Nov 5 | Money Saving Tips, Useful information
Finally! Mint.com is now available to Canadians! They’ve added Canadian banks so we can use one of the most raved about free online budgeting tools! Here’s some more information about Mint.com:
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Oct 15 | Useful information
Since you guys are the ones using Simply Frugal everyday, I would love to know if there is anything you would love to see added to the site to make it easier or better? Any features you would like to see implemented? Something technical you’d like me to add/delete? Anything you can think of?
I’m all ears (eyes)! Thanks! 🙂
Sep 27 | Useful information
For those of you who use coupons, will you take a quick moment and answer my one question I have in the poll below? Thanks so much! 🙂
Aug 12 | Useful information
I had a reader ask me a little while ago (maybe it was quite a while ago? oops 🙂 ) about printable coupons. She was saying that she’s been having troubles redeeming them at Canadian stores!
I have since then, emailed quite a few well known stores and inquired about their internet coupon policies. So far, none of them have told me they don’t allow printable coupons. Here’s what a couple of them said:
Loblaws family of stores: “We do accept internet coupons however they must have “To The Dealer or Retailer” text on them. They cannot be past expiration and the cashier must follow the exact instructions as laid out by the coupon. The disclaimer “one per purchase” means only one coupon can be used per transaction regardless of the number of units you are purchasing. If the disclaimer read “one coupon per item” you would be able to redeem as many coupons as units you are purchasing per transaction.”
Canadian Tire: “The rules and regulations of each type of coupon is normally printed on the coupon itself. For more information we recommend contacting your local Canadian Tire store directly.”
Where have you been able to redeem printable coupons? Where haven’t you been able to redeem them?
Jul 20 | Useful information
Alright, I have a quick favour to ask of you all…will you fill out my survey? It shouldn’t take more then two minutes!
Now, I’ve done a couple of surveys in the past, but this one is a bit different. I would love to know more about all of you who take the time out of your day to read Simply Frugal! It’s a simple demographics survey. I would love to know more about how I can keep serving the needs of my readers.
The survey is completely anonymous. I will have no idea who’s filled the survey out! Not all the answers are required so feel free to skip the ones you don’t have to fill out if it will take more time then you have available.
Take the Survey now!
**Wow! Thanks to everyone that took the time to do the survey! What a great response! Here are some of my findings:
Question 1 – Most people read Simply Frugal through an email subscription
Question 2 – A whopping 77% of you read Simply Frugal at least once a day!
Question 3 – Like I suspected, most of you come by for the freebies and coupons
Question 4 – Thanks so much for all your kind words of encouragement! I seriously have the best readers! 🙂
Question 5 – Most of you use Facebook as your social media with a small percentage that use Twitter and others
Question 6 – Again, as I expected, 94% of you are female
Question 7 – Almost 50% of you are between the ages of 30 – 40
Question 8 – 59% of you are married
Question 9 – I was actually quite surprised with this one! There are many of you who have no children. Although, most of you do have children.
Question 10 – Most of you have a batchelor’s degree
Question 11 – Most of you make $85,000 or more
For those that haven’t answered the survey yet, you still can! Click here to fill out the survey!
Jun 17 | Household Tips, Useful information
So I had a chance to take some pictures of the garden finally! Everything seems to be growing well so far. Well, except for the lettuce. I think I killed it because I had it on the hot side of the house. I’ve replanted it and moved the container over to the cooler side of the house now. I hope that does it since I heard lettuce is super easy to grow! I’m so excited for the day we can finally eat off the plants that I’ve grown and nurtured!
On to the pictures:
Here is the majority of my vegetable garden. I have a red pepper, a green pepper, a tomato, and two carrots growing here. 🙂
Here you see our potatoes growing in a garbage can! All I did was found an old garbage can at my parents house that they no longer wanted, drilled holes in the bottom for drainage, then added some dirt, then the seed potatoes (russet), then more dirt to cover! All I have to do now is add more dirt as the plants grow. You want to have dirt covering everything but 3 inches of the plants at all times.
In this bucket here you see the lettuce that I killed and replanted. I’m patiently (or not) waiting for it to grow back. The big leaf thing is my hosta that is doing amazingly well after being roughly yanked out of the ground last year by an untrained landscaper that thought it was a weed! (I had to rummage through his garbage bin to get it back!)
Here are our beans. They’re strange. I was watching them daily for signs of growth and I would see nothing. Then one day I came out to check and they had grown about 2 inches over night! Crazy beans.
That ends the pictures of my vegetables, but I still have pictures of my flower pots! I’m quite pleased with how well they are turning out!
Here are my flower planters in the front. A mix of petunias, asters, gazanias, dusty miller, heliotrope, impomea (potato vine), million bells, and lantana.
This is my perennial garden with a few annuals thrown in to fill up space. (excuse the camera strap!)
A close up of some verbena.
A close up of some lantana.
Here are my pots in the back. The flowers are pretty much the same as the ones in the front but there is some verbena and pansies. The three smaller post contain my herbs. Thyme, basil, oregano (which is not growing) and rosemary
There you have it! I hope you enjoyed the tour through my gardens! I be sure to update you again on how the veggies are doing. How is your garden growing if you have one?
