As the US economy goes kerflooey I'm sure my reaction to be frugal is not uncommon. I went back through statements today and was able to find the tax payment (I missed the email alert sent any time a purchase of over .99 is made). I didn't make many other purchases so the credit card bill wasn't as big as it might have been.

The one big purchase this month was the router, which is finally installed in the back of the pantry and will let me use another purchase from a while back, a large capacity external drive, for the computer backup. (And when I switch to Win11 it will be with the existing computer but will feel and misbehave like a new computer.) While I'm in the pantry where that equipment lives on two back shelves I'm going to sort out what else is in there. The way it's set up now there are shelves in the back (wooden) and on the left (Rubbermaid wire style bracket system). There is a rolling wire cart with four shelves that holds the remainder of the pantry items and I roll it into the open space and am able to close the door behind it. No food in there, that all lives on the six-shelf wire rolling cart in the hall beside the cupboard. More stuff for either eBay or Goodwill or the free offerings from my porch.

More rain overnight and that poor rug on the line was again soaked. I have another in the same size and style so put both of them in the washer and they balanced each other out to finish without the mechanical trauma of the uL blinking at me.

I was going to go run errands but it looks like rain over the next 24-36 hours so perhaps a day in instead.