I Love Splurge Club

During the summer, I decided to try starting a Splurge Club. My original e-mail, sent to about six or seven girls, said we'd start it up once we had 8 or 10 women who wanted to join in on the fun. Well, it took about 48 hours before we had 20 girls who wanted to join. Apparently female companionship is seriously lacking around here.

It's been a long time in the making, but Friday marked our first get together. We had 15 women show up and three others who sent in their cash. This made the pot a total of $360, which we later decided to split between two winners so it didn't take so long for some girls to win. The lucky winners were Kelsey and Kristen, which was perfect since Kelsey needed some cash for work clothes and Kristen will be en route to NYC on Friday!

Because many of the girls didn't know one another, we decided to play a bit of an ice breaker. Everyone grabbed their purses, sat in a circle and had to pull out one item and tell the rest of the group why it was in there, or what it meant to them, etc.

You have no idea some of the things that chicks have rolling around in their purses! At first, everyone was like "I have nothing in my purse"...that is, until they started digging. We had someone with a barbecue-lighter-sized lighter which resembled a match stick, a tent card with the said girl's name on it that'd been in her purse for over a month, a wine cork, lipgloss and matching mirror designed for a key chain, a cork screw and socks. There were several other hilarious things (including an out-of-province, and therefore uncashable, winning scratch ticket), but the jell-o shots and wine have erased my memory.

Once splurge club had ended and the chickies were good and liquored, Kels and I went to bed and left the clean-up for the morning. Saturday meant we spent about five and a half hours shopping. I had no idea it was possible to spend that much time shopping in Fort McMurray, but we did it. Both Kels and I ended up with pretty good hauls. You can check out her post to see the amount of stuff she got with her bucks.

Next month's Splurge Club takes place at Chez Lanette&Kelsey on Halloween! Apparently the plan is to start here with drinks, pick a winner and then crash some big party that's already been planned.

The rest of the weekend has consisted of movie watching, lazing about and room cleaning. Thank goodness this week's a short one (have I mentioned I heart PTOs?), because I can hardly handle the five-day work weeks. Haha.

Adios amigos.

Lanette
PS - Per Kelsey's post, my four+ cheat days this week have definitely ruined my chances for coming out on top during Tuesday's Biggest Loser weigh in.