October 2021 Frugal chatter (& autumnal leaf colour watch)

[cath007]

Good earlier afternoon!!! I slept late and after I went to public harvest.I need to work on life project this week end monday I am in holliday and friday afternoon too so that should help ...maybe order a few coupons too and just relax the rest of the time,I need it ...and go to pick apples tomorrow..Have an happy Saturday!!!!

[SassyAshley]

Taking a break.

I decided today I would do all of the prep today and then tomorrow I can do all of the cooking.

I cut up more strawberries, some to eat and some to use in baking, I want to make a crustless strawberry pie.

Checked our sweet potatoes, lost a couple, but chopped up what was left and will use it in my Ground Chicken Chili.

A Butternut Squash I previously purchased locally had some spots on it so I peeled it and chopped. Tomorrow I will bake it off and with some Butter, Spices and Parm, they come out like potato chips and I could eat the slices like potato chips.

Tonight for dinner I am going to make BBQ Chicken Caesar Wraps for me and Wings for Mom since I grabbed some today at Costco. We will both have oven fries on the side.

[cath007]

https://www.legeropinion.com/en/

I just subscribed to this site and you earn points when you do survey and after you can exchange yours points for gifts cards

[coupon girl]

cath -i have belonged to this site for years now they use to send 20.00 cheques when you hit the amount of points needed but no longer ,i am happy to get giftcards or airmiles etc.

I use to make about $60-80 a year but again gift cards are still great .

[coupon girl]

I have been feeling down today ,just with life in general during this pandemic.



But then i chatted with my daughter and she said she has lost a few friends given that her life situation has changed .I just feel i have reached out to some other women and it just irks me to no end when someone cant get back to me for a quick chat ( i dont own a cell phone and personally would rather talk to people)Of course i get a call from the husband ,we are thinking of you.This is a family member on my hubby's side .

So then i feel i just want to focus on my 2 grown kids and my grandchildren .
Sorry ,i am just not feeling myself today.

[SassyAshley]

**HUGS** Coupon Girl

[Angela273]

We are under an air quality advisory. The wind from the north is brining a lot of smoke from forest fires.

The twins and I finally put up the wall stickers from the other house. Twin boy wanted all of the numbers. Twin girl used all of the different animals to turn her room into a jungle and she made a garden too. It looks pretty cute. We threw out the letters and words.

Two loads of laundry are done. Did a quick Sobeys trip for milk and bread. Soon it’ll be 10% off Tuesday, so I’ll pick up other items then.

[coupon girl]

Glad you are settling in angela my dear daughter moved in sept 7 and still is putting ikea stuff together for sebastian's room and trying to unpack and work her demanding job,of course she doesnt have a bedroom closet til they have one built in nov some time .So she bought 2 rolling rack to help for now.

[SassyAshley]

Good Evening Everyone,
I think I have everything prepped unless I decided to add more things to make. I do not think I will, we already have quite the list but with everything prepped it should be super quick.

Basement update, turns out before I even asked Mom she had reached out about our basement twice. We finally got a message back yesterday, the insurance company gave a quote (they will not be going with this quote) and they got 3 independent quotes and will continue to get additional quotes so there is no timeline at this time and to be patient as this is going to be a costly repair since so many units are involved.

Going to be honest, I am getting a little frustrated. We have been lucky so far and have not flooded again but I am not the type of person who likes to push my luck. As well the basement is still in chaos as everything has been moved to allow them to work, I would prefer not to move everything back just to have to move it again. These are large shelving units full of stuff it is not easy to move.

Hoping we will get answers soon and the work will be done sooner rather than later.

[Angela273]

Lots of temp teaching contracts just got posted locally. They are vague, posted by area. I’ll apply and call the school division office on Monday to check that my application worked properly. I’ve had a lot of issues with their Applitrack system over the years.

[cath007]

@coupongirl : many hugs xxx

[HermanH]

Finished harvesting a neighbour's apple tree over three days. A single tree yielded 750 pounds! Even eating a pound/day would give me enough for two years. What the heck am I going to do with all of them?

Got a few neighbours coming for some, but the rest will probably end up as apple sauce. The last time, I made over 20 litres. I wonder how many I will get this year. I was forcing myself to eat apple sauce until June to finish the previous 20 litres.

[Ciel21]

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[lilo0003]

PCO was nice to me this week. SDM gave me 20x $50.00 plus 5000 PCO for using PC MC and it’s the only card I use. Managed to spend 56.00. This is the 1st 20x event on my card in at least a year. Then No Frills offer was 7500 wus $75.00. With chicken on sale that was easy so I spent 123.00 and earned 15000 PCO, but wait there is more. I had the fuel offer of 2000 PCO for 20.00 of gas. Honestly I don’t recall the last time I earned so many points.
It was a gorgeous day here so I went paddle boarding and then we did dinner out. Won’t be many more dinners on a patio. Sunday the plan is Costco and it’s supposed to rain. So we shall see if that pans out.