My husband’s home again this week. He’s on another mandatory temporary layoff from work. He had a layoff week in July and then followed it up with two weeks holiday so all in all he’ll be off for four weeks this summer.
If they were all paid weeks off that’d be great, [...]
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The new car needs a repair already
Posted by Tricia in Monday, August 16th 2010
Topics: Canada, Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Toronto Tags: Brantford, dirty, dust, garage, grease, husband, layoff, messy bathroom, new car, off work, old, Pontiac Pursuit, rear window, used car, vacation pay
Looking for ways to cut expenses
Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, August 10th 2010
If you read my last post you know that we had to bite the bullet and buy a new car. Well a new used car.
I guess we could have waited and gone carless for a while, but with family out of town and my husbands parents getting older (his dad is 82) we feel [...]
Topics: Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Money, Toronto Tags: bills, cut costs, cut expenses, new car, save money, spending, wholesale
Our old car broke down – now we have a new one
Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, August 10th 2010
Another busy day .. or rather another busy week!
Last week, Chris was on his last week of holidays and I spent part of the week at home on my own because Chris was off camping with his brother, and the rest of the week was spent traveling out of the city to Brantford [...]
Topics: Canada, Family, Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Toronto Tags: broke, broken rear window, dealer, electric, fix, garage, Money, new car, old car, Pontiac Pursuit, spend, transmission, used car, used car dealer, wont go down
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