Receiving something besides bills and ads is a daybrightener. We’re on a vacation, saved for 2 years for this, and I took a list of 21 family and friends/neighbors with us, bought 25 postcards at the Tibbitts Point Lighthouse for $10, and spent a couple of hours writing personalized messages to all 21, mailing them from the local post office so they’d hopefully arrive the day before we return home. We send invitations, real physical paper invitations, to family and friends/neighbors for both casual relaxed easygoing gatherings and sit-down dinners at our home 4 or 5 times a year (a lot less expensive than you think it would be, just follow the KISS principle). No cell phones, no TV, no distractions. It’s a fun time to try new recipes, enjoy good food, good talk, good friends. Not one person has complained about receiving a paper mailed invitation.
Posts made by Dionaea
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RE: PSA: Postal Rate Increases effective 7/10, buy FOREVER stamps prior to avoid.
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RE: Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread
It worked! I won 21 SB twice. Awesomesauce!
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RE: Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread
Thanks for the tip. I just got 19 SB on a random search too.
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RE: FREE GOOD PLANeT Snackable Wedges – Mailed Coupon - exp unk
Thanks! I don’t think they’re at my local stores yet, but they’re probably going to be in stock here soon.
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RE: Swagbucks Tips, Offers & Discussion Thread
Just got the 4 SB one. Any hints on what to search for to get the others? There was a list on a site last year of possible search win links, and I use that to get a win most days, but it’s generally for a small 4 to 6 SB.
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RE: Prime Gaming June - Far Cry 4, WRC 8, Escape from Monkey Island, Calico, Astrologas
I am completely confused about the Pokemon GO offer. It looks like you can only sign up for a Pokemon GO account with Google, Facebook, or Niantic Kids. I have a Google account only because it was the only way I could sign up for something a few years ago, I don’t like it, and I don’t access the Google account itself. I keep it only because it is the email of record for a couple of memberships because a Google account was the only thing that would be accepted, and I’m not happy about the username I used at the time and would like to create a new Google account and get rid of the old one. I use our local service provider email and a hotmail account for just about everything, and I do not ever link anything to my Facebook account. Which leaves using the Google account. I don’t know why Pokemon would be so restrictive. So my questions are - First, can I set up a new Google account, update the email of record on the sites that required using a Google account, delete or close the old Google account, and Secondly, is using a Google or Facebook or Niantic Kids account the only way to obtain a Pokemon Go account?
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RE: FREE Bag of Soul Snacks Cookies Printable Coupon (available at select Walmarts) - exp unk
Got it, thanks! Coupon is good until 6/30/22
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RE: Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes
There is no question food prices are going up quickly, and they won’t be coming down until the cost of energy (which mostly starts with gas) to grow, harvest, and transport raw ingredients and to run the factories which produce the final food products comes down, which isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Even when those costs go down, the manufacturers won’t lower the consumer prices much since they know people have become accustomed to and have resigned themselves to the higher prices, which means the manufacturers will gain even more profit.
My husband and I have adjusted our food budget more and more, switching to store brands and less-known (and less costly) brands, planning purchases to cover more than one meal (leftovers from one or two meals go into another day’s meal), using the website for a couple of grocery stores that are close to each other to load coupons to our store cards and checking the week’s sales, being flexible about what we buy so that if it’s not on sale this week, we buy something else and wait for the item(s) to be on sale (hopefully with load-to-card coupons) another time. The first places I go when entering the store are the marked-down bakery goods, the marked-down produce endcap, the freezer endcap where the store puts marked-down frozen foods on the right on the bottom shelf and at the end of one frozen-foods aisle, the marked-down fresh meat section. The store uses yellow “marked-down” and “clearance” shelftags and product stickers, and I can spot those at a glance down any aisle in the store. LOL I buy extra if something has a really worthwhile markdown (at least 50% or more) and can be frozen or stored, and I know we will use it for future meals. Flexibility is essential. Every couple of months my husband and I go through the pantry shelves and the small upright freezer (bought cheap at an estate sale) and the freezer in the refrigerator. He calls out what’s there and how many. I write it down and then type a list that we keep on the freezer door so we don’t lose track of what’s gotten shoved to the back out of sight.