If my dh/so knew what I spent on __________ he would kill me

Dogs are priceless!

Scrapbooking supplies for me. Actually I don't even like to count up what I have spent on scrapbooking supplies I would be mad at myself. LOL

I agree! 
While I haven't scrapbooked in years, it still makes me cringe to think about the thousands of Dollars that I spent on this hobby.

For years, I spent every weekend scrapbooking, but now I just can't seem to find the time.

Also, I used to buy multiples of each product, especially patterned paper, for fear it wasn't going to be available anymore.

Over the years, I donated thousands of Dollars worth of scrapbooking supplies to the Ronald McDonald house.
But I also ended up throwing a lot of it out.

And I still have a scrapbook store worth of supplies at home. :-)

I don't hide purchases from him, but we generally have a don't ask, don't tell policy. I usually only mention to him what I paid for something if I got a great price.

Right now...organizing/storage containers for our 2 pantries, laundry room and master closet!!!

I bet I spent $750-$1,000 THIS WEEK.

I started out small—tried out a few different containers from Home Goods and a set from Amazon, and once I figured out how it was going to end up, I went hog wild!!!!

I measured all the shelves, cabinets and closets before I bought things and started with a plan. Got out my label maker and started my madness.

I am waiting for my Amazon order to arrive (scheduled for tomorrow) and my Container Store order (should be here by Monday) and another online company that I found more of the matching containers from HG (haven’t got a tracking yet).

I ran to another Home Goods this morning (did not find much of the matching containers) but found the answer to my laundry room needs.

I put all my grains, rice, beans, pasta, crackers, cereal, cookies, flour sugars, baking stuff into the sealing/vacuum OXO type containers.

I bought the 10” wide x 14” deep (the depth of my pantry shelves) clear fridge bins and put all canned goods, oils, jarred items into those (labeled Mexican foods, oils/vinegars, condiments, jellies, pickles/peppers, etc)

I bagged up and priced all my “Lock-n-Lock” plastic storage/food containers that we fridge store/reheat food in and replaced them all with glass containers with lock lids. We are having a big garage sale at a sibling house in October.

I bought baskets for my laundry room cabinets so that I could just pull them out to get what I need.

Master closet I redesigned a small area —about 2’ wide that had a weird shelf mid way up, as a “vanity” of sorts for my eye palettes and perfume (I wear very little to no make up—just eyes and lips). I repurposed a pretty ornate frame with a mirror that fit into the weird shelf area, and made that into a vanity.

I bought 27 of the 18” long clear acrylic shelves for nail polish and installed them down the inside wall of the closet and organized my nail polish collection.

I repurposed a tall stool that fit perfectly under the weird shelf and I can sit there to do any girly stuff to get ready. It’s not much but it’s cute and so practical.

I bought 30 clear shoe boxes and put shoes into them so that I could stack them on the top shelf that goes around the 3 walls of the closet (minus the door wall), and repurposed the many shelves directly across from the door to display my every growing collection of boots and a few handbags.

I’ll probably repaint the interior this winter—something fun in color, as the lighting is bright.


And what started this week long reorganization project?

A flipping bug!! I pulled out a box of veggie pasta from my smaller cupboard and i could see that it was eaten by those bugs that get into pasta, rice, flour. I freaked the hell out and pulled everything out, tossed a ton of stuff, then decided right then and there to do the vacuum type of containers...the pantry, laundry and master closet were all just a progression from an organization “high” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My hubby is out of town this week for work—while he knows I’m doing it, I’ve sent pics and talked to him, he’s not asked nor have I volunteered the cost!! (He will eventually see it!)

I’m on my last pantry now, just waiting for my orders to arrive, and should be almost done by the time he gets home Friday night.


ETA: (after reading one posters post)—


I don’t hide anything, he will eventually ask and I’ll tell him. He too will love the end result.

We also have an awesome budget—we own no debt at all, pay cash for anything and everything.

I’m a price comparison person too—i do my homework!

We’ve worked very hard to be very comfortable.

mcscrapper it’s two actually.. Shiseido bioperformance glow revival serum and drunk elephant c-firma day serum. Literally after just a few days use my skin is firmer, brighter, acne scars are less noticeable, and really my skin is radiant. After about 2 weeks my friends were really noticing a difference. So for results like that, I don’t mind shelling out more money. I really neglected my skin before about 3 months ago and the difference is incredible.

Clothes, mostly. It’s not really that I’m hiding it from him. Our deal is that I make sure the bills are paid and savings taken care of first. Then I spend what I think is appropriate, and he reserves the right to gripe about the boxes that show up on the porch.

There’s no hidden debt or unpaid bills or anything like that.

I don't hide anything. I am the breadwinner. I can splurge on me if we can afford it.

I've been on the fence about trying this.  Thinking next time I need to buy more serum I'll get some considering ya'll seem to love it.

Don't really care to say KILL , cuz that's an awful expression and I would never stay with someone that would get pissed off and overreact, but we usually discuss any purchase over 50 bucks.

That's us in reverse.  I don't care what he spends because I know how frugal he is; I care how much junk he accumulates.

We keep money as separate as possible but we do have a rule that if one of us wants a single purchase over $xxx dollars, we talk to the other one.  Other than that, I might get a raised eyebrow about how much I've spent on quilting supplies this year but he wouldn't say anything.

I think my DH would like me to spend a little more on myself. He constantly tells me "We're not that poor!". But my thinking is, why spend more if you can spend less? So I wait for deals a lot, and really don't spend much on myself. I'm not into clothes, shoes, purses, makeup, hair stuff. I do buy a decent number of books, but even with those, a lot of them are used.