for the last seven years.  Best we’ve done is to list a few numbers in the computer, but we were scared when we had thought we’d lost our computer.
 
Ok, breathe.  It'll be ok.  Maybe we should budget for shopping too?  We don't usually like to, especially in real stores, but of late we've just been having the most tremendous fun.  Feels like being in "the present" and we do love making choices.