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    Talking Well it was certainly frugal...

    My EX MIL asked me to meet her for lunch today so she asked me to meet her at the Olive Garden. It has been about 4 months since we last visited so I said sure I would go.

    I pulled $20 out of my last weeks allowance--I didn't spend it last week and I get another $25 tomorrow so yeah me-- and met her at the Olive Garden.

    Then she paid for my lunch and bought me 2 cups of coffee.

    $20 is back in its envelope, back in my drawer, saved and going into the vacation fund.

    A nice frugal day huh??
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    Wow that's awesome! I am sure you enjoyed lunch and how sweet the MIL paid

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    Very frugal day!!

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    Very nice indeed!!! It is always a pleasant surprise when someone springs for lunch out.
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    That was very sweet of your MIL. Glad you had a nice visit.

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    That was so nice of her and it is great that you have stayed friends with your EX MIL.

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    Wow! Shoot-my current MIL wont buy me lunch! LOL

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    Very frugal and how sweet of her.
    " May we never let the things we can’t have or don’t have or shouldn’t have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it. One of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have."
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    olive garden salad and breadsticks............ so delicious.
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    i love olive garden i could eat that salad all day
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    Oh, I *love* the Olive Garden...gosh and to have it paid for by you EX MIL, well I'd just say that it was very sweet indeedy

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    Absolutely a frugal day ... I hope you got to have a nice visit as well. :-)

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    that was nice,and it was frugal.

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    Very cool!

    Sometimes my company offers to buy us lunch. I always take them up on it and save the lunch I brought for the next day.

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    What a nice surprise, your EX MIL must really like you still huh?

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