Thirfty Thursday-Tracking During the Week

I started this post on Saturday so I could add to it as the week goes on. I'm still out of town for work, scheduled to be home about 5:00. Then, I'll zip from the airport tot he high school for my daughters last Children's Concert of her school days. Traveling for work is not frugal. We have a pretty slim per diem, though the meetings the last few days have had breakfast, lunch, and even Tuesday dinner covered so only last night did my expenses exceed the $20 allowance for dinner.  Even though the meeting ends at 12:00, the meeting hosts have arranged for box lunches to take along to the airport-very kind and probably much better than the airport offerings. So besides leaving my family with  a meal plan while gone, though I suspect some take out will happen, and not succumbing to expensive airport crap, here are a few thrifty wins for the week.

• DD2 and I brought breakfast with us on the road trip for her final college visit, with a splurge on coffee and fresh baked donuts, but no expensive drive through meals. We ate the lunch specials at Old Chicago having leftovers that we ate for supper when we got home- too much food for lunch, plus with the cookies and meat, cheese, and crackers provided at the resource fair, the leftovers were more than enough for supper. 
• She got some nice swag, a great winter hat and a draw string tote bag for pre-registering for the college tour. Both will be used-and this college is now on her short list. It will come down to scholarships and transfer-ability of her current credits. 
• I've wanted a Show Choir Parent jacket, but only have a long sleeve t-shirt. You have to look the part (LOL and cue eye rolls from a few of you). An alumni mom was going to sell her jacket on the Facebook site, but remembered I had mentioned I might get one. I ended up buying her like  new jacket for $15 instead of $40. I'll pass it on to another mom next year. 
• As suspected, DH picked up frozen pizza.s, but they were on sale, so not too big a dent into my food budget. This was less expensive than take out pizza. 
• DD2 used a free Chipotle burrito certificate through her schools excel program on Wednesday when she was running between activities. Good grades have some perks. Before anyone jumps on my kids school, they also give the perks to kids that have met academic goals, so students that are working hard, but may to be getting top grades are also encouraged to set goals and make them. 

 Not a huge savings week, but also we didn't blow the checking account. I got some great news that I will be receiving an excellence award through work. This actually comes with a little cash bonus, rare in my world. I was happy to be nominated for it, but happy to receive. I will use towards meeting our year end goals-perhaps it will cover the front door costs. That's what I have for the week. How about you?