First of all let me apologize for the lack of posting the past few days. Have you ever felt that a change was coming in your life? I've been feeling that way for a few months now, just never knew what the change would be (good or bad). Naturally, I thought about possible changes but all seemed to revolve around bad changes (like someone close to me dying or getting sick) and very few good changes seemed possible (like getting a windfall). I soon got tired of wasting my time imagining worst case...
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Stockpile Pictures
Today I'm going to show you my stockpile pictures. Most of the stuff obtained is these pictures were FREE or deeply discounted with a coupon or my SPC VIP card. A lot of stuff even made me money by purchasing with a coupon and getting a full refund by a mail-in-rebate. *NOTE* This stockpile is a result of 2-3 years worth of shopping. No shelves were cleared to obtain these products unless it was the...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Book Review : The Smart Cookies' Guide To Making More Dough Chapters 4-6
Check out last week's post for Chapters 1-3. I will continue with the questions at the end of each Chapter.Chapter Four: If The Shoe Fits, You Don’t Have To Buy It: How To Be A Smart Spender1) How often do you use cash and why?It is very rare for me to use cash because we charge everything to our credit card that earns us cash back and the balance is paid in full each month so we are charged no interest. The credit card company PAYS US to use their card. Why wouldn't I use it?2) Have you ever gotten...
Monday, January 18, 2010
Weekend Recap, Deals and Weekly Goals
It was a busy weekend after all, not like we had planned. Friday was pretty calm we discussed our budget and progress in detail and cleared up some disagreements we were having in regards to spending. Saturday we did our shopping and some friends came over that evening for dinner and drinks and they brought their niece and nephew who are close to our kids ages. On Sunday I went shopping with my mom...
Friday, January 15, 2010
Mail Bag Goodies & Weekend Plans
Here's all the goodies I've received in the mail over the past week:- FREE Club Lego magazine with 3D Glasses for Zack- FREE Maxim magazine through SONY promo for Blake- FREE Today's Parent magazine for me through Airmiles- FREE Elle magazine for me through Egg Creations promo- FREE Danone DanActive Bzzkit through Bzz Agent including FREE coupon for DanActive, several $1.00 off coupons, promo cards...
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Chapman's Kids Club
One of the greatest Canadian freebie sites I know is Chapman's Kids Club. My four year old Zack loves to play computer games so this is a great website for him. At Chapman's Kids Club you play games and earn points and when you collect enough points you can order different prizes to be sent right to your doorstep! There are two different sections - one for little kids which has games like memory, jigsaw puzzles and word searches and a section for bigger kids that have more interactive games or your...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Home Maintenance Painting Kit
If you have small children (or a messy husband) like me you are probably used to scratches, nicks or doodles on the walls of your house. I was forever frustrated by having to go down into the depths of our basement to search for the matching paint can to do touch-ups. After all that nonsense of prying the can open, painting, cleaning the brush, putting it all away, I would soon find that I missed...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Book Review : The Smart Cookies' Guide To Making More Dough Chapters 1-3
The book I have chosen to review is:The Smart Cookies' Guide To Making More Dough : How Five Young Women Got Smart, Formed A Money Group, and Took Control of their Finances By: Jennifer BarrettI first saw the Smart Cookies on Oprah awhile back during the airing of her Debt Diet Series. I was instantly drawn to their story because they were close to my age and Canadian! They were a big hit and even started their own TV show helping others with their finances. I have watched several episodes when...
Monday, January 11, 2010
Weekend Recap, Deals & Weekly Goals
Hope you had a great weekend! We were able to get everything accomplished and more. Friday Blake and I both got our haircuts and shopping done, Saturday we completed all our shopping in record time and took Zack to skating lessons and Sunday Blake took Jenna and Zack to public skating before dropping her off. As promised here are some of my coupon deals. I will start will last week's deals I forgot...
Friday, January 8, 2010
TGIF
Well, its Friday which means Blake is officially off. It was nice the past two weeks he was off on Thursdays due to Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve but now its back to 5 day weeks. Unfortunately due to weather conditions he had to work late this morning so he didn't get in until almost 11:00am (usually it's 8:30-9:00am). Our plans were to leave here at 1:30pm, go get haircuts, do some shopping, pick up Jenna and be back for supper. Now the official plan is to wake him up at 3:30pm, eat an early...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
January Projects
Last night we went and got our library cards (yeah!). The con is that our library sucks and has next to no books but the pro is I can have books sent there from other libraries usually within a week! With that being said I requested a few books be sent to me so I can start a new project.I plan to read and review at least one book per month mostly on the topic of money and personal finance but occasionally other topics as well. The books I have requested are:-The Smart Cookies' Guide To Making More...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Back To Routine
Well, today we are officially back to routine. Zack is in school all day today (yeah!) and Lisa is here today too. It was a great break while it lasted. I feel refreshed from vacation and glad that all the Christmas stress is over and done with. Today's To Do List includes:-Clean bathroom and storage room while Lisa naps-Chicken Alfredo for supper-Laundry-Dishes-Work on Household Binder-*Possibly* go to Library after supperI am looking to borrow a few personal finance books to read from the library...
Monday, January 4, 2010
Happy 2010!
I hope you had a wonderful New Years. Ours was very low-key in fact we feel asleep before midnight! Also, we managed to come in at $13.05 under budget for our New Year's allowance which is a good start, however, I gave $10.00 of this overage to Blake to replace the headphones I broke accidentally. Oops! The rest went onto the credit line.I am super pumped as we are finally starting our new budget. Blake however is having difficulty adjusting. Before I would give him $10.00 cash/week which he would...
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