August 2021 Frugal Chatter

Wow sassy what a task ,good that you accomplished a lot .Yes dehumidifiers are expensive we bought ours at canadian tire last month for 249.00reg 300.00 but used 40.00 in canadian tire money,it works great a noma brand .

Just hung a load out ,i love the tiered plan on hydro but i did go over last month a bit because having a larger household and i was doing my dear son,s washing .He is finally getting his washer fixed today 5 weeks later .My dear neighbour washer broke and she has to wait 2 weeks from home depot for a new one other places told her a month wait til they com in .Wow .

I dont have the girls this week as son/daughter-in-law are on holidays ,just sebastian.

Good morning! Hope everyone had a nice long weekend.

We went out in the canoe yesterday and then for a swim. Was a beautiful day to be out and everyone was so friendly enjoying the sunshine.
Dinner was a ceaser salad with leftovers.
The kitchen is a disaster zone. I am working on it now in between work tasks. I made myself coffee and eggs with rye toast for breakfast. Yum!

Almost missed the garbage man. I could hear it faintly at 730 and jumped out of bed and tossed on some pants and ran it out just in time. Phew!! My neighbours missed it as they must be away and their 20 something son is home and didn't put it out.

Today I need to stop at the beer store and get the empties out of my vehicle. I'm tired of smelling it!

Have a great day everyone!

Funny you say that we are also going to get a Noma at Canadian Tire tonight, I am getting the 42 pint (this part was most important to me, I wanted a large pint one) which is on sale for $249. Home Hardware had a different brand on sale but their 50 pint was either $449 or $499.

Appliances are a big issue right now due the shortages to make them, I was reading an article that real estate agents are noticing a trend that seller no longer want to include the appliances in the sale and would prefer to move them in fears if there are issues they cannot replace them.

Oh I am loving tiered hydro, it looks like over all my bills have gone down and the convenience of not having to wait. Due to my work schedule I had to do almost everything on the weekend but outside of the basement flooding now normally I can get stuff done during the week and find a little down time on the weekend.

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Originally Posted by coupon girl

Wow sassy what a task ,good that you accomplished a lot .Yes dehumidifiers are expensive we bought ours at canadian tire last month for 249.00reg 300.00 but used 40.00 in canadian tire money,it works great a noma brand .

Just hung a load out ,i love the tiered plan on hydro but i did go over last month a bit because having a larger household and i was doing my dear son,s washing .He is finally getting his washer fixed today 5 weeks later .My dear neighbour washer broke and she has to wait 2 weeks from home depot for a new one other places told her a month wait til they com in .Wow .

I dont have the girls this week as son/daughter-in-law are on holidays ,just sebastian.

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Originally Posted by SassyAshley

Funny you say that we are also going to get a Noma at Canadian Tire tonight, I am getting the 42 pint (this part was most important to me, I wanted a large pint one) which is on sale for $249. Home Hardware had a different brand on sale but their 50 pint was either $449 or $499.

Appliances are a big issue right now due the shortages to make them, I was reading an article that real estate agents are noticing a trend that seller no longer want to include the appliances in the sale and would prefer to move them in fears if there are issues they cannot replace them.

Oh I am loving tiered hydro, it looks like over all my bills have gone down and the convenience of not having to wait. Due to my work schedule I had to do almost everything on the weekend but outside of the basement flooding now normally I can get stuff done during the week and find a little down time on the weekend.

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If you have a CT MC they had promos all the time to finance purchases over $150 usually for 12 or 24 mths with no extra cost.

Ok the load of towels I washed Thursday and forgot about have been re-washed and are in the dryer now. I should have know better!!
Will fold and put them away today and the plan is to wash my bedding tomorrow and one load to keep up on it. My room needs some love. Cleaned the dresser off the other day so that was a good start. Tomorrow I will give it a good clean while the bedding is in the washer.

Thanks for the info, I prefer if I can to just pay for it. I was just surprised at the cost, I did not realize how expensive they were.

But honestly we have hit a point where I feel like all I see is $$$ when it comes to the basement. I need to get more shelving, although I do not know if we need more bins, found a ton of organize stuff just need to clean it. Then it will be the cost to repair the walls and floor once ripped up.

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Originally Posted by Frugalbigmama

If you have a CT MC they had promos all the time to finance purchases over $150 usually for 12 or 24 mths with no extra cost.

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Today is 10% off Tuesday at Sobeys. Remember to use up your August expiry coupons, potentially FPCs from SampleSource.

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Originally Posted by Angela273

Today is 10% off Tuesday at Sobeys. Remember to use up your August expiry coupons, potentially FPCs from SampleSource.

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Thanks Angela! Dug out the Oliveri Skillet Gnocchi FPC I knew I had to use soon!

I paid $4.99 for a basket of peaches the other day and they are awesome. I see Walmart has them on for $2.87 starting on Thursday. I'm not even upset that I paid more. As long as we eat them I am happy.

Oh, heck. The ad says 3L for $2.87. Why do they use litres/pints for some items but pounds/kilos for others? It makes it so difficult to compare.

Anyone know how heavy 3L of peaches are? My personal rule of thumb is 'nothing over $1/lb.'

Grrrr best laid plans.

The people we hired to move the stuff out of our basement called and said they cannot come today so now our plans have changed. Mom is waiting for them to call back to let us know if they can squeeze us in at the end of the day or if we have to move all of this furniture as they are coming tomorrow to look at the damage first thing tomorrow morning.

Hopefully tomorrow we can go get the dehumidifier.

I hate it when things are done last minute, they gave us little notice that they were coming to inspect the damage which has caused us to have to do everything last minute. Originally we were told it would not be for a week or two and then it was you have the weekend we will be there Wednesday morning. But I also see others are not in the same position as us and do not have furniture stored in their basement. I just hate having to push to get things done in a tight time frame.

My family tends to keep things quiet, so I only found out today that my aunt (my dad’s oldest sister) had an extensive cancer surgery today. She had two surgeries for cancer a few years ago, but it came back and spread. She is in recovery now and they expect her to remain in hospital for 3-4wks before going home and starting physiotherapy.

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