Oopsie daisy

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So in attempts to be honest with you, my readers, I feel obligated to tell you about my big mistake today. The past two weeks I have had the word "frugal" on my mind. I have been trying to have a frugal mindset and make conscious decisions. Well today I failed. Tom and I have been collecting documents for our mortgage broker because we are trying to get pre-approved for a house. Anyways we collected our pay stubs, W-2's, and investments and e-mailed the broker about dropping them at his office. He replied that he preferred them mailed or faxed. Well I was definitely not going to send all that personal info in the mail so I headed to Fred Meyers to fax the 36 page document. Freddy's charges $.10 per page so i wasn't worried about the cost. So I hand the large stack of papers to the customer service rep and ask her to fax it. I then began to wait for what feels like eternity. The rep comes back and explains that she can only fax 7 pages at a time so my wait has really turned into eternity. When she places the last 7 pages into the machine, she walks over to me and says "You know it is $1.00 per page right?!" "Um, WHAT?! No I did not know that but I wish you would have told me when I handed you 36 pages, are you crazy?" I thought to myself as I begin to scan the signs to look for a posted fax price. I don't see any. I respond to the woman like I knew they charged a bazillion dollars for using their fax machine- "um, yeah I knew that but I had to fax this so I guess that's the price I pay for not trusting the mail system" . So needless to say I had to pay $36 to fax my monetary history to a broker I barely know-AWESOME!!!!
Five steps forward for frugality and $36 backwards.
Happy Monday! Xoxo