The big day is almost here

I have been looking forward to the Fall Harvest Sale at Heritage Park!

We have our list made of what we are after, the old fridge is plugged in and cleaned out ready to use for storage.  Hubby has been asked to borrow 2 dollies from work... and he has next week booked off...

Tonight I just have to clean out the upstairs fridge, and get the counters and floors washed, so we atleast start clean up here... oh, and to clean out the deep freeze to see exactly how much we have left of what, before I go buy way to much!

Oh, and admission, the worst part of the whole event!  $19 each for hubby and I, but I did use some Lays Trip points and got coupons for free admission for the kids,  so that will save us $28.  I will make a list of what we got, and attempt to remember prices.  Hopefully hubby will snap some pictures of the insanity so those of you who have never been, can see what it is all about.  I will be going around gathering up the goods, so no time to snap pictures... let alone think!

Really this is like Christmas to me!

More to follow as the week(end) goes on!

Contesting has hooked me in again!

Less then a week back in the saddle again, and I love it!  A few small instant wins including a $10 iTunes card from Crush! 

I am finding that there are way more Dailies then there were years ago.  Is that because of the lack of snail mail?  I really do wonder.

Other then the $100,000 Kelloggs contest, I really think the next best prize out there is the trip to Ghana from Cadbury and Dairymilk.

I do look forward to my first "big" win!  But when that will be, no one knows.

A chance to make one of my Dreams Come True!

By receiving votes for my "fairtrade" ... I could have the chance to win a trip to Ghana!!

Please come vote for me and help me realize a dream!

Contesting in Canada

After several years of not entering contests, I have officially begun!  I have spent the last couple days getting organized, and searching out contests... I am attempting to do this without the help of all the yahoogroups I previously belonged to... I have however started a little Facebook Group.. as I am a Facebook junkie!

Contesting in Canada will focus on Canada based contests from reputable companies.  Feel free to come join, you might just win something.. and if you find a contest you feel you would like to share please do post it for other to see.

I have won tons of stuff in the past, but you get sick of hearing "you win everything", "you're so lucky", "I never win anything".  People need to know that contesting takes time, organization, and patients... for ever 1000 entries, I might win something... So lots of entries take lots of time... The more you put into contesting the more you will get in return.

Best of luck to those of you who decided to give it a go... Stop by the group, ask questions, share contests you have found, help people find codes, UPCs, Trivia answers.. you name it....and your rewards will come!

The Prize winner of Defiance, Ohio is an inspirational book, for any aspiring contest junkie, or long time contester! 

Contest Queen, written by Carol Shaffer will give you a more recent view of contesting, how to go about it, and were to start....  Carol belonged to the very first group I belonged to... and was an inspiration for many.

Always looking for freebies!

I never used to be a computer junkie... however after the birth of my second son, money was tight, so I was on the look out for freebies, and coupons that would help us make ends meet..

After days of searching I added an yahoogroup called Contestcanada... and after weeks, I found I was entering contest daily!  Next thing I knew, we built me a computer so that I wouldn't always be on the one my husband used... My first win was a pen!  and after that I was receiving packages nearly every day.. most things were small... books, DVD's, CD's, movie tickets.... then I started receiving bigger more impressive prizes... Concert tickets, spa packages, GC's....  Then I got hooked on Snail mail contests... these cost you a stamp, so I didn't enter as many as some people, but they yield bigger and better prizes...  Trips, electronics, cash.... I did amazing!  In my first year I won over $50k worth of "free" stuff.  But for some reason I stop?  I don't know why, and I do miss it.

But again in search of the "freebies" in life I have Swagbucks...  and I am loving it!  I have earned several gift certificates, just for using there search engine.... I don't stress on it, but it sure does add up.  And just yesterday I found another promising site, very similar to Swagbucks,  It is called Zoombucks, and is Canadian Based... so more freebies on the way...

I think I will looking into contesting again, as I miss the little surprises!  If you know any good Contesting sites here in Canada, please do share?

Surprises found in the compost bin

So, a few weeks ago we noticed we had a small tomato plant growing out of the side of our compost bin... NO clue what kind of tomato... but something store bought for sure, as those are all we have had this spring... well.... we have let it grow, not turning the compost in that area... and today.. it has buds!!  We have cut the hole bigger as the stem was being pinched and today, we added a support for it.... Will we get compost tomatoes?

We have adopted a few new family members!

LADYBUGS!!!!

Above is a little clip of them just before we released them into our outdoor garden.....

They have been named by a friends daughter.... Spot, Spot 1, Spot 2, Spot 3.....