2025-03 March Frugal Thread

[walkonby]

They are coming soon!

[coupon girl]

I went to freshco today to get a few sales -they dont p.m sobeys either i found out .

I got cashmere 50 rolls toilet paper 10.88 with scene card-2.00 cpn from messaging the company=8.88
becel margerine 1.99 with scene -2.00 cpn =free
grapes 1.88 for the red ones lb
pears were 1.79 a pound
(2) kicking horse coffee 8.99 for hubby

I went to use my 10.00 off and the til froze ,so the supervisor had to put my points back on but i couldnt use them ,i said thats okay as long as i got them .

[HermanH]

I went to freshco today to get a few sales -they dont p.m sobeys either i found out.

I think that every FreshCo is a franchisee, so can probably set their own policies. My local FreshCo does price-match Sobeys. I'll double-check on Friday, but Sobeys was one of the few they matched, along with NoFrills, RCSS, Walmart, and Sav-On.

You may have better luck if you try a different Chalo or FreshCo location.

[lizzie bargain]

Today my husband told me there is a buyer who may be interested in buying one of their family farms in the US midwest. Farm land is worth quite a bit there-if it does sell he will need to split the proceeds with his brother and sister and pay capital gains tax. Converting US dollars to Can would be a good thing right now. Fingers crossed

[cath007]

@cath007 Happy Belated Birthday to your Dad Hope you were included in the dinner celebration. Sometimes when our love ones think the know what’s best for them we just have to make peace with it . Remember you have to take care of you . You are a good daughter to want what you thinks is best for your Dad health wise. He has to want to quit smoking before it will work .

(((HUGS)))

@flemeth: Thank you,
No unfortunnatly I did not go to the restaurant to celebrate.But I was invited.
Not in the mood with my health problems and mentals problems.
It is difficult for me to be in public spaces.
And I was afraid to not being confident if they where asking questions on me and my problems.... or just discussing
But I was happy his familly did something special for him and they where there for him at least.
Thanks for your comment.

[cath007]

For this week at this date I scored 2 Good to Good baskets.

One is from a catering place.It was ok.( A wrap with chicken,sweet patatoes and chickpeas ,a burritos poke bowl with chicken and rice salad and a cauliflower with a sauce bites) 7,99$ plus de taxes =9,19$ for a 24$ value.It was expiring the same day.I eaten it fast.
Last time first time I ordered from this place I got for the same value 1 Ceasar Chicken Wrap,1 small carrots salad with grapes.1 small celery roots salad(first time I was trying that -delicious0 and a medium pennes pastas basil pesto with feta and parmesan and dried sun tomatoes)

Tomorrow I reserved a 6,99$ no taxes basket for a 21$ value.It is a desserts place.I cannot wait to see what I am getting!!! It is a new place on Too Good To Go
but I did go to this place before paying full price with coupons.

Tomorrow I will try my luck to put my hand on a prepared meal basket from a specialised place.
And Friday or Saturday on a fish place boutique I already did go and pay full price.Prepared meals too. At the public harvest.

I am still learning some tricks to see the hours the baskets are put live And when to check in.
It is great for discovering new food.

[cath007]

This week that will end wednesday I only spend oop 38$ on grocery.
I just needed a few small things.Like milk and the basic.
But this upcoming week it will be more expensive sigh.
I need to find balance.
PC Optimum point program is not good with theirs offers for me anymore.
So difficult to make points.
It more and more the spend more than before and get less points
I liked more the 100 points per 1$ for grounb beef like before type of offers than the 3500 when you spend 30$ on ground beef because I dont spend 30$ on ground beef in 1 week....
And now many of my good before offers dont appears anymore..Just no name products type of offers I dont buy.
Before I had coffee,raspberries,blueberries,strawberries,cheese ,Philadelphia Cheese offers but I guess not anymore....


But at least 2 times I got the offer 18750 points wub 125$ .I got these points because it was stock up weeks.,But it is not a lots of points compared the amount $$$ spended

EDIT: ***********Just noticed in my account that I got this week too the offer 18750 points wub 125$ for a 3 week in a row,Never before I had those type of offers and sometime they are not for the week just for the week end.I am carefull to check now.At least now it is for 1 week and cumulative.************

[cath007]

They are coming soon!

@walkonby: Yes!!!!!

I cannot wait!!!!

I got the same e-mail but in the afternoon.

I hope to get the invite.

And to score more samples than last year.

I think Anne posted on the blog section yesterday a preview of the samples that will be availables.

It would be great if a new thread would be posted in the freebie section and to see when It will be live and what others members got.

[cath007]

Hugs @cath007 about missing Stella and Eve getting older. It’s so hard when our furbabies get older and sicker. It’s going to be 4 years in July that we had to say goodbye to our sweet Harley and not a day goes by I don’t think of him and miss him terribly. My heart goes out to you

@harbie.Thank you
So true.
So sorry for your loss to your sweet dog Harley. He was beautiful
Thanks for your comment.

[coupon girl]

Cath,so true i got only a few offers from p.c today ,mind you i did get one for fresh turkey ,but i am not buying in these times unless it is for a special occasion.


Why oh why do they make us fight for our points?The til froze yesterday when i went to redeem 10.00 .So i called scene and she said wait til saturday to see if the supervisor put them back on -give us 48 hours .If i dont see them then i have to go see the supervisor again in freshco or email scene so basically i have to fight for them -ugggggg.

She said she could have just given you 10.00 off your order ,but then what if they should show up later because she put them back on .Again then they would have been out 10.00 ,they should have done this just to please the customer who did nothing wrong .I believe the cashier leaned on the cord as the supervisor said did you hit the cord ?No was the answer ,who knows .
I am left dealing with this now.ugggggg

[Frugalbigmama]

Good Morning! Hello Sunshine!
Today is suppose to be warmer then yesterday so hoping I am able to clean out my car today. (I tried yesterday but it was too chilly)
Just want to give it a good wipe down inside.

Dinner last night was chicken ceasar wraps. It was really good!

Now to get this work day out of the way!

[Ciel21]

@HermanH
Did you get the converted Outlook email address for your Hotmail account about 2018? I only had a Hotmail address for an overseas forum connected to a newspaper site and made a point to check my account under Outlook 1-2x per year. Now use the Outlook address on my limited RAM phone as second email account. Perhaps you can access your account through the Outlook login?
My sibling still uses WindowsXP on one of two computers.
I

[Ciel21]

@cath007 Are you finding any Maxi digital store coupons to add through your PC Optimum account? I add coupons from three stores but have not used any yet. I keep getting mostly the same store brand product offers or produce offers. Last week there were two offers I was interested in but had spent funds on other things.
Now I am working out how much of my limited cash will go towards transit, first aid product needs and food.At least I got $1 back in bottle/can refund on my Tuesday trip.

[Ciel21]

https://forum.smartcanucks.ca/449875...2025-a-canada/

Started a thread about the Hudson Bay situation.

[cath007]

@cath007 Are you finding any Maxi digital store coupons to add through your PC Optimum account? I add coupons from three stores but have not used any yet. I keep getting mostly the same store brand product offers or produce offers. Last week there were two offers I was interested in but had spent funds on other things.
Now I am working out how much of my limited cash will go towards transit, first aid product needs and food.At least I got $1 back in bottle/can refund on my Tuesday trip.

@Ciel21 : Yes.I loaded the Digital Coupons.
Yes,I used a few Digital Coupons.
I hope Msxi will have Digital Coupons each month.
It was long time ago since Maxi had Digital Coupons but they are re there since 3 months.
And good thing I can reload the Digital Coupons again and again