March 2019 Frugal Chatter Thread

[Giseledta]

good morning
i have a ton of stuff to do today, so i am hoping it goes smoothly.
laundry is going, i will get a tea into me and then attack the day.

no spending should be involved with the day at all.

[flemeth]

Good morning all
Hope every had a good Saturday
Laundry is going, kitchen is clean I did some Baking
still have to mop the floors.
Will have to tidy up my stock room later
right now having a cup of tea
Have a great Sunday all

[coupon girl]

I am feeling better, ate a banana and tea and toast ,so I take it was 24 hr bug
Hubby went to a walk in-clinic and is on meds and a puffer ,so hopefully he starts to feel better soon

Staying in my p,js today -supper will be a chicken breast (shared) as its large ,baked potatoes and green beans

[greentires4me]

I got my deposit of 75$ from the government and painfully crutched to the store. On the way home I was fingered and told to get off the road because I was using a marked crosswalk to crutch across. Not to mention the person almost hit me but when I was crutching across the road there was no cars and it close to my building.

Thank gawd I have muscle relaxants around for the Charlie horses I am getting right now.

I just the wrong number called me looking for a Rick.

Thank gawd I am not going anywhere anymore I am severe amount of pain.


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[Frugalbigmama]

Good Morning! Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Sat- Took my mom to casino for early dinner then we went to DS's hockey game. I won a good chunk of money! We had dinner at the buffet (free with comps) and I redeemed $20 in comps for free drinks to take home to boys. A lady was getting a sandwich with her comps and asked if I wanted more drinks to take home since she has lots of comps. I said sure and brought home an extra $30 in Nestea for oldest!

Sun- Went out for a late breakfast (2:30pm! by the time I rolled out of bed) I went to SDM and used my spend $75 get 20x the points. Did a good stock up on basics and a few boxes of leadbetter burger patties for quick easy dinners (I prefer homemade but find it time consuming and not cheap anymore!) The boys love these ones and sometimes my time is just worth more. Filled the car up with gas at RCSS for bonus gas offer. Went to RCSS and was able to get 3 packs of Stayfree pads for $1.94 and used 3x$2 coupon. Splurged on a large Greek salad for $12. We ate 2 large salads for dinner (that's all I had) and I made a large salad for my lunch today and there is lots left for tonight. The local deli here where we get salad now and again cost around $8.50 for a small so I justify the large ready made Greek one we love .

Tomorrow is garbage day. I hope to go in the basement and find a few things to toss since the can isn't full.

Remember when PC pts just started and they had tons of promos at the start? At RCSS Palmolive liquid dish detergent was $2.50 and you received 2500 PC PTS. I bought tons. Stocked my mom up too. I just brought up my last 3 bottles to put under the kitchen sink. I am a little excited to actually be able to buy something different!

[Giseledta]

i never knew leadbetters was at shoppers. hmm.

ok. time change .. on little kids.. its a thing.. thats all i have to say.

i am hoping to get out this afternoon, the ice should mostly be gone. I wil l bring up the plasma cars from the basement. my driveway is a pond, but hopefully soon that will go
i have my first over night tonight . i am sure it will go well. The kids are amazing. so i see no problems.

[Frugalbigmama]

i never knew leadbetters was at shoppers. hmm.

ok. time change .. on little kids.. its a thing.. thats all i have to say.

i am hoping to get out this afternoon, the ice should mostly be gone. I wil l bring up the plasma cars from the basement. my driveway is a pond, but hopefully soon that will go
i have my first over night tonight . i am sure it will go well. The kids are amazing. so i see no problems.

Ours has:
cowboy steaks
burger patties
sausage
ground beef

I think that is about it

[Giseledta]

our foodland tends to stock the bacon.. and burgers.. the bacon is good... 500 gr pkgs.

[Frugalbigmama]

our foodland tends to stock the bacon.. and burgers.. the bacon is good... 500 gr pkgs.

Yes ours too (and they have the steak and it goes on sale often for $18.99/19.99) My SDM does not have the bacon.

[Frugalbigmama]

I price matched at Walmart yesterday. For a store not in our area and did it no problem. I had no idea on limits etc so I grabbed 6 of the sausage that was on at Sobeys for 2.99 less $2 coupon. She was hesitant saying it wasn't the same item (I had to tell her to read the fine print where it said sausage) Other then that no issue.

[greentires4me]

I don’t feel so hot today I ate asparagus for lunch. I had pizza buns for breakfast.

I rescheduled an coffee date for another day it was suppose to be in hour. I been in mass amounts of pain all day and left once to go downstairs and check to see the mail came no such luck.

Anti inflammatories aren’t working but I will try again why not. I sure hope I am not getting sick.

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[SassyAshley]

Good Evening Everyone,
I was away for the weekend. We went away for my Dad's birthday, normally we do not do much for his Birthday other than maybe a family dinner. My Dad does not like his birthday acknowledged due a family emergency that happened on his Birthday when he was a kid.

It was fun we went up to the Condo they rent and anyone who wanted to (not me) went skiing. Those of us who did not go skiing went to the club to meet them for lunch. Originally we were going to spend the afternoon at the club but sis's bf fell skiing and had to go to emerg, so sis and step mom took him and the rest of us took Dad to the local brewery. All and all even with the fall it was a great weekend although happy to be back as that single bed was not very comfy.

Things are kind of insane at work right now, one of our staff has been forced to take a leave of absence as her husband has been hospitalized. Sadly another staff member lost a family member last night. So we have a lot going on right now but I find the best way to handle these situations is to be positive that we can get through it.

Not much else going on right now, since I have been away the only thing that got done this weekend was laundry when I got home. Got quite a bit on plate for work right now so will make a plan once I get things cleared up at work. I cannot handle dealing with both right now as my anxiety has been a little high lately, which is a symptom of my overgrowth as it can mess with hormones which can bring on anxiety and depression. So I am going to take a deep breathe, right myself a to do list and see how far I can get.

Hope everyone has a wonderful night

[lilo0003]

Youngest is at gramma’s for a few days and they are batch cooking lasagna which I love because he will bring back 5 trays of it. Older son made dinner tonight. I asked him to find a recipe to use up some vermicelli noodles and he found a recipe that was delish and since he needed Napa cabbage and we have leftovers he will make it again in next weeks menu.

[Angela273]

I’ve been in cotact with a couple more potential daycare families. Time will tell if I get a signed contract. I’ve had a daycare girl for nearly 2yrs, but I’m anticipating she will leave my care in May. I don’t live in the bussing zone for her school and she starts Kindergartdn in the fall.

Our forecast is melting for the entire week. After Dh and I were done work for the day we took our kids to a school playground and went sledding on their hill. It might be too melted by Wednesday, I don’t know if we’ll be able to do it again. We all had fun. I made a few short videos on my phone.

[coupon girl]

well i caught the 24 hour flu bug from cara apparently it went around the daycare and Thursday she woke up in her crib a tiny bit sick my daughter-in-law said ,then I got it sat ,Ashlyn got it sat night ,my son got it sunday -wow

We watched both girls yesterday and I had very little sleep sunday night was dealing with a problem and of course with the time change cara only slept an hour giselita I believe it threw the little ones off

I had promised Ashlyn she could sleep over a month ago on march break ,so my daughter-in-law is filling up this week with people watching Ashlyn me on Tuesday ,her aunt on Wednesday ,her mom Thursday and my son and his wife have booked Friday off -yeah I get a tiny break

So I looked for fun things to do today it was either indigo ,or library so I picked the craft at the library from 10.30 til 11.00 I think then I said we could go to Wendy's for a frosty in the afternoon before my son picks her up at 3.30 ,got keep the little ones busy ,plus I need to take back my books to the library