July 2016 Frugal Chatter - all welcome

[Angela273]

Off we go "across the pond"-lol in a few hours!

Enjoy. I'm sure it will be a trip to remember.

[Natalka]

Off we go "across the pond"-lol in a few hours!

Hope you have a fabulous trip!

Two of our nieces are in Greece right now, and I'm so jealous seeing the pics of their adventures.
Other family from my husband's side of the family are in Serbia visiting there.

I'm not jealous of them, because I'm def not a traveler, I'm glad they are having great vacays.

[Granger]

Had my sister's Bachelorette party this weekend. Frugal wins:

1) mom bought my lunch at the luncheon (I had a feeling she would do this...it was also her 39th Wedding Anniversary so I was sure to get them a gift card to treat themselves)

2) $15 off entree when you buy one for dinner (paid for bride's dinner!)

3) tourism tax in Niagara falls is apparently now mandatory (April 1) and increased from 5% to 10%, since I booked hotel rooms in March and had specifically asked about declining the charge, staff had agreed to honour 5%. They didn't charge it at all! It was applied to our parking, but I am not complaining about that.

Very tired. Went to bed at 2:30am. Laid awake with burps from dinner, I think, because I don't drink, until 3:30am. At that point, I decided I needed to be vertical so grabbed my bag and drove home...I was planning on getting back to my kids for breakfast anyway. Got home at 4:45am, had 3 hours sleep. Church this morning, park this afternoon. DH is cooking supper and I will off to bed tonight with the kids.

Glad the bachelorette is over. Fun. BUT glad it is over. I feel the same about the wedding. My resources of time and money are needed elsewhere!

[SassyAshley]

Have a great time Lizzie

Granger glad everything went well.

[SassyAshley]

Good Evening Everyone,
I think being home last week helped a little bit, I am still tired but not feeling so exhausted I cannot move, so a nice change. It was fun well it lasted but this week I am going in 2 different directions. I head up north tomorrow which I am feeling a little weird about, I will be staying at my cousin's house but he is not home so I will be staying with his wife. I like his wife but it feels a little weird with him not being there. I will come back Wednesday night and sleep at home before I head in the other direction for the day.

Yesterday I got some cleaning done around the house, started cleaning our front hallways which had become a bit of a dumping ground. As well I got some work done in the kitchen, nothing earth shattering or anything but just a little tidying up.

I have also been working on the sheep. I have 3 more sold which I need to complete and then I am on to Cows, Mosses and Beavers.

Other then that not much going on, just packing up some food to take with me so I do not have to eat out.

Well off to figure out dinner hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Love the crochet pattern saundyl, animals seem to be my specialty

[Angela273]

We are 1.5hrs into a storm that is forecasting 100m of rain over 48hrs. The city is flooded. The power is out just about everywhere. We might end up on a boil water advisory. There is hail, gushing rain, and wind to go with it. My poor vegetable garden. 1/2 of it is in raised beds, but it is still being pulverized. This is a picture out my living room window. My house does not have a basement, but my neighbour's basement across the street is already flooding. I stepped out for coffee with a friend at the beginning of this storm, now we are waiting it out at Tim's without power.


This picture was taken after the water level had gone down several inches. I have never seen the water this high on our property and we bout our house 11yrs ago. There is water in our crawl space, which is where our furnace is located. Water got into my shed, which has lots of stuff in boxes, etc. University and teaching books, clothes, the matching love seat to my couch. I don't know if we might end up needing to do an insurance claim, which would be a $1,000 deductible.





edit: Sorry, I don't know how to fix the picture while on my cell phone.
The sewer is backing up into multiple basements on my street.

[Natalka]

Oh, Angela - so sorry about that - I know there were warnings out for the province - and that includes the next few days as well.

[Angela273]

Oh, Angela - so sorry about that - I know there were warnings out for the province - and that includes the next few days as well.

We got +4" within less than 2hrs and we still have some clouds with forecast rain for another 2 days.

[cath007]

Wishing everyone a great evening and night!!! I guess we will see tomorrow what happen with Post Canada.I will wait for making trades i guess.

[Natalka]

Just heard from my brother in North Battleford - they were flash flooded there as well.



We've just had sprinklings - but Saskatoon is forecasted to get lots as well.

[Giseledta]

that is a lot of water!!!! hope everyone stays safe.



I spent the am weeding my pumpkin patch. My son mowed. we hung 5, or 6 loads of laundry. Planted, more cucs, beans, lettuce, snow peas, and spinach.
then I spent 5 hours getting my oldests bedroom sorted, put away , and cleaned.

supper was a mish mash of leftovers. ... and partial pkgs from the freezer. it worked. and used up a lot. I am happy.

then I had a bubble bath using some of my Lush product stash. just finishing up my swagbucks and chilling out for the evening

[Natalka]

Haven't gotten the rain yet but funnel cloud right over the city - so scary, but so very grateful it didn't come down!


global news pic

[Giseledta]

that is very scary!!!

[coupon girl]

-oh angela and nat stay safe -wow a lot of rain
-have 2 appts in one day today -opthmalogist this morning -lets see if my eyes have gotten worse -had the test 2 weeks ago now I see him to talk to me then dentist for cleaning this afternoon $$-so glad I save on groceries(coupons,price matching etc ) cause cant save on other items in life -just had our house insurance to pay this month too -saved a bit cause I had the money saved to pay yearly for this i saved 5.00X3 =15.00 for the 3 instalments I would have made

[Natalka]

Good morning!

Well, we didn't get much rain - but they are predicting we'll get lots over the next two days, we'll see. Because of where we are, sometimes it passes right by us when there are warnings.

Have a great day, everyone!