I am 1,000% influenced by those Buzzfeed shopping lists featuring primarily Amazon products and with a terrible amount of repetition and clickbait headlines. I know there isn’t much new, but I scroll through it anyhow like a guilty pleasure and every other time, I’m adding another item to my wishlist! As an “homage” to those…
Category: Shopping
Escape from a winter day
When 60 hours of rainfall stop and it’s a non-raining and actually sunny day in Vancouver, it feels like winter is over and it is a strange feeling. I felt a little remiss that we weren’t spending time outside. But things had to be done like return Christmas gifts before the window closed – at…
Back to BuJo with Hubman & Chubgirl
Several things in my life need to change and for me, change requires tracking to make it a habit. I recall how I purchased an army green Leuchtturm 1917, the recommended notebook for bullet journalling (“BuJo”) to start in January 2021 and abandoned it by June 2021. I was rubbish at noting the day’s events…
Lifehacks lately (Summer 2022)
What’s life these day but problem-solving and trying to come up with the most elegant solutions? Here is a round-up of problems lately around the house and the resolution. Problem: This actually isn’t lately at all. Last summer was the first for extended heat waves, “heat domes” and – mostly – parents of two working…
Converting to electric toothbrush
Last Christmas, we did Secret Santa just amongst my in-laws of my generation. NPY saw a Red Flag Deals about this electric toothbrush system, regular over $100 and discounted to $50 for the day (or week) on Amazon. He told me about it as he was adding it to his wishlist on Elfster and right…
Vistaprint face masks
Can it really be, almost two years since we’ve been in a pandemic, 18 months or so since mask mandates began. When we started wearing masks, I lugged out the sewing machine and found some simple enough patterns to follow and used up fabric that had been languishing in my fabric drawer. I didn’t have…
The road to a toddler tower
I had a sense of the existence of these things called toddler towers when Kiddo was a young toddler but it never connected with me. I’ve also long since known that there is an Ikea hack whereby you nail down an inverted side table to a footstool that is no longer available in Canadian Ikea…
Back to Modo (car-sharing)
Not too long ago, I blogged about our new normal for 2021, and now we have a small change. Ever since NPY decided to bring Baby to his parents once a week – because it was just getting untenable with her around two days of the week and he would work from home even if…
The birthday perks
Last year, my birthday was shortly before the city shut down – two weeks before everything shut down, one week before panic-buying and the beginning of a ghost town. Kiddo wasn’t in daycare so I met up with SIL and her toddler at Denny’s for my first time redeeming free birthday Grand Slam breakfast. Five…
Supporting local businesses for Lunar New Year and February 2021
Updated February 18 with a photo of most of the haul! ******** I can feel the increased hum and buzz with Lunar New Year falling on February 12 and the subsequent two weeks traditionally people will celebrate, and Valentine’s Day occurring two days later. On top of that, the annual month-long Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival…