Many of us here in the late 40s are very concerned about our future – how can we not right?  after all, we have to start saving for retirement if we haven’t by now.  But it’s not only our future we have to think of – our kids as well.  So for the longest time [...]

The spouse who brings work home to work on always get me to help him out with some of his sales report. I really don’t mind helping him but really he should be asking his office to use that dashboard product that I had heard about from friends – it would make life a [...]

Very inspiring to see this at a housewarming recently and thought I should share it with everyone.  So if you need storage – you know what to do before moving into your new home eh. Shouldn’t be too hard to get someone to do up your stairway for storage unit.

We used to have trouble deciding on housewarming gifts for friends and family until we found a great and reasonably priced  lg home theatre system to buy and wrap as gifts.  You see with us Asians particularly the Chinese, we need to buy something not only useable but substantial  – meaning – the gift has [...]

This old fashion ironing board was bought from a yard sale and I loved it.  I haven’t had a proper ironing board for so long – and this one looked like the one that my grandmother used to have when i was a kid.  And the reason why i bought it was because the stand [...]

Last year the oldest just went to college in the city and we had bought her a 2nd hand car to help her go from her apartment to the campus but since gas is so expensive we decided to let her scoot around the city in a scooter instead of a car.   So we went [...]

For Canadians in Nova Scotia, don’t missed out on this program, if you and your spouse combined income is less than $42K per annum – then you are entitled to this rebate of up to $200.  Sure $200 is not a lot but why not right?  every little bit helps.  If you are a single [...]

A few weeks ago, we did a little re-organizing of the home office to make space for the children to use our home office and also because it was Chinese New Year and a tradition in our home to clean up.   We also bought the kids their own printer with extra  ink cartridges so that [...]

Some people are so talented and in their free time they make these console tables for sale locally.  You’ve gotta admire them for the work they do – and these tables are on sale for only $40 – no tax.   I say they are quite beautifully done but I don’t know how solid they are.  [...]

Yes! the best time to buy Christmas decor is after Christmas and we all know that – but did you consider buying cheaper handmade Christmas decor after Christmas ?  yes – those are the ones you want to look out for during yard sale – you can get those cheap too.  Like the ones after [...]