March 2019 Frugal Chatter Thread

[Ciel]

Like someone pointed out recently there are a lots of Aries in this group, my bday is in April.
Have a happy day Lizzie.
For garbage bags I buy the no name. Usually at SDM when I need to bump up to a points threshold. We done use many but they are fairly strong and often sale. I received confirmation today my Sobeys gift card worked the receipt was two sided and impossible to get into one picture so it took a bit of work. I was surprised they even had any left this late into the promo.

I think the Sobeys on Brant St. in Burlington also runs off two-sided receipts! Sibling sometimes gets late night food or groceries there on the way home and I see the receipt with the survey request.

[Ciel]

TGIF!!!!

I was out of town yesterday and stopped at the Freshco on my way home. They had chicken drumsticks on for $1.99LB and each package had $2 coupon on them. I grabbed 4 all avg price of $3.93 each so $1.93 after coupon. Funny thing was I had drumsticks thawed in fridge to go in the oven last night. So I put the new chicken in the freezer at the back so I use up the other .99Lb drumsticks 1st. Happy that my boys like them. I also bought a huge bunch of asparagus and some tomatoes. Can't wait to cook up some yummy meals.

Today is beautiful out. I left my winter coat in the car and I am thinking of washing it and putting it in my closet for good. Tomorrow is vehicle clean out! Tonight I will bring in all the junk in it so it's ready to clean tomorrow. Hoping we can go watch the hockey game at the casino tomorrow night since they gave me bonus free slot play. I usually am pretty lucky and win $ to take home. (and free dinner doesn't hurt either!)
On the hunt for a new bike for DS this weekend. I'm happy he has a good group of friends that are very active and I trust them all. They are a good group of kids.

Might have snow flurries on Sunday here in Hamilton. I had planned to put my trusty winter coat into the trash last Tuesday but will wait until next week. Air is still nippy and cold most mornings for me!

[Ciel]

Today's can finds totalled 50 cents' worth. Got another round of branch trimming in and noticed a limb or two will need the saw-it's obvious how dry the inside of the limb is and also some smaller branches are dry but oh so many waterspout type branches here there and everywhere. Lower back and posterior are sore again. Fun times in the sunshine!

Had an opportunity this morning to watch the movie Forks over Knifes. Love the explanation about osteoporosis-it's metabolic acidosis that takes calcium out of the bones as it's the body's way of trying to cope. I thought "acid rain in the body!" which works better than remembering how phosphoric acid in pop does the same thing to calcium with every can I sip.

Saturday will be wet; I might make it home before the rain action is due to start. Feeling very peckish. Have a lovely night, everyone!

[Angela273]

I just checked my kids for shoes again. I was happy that I had shoes for my twins in my bin. We’ll need to buy 2 new pairs of shoes for ds (one for school and one for outside), hopefully we get lucky at WM. The closest Payless Shoes is 2.5hrs away, otherwise I’d check there too.

[greentires4me]

Payless shoes here in my town in the mall is no more...I guess they sold everything in their store closing sale. We have something here called shoe warehouse on the end of town. @Angela ... what size I could take a look in my travels.

I love shoes I own lots of pairs everything except heels. Already tall I dont know why I would need need a pair of heels.

Anyway today I was going to help out with community kitchen but I didn’t. I didn’t feel well chances are I gave myself heat stroke. It was a whopping 16C at one point but felt like 21C. By the time it made it to its high of 18C it was 25/26C. They’re calling for 21C on Monday probably going to be high in humidity then too. All I can say is what spring...

Gotta go to bed I am fading laters.


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[Giseledta]

intereview done. it went well. thy are checking out another place, and will get back to me within the week. so .. even if i dont get them .. well.. the house is clean. lol


tomorrow , i will work on the basement.. and hubby will finish taxes. also hit walmart for shoes for him, and a few groceries. for me we really dont need much. i might try price matching as well.
monday i do a money dance move aroundlol. and end of the month round up.
i need to figure out suppper, i was going to do bbq... but its icky out.

[Angela273]

Nothing spectacular, but I’m happy with what I was able to get at Walmart today.
2x $15 shoes (one rechargeable pair for home/outside, one pair to grow into)
$24.95 pair for school (regular price)
I also used $2.50 in coupons on milk and carrots.
@greentires4me
I just bought ds size 12 little kid shoes.
Twin girl will need size 8 next.
I believe I have a brand new pair of size 8 shoes for twin boy, I bought them for $9 a while ago.

[Angela273]

I don’t think I’ll be doing any more shopping until 10% Tuesday at Sobeys, so here are my totals for March.

Total: $581.12, although I feel this amount is distorted due to the amount that I was able to SCOP at WM and donate to ds’ school.

Stuff Sold
$40 - March

Coupons redeemed
$64.54 - March

10% off Tuesday @ Sobeys
$20.56 - March

Air Miles
$40 - March

PCO - No Frills
$10 - March

Amazon.ca - from Swagbucks
$94 - March

SCOP (amount item scanned for)
$246.67 - March

Humpty’s
$10 - March

Gift cards received
$10 WM gift card - March
$20 Sobeys gift cards - March

Found Money
$0.25 - March
$0.10 Canadian Tire Money - March

Found Stuff
March - winning Tim’s coffee cup

Wins
March - Victorious women’s conference Makeup door prize
$25 - Mr. Mikes gift card

[flemeth]

Good afternoon all lots of rain here.
I think I accomplished a lot today.
I did laundry, clean the family room ,did my groceries at 2 different stores
Got some cheap chicken drum stick after PM and PCO Points at RCSS. I paid OOP $0.88 for 4 large family tray of the drumstick.
Also was able to pay for my groceries $80.00 in PCO points .
Fish will be for dinner since it’s raining . can BBQ
Enjoy the rest of the day all

[lilo0003]

My PCO offers paired nicely with sales today. Earned almost 50000 points between SDM and Fortinos. DHs card is also fixed so I redeemed 50.00 in groceries. Treated the family to pizza tonight. Dominos has the medium on for 7.99 and we have earned another free one.

[coupon girl]

Evening i just got home went to toronto today got there at noon and babysat sebastian ,son his family came at 3.00 and we all had lovely pasta with homemade sauce and meatballs and my son-in-law made a homemade sourdough loaf of bread-yummm I even came home with 3 large meatballs ,oh and son-in-law saved me 2 bags of empties of beer cans ,bottles
T he kids had a great time playing together all 3 cousins Ashlyn ,cara and Sebastian and they played pretty good together also

[lilo0003]

@Sweets parrow let me know if there are any coupons you need. I have had some good luck funding them recently so would be happy to share.

[Giseledta]

afternoon all. busy but good day.

lots of coupons used, and 2 recipits uploaded to swagbucks. every little bit helps.
i should be able to cash out there today, but will wait till tomorrow to see it is a swaggo square.

currently my sb money is buying stuff for the house. march it was th steam cleaner. - works fabbo. this month coming it will be a new smoke detecor, a few things of cat treats. and saving for a new door system i think. all of it is helping the house bottom line. money from these savings are helping us hit deb, and money to retirement. i am exctited to see the end of the year totals and how we do .
last night hubby even used a 5.00 off coupon. every little bit.

le
today i did walmart , in woodstock. that store is so clean. picked up some good stock pile stuff. and stayed in budget. so i am a pleased pleased person.

going to chill with my youngest today. make a yummy supper. and i need to plan for th e week.

2.00 to co 51, 25.00 in coupons between last night and today.

[wendymac]

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.

[Giseledta]

well.. that is concerning...