Search results

I bought some of the whole milk stuff at the bulk store because I was making gift jars for my mom for Christmas... I only bought enough to make 2 jars of the 'Cream of whatever' soup mix and it was $13!!!! I could have almost bought 2 gallons of milk for that (our milk is $3.90/half gallon)...

You should see the looks you get in line at the hardware store when you're buying a lawnmower during a snowstorm and everyone else in line is holding shovels :)

Food is the one place I don't go very cheap. I love good food, and using coupons and shopping sales allows us to eat quite well without having to resort to pre-packaged crappy foods. We buy all our clothes at thrift stores so that we can get nicer brand names for a lot less money. We do buy...

Take a look at your skills... and use those skills to bring in some extra money. I draw, so I sell portraits of people's pets and kids...sometimes houses. I don't have a green thumb and although I grow veggies for my own family, I wouldn't trust myself to grow crops to make even a few...

We started out trying to write our purchases in a book... we didn't do it... so we got in the habit of getting receipts for EVERYTHING... even coffees... then while I'm having my tea in the evening I take 5 minutes and plop the numbers into our spreadsheet... We were horrible at it at first...

I had a truckload of 80 pallets delivered here about a year ago... it cost me the $10 for the truck's gas to get here and that's it... we've burned most of them, they make great kindling for the stove... I got chicken coop plans for making them out of pallet wood, but it collapsed under the...

I would procrastinate less... I tend to wait until the absolute last minute to get things done and it really doesn't help anything. On the days I do manage to get organized and get everything I need to do done early I feel wonderful and I don't know why I can't seem to do that everyday...

I use a spreadsheet with different pages so I can put my spending into different categories in Excel... I wouldn't give ANY third party site the passwords and account numbers for my bank... I can track my spending myself pretty easily, it just takes a bit of setting up and then it's a piece of...

I guess it depends on where you are... a dairy farm here is horrendously expensive because of the quota laws we have for dairy. It's hard to get a quota (generally costs about $25,000/cow you want to milk and if you want to sell milk you have to have a quota), once a farmer has it they keep it...

We're 'renting-to-own' our current property... it's not working it off using sweat equity, but we also didn't have to get a mortgage. We went through a lawyer and have a registered contract, if we ruin the house we still owe the money, if he passes away we finish paying the heirs... but we...

We're farther north than you (like in Canada... :) ) and strawberries generally go on sale in late spring (june for us), apples are usually on sale in late fall... around October... It's just whenever they are in season in your area... definitely better to try and find a tree that you can pick...

I live about 2.5 hours from the border with Maine... and it would probably end up being worth the drive if I could buy gas for less than $3.50/gallon :) We're currently paying about $4.72 a gallon here. It costs hubby $22 to drive to work and back each day, 6 days a week. We're trying to buy...

The Harper government delayed the ban until 2014 because of what moolie said, lack of a good way to dispose of CFL bulbs, BC already had it's own ban on importing the 100 or 75W lights since the beginning of 2011 so I'm guessing that's why you can't buy them out there anymore... I haven't...

You'd be saving 7 watts for each hour the light bulb is on... so it would take ~142 hours to save one KWh... we pay about 9 cents a KWh here... so assuming that you paid $26/bulb it would take ~42022 hours of light time for the bulb to pay for itself, if you left the light on 24 hours a day-7...

I agree with some sort of terrier dog... I have two pit bulls :they both chase deer (I don't let them chase them farther than the edge of the yard) :very short hair and don't smell like icky dog (I bathe them once in spring, once in fall and anytime they roll in something really gross)...

I LOVE kijiji... I use it all the time for buying and selling stuff, but I've mostly dealt with people close enough to deal in person. Our Kijiji has sites for two major cities, and neither is any more than an hour from us, since I travel to both regularly I just arrange pick-ups for the times...

We're in Celcius temps... but tomorrow is supposed to be 7 degrees above 0... then wednesday is supposed to be -12. That's crazy weather for us... this time last year the snow in the yard was almost waist deep, this year there is not a flake of snow out there (we've had snow, but never more...

My cheap go to recipe is just chicken, rice, and broccoli... all cut bite sized and mixed together... then smothered in cheese :) It's super simple and yummy. Or salsa chicken... just dump chicken in the slow cooker, pour a bottle of salsa over... leave it on low for 8 hours, serve over...

If part of that property is what makes your backyard special, I would buy it. Our neighbour bought the lot between our two properties (we couldn't see his house before) and totally cleared it... now there's just a giant lawn between our two houses and it's awful. Hubby wants to plant about a...

My goal isn't necessarily a new year's resolution, but I would like to stop procrastinating and start making a living from my artwork. I desperately want to stay home with my kids (second one is due in June), so I want to make a real go of drawing portraits for people. I've worked it out, and...