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The Frugal Bachelorette Weekend
In my post below I outlined a few of the things that we did for my best friend’s bachelorette weekend. What I didn’t mention is my surprise at how little it cost us in the end. Just for perspective, I was estimating the personal cost to be somewhere around $200 each for the weekend, since […]
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Wedding Update
So, this past weekend was a long weekend for those of us in Canada and was therefore the perfect weekend to have a bachelorette party! I’ve mentioned before that my best friend T is getting married in August. I am one of her bridesmaids, so me and M (another one) put our heads together and […]
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Do I deserve a raise?
The topic of raises at work has been circulating around the Blogosphere a lot recently, and it got me thinking. I’m due for a “salary review” in July, and I have no idea what to do about it. At my last job I really had no idea what I was doing and I hated the […]
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The Vespa Investigation
A while back I blogged about possibly getting myself a scooter to get around the GTA in the pleasant months. I was hoping to get one pretty soon, especially since the TTC strike put a real kink in my plans. However, after a little investigation into costs and logistics, I’ve decided to put off my […]
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April Budget Challenge Update + May Goals
Well, it’s the closing of the month and the beginning of another, what a great time for an update on challenges! As you know, I’ve been participating in Krystal’s April budget challenge. I challenged myself not to spend more than $60 in the month on beauty products. For me, this includes things like shampoo, hair […]
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Financial Update & Musings
It’s that time again! I’m finally getting around to updating my goal bars. I’ve received my tax return as well as my GST cheque, so I’ve thrown it into my savings. I had to use about $900 of it to pay of the monstrosity known as my MasterCard bill (Signed up for the Jenny Craig […]
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Beauty Budget Challenge Update
So I’m participating in the April Challenge over at Krystal’s blog. This month I have challenged myself not to spend more than $60 on health & beauty products. I know that seems like a lot, but with spring here it’s time to refresh everything. And I’ve also been running out of some of the things […]
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Geek it out! Jenny Craig Style
Ok so maybe this is going a little bit overboard (?) but I’m setting up an excel spreadsheet to calculate my proposed Jenny Craig menus so I can control costs better. I didn’t mention this before, but it costs on average $150/week or $600/month to eat on JC. It sucks the big one for sure! […]
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Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
Mother’s Day is coming up soon, so I’ve been thinking of what I can get mummy dearest for her special day. In the past I’ve gotten her spa packages, pedicures, manis, etc. but it’s getting a bit old in my opinion. And also now that I’m on Jenny Craig I just can’t afford that much […]
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Think in Pink?
Spring must be in the air… I am finding myself oddly attracted to pink again! Today I volunteered at a marketing conference all day, and in return they gave me a $50 gift card for the Eaton Centre! Yay! So I went with my coworker N to blow our cards on something frivolous. We were […]