August 2024 Frugal Chatter Thread

[Ciel21]

Musings on cellphone cases:
My local Winners brought back clearance endcaps and in the men's underwear/tech/fitness section were some iphone12-14 cases on clearance.

London Drugs' Summer Clearance sections have some iphone 12-14 cases, a few Samsung square flip phone cases, the odd TCL phone case and various tablet folios on sale too.
Noticed a large variety of Kikkerland novelty items are listed, many on clearance. Am exploring other categories. Some laptop and Chromebook offers too in Computers and don't forget the usb-c hubs as well.
Ooh, I would do a shopping spree online for some clearance goodies if I had a gift card. Too many things...

[coupon girl]

Evening done watching the girls at 4.10 p.m took them to McDonalds for lunch then to dollarama for a pick of one thing each .Papa took them on a fairly long bike ride this morning as i got my bloodwork done.

Off to toronto on the bus on saturday to spend the weekend with my daughter she and i are treating ourselves staying at a hotel with a pool .I cant wait a much needed girls weekend.

[SassyAshley]

@coupon girl , hope you have a wonderful weekend with your daughter.

[SassyAshley]

Good Evening Everyone,
I was in branch today, I had a meeting and then I attended a staff BBQ, finished up in that location and went to our other location to drop off my paperwork and talk with my boss. I am getting some mixed messages on one of my projects but it isn't coming from boss another manager is saying they have a staff member who has an idea but needs my knowledge and it is confusing me. So I sent a lengthy clarification email and my boss said he will probably try to book a meeting for next week.

I do not have my schedule for next week done yet, I have had a few things pop up but not sure how it will fall into place.

I was going to grocery shop my way home but I have not been feeling my best, the sinuses are not happy and I did not sleep well last night so I decided to just come home. Although I feel so much better today than I did yesterday so hoping I am on the mend.

I went to SDM yesterday afternoon they have some life brand sinus meds that really work for me so I went to grab the PM version to knock myself out and sleep (did not work but I tried) and grabbed some vitamins that were on sale. The one supplement I am taking and I think it is working is leaving a funny taste in my mouth and giving me heartburn which is slightly annoying but if it means not going full blown infection, I will take it.

Hoping for a good night of sleep tonight and that will knock this out.

Just turned my alarm off for Monday, one of the best feelings on a long weekend.

Happy Friday Everyone.

[HermanH]

Walked out of T&T supermarket and found a bowl of food on a stanchion. Someone must have placed it there while loading their car and forgotten it. Sweet and sour pork with mixed vegetables and rice. Still warm. Nice dinner.

[SassyAshley]

Good Morning Everyone,
Up early which makes me happy but I did expect to sleep in as I haven't been feeling my best. Today I just feel like my allergies are acting up even though I took two allergy pills.

Originally my plans for this weekend was to try to get all of the things done but when I started to not feel well my plans for the week went out the window. Originally I had planned to have a clean kitchen, do the floors and bathroom before the weekend so I did not need to worry about them but the kitchen is a disaster, the floors aren't done nor is the bathroom but hey that is life.

Also we will see how much I get done as I am going to try to listen to my body and get back to feeling 100%, right now I would say I am 90% to 95%.

I need to up my dinner game again, I was doing good but the night I went to Costco was Nachos because it was late and last night was Chicken Fingers, oven fries and Dill Pickle Salad because I was tired.

No matter what today I need to clean the kitchen and we will see where the day takes me.

Happy Saturday Everyone.

[flemeth]

Evening done watching the girls at 4.10 p.m took them to McDonalds for lunch then to dollarama for a pick of one thing each .Papa took them on a fairly long bike ride this morning as i got my bloodwork done.

Off to toronto on the bus on saturday to spend the weekend with my daughter she and i are treating ourselves staying at a hotel with a pool .I cant wait a much needed girls weekend.

@coupon girl have fun with your girls weekend with your daughter . You are making memories with her and bonding

[flemeth]

Today will be a busy day cleaning and reorganizing the house .This will be a family project wth all Hans on deck. Hoping we get everything we wanted to accomplish in the next few days.

[harbie]

Not much planned. Harvesting lots of tomatoes from the garden, bedding day and mom’s taking me for a coffee again today. I got her absolutely hooked on a caramel soy latte frappe from a local shop that’s only a 5min walk from our place . Really building up my stamp card from them!

I'm planning to hit up a local lady’s property to get some garlic. There’s red & white German, Mexican, etc…. Only $10/lbs so I’m stocking up . Also a bank run for a deposit.

[lizzie bargain]

Unfortunately I have Covid so a quiet weekend at home. It still seems to be out there-will see if I am well enough to work on Tuesday. I am missing a family gathering today and hubby has gone to the drugstore and grocery store to do the errands.

[Shwa Girl]

Unfortunately I have Covid so a quiet weekend at home. It still seems to be out there-will see if I am well enough to work on Tuesday. I am missing a family gathering today and hubby has gone to the drugstore and grocery store to do the errands.

Sorry you are sick.
@lizzie bargain , they now say stay home for at least 5 days. And if you are well enough to go to work, wear a mask for up to 11 days after you are better. Your doctor or local pharmacist would be great to call to confirm current recommendations for masking and for staying home.

You may have the FLirT variant. Yup, they nicknamed it flirt The new vaccine is available in the US this week (Novavax, first). Canada will have the new vaccine later in the Fall.

Hope you feel better soon.

[Shwa Girl]

Walked out of T&T supermarket and found a bowl of food on a stanchion. Someone must have placed it there while loading their car and forgotten it. Sweet and sour pork with mixed vegetables and rice. Still warm. Nice dinner.

Nice looking food. How could they forget that?

[SassyAshley]

@lizzie bargain , hope you feel better soon.

[harbie]

Yuck @lizzie bargain . I’m sorry you’re sick. I hope it’s mild and you recover quickly <3

[flemeth]

Unfortunately I have Covid so a quiet weekend at home. It still seems to be out there-will see if I am well enough to work on Tuesday. I am missing a family gathering today and hubby has gone to the drugstore and grocery store to do the errands.

Sorry to hear you got Covid and yes it’s still out there my nephew who has a 1 month old baby just test positive for Covid