April 2020 Frugal Chatter Thread

[Ciel]

Well... Last night at work was... Interesting... 8 people to work about 70 skids of products? I don't think so. We got through about 20 of them and that was finishing up by about 6:30am! Hopefully the day staff temps will work some of the skids we couldn't, but honestly, I doubt it... We will be coming in tonight to an order PLUS whatever is leftover to work too!

Have you found any deals on Epsom salts? You and your colleagues must have very tired muscles!

[coupon girl]

ceil -I have a few tins of the Tetley earl grey already ,nope running low on the basic pekoe Tetley tea .

Not that I want to go into any stores but my 10.00 seniors promo expires in a few days ,may use it and get tea then with more milk or cream .

So happy I have leftover chicken ,toasted sandwich for lunch sounds great.

[Ciel]

Online order gave me a refund on liquid soap-it's out of stock (website still has to mark it as such and ditto the soap refills).

Looking online, I found out that Gal Gadot is on the cover of Vogue's May 2020 issue with an interview. Might be worth waiting to see if next week's PC Optimum points offer any points for magazine or book purchases (when I get the offer, it is 200 points per $1 spent). A comic book movie site has a preview on Wonder Woman 1984 Lego sets (looks like two) where WW figure has her special new gold outfit (called Golden Eagle) on.

Netflix supposedly will have a computer-generated Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 animated series debuting on April 23 (US only or here in Canada too?). Not for kids but older teens and adults, if you are familiar with the original series.

I was looking at Grocery Gateway and typed Magazine in the search field. Vogue is not one of the titles that appears. However, you will see the Hammermill copy paper and a sold-out bathroom tissue in the results.

[Angela273]

Ds’ teacher has been posting and assigning about 5 activities each day on the app, in addition to reading and working on 3 websites every day, etc.

I have encouraged my daycare parents to send their kids with school work for them to work on when I have ds working on his school work. It looks like Grade 2 girl’s teacher is only assigning 1 activity a day on the app for her. Same grade, different teacher...very different expectations... I am not her parent, so I haven’t tried to find out if her teacher has assigned other things for her to work on. I also have books for her to read at my house.

[coupon girl]

I just called my dear second oldest brother in London,Ontario he is 72 and chatted with his wife and him .He said I am doing my part and staying in he has a genetic eye disease so he is almost blind (only uses a big machine for the seeing impaired to read printed papers ,photos etc

So nice to chat with family afar and see how everyone is doing .

[lizzie bargain]

DH and I braved Costco this morning-a bit of a line to get in but good news SA-they were allowing 2 people per membership card. As I only needed a few items DH filled up the car and then waited in the car so as to allow another family to shop sooner(it was cold in the parking lot).

[Frugalbigmama]

Our Costco in Ontario is saying 2 people per membership still. Really, each membership comes with 2 cards so each adult usually has one. I think they are just doing this so you don't bring kids and/or neighbours etc.

Had turkey/potatoes/green beans for lunch. I see DS had turkey sandwiches after everyone went to bed.

Laundry is on the go. Makes sure I take work breaks by getting up and dealing with it. I have a hard time stopping once I get working on something.

[Ciel]

Wind and rain picked up two minutes ago. It had just started a regular rain when I went to put two bags into the trash can. Then after I got into the house, the wind and rain started to ramp up!

My order arrived before 12:20pm. The Fresca peach citrus tastes like the grapefruit flavour variety, with noticeable peach aroma and taste. I'll pick pop next time! My computer papers are in the new binder pocketholder. The towellettes indicate they are lemon scented water and soap kind. I'll be working through that box this year. Will try the ginger peach matcha tea around suppertime as I just had the pasta lunch. Am going to prepare a list of what I think May's order should contain.

Mr. Wind is in a bad mood right now in Ancaster.

[Frugalbigmama]

The wind has picked up here too! Crazy windy!

Bed is made with fresh sheets. One load of laundry put away. 2 on the go now. Never ending.....

[coupon girl]

I dyed my hair today was tired of the grey skunk line down the middle of my head.

I heard that hair dye/clippers are flying off the shelves now- I think I have about 2 more boxes of hair dye and 2 root touch up downstairs so basically i am good til august/sept.
I decided to start a butterfly puzzle on the dining room table,dont always care to watch t.v .

Hubby had a headache so stayed in bed til 1.00 p.m ,I don't care .

Supper pasta tonight ,may make a salad for me use up some lettuce ,trying so hard not to waste food as we all did before this .

[walkonby]

@coupon girl I haven't caved yet wrt my hair colour. It needs more of a cut than a colour atm, BUT I'd have to go back to full bright all over blonde if I wanted to use the boxed stuff I have in my stockpile ( Nice 'N Easy ) .....Hmmmm, does that stuff expire?
I've not been that blonde for a long time now, was talked down to a softer brown shade at a salon late in 2018, and I've continued to spoil myself by going there every few months.
The family ( and me too! ) will finally see how much grey will come in as I've never let it grow out natural.
Woo hoo! Fun times.

[coupon girl]

walkonby -I have had the dye in my basement cupboard for about 5-6 months now ,not sure if it expires.

Just chatted with my son on the tablet and talked to cara and Ashlyn ,Ashlyn was upset today -she misses her friends she told me ,ahh must be hard when you are only 6 years old and like to be with your friends .

I cant wait for groceries on Tuesday afternoon at 2.00 p.m -yummm I also thru a chocolate bar in there.My dear daughter-in-law said she had a few pieces of the girls godiva bunnies which I paid 3.99 for in feb(why oh why didn't I buy myself one ,I will never know.)

[Angela273]

Today I baked double chocolate cookies and added pecan pieces to the recipe. They are sweet, but good. For supper I baked a 8x8” and a 9x13” pan of basic lasagne. I’ll freeze some of it tomorrow.

I’ll go grocery shopping at NF tomorrow evening, it’s supposed to be less busy from 7-8pm.

I have our kids on a schedule to sk school work at 9am and 1pm daily. This includes my daycare kids too. I aim for around 1hr of school work, twice a day. We do other fun educational and regular play too.

[greentires4me]

Tomorrow I have one zoom appointment, 1 phone call and on injection where I have to go into an office.


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[SassyAshley]

Coupon Girl, this is hard on everyone but I think more so for kids as they do not really understand. My niece is ecstatic to not be going to school but does not understand why she cannot see her friends or why all of the events in her town are cancelled. Normally they are very active with activities and now they cannot leave the house.