Us beauty lovers buy a lot of makeup and while Sephora does get some of my money, Shoppers Drug Mart sees me a lot more. You need to spend $100 at Sephora just for a sample with your points. Shopping with my Optimum card, I can usually get $30 in points for that same $100 […]
Shopping & Deals
Almay Makeup Clearance Haul
It has been a while since I posted a Thrifty Thursday post, and Blogmas is the perfect time to get back into it. Shoppers Drug Mart is clearing out Almay Cosmetics. They are not going to carry it anymore (rumour is that they are making space for NYX which is awesome but my local store […]
How Shoppers Drug Mart Optimum Ruined My No Buy July
On June 25th I decided to join the No Buy July challenge and started right then. With No Buy July, you still buy groceries etc. Although, it is a great time to use up all the stuff in your cupboards too, lots of new foods come out in July. You just don’t buy all the […]
February Budget Check-In & Why I Love My Reward Cards
After using a lot of our stockpile in January, it seemed like we had to buy a lot more. Maybe the sale prices were better but we did really well staying under our $500 budget for shopping/food expenses, including dinner out and cat food/litter with $60 going into our savings! I was also lucky enough to book […]
2015 Budget Goals – Spend Less, Get More
Like most people, I want to save more money this year and budget my money more wisely. We are not getting any younger and those retirement savings will never be enough. I looked through all of the challenges posted but none of them are for me. I don’t want to go without to get to […]
A Visit to The Box by No Frills Store in Hamilton
Yesterday was the opening of a new grocery store in Hamilton. While No Frills have opened a few of their small format stores “The Box by No Frills” across the country, this is the first within a reasonable distance to me. Most The Box by No Frills stores are only 10,000 sq ft, compared to […]
All You Need Is (Cheap) Cheese
Okay life is so much more than cheese but cheap cheese makes it better. Target had this amazing unadvertised sale on select cheeses. They are not tagged so you have to grab some Saputo or Market Pantry cheeses and scan to check if it is a participating product. Each of these items were $1.49 and […]
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 […]