February 2020-Frugal Chatter

[coupon girl]

morning -
1. dye hair -done
2.give yourself a pedicure -almost done

getting ready as the days lead up to my small vacay and yes the weather is going to be great 0 and 5 degrees the both days

[Frugalbigmama]

My guy is on call this weekend. I went along for the ride. We went to Georgian Downs for breakfast and use the free $40 free play they put on my card. Made $75 and change to cash out! Only $8 in food comps so paid $15 cash for balance owing so left with $60 cash and change. Not bad at all.
Also checked the Flashfood app for the local Zehrs and ordered a $5 veggie box. It has tons of peppers, mini peppers, zucchini and eggplant.
Going to take a walk around Costco after his call.
The best part is being able to chat while we drive around.

[Ciel]

Had gone to an AX event dinner two weeks ago at a new and upcoming resto in Toronto. It was abysmal and we passed along our comments to AX. Today got a call back from AX and they offered us two free tickets in the box seats to Chicago/Rick Springfield at the Budweiser Stage in July. Happy to take that compensation!

Rick Springfield! Wow! That will be a summer night to remember!

[Ciel]

WOW! What a great day at work. Accomplished so much and feeling good for the start on Monday. I need to plan vacation more often! 6 days of work left (Maybe 7 depending when we leave)
I think I need to have a glass of wine after hockey game to celebrate the week/weekend My sister gave me a nice bottle of Wayne Gretzky's that I am hoping is really good

If the wine is the Baco Noir, it should tasty lovely! Have not stopped to sample his white or other varieties!

[SassyAshley]

Good Afternoon Everyone,
Thank you for your comments, I will post on this a little later as I am only online for a short time right now.

I do usually try to work on something well I am binge watching TV but right now, I have no crochet projects on the go and now with cleaning up I see just how many completed projects I have with no real use for. My hope is to sell these items at some point but for some reason right now I feel like now is not the time, first I need to get the house in order. Which I admit we are getting there but still have a few more areas to tackle but it is not easy work and do not think my back can handle right now. The one area involves moving a bunch of furniture to clean the area and the other has a lot of boxes that need to be moved.

My concern is if I just binge watch right now I will resort to working. Up until this week everything was going well at work but one we are preparing for our yearly reviews and my boss has already warned me part of my review will involve restructuring my job. I am not against taking some stuff off my plate and putting different projects on my plate but right now change is not my friend. Also I think this is part of a bigger plan (which I do not know anything about) as Dad was CC on the email. Also on Thursday was a travel day for Dad and Bro and they sent me a number of things I need to do so I am not behind, grrrrr. I do not mind these projects but up until now I have been really good at keeping on top of everything which has been helping me feel in control at least a work.

I was digging through some crochet stuff last night and I still need to figure out how to organize my part balls of yarn. Well to my surprise Mom asked me to bring it back downstairs (it has been upstairs from when we had our new internet & cable installed) and she started to clean it up. I offered to help but she said no she was finding it relaxing to have a job she could do sitting on the couch.

Alright got a few more thing to tackle today, better get back at it. Have a great day everyone

[Giseledta]

ok.. shopping done.
food is all put away.
i do need to use up some cream cheese...muight freeze it.. hmmm.


plan for the rest of the day. clean the kitchen. laundry, and family room .. i am still working on a bit of decluttering. i have a couple of things to list for sale as well. and hubby needs to help inthe family room... re computer declutter... ugh. ewaste.
tonight ..
pork snitzle home fries and a salad. maybe some movie time with hubby... and a bottle of red... hmm... option options..

[Ciel]

I had Youtube app crash on me twice last night-not a fan, as said clips were ones that ran without issues back in 2018 and now the app was saying it cannot open the large file.
I also found out there's an Armoress on The Mandolorian-now I understand the Dad comments (though Mando agewise is very much younger than his charge--I saw a new fan clip video where Baby Yoda makes a subtitled comment along those lines) made in relation to Baby Yoda/The kid. Someone has launched a Change.org petition to make Baby Yoda an emoji for keyboard use. 64K of 75K signatures have been obtained so far...

Yesterday was job jar (if you read the Hi & Lois comics years ago, you know about that jar) day-got the last towel bar up (yes, the bracket at one end had to be moved around 180degrees and now holds the bar end (finally...), washed those microfibre cloths (the third one was on my headboard all week but I did not see it until yesterday, did laundry and some housecleaning in the afternoon. The chicken stuffed pepper soup tastes great as long as I don't overdo portion sizes and I have two bags of soup in the freezer for other weeks. Had to toss my forgotten Napa cabbage leaves from the fridge and moved someone's apples to the crisper.

A friend has ordered my new runners online today and I gave her the money plus a little extra as thank you. Looking forward to next week!

Need some baking momentum as I miss quick loaves with my tea (which is happily being consumed more on these snowy days).

Since I seem to be alone in eating my roasted potatoes (as well of brown rice and quinoa) of late, this weekend will be free of more roasted spuds. I'll bake the remaining box of frozen meatballs so they are ready for anyone having a need for cooked spaghetti (did a recent pasta stocking) with some jarred sauce.

Saturday seems very delightful when one's skin is sufficiently moisturized against the cold temperatures. Less sandpaper feeling

[Ciel]

I'm a week late in finding out that the Ines de la Fressange spring collection at Uniqlo Canada went live on January 30.
https://www.facebook.com/UniqloCanad...-y7M&__tn__=-R

Zara Home has posted some new things for Kids Collection decor as well.

Daylight Savings Time is one month away (yikes!) but we at least have a Leap Day on February 29 this year.

[lizzie bargain]

Hubby and I went out for yummy South Indian lunch as our anniversary is next week-decided to celebrate early as I think we will make it-lol.

[Angela273]

I taught a .6 morning yesterday.

Dh got an oil change and fuel filter change on his truck today. He saved $32.34 with a coupon.

I took twin girl shopping with me. We bought her a pair of pants for $2 at one second hand store.
Salvation Army
$5 jeans for Dh (hard to find his size)
$5 burgundy sweater for me, good for teaching
$4 blue t-shirt for me
Then I used a 10% discount and saved $1.30 off those 3 items.

[Giseledta]

ok..
should be a good day today. Hubby wants to meet friends for lunch , so we will do that.
and i will get laundry done after, and work on some dc stuff i think.
i have a dentist appointment tomorrow after work. i have horible teeth, and i am not looking forward to this. oy, stress and anxisity.

my ankle is giving me a bit of grief today, so its wrapped i might end up working on some dc prep and keeping it wrapped.

[coupon girl]

Goodness had my 3 grandchildren here son /wife dropped in around noon then daughter/family did before heading home to Toronto.The kids run everywhere ,so much better when they are in their own homes -lol

I gave them each a small gift bag for valentine day early as I wont see them next Friday -they loved the frozen plates and each got a summer top and kinder egg ,spent $11 on each(can you tell I love buying for my grandkids )

I also shared the laundry soap with my daughter and son ,so I only have the 2 left for me .

[SassyAshley]

Good Afternoon Everyone,
Busy but good day here but a good day.

Yesterday I tried to do as much cleaning as I could, still not back to being fully myself yet and am afraid to anger my back as I am hoping to go back to working in the office tomorrow. So I got the Kitchen Clean, emptied the Dishwasher, reloaded the Dishwasher and did the hand dishes. I also cleaned the Bathroom but did not do the floors (think the floors might be pushing my luck). I also did the laundry. As well I made an apple cake to use up some old apples I found.

I also shoveled the stairs, cleaned the fridge and took out the garbage. I think I might have pushed my back too far when I carried a 10 lb bag of flour upstairs as we were out of flour. That was enough for me so I sat with the heating pad.

I will admit I also did some work yesterday, I am trying to get myself organized, I have so much on my plate right now I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. Yesterday I proof read 2 manuals, wrote 1 manual and recording 2 videos but for some reason the audio did not record on 1 so I have to re do it. All and all I only spent an hour working so I still consider that a win.

Now on to today. I wanted to get my cleaning done yesterday so I could cook today. I made:
One Pot Chicken Lo Mien for Lunches this week

I made a batch of Potato buns, half was turned into Buns to go with Dinner, the other half I turned into Everything Bagel Bombs (bad news, I think my Bread Machine is on it's last legs, I tried looking for a replacement part online but for about $40 to $50 I might as well just get a new bread machine)

Strawberry Crustless Pie to use up Strawberries that were on their last legs

A batch of Waffles I will put in the freezer for later use (Breakfasts & Desserts)

A batch of Peanut Butter Oat Bars for snacks this week

I have a batch of Beef Stew on the Stove which will be tonight's dinner plus another option for lunches this week

I cleaned as I was working so the Kitchen is clean with the exception of the Dinner dishes which should mostly fit in the dishwasher.

I have noticed now that we are making so much at home these days our uses of certain items have changed. I am going to need to stock up on more Flour and Sugar for baking. I see both are on sale this week which is good.

I am going to try to get the video that had no audio re recorded and record one more video today since I cannot record them at work due to background noise. I also want to go over my budget and see if I can move things around.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday.

[Giseledta]

Sassy- easter is coming up... Baking supplies will go on sale.. good time to do a bitof stocking up... also if you plan on a bread machine... try and hold out till between easter and mothers day.. watch C tire.. for killer sales.

[Giseledta]

ok. back from lunch out. eneded up stoping at walmart and getting me a new pair of slippers... i realized that is part of the reason my ankle hurts. it is starting to feel better.... or maybe that is the pain meds lol
also shoppers.. 20 x points.. milk cream . eggs. and v day stuff for dc kids.. and a few other things... 39 400 points. i had some bonus offers in there ...lol. also chicken nuggets on sale.. so yea.

supper will be ... light ..
laundry to do , and some dc stuff. if my leg stops hurting... ugh.