When e-readers first came out, I was heavily against having one. I love reading and often read two books a week (I know, you can tell I don’t have children when I have time to read). Christmas was coming up and my boyfriend asked would I like one because I kill forests with my reading […]
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Bloggers: Embed Getty Images For Free
Have you ever gone to write a blog on a topic but couldn’t find a suitable image from your stock of photos? Getty Images wants to help bloggers get free images and stop the stealing of images without credit to the owners with “Embedded Getty Images”. They released millions of their photos in web quality […]
DAVIDs Tea Aladdin Travel Mug
It is one of those things I just have to have, now I can take my tea with me in the morning without letting it steep before I leave so I can dump the tea leaves before they sit in there too long! The Aladdin Travel Mug From Davids Tea You just fill the basket […]
Spring Clean Your Home In One Month
We are not all domestic goddesses, and with a busy work life, kids and other stuff going on, a Spring Clean can seem like a bit much. Follow these steps and spend 30-60 minutes a day, five days a week to get your house sparkling clean again. (I cheat and do all 5 on the […]
Sad To See BufferBox Go
I for one am sad to see BufferBox winding down their service, sure they were not widely used but for me the convenience of someone else signing for my parcels and me picking them up at the GO Station was something I would have paid for. Locally, UPS will only make one delivery attempt – […]
BzzAgent: LavAzza Coffee BzzCampaign Arrived
BzzAgent recently contacted their Canadian bzzagents about a new bzzcampaign, this one for LavAzza coffee. It has been a while since bzzagent had anything for us Canadians and I jumped on that campaign. I got home tonight to find a box with that cute bee tape around it with my shipment from bzzagent. This is […]
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 […]
CFIA Declares War On My Fave British Imports
I love my local British store, Across The Pond in Hamilton, I pop in every few weeks to buy those things that after ten years in Canada, I still can’t live without. That is, until last year, when I walked in and went to the usual spot for my pack of Penguins and they were […]
Slimming World Meal Planning Ideas
After trying many different meal planners, this one I made based on the one from the Dairy Farmers of Canada is the one that works best for me. For my Slimming World Meal Planner I separated the area for meals and under each can mark down my superfree foods, free foods, healthy extras and syns. […]