They started this at the start of the lockdown I think. My local store gives seniors discount first hour every day and all day Thursday. How long it will continue I do not know.
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Yes barbis -the seniors discount goes for everyday 20% off regular price the first open hour .As goodboy stated who know how long this will last ,not sure.
Wow hubby and i finished painting our huge deck (dark brown)with black spindles also .Took 2 days to do it as its wayyy to hot ,plus its hard getting down on my one knee and back up ,we sure have to take mini breaks as my lower back gets sore.It was so tedious doing the wood inbetween the black spindles also .
I try to do more than hubby bending etc as he has dengenerating discs .I tell you we are 61 this year and if it needs painting in 3 years ,i may not do it the next time ,may ask my son or hire someone .
got up early, weeded in the garden a bit, i am on load 4 in the washer, 3 already on the line.. everything is drying fast.
did my running around.
i am cherry picking sales.
when i started to build my pantry , many a year ago... i would dedicate 10.00 per week.. to just sale items. i increased it to 25.00 currently,.. via inflation, and larger family. . this week, - garbage bags, canned pineapple, and some pasta were on the list. i still have a few dollars let, that money will be transfered to next week.. and i will watch for some sales.
my pantry has taken a hit these past few months.
.10 c caddle, 1.00 co 51, and 3 receipts to swagbucks. - 15 sb.
plan for the rest of the day.. more laundry... hopefully 3 or 4 loads, get it all done.
clean the kitchen
tidy the downstairs bathroom,and upstairs bathroom.
and if possible... 20 min on laundry room. i need to inventory it. make sure i add anything needed onto buy list. and watch for sales.
So tired so hubby and i are supporting a local shop and bringing home "red rockets " a local wing place ,yummm we deserve it ,plus this is just the second time we have had take out .1st was wendys a month ago.
Although the weather is a bit iffy today we went to Panorama ski resort and rode the chairlift up to the top for a short hike-saw a bear on the way up which was nice. Unfortunately all the hot springs around here are closed but spent the overcast afternoon playing Scrabble and pool. Back home on Tuesday. Our "cabin" in the woods is 3400 sq feet and gorgeous-more than enough room for 2 couples.
I am with you Coupon Girl, I am so tired.
We had a good day, we spent a few hours in the basement working away. It was a catch 22, I am super happy with our far we got, I actually expected to get less done as Mom wasn't feeling it but I was pushing forward. But of course there is that wish deep down that we got more done.
We are in the place where it looks worse before it looks better. We have pulled a much of stuff out and sorted what we are keeping, selling, donating and what will be given to people we know. As well, I hauled out 3 bags of garbage.
The downside is all of this is now in the laundry room and I cannot use my washer and dryer so we need to push forward and get more done.
I am also a little frustrated as I thought there was more we would be getting rid of but there was a lot of stuff I thought we would be getting rid of Mom wants to keeps. Downside now is trying to find it a home. Originally the plan was to empty the L and then move everything from the Craft Room into the L well we cleaned the Craft Room but there seems to be more and more we are keeping that we need to find homes for.
I am sure it will all work out, I just want a functioning home, a home I can clean from top to bottom, a home where one day I can say everything is done and I can relax. A girl can dream.
Aside from cleaning I need to figure out this shopping thing, originally I thought we could go another week without shopping but between the potatoes going bad and then I found a sour cream, yogurt and dip that went moldy all before their expiry dates. I still want to push it to next week but we will have to see if that can be a reality. Not to mention I had visions of us coming in under budget that are slowly slipping away.
Alright off to relax a little, do a little meal planning and early to bed.
Have a wonderful night everyone.
Well.... I tried my free Maple Leaf 50/50 burgers today. The ones I got for free from work yesterday. They definitely are NOT a real burger (Half beef, Half Plant), but they are edible for sure.
I will probably use up what I bought, but paying full price for it ($6.98 for 2 burger or 300g of ground meat) is a MASSIVE NO-NO!!!!
I picked up a total of 21 ground meats, and 7 burger packs. So I will be set for meats for a while which is nice at least.
Good Morning Everyone,
Had a hard time getting up this morning, honestly I just did not want to get up. But I am up and working.
I need to re set up my office in the dining room, I moved everything so we could meal prep but really only used the table on Friday afternoon. I need to see if I can find a better way to set up my office so it is less work to move it around if we want to use the table. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for all of the cords, it is moving the cords that makes it tricky.
We are having a serious squirrel issue this year. They moved into the attics so a guy came on Friday and fogged all of the attics. We have also had issues with them eating through our screens and yesterday in the morning I had our back door open and one keep trying to climb our backdoor. The guy who fogged our attacks suggested a small sprinkle of bleach at the base of the door would keep them away. I tried it yesterday and so far they have not returned. The part that bugs me is a guy behind us feeds them and now are becoming domesticated and are impossible to scare away. I can stand there banging on the window and they just sit there like What?
I have been craving some Pasta lately so I think I might try making Instant Pot Lasagna tonight for dinner. I found a recipe that looks quite simple so I think it could be a quick meal tonight.
Mom is only working until 1:30 today so I am hoping to spend another hour or so in the basement tonight as right now our laundry room is not useable and I am afraid the chest freezer is about to be blocked in as well. We already cannot get into the stand up freezer as it is in the laundry room.
Mom was supposed to be selling all of her cake stuff to her friend, I know we will not get what she paid but now her friends wants photos and instead of taking it all which they originally agreed to she now wants photos and will see what she wants to take. This has now become a lot more work as we already have one large rubbermaid tote full which we now need to unpack, sort, photograph and wait for an answer.
Originally my plan has been on my lunch today to go down and repack the tote into boxes as I do not want to give them our tote and have what we had found so far ready to load into Mom's car that she could drop it off to her friend and get it out of the basement.
Based on their conversation last night I am not hopeful she is going to take as much as we expected so now I need to figure out what to do with all of it. We do not want but it is wasteful to throw out and she spent so much money I do not want to donate it, it is mostly high end stuff but I am not sure where to sell it to get a decent return on it. Most of it is unopened but my experience trying to sell it on the buy & sell groups is extremely low ball offers and people asking for it for free as they will only use it once or asking if they can borrow it. This just became a lot more complicated.
Alright time to get back to work, I am doing system testing today, it needs to be done but can be a slow process.
Have a great day everyone.
Sassy, is there a way to make a semi- permanent space for your office... to avoid all the take down ect.
and once pictures are taken of the cake stuff... what she doesnt sell... maybe post online and see if they will sell that way... good luck . and hugs i know it is hard.
[QUOTE=flemeth;7072693]Thank you @Giseledta will be on the look out for it[/QUOTE)
I received the P&G coupon booklet in the mail as well and haven't signed up for anything lately so we must have been on a mailing list from long ago.
So , hubby is heading to my moms this afternoon... she has a auction going on.. today and tomorrow. i need to touch base with my brother. i have a dc interview tomorrow. .. so house cleaning is a must. they will peek in the house ( already sent them pictures...) and we will do the interview on the front lawn... social distancing interview... sigh... this is a thing .
hubby will finish adding clips ect to cords for his desk... .. my uber old cat likes to ..lick and nibble them ... ugh.
front lawn needs to be mowed...
hubby and i did our money chat yesterday. on the same page, everything on track . life is good. july and august are not good months for my income, but it will have to do . hopefully september will be better.
Good Morning!
Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. We ended the weekend with a trip to the beach for a swim (I really thought I would just watch everyone swim but it wasn't cold at all so I joined them) then a little family bbq with grandparents.
We jumped in bed to cuddle and watch a movie and fell asleep before the movie ended lol. So a good weekend!
Both my sales scheduled on Friday showed up. The one lady I was holding an item for weeks left me an extra $5 saying I was such a nice lady. Wow so nice!! I am motivated to post a bunch of items for sale today. I do have a $10 sale scheduled for today but we will see if she remembers.
Have a great Monday everyone!
Mom wants me to move into the guest room and use that as my office because she wants to turn our dining room into a craft room.
But one our Guest room is completely full, spilling into the hallway with all of the stuff we took from Nanny's when she passed that has never been dealt with. This room is going to be hard to clean because it isn't just stuff, it is also FULL of furniture Nanny wanted someone to keep and everyone else said no, so it was moved into our house.
Two, there is no way I am moving into the Guest Room unless we are able to get Ductless Air Conditioning as the top floor of our house gets so gross in the summer and if we are going to look at Ductless I am not buying another portable Air Conditioner when that money could go towards the ductless.
Three, not sure where we are getting the money to set up an office in our Guest Room. There is a lot of talk of new furniture for many rooms in our house but I am not really sure how we are buying all of this.
I am still trying to sell stuff but Mom has decided she is now against selling stuff as "it is too much work" and her words "I am sick of holding onto it until it sells I just want it gone." But I have reminded her we need to money if she wants to buy new furniture as I do not have the money to just buy anything right now, prices are going up but my budget has not increased.
I know we will get it all done and get it all sorted out, just wish we were more of a team and could agree on more. I am the planner the budgeter, Mom is the just do it, it has to be done now, just buy it we will figure out the $$$ later.
I am going to see today if I can set something up that I can just easily slide everything to the back of the tables
Just posted a bunch of stuff for sale and have 2 pick ups arranged today already!!!
Ideally I wanted to go room by room and sort and post but at the moment I just thought of items I had groups of and grabbed and posted (lot of 1 pc bathing suits all like new- I don't wear a 1 pc so why keep them) Also have a pile of video games I need to confirm with oldest I can sell. He isn't a gamer but likes to play now and again so don't want to get rid of them if he wants them.
ok off to see what else I can find to sell :)