With so many more stores offering online shopping, make sure you are getting the best deals while shopping. Know Your Prices Quite often there are deals offered online that are not actually great deals. You need to know the pricing of items you want to buy to make sure that deal is as good as […]
Frugal Living
Primers: Save or Splurge
If you had asked me about primers before last year, I would have said that Smashbox was the way to go and nothing else should even exist as far as I am concerned. Smashbox works for me and I snubbed all other brands as being as inferior as cheap toilet paper! Then I found NYX. […]
How Using A Nielson Homescanner Saved Us Money (Thrifty Thursday)
A bit of a different Thrifty Thursday post this week. If you are not familiar with the Nielson Homescan, you are sent a Nielson Homescanner, a little machine where you scan all of your purchases. When I say all – I mean ALL. They want to know if you went to a restaurant, where you […]
Great Samples From SampleSource
SampleSource is one of my favourite sampling programs, it has such a variety from different companies. Here is what I was offered in today’s SampleSource package: Snuggle® Scent Boosters™ Are you looking for an easy, mess-free way to give your laundry a burst of long-lasting freshness? Try new Snuggle® Scent Boosters™! These tiny pacs can […]
Alternative Uses For Dryer Sheets (Thrifty Thursday)
One my favourite uses for dryer sheets is to put one in the central air vents for that fresh laundry smell all the time, but there are lots of uses for both fresh and used dryer sheets that can save you time and money. Cleaning With Dryer Sheets Dusting: A used dryer sheet will pick up […]
Alternative Uses For Aluminum Foil (Thrifty Thursday)
That roll of aluminum foil can be used for so much more than just wrapping food and covering trays when baking! Here are some of my favourite uses: Use Aluminum Foil When Baking Take a sheet of foil the size of your muffin tin and place over the cups, cut an X in the foil […]
Living On $1.75 A Day? I Am Trying Live Below The Line
$1.75 a day? I can hear you saying that I must be crazy but we did the Live Below The Line Challenge last year through work and managed (barely). Okay we cheated a little, we used money over the week but some days were higher and others were lower and we had an event at […]
Michel Mercier Detangling Hair Brush Review
I had seen the paid programming for the Michel Mercier detangling hair brush on television and kept thinking ‘oh I really want to try this but I hate ordering stuff from TV’ so never ordered. Then when shopping in Giant Tiger the other day, I noticed a rack of them so thought for $10 I would give it […]
Shipping – It Just Isn’t That Hard!
This is my pet peeve, between freebies, stuff for blogging, work packages and online shopping, I get a lot of mail. Ask my mailman – I get more than the rest of my street some days, the Purolator guy knows the name of my cat. I don’t blame the delivery people at all. I have […]