March 2019 Frugal Chatter Thread

[coupon girl]

evening -pretty tired today with babysitting friday and yesterday playing with all 3 grandkids at my daughter's while she cooked a lovley meal and chatted with her brother

I still wanted to go to sobeys and use this save 10.00 when you spend 50.00 slip I had
stocked up on toilet paper 3 pkg cashmere 4.99-1.00 cpn=3.99
also manager in food section gave me peek freans for 1.00 each they were2/4.00 but the sign was incorrectly printed he still honoured it
got 3 large tubs of yogurt 3.99-1.00 cpn=2.99 ,granola bars and cheerios for 50 airmiles -you had to buy 5 items
on the reduced end I got
the last (2) bags of cascade dishwasher tabs small bags 4.49-50%=2.25 each

saved 7.00 in cpns the 10.00 promo slip and .25 checkout51 and earned 97 airmiles and spent $61every item I bought was on sale except deli meat and Pillsbury turnovers

[endi2000]

Just a heads up to people. With the historic flooding in the U.S. and in parts of Canada, many farmers will not be planting this year. And it is not just vegetables and fruits that will be increasing in price due to underproduction. In Nebraska alone, an estimated 1 million calves have died for various reasons. So I expect beef will be going up in price as well, along with all the other meats that are used as substitutes. In short, if you have room for a garden, then this is the summer to get out and plant. If there is a reasonable price on beef...stock up, everyone.

Or.....take a page from the new Canadian Food guide and cut back on beef


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[Frugalbigmama]

Hi all! Hope you had a great weekend. Yesterday I dropped DS and his 3 friends at their other friends house for the day.
Then went to my friends house and we went to the casino and had free breakfast and brought home $20 in free drinks for the kids and a banana lol. We went to Costco and i bought clearance Live shampoo and conditioner paçk and 24 facecloths!
We watched hockey game in the evening at home.
Today was a lazy day then coffee with friend and a family dinner. I just finished cleaning kitchen and putting laundry away. Towels are in dryer. I did clean bathrooms too so did get some stuff done this weekend.
Now tine to relax and watch a movie.

[Angela273]

Our kids haven’t been feeling well so we were running out of kids Tylenol, so I took the twins with me to WM. We found shoes for twin girl because her current shoes won’t fit her for too long. $20, marked down to $9. At the till I asked if I could get an additional discount because only one shoe would light up. Waited for the manager and bought them for $5.

[Angela273]

Yesterday I was in contact with a potential new daycare family. She came this afternoon to meet us and check out my home daycare. She took home the contract to fill out and will be paying the deposit this week. Her son is supposed to start full-time next week. I’ll have some long days with that family, but I’m able to fill the spot and charge a little extra. This boy is the same age as my current little daycare girl.

[wendymac]

What a frozen morning. I worked through the night again, letting DH sleep straight through without having the dogs awaken him with their fuss to get out...and then to come right back in because the snow is too cold on their delicate little paws. It is good to keep the airtight going full time as well. It is that awkward weather period of the year. Has anyone heard predictions of what the growing/gardening season is going to be like, how long it will be, etc.?

Have a great Monday everyone!

[Ciel]

Will see if there are gardening forecasts for Ontario, @wendymac !

Saw this item about the cherry trees in Vancouver-they do better in colder winters than in warm wet climates.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...climate-change

BC is dry and hot and about to get lots of rain:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...-march-drought

Found a spring 2019 forecast for Canada:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...peek-at-summer

[wendymac]

@Ciel A salute and kudos to you, Ciel, for posting so much information about what we all can expect in weather conditions for Spring. Here's what I'll be dealing with...

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

March has brought a transition from January-like weather to a pattern more typical of March. However, the road to consistent spring weather does contain more pot holes than initially expected as the rest of March will still bring a couple shots of colder weather.


April and May will bring back and forth swings in temperature that are typical of the season. That means that we will see a more typical spring this year, in contrast to the consistent cold pattern that we saw last year. During the periods of warmer weather we will continue to have a heightened threat for spring flooding, especially across northern Ontario, cottage country and the Ottawa Valley where the snow depth is well above normal.

[Angela273]

Oops