Grocery Shop Comparison: Calgary

Back in August, 2009 I wrote a post about the price of groceries in Calgary that referred back to some local consumer reporting on CTV.  While it's hard to believe it was that long ago, our increased spending in groceries as of late had me reflecting on it. The comparison is...

Customer Chat Transcript

One of the things on our list while visiting mom was to have a look at her phone/internet/cable pricing.  She lives in a pretty rural area, so has has to have two different companies.  While surfing the companies website we found that they had an online chat feature with customer service.  I hopped on, and pretended to be my mom. Within about 10 minutes I got my mom a pretty...

Time Away

I've spent the last week and a bit at my mom's with my brother, his significant other, and my husband. They are heading back to the big city in the next day and I will be staying here for another week.  I find myself at a loss with what to write.  I've started and stopped quite a few times.  I'll write a few sentences and then delete them.  There is a lot of personal stuff...

Our Dogs

I'm spending a lot of time with my family for the next little while and might not be writing as much about $$. Here are our dogs: You might recognize Aries and Baxter - the smallest one is Conan. They don't always get along, but a you can see, it's getting bette...

February ReCap

My brother was watching me go through February's spending, and said, make a pie chart - i like pie. Here it is: ...