July 2015 Frugal Chatter

[jasperandchar]

@SassyAshley enjoy your meals, smart girl not using the oven etc @sweet sparrow , do you perphaps need stitches if you are still breathing, that must be so painlfull

[thriftygranny]

Thanks Sassy and Nancy, I am sure tomorrow will be spent at the vital documents place with my Dh replacing everything, after going to the bank to flag his accounts.

[jasperandchar]

I started a new thread fired by another members post about how do you allocate your funds

My thread is based on an emergency fund & what do you consider an emergency???

anyways feel free to have your say or input if comfortable

http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/406240-...a/#post6433309

[lilo0003]

TG what a Nightmare. We have a real issue with car breakin right now. DH had his debit card compromised several years ago. They did not even have his card they crooks just created their own. When we realized that our daily debit limit was 5000 and the cash with drawl was 1000. We drop them both to the lowest amount possible. The bank thought we were crazy, but we don't use debit for anything so why make it easy for them.
SA: I put the crockpot outside in the summer becuase it still puts off some heat.
Does any one have a good recipe for burgers. I took pork and beef out to thaw and want to make then this week as we had none left. I did go to Costco today and spent my rebate check and freezer is full but DH works at home so he feeds the kids burgers at least twice a week for lunch.

[lilo0003]

Btw for those of us with kids check your bank account The UCTB showed up in my account yesterday. I bank with PC

[SassyAshley]

Lilo sadly our outlets are kind of hit and miss in this house. The owner before us his Dad was an electrician and had a thing for stealing power from outlets for other things so none of our outdoor outlets work as the power supply has been taken for another use. When we first moved in we tried to get it sorted out and did get quite a bit done but we couldn't keep throwing money at the issue when it is all done correctly and there is no safety risk just annoyance that some outlets do not work.

[Angela273]

Yesterday morning we got our pictures taken indoors because the weather was pretty bad. We basically had a wind advisory combined with random showers. The edited CD was dropped off at our house before supper time. Nice surprise was a $25 voucher towards our next photo shoot, which will likely be with the newborn twins. I'm just waiting to look at the CD with dh.

We took LO swimming at the public pool in the afternoon and then joined a free library carnival for a while afterwards. LO and I had a late nap, then I picked up a new babysitter. She's 12yrs old and looked after LO while dh and I attended a live theatre performance that he had purchased tickets to for my birthday which was back in February.

This morning LO and I spent an hour in the garden. It's still pretty windy, but much hotter outside than it was yesterday. Weeded, dh helped put in tomato supports, and then watered everything before coming back inside for lunch. LO and I are supposed to take a nap first. We are invited to a BBQ at a friend's house 1/2hr away, which is supposed to start at 3pm today. So that is our supper plans.

[Angela273]

I just looked at the pictures with LO and dh. A few of them I like, but others we are both less than impressed with. There are quite a few pictures where one of us is blurry. It's kind of the quality of having convinced a friend to take our pictures, which makes me think about this option more to save money.

I just checked my bank account balance and EI finally made its first deposits for my medical leave. I am currently receiving nearly the max weekly amount. I will still need to make sure that they have waived the 2wk waiting period because it has been 4wks since I started my claim, but I have now been paid for 2wks.

[jasperandchar]

@Angela273 glad that the deposits are starting now @lilo0003 I just mix the 2 meats and add montreal steak spice nothing fancy but yummy none the less, my oldest could eat burgers & hot Italian sausage everyday (lol) can't go wrong with burgers @SassyAshley could you run an extension cord out a window but I guess also I believe you don't have a back yard if I recall so maybe not taking a chance with your lovely neighbours

[jasperandchar]

@Angela273 how disappointing re photo shoot, could you call him or her and mention your concerns as I'm sure they would want your business after the babies are born. Sounds like my photographer who got drunk during dinner, let's just say no pictures after supper were selected...sigh AND ENJOY THE BBQ

[jasperandchar]

Btw for those of us with kids check your bank account The UCTB showed up in my account yesterday. I bank with PC

yes happy dance - thanks @lilo0003

[Natalka]

I have been wondering this as well, I understand that they could have used it online but the only thing I can think of is they used the TAP feature and did numerous transactions, but I thought the tap feature was limited ot small transaction only and had a cap on the dollar value per day.. When i checked online I didn't even look at the transactions, just the balance and called Visa immediately. It was the Visa rep that asked me if we had shopped at the gas station, been to the Casino or done the specific online shopping.Going back on this morning to look at the actual transactions I cant' access it as the card is frozen. It worries me how they could spend this amount of money without a pin. Visa does cover the purchases, thank goodness, but i am wondering if they were watching us and obtained our pin info from our computer if they were outside our house. I think that is possible? We live a very quiet neighborhood but lately the car break ins have been really bad here, I will be more mindful of shutting down my computer and cars will be in the garage from now on.

Oh, I am so very sorry you are having to go through all of this - such scummy people in the world who do this.

For the latter thing you mentioned, change your WIFI password as well. It would be horrid if someone accessed your computer remotely.

[Natalka]

Well, you know the women's troubles I had weeks ago - well, it back, pretty much the same thing as before- I'm on week two and pretty POed about the whole thing. I'm just a mess. Thank goodness for a very wonderful and understanding husband who helps me get through this all.

But this makes me happier:

[thriftygranny]

Thanks Natalka for the reminder on the wifi password. Done and Done!

[coupon girl]

ohhh just typed a whole paragraph and my internet stopped and erased it
-jus got back fro m a vacation in tobermorey we rend a cottage with our kids/spouses spent qualitytime