Maltoo

congratulations Sally can not wait to see pictures!

feelbritish

Congratulations! Pleased for you Sally! Hope that it all goes well for you both.

Fish n Chips 56

Thanks for the McVities tip, we will look for sure...

Fish n Chips 56

Good for you Sally, so you want no stalkers hahahaaa we can dig it.

Fish n Chips 56

Welcome to the new posters or browsers...

Now might be a good time to tell us your situation, Hopes and Dreams, of course its really up to you.

lf1

Cheers, I wish it were true as my watch is slipping off my wrist, however, my clothes are telling me a different story

sallysimmons

I wish this was an issue for me but, like LF, it's the opposite!

I tell myself that M&S jeans must shrink in the wash ... right??

curleytops

I love your logic! On that note, I've decided that as our bathroom scales are somewhere in this endless stream of unpacked boxes in the garage I can also enjoy what I want for the time being. Thanks for the good wishes btw.

On the home front, things are slowly getting sorted. It's cool but dry here today so I will try and venture out for a bit fresh air. Apparently there are often deer sightings on the walking track out here so for all we are situated in the town, we can still enjoy a bit wildlife too.

It turns out we have Geordie neighbours on either side of us (methinks I'll be baking a lot more stotty cake in future) and OH tells me there's a big friendly Old English Sheep Dog called Daisy who I'm anxious to meet. I heard her barking the morning we moved in and it was really lovely to have dogs close by again. In the flat down south none of our neighbours had any pets. I certainly do miss our family Samoyeds back in Canada.

One more box arrived to join the pile this morning - this is actually a wedding present. When we got married, a number of family and friends sent us cash gifts so we just set the money to one side and kept our eyes open for things we really liked for our home. After OH lost his job last year and it looked like a move would be on the cards, we suspended shopping as we would only be adding to the things needing to be packed and moved. We've had our eye out for a nice swing style floor lamp and lo and behold we found exactly what we wanted online at BHS last week. So, our friends Jim and Pam back in Canada "got us the lamp for our wedding gift". I emailed them a photo of the lamp to show them what we'd chosen and to say thanks again - just opened the box, its really lovely & can't wait to see it put together...note to hubby - I have a job for you tonight!

Cheers - Glad you were able to find your little bit of chocolate heaven from home! My Dad loves Jelly Babies (remember those?) A cousin of mine was recently here for a visit and took a couple of bags back to Canada for him only to discover that certain Dollar Stores in Canada have started selling them. Needless to say, Dad's now on the hunt! My sister's resorted to making her own Battenburg cake because you can't get that over there either since M & S closed up.

Iwannaknow - Welcome, hope you'll visit often and tell us a bit about yourself

Sally - Congratulations on the house, like the others said we're anxious to hear more!

Fish n Chips 56

Curly, we get Battenburg, Dundee cake and others in our English shop, so tell your sister to not give up, its not M&S but its Top Notch quality..,

cheers

Shopping..

We can get Yardleys and Pears soaps in the local Dollar store but why pay a dollar when you can get them on sale in Walgreens for 74 cents.

Maltoo

or free if you play your Register Rewards right

Celticspirit

Register Rewards??!

Maltoo

Register Rewards is the program at Walgreens that gives you money back on specific purchases each week, if you combine them with coupons and roll them over you get items for free or close to free.

We have a stock pile of around 100 Gillette pro glide razors that were either free or almost free. My OH never has to buy another razor, does not mean I pass them up when free or close to free

CVS does a similar program they call theirs Extra Bucks. This week I spent $4.50 and got 4 14 oz ajax detergents, 2 cases of Nestle water, 1 schick hydro 5 razor with one refill, 4 edge shaving creams and 1 skinimate shaving cream, $35 worth of items all for $4.50 rolled over $10 ECB from last week for Charmin toilet paper used it to buy the shaving cream and the razor, also used a $5 ECB from an email promo and another $10 ECB from another deal and a $1 ECB from the Red Machine inside the store so paid $3.50 and got another $10 ECB back and used that on the 2 waters and the 4 dish soaps and paid $1.35

if you add that all up the numbers won't make sense because you have to pay the tax even though I should have gotten the razor and shaving creams for free the tax has to be paid.

Mummy in the foothills

I love my CVS extra bucks
Trouble is I ended up with a stock pile of things like deodorant and shampoos. So I stopped buying (even when just paying the tax) and use my Extra bucks for milk as we drink so much. I'm working my way through the stock piles we won't need to buy more toiletries before moving I'm sure

dontheturner

Sounds rather like the ''Advantage Card'' Scheme, run by Boots the Chemists - last year I got a Remington Electric razor, off my card for free.