Post-Trip: What some saw at Honest Ed's

First, the lunch, at a Korean place. Glad someone had a camera ... thanks to Shyamalie for the pictures!

And then the insane shopping frenzy began, at Honest Ed's.

Here's what I harvested.

Some $20 worth of loot on, it was back on the TTC subway headed back for home. Until the next field trip ... perhaps Food Basics and Hong Tai ... s'long!

More places to bargain hunt in step with these economic times.

Heads-up on Our March Field Trips

Our field trips next month will have a distinctive employment flavour as the season for career fairs returns.

On March 5th, we'll be at the job fair themed:

OPENING DOORS TO YOUR FUTURE
Thursday March 05, 2009, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

North York Central Public Library
5120 Yonge Street (Beside North York Civic Centre)

On March 27th, we'll be at the Engineering/Hi-Tech-themed National Career Event held at the Toronto Hilton.

Make sure you spiff up your CV and submit it with your registration.

For more job fairs, check out this listing.

Field Trip to Honest Ed's Friday (Tomorrow)

Get ready to check out one of Toronto's most famous and historic shopping destinations! You've done the online and home work; now put on some walking shoes and do the legwork. It's all happening tomorrow:

Please meet inside the Bloor Street entrance of Honest Ed's at 11 a.m.

Location: on the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst

You can't miss it--get off at Bathurst TTC Subway station and look around for:

How much would you pay?

Check out this article in today's Toronto Star: Pay what you want in this Montreal restaurant



According to the report, "lunch-hour customers were given the choice of an appetizer, plus either tagliatelle bolognese, salmon or braised beef, and coffee or tea, for whatever they wanted to pay. For a dollar even. Or nothing."

What would you pay? Is the owner crazy or what?

Enter your comments!

Best Bargains to Beat

Here's my list on the following basket of bargains in Toronto: a webcam, a 2 GB SD card, a USB reader, a Text-to-Speech GPS with 6 million POIs, and a 2001 Odyssey:


webcam for $6:99

2GB SD Card $6.49

USB card reader $3.99

TTS GPS with 6 million POIs $159.99

2001 Odyssey minivan $3,990

Total: $4,167.46

The Star's 25 Tips for Hard Times

First, check out these words, in a dictionary if at all possible:

1. recession
2. depression
3. follow suit
4. insight
5. crater (v.)
   
6. shrink (v.)
7. euphemism
8. peak (v.)
9. collapse
10. contraction
11. impoverished (adj.)
12. strap (v.)
13. compile
14. retro (adj.)
15. clip (v.)
16. coupons
17. tuck (v.)
18. reacquaint (v.)
    
19. marinate (v.)
20. wide berth
21. payoff
22. bulk
23. hand-me-downs
24. swap
25. portfolio
    

Then check out this article in the Star on Sunday.

Finally, test your frugality with 25 more questions (yay!!) on the Frugal Test!







See you all at Honest Ed's on our foolishly frugal field trip this Friday! Meet just inside the Bloor Street entrance at 11 a.m.

CAF-LINC Funding Threatened over Controversial Name-Calling

The Edmonton Sun today responded to yesterday's stunning comment by the Immigration Minister with these words:

Calling a cabinet minister a "professional whore" is wrong, but so is threatening funding to services for immigrants.

Interestingly, the original remarks by the CAF President are nicely preserved in youtube:



Take a look and feel free to click on Comment!