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Gifting Season via Online Discount Vouchers

Posted on November 7, 2011 by greenbucks| 4 Comments

Gifting season is around the corner and I’m sure lot of people have their lists being filled up. Not me though, haha.

Been busy with a lot of things and as always, shopping takes a backseat. I’m enjoying doing some online shopping recently and as a matter of fact, I just purchased several vouchers for frozen yogurt and a cake (this will be delivered at home, woot).

Two months ago, we had a music players delivered to our home, bought 50% off from an online store. We also enjoyed our 50% off the price chocolate cake courtesy of another online discount voucher. I’m wondering though if I should buy Christmas presents from these sites. I’m getting ideas for gifts for boys online as well as gifts for family friends.

Last night we had a great time at a Japanese restaurant, thanks to 2 vouchers purchased online at 50% off the price.

I don’t know why I still haven’t written about our foray (mostly food vouchers) into these online discount voucher “shopping” since all purchases have been good. So far.

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Calamansi Love

Posted on October 31, 2011 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I harvested, well sorta harvested, today several green juicy and definitely sour calamansi. Will post a better and higher res photo later. Click here for a link on the photo. Here is a photo of the sour babies:

calamansi

These have thin skin (dunno what they’re called) and very juicy.

Rains and used coffee grounds are two big help that had the little tree bear these little babies. Sunshine helped the little tree too of course. Everyday, I mix the used coffee grounds in water for “watering” the two little calamansi plants (the other one didn’t yield more than three of these) and the other potted plants. Still have to get photos of these pandan plants and green onions.

Yes, you can get a lot of benefits from used coffee grounds for your vegetable garden. And if you have a catering biz and Caterer Jobs, having your own vegetable garden will help you save some on your expenses to up your profit. #JustSayin’

Get used coffee grounds for free from a Starbucks near you.

Just one of the benefits of being REAL coffee drinkers. We stopped drinking instant coffee a long time ago and only have brewed coffee in the mornings and sometimes as night cap too.

 

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Unpredictable

Posted on October 9, 2011 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Crazy weather is making a lot of people sick these days. It is always a puzzle whether to bring Persol sunglasses or umbrella. Or maybe one opted to stay in the house or brave the now “it is just drizzling that becomes a heavy downpour that ends up with the sun shining brightly” kind of weather.

Last Friday night’s heavy downpour caused the ceiling where I work to leak and water came pouring through. My seat is wet, the squishy kind of wet because it is an office chair. Good thing my work-materials are intact because these have are covered with big plastic covers. Some books were partly wet. Argh.

I miss summer days.

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Facebook Timeline

Posted on September 26, 2011 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

So you’ve heard about Facebook Timeline and you want one? Here’s how to get your own Facebook Timeline. The easier way would be to find friends who already have and just click a button whereabouts his/her page so that you can get yours too.

Here is my current Facebook Timeline Cover Photo:

My Facebook Timeline Cover Photo

Pixie Pixels or Photo Stories is my photo blog.

At first Facebook Timeline looks weird, because it looks like an online magazine with different sections. It takes some time to get used to it. The wonderful thing is, it is like blogs, with archives according to year and month. For bloggers like me who are used to having archives, this is a great tool should I need to go “back in time” and look for that link I shared some time ago. It may be that link about a funny video on YouTube, the appetite suppressants for men I shared with a friend or something interesting in a link I shared that I have to write about.

Did you get annoyed with the new Facebook changes? I did, still am, with that ticker box that’s like a Stalker Haven, 😀

 

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If Only

Posted on September 26, 2011 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Yesterday at the mall, when I got a pair of new Grendha Carolina Dieckmann pair, we saw a lot of people in the activity center. It turned out there was a sale on a popular brand of mobile phones. It just so happened that before going to the mall, I was looking at some models of the same brand so seeing the display there made me a bit excited.

A bit.

If circumstances are different (meaning next month is second semester tuition fee season for 3 kids), I would have gotten myself a unit. Though the discounts were not that big, at least, there’s discount good enough to entice buyers to get a unit or two to where the barcode scanners are.

The lines were quite long and it was just around noon. Had they organize this on a payday weekend, there would have been more people.

Oh well.

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