30 Day Challenge~ Day 9 ~ Date Night

When I first talked about the a href=”https://mydebtfreeroad.com/2011/08/september-30-days-of-nothing-challenge.html”30 Days of Nothing Challenge/anbsp;I mentioned that we are spending nothing, but will still have our date nights. I teasingly put up a mention that I could find some friends to babysit for FREE. The next day I had this pretty lady text me and offered to babysit!!br /br /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M3rXMxR_XcM/TmrbyW8j_yI/AAAAAAAAAmw/k6hJzBCyuZA/s1600/IMAG0420.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”200″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M3rXMxR_XcM/TmrbyW8j_yI/AAAAAAAAAmw/k6hJzBCyuZA/s200/IMAG0420.jpg” width=”177″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”Tonight she came over to hang with my kids i{thank you tons, Kelly, we love ya!}/iwhile hubby and I got somenbsp;uninterrupted, eat-your-food-while-its-hot one-on-one time!nbsp;How much do you think we spent to have dinner tonight? bWe spent $0!!/b My husband hadnbsp;receivednbsp;a gift card for his birthday and we did not hesitate to use it!nbsp;/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbOAY8LrvlU/TmrceailkTI/AAAAAAAAAm0/agjDtOdRaEI/s1600/IMAG0421.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”183″ src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbOAY8LrvlU/TmrceailkTI/AAAAAAAAAm0/agjDtOdRaEI/s320/IMAG0421.jpg” width=”320″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”After dinner we contemplated seeing a movie, but werenbsp;thoroughlynbsp;disappointed at the selections. That may have been a good thing because I really wanted this to be a bFREE /bdate night. We wondered around the mall for a little whilenbsp;i{that can be dangerous, folks}.nbsp;/i/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”bWe had no intention of buying anything, I swear.nbsp;/b/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”However, over the last few months my husband has become the incredible shrinking man. He has lost about 4 inches from his waist i{and since I don’t want him to have droopy pants like most teenagers we see}/i we have slowly been purchasing new clothes. The most difficult item to find for him are jeans. Tonight as we passed by Aeropostale I wondered if he would fit into their jeans. We decided to stop in with the expectation that they would not. He tried on a pair and we were shocked at how well they fit him. Never in our wildest imagination would we have thought to go into a store our tween shops at and try on clothes. We ended up buying him the jeans for $18! I used the money that was in our clothing envelope that we had left over from last month./divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”We also did buy our tween a pair of shoes that were on sale for $10. a href=”https://mydebtfreeroad.com/2011/08/wordless-wednesday-long-legged-lady.html”Our dog/a really loves to use her shoes as chew toys i{just hers for some odd reason} /iso I purchased a pair that she already had in a different color. i{She is learning to put her shoes away thanks to Maggie!}/i/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”We ended up spending $28 using money from the previous month. So although we spent some cash tonight, our September budget was not touched. Plus, the items we bought were necessary since, again, I loathe the droopy pants look i{seriously, when is that trend going to end?!?}/i/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”a href=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” target=”_blank”img alt=”Anna” border=”0″ src=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” //a/div