2024-06 June Frugal Chatter

Back from vacation. Well actually I’ve been back for a week but things got crazy.

Heres the bullet points.

-AMAZING vacation. Great time with hubby’s brother, wife and kids and one step brother and his family. Then time with my family and rebuild my relationship with my brother and sister in law (this is the closest I’ve been to her in 25 years!)

-Work has been super busy and I’m going non stop which is great for an upcoming bill :(

-Car needed a tow on Wednesday to the mechanic to find out it needs a new transmission ($6000) :eek: :bawling:.

-Saved $1500 on the car. Due to alterations that were made to it in the past, 4 way conversation between our mechanic, his head mechanic, his head transmission mechanic and a his buddy who’s a master mechanic from VW Germany we can just drop out transmission and he can replace the inners and it will make the car like the day we drove it off the lot in 2011. We can get another 390,000 km out of it :shock:

- Able to get it in on Tuesday so no need to worry about it breaking down while they searched for a replacement transmission.

-Sad update from one of my longest clients. Her husband is reaching the end and is now in the process of final visits before preceding with MAID :unlove::frown:. I’m heartbroken. He is such an amazing human and I’m going to miss him terribly.

I have to end this on a positive note so here’s some pics from our trip.

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Ok. I can’t figure out how to rotate them :mad: sorry.

Way to go @walkonby :excited::flowers:

Harbie beautifull pictures and glad your connection with family is better.

Frugalbigmama we are having bills come at us left and right ,first endodontist,then a short fall on our life insurance both this month -uggg then car insurance and house insurance is due in august .

Walkonby wow great that you are driving now ,little steps to freedom.

Ds asked for a telescope for his birthday. He loves science and math. He’s really interested in space. I have been researching telescopes online. Today someone posted a telescope for $5. Ds is currently assembling it. I easily found the manual online.

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Originally Posted by walkonby

small update: yesterday after my last physio session I came home and checked the gas gauge, oops DH had forgotten to get gas at Shell ( this was to be the 2nd x 30L fill up, part of a promo ) .....so I decided to take a maiden voyage....my first driving since the knee replacement.
The station is close by just up the street a ways and got the 30L in.
Then because that felt so good I drove to FreshCo to use up the balance on a GC and to grab a couple of things they had on sale.
Still feeling brave I finished with a trip to our favourite bakery/hot deli stuff ( LaManna's ) and bought 3 hot take outs ( 1 lasagna, 2 sausage and rapini pasta ) and some sweets!
( does anyone love Rum Baba? ...I got 2 of them and 3 cannoli's! )
I was SO pooped when I got back home, it was all I could do to get the stuff in the house and put away. At least I know I CAN drive now if I have to.

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@walkonby happy you are confident to start driving again .

@harbie sounds like you had a wonderful road trip . It great to know that you are rebuilding your relationship with your brother and SIL.

Sorry to read about your client (((HUGS)))

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Originally Posted by harbie

I have to end this on a positive note so here’s some pics from our trip.

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Such nice scenery Harbie :star:

@Frugalbigmama , it is funny you say that as I did factor our family into my choice to keep her car because I realized her not having a car would fall on me and not that it is a bad thing but like I said I travel for work, what if she has an appointment and I am out of town.

Since Bro called off his wedding he has decided he wants to be closer to the city so he went from living 30 minutes away to an hour away. Plus now he travels all the time with other Bro for work. Other Bro (not my mom's) him and his wife would be there anytime I need them but they also travel for work. Then we have my cousin just moved back and is living about 15 minutes away, he would always be there for my Mom but he also travels for work.

That is my issue, we all travel for work at times and it would be just my luck we would all be out of town at the same time. Not to mention like this week, the road trip I have to take for work, we are going to work event we are all attending, so we will all be out of town that day. Luckily we are only a few hours away but still it doesn't sit right with me to leave her with no car.

She hasn't come out and said it but I can see since I said we need to keep the car I think it has lifted her spirits a bit. I think she expected me to be onboard and be like okay what is next, not, no we are keeping your car. I feel so bad for her because you see how much she is struggling with the fact she has lost her independence and I think the first surgeon turning her away only knocked her down more because she lost that light at the end of the tunnel.

Last night she asked me, we need to get her car serviced she asked me when she could book it, I gave her my schedule and told her these are the times I am available. Plus she needs to decide where to take it, I think local is better as we can drop it off and pick it up where is where she used to go she would try to wait and I do not think he body can do that, but I left it in her hands.

@harbie , those photos are amazing. Sounds like it was an amazing trip and you had some amazing family times.

So sorry to hear about your clients husband.

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Originally Posted by ClipClap

Such nice scenery Harbie :star:

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BC is beautiful :love:

@walkonby , congrats on being able to drive again, I am sure being able to do things on your own again felt amazing just to see you could.

Good Morning Everyone,
I feel and know I should be doing 500 things right now but honestly, I am not feeling it. I think I have reached the crash which is what I always fear the most when work gets insane. I am able to work these insane schedules even for months at a time but when things slow down it is like my whole body just crashes which do not get me wrong I get it. It is just hard because now I need to switch from work to home mode and there is still a ton of stuff to get done. Plus there is still work to be done and we aren't done, there is no training this week because we are all attending the event but come the following week I am back into training.

I did start to work on the kitchen yesterday a little bit, just trying to figure it all out, how much room we need, how much needs to be moved, what is out best plan of action.

I was on Pinterest this morning getting some recipes for things I am supposed to be making right now but also seeing dinner recipes and trying to decide what to make. I am kind of all over the place, I am having one of those days where everything I see looks good. As I scrolled I was like okay let's make lasagna, no, let's make enchiladas, no let's make something with shrimp, oh hang on what about a pork tenderloin, lol, it was bad and I still don't have a plan.

Ok, I need to try to find my ambition, Happy Sunday Everyone.

Hit up NF this morning.

PM'd Bullseye BBQ Sauce for $1.99, Unico beans for $1.79 and 2Lbs of strawberries for $4.46 ( one pack was normally $8.99 and I got 2 packs for $8.92).

After point redemption I paid $5.33 earned 2800 points and claimed 29 Airmiles.

ETA: I did a shop for the week and a half of groceries for $125.33 . Not bad

Good Morning! Chilly here today.

Enjoying my coffee and planning my work day.

Took out a big tray of BLSL chicken breasts from the freezer last night. Have them all sliced and spiced now and in the fridge ready to bbq later today.
Will pop out later to grab my fav salad kit. Was going to get it at Costco yesterday but I didn't really know if I would love the kind I was going to buy so I only bought 2 cream for my friend and a yoga capris for me :) Cheap Costco trip (as per usual- not a big spender there at all)

Leaving on the weekend for girls road trip next week! Very excited.. We are camping at a state park (New York) for 2 nights and hiking to waterfalls/exploring/relaxing and then 2 nights in a hotel in Syracuse, NY(with free breakfast) to explore/shop and enjoy a few nice meals out.
Planned this on a cold winter February Sunday afternoon and booked/paid for our lodging then and think we did pretty good.
Will write out my packing list today and then see what I can get ready.


Have a wonderful day!