Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[bababear_50]

Hugs Mel

 

[mort1331]

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Hugs Mel

We use my daughter to tell us...if shes out of bed before 9am,,,early spring...she was born today 14 years ago,,,she is our groundhog...lol

 

[dancin Disney style]

But the other ground hogs said 6 more weeks of winter….


@mort1331 what did your groundhog say?

 

[mort1331]

But the other ground hogs said 6 more weeks of winter….


@mort1331 what did your groundhog say?

I am at work,,,I am sure she is still undercovers...lol

 

[dancin Disney style]

So once again I messed up my AM. I finally got around to dealing with the pizza thing but took the easy way out, or so I thought. I sent the email missing miles thing. They just got back to me and want me to forward all the info. Ok great, except I’m now searching (for the second time) for my MC statement as that’s all I’ve got. I accidentally deleted the email confirmation. In my search I was also looking for the statement that contained the Dollarama purchase that was missing for StB. Um, ya…..found it and it wasn’t on the statement. And why was it not on the statement? Because I found it on my AMEX

Now I also need to find the details for the pizza thing and also the dates for the 20x miles that weekend. They want everything forwarded.

 

[bababear_50]

Good Morning




I will support Etsy Canada.

Hugs Mel

 

[Donald - my hero]

I think I'll order something thru Well .ca because I know it's CDN and you can filter the search results for CDN items as well. I have a credit with them at the moment over a mix-up with our Christmas order for the grandbaby so I'll be able to get more for my buck! They sell some of my safe foods also so it's a win-win.
I moved some dream miles to cash miles and then redeemed them for A- mazon gift cards to take advantage of the weekend offer to buy some dried CND Blueberries that I use in my cereals. Redeeming the miles trigger an email that gave me an offer for 25 miles if I earn 1 mile from any source so ordering later from Well will net me a nice amount of miles.
Follow-up to my searching for safe-to-me foods - thanks to the hive mind we found a couple of things to try AND then a new store to hit up. Drove the 30 minutes, wandered around and ended up spending $85 for a box of food plus some dishwasher tabs (cheaper than at Zehrs!!) I'll still need to search for tortilla chips because the ones I got aren't nice
I bought 8 of those packs in the front left of the picture so the total dollar amount wasn't that bad. All 100% CDN

 

[bababear_50]

Ok sometimes you just shake your head and say WHY?
My carryon suitcase was being used for Xmas gift storage inside my home.
In Nov I packed it away in the garage on a large metal shelf ,,,figured I'd put it in the storage room in the Spring.
I have no extra carryon as I gave them away last year to family.
Today I go and look and it is gone,,,, I have warned neighbors about leaving their garage door open. We each have a garage door but it's open inside to fit 4 cars.
Dang!
Someone stole it.
Now I need to buy a new carryon.

WestJet also has a new size and Canadian Tire has none this size.

Carry-on baggage	53 cm x 23 cm x 38 cm (21 in. x 9 in. x 15 in.)	Examples include but are not limited to a: Backpack Bag Suitcase

Time to shop.
Mel

 

[hdrolfe]

Heys is a Canadian suitcase brand, I've purchased them from TSC, but as a set not just a single piece so I'm not sure what size they sell the individual ones in.
And I think Air Canada would be Canadian? But maybe not. Who knows. It fits within those inches though https://www.canadaluggagedepot.ca/p...-carry-on-luggage?_pos=3&_fid=de79ed0f5&_ss=c

 

[tinkerone]

Heys is a Canadian suitcase brand, I've purchased them from TSC, but as a set not just a single piece so I'm not sure what size they sell the individual ones in.
And I think Air Canada would be Canadian? But maybe not. Who knows. It fits within those inches though https://www.canadaluggagedepot.ca/p...-carry-on-luggage?_pos=3&_fid=de79ed0f5&_ss=c

I have to stop watching TSC when they have Heys products on. I’ve bought three sets of luggage as well as packing cubes and a carry-on backpack type bag that goes over the luggage handle. Every time I watch, I see something I ‘need’. It’s getting expensive, lol.

 

[bababear_50]

Ok
I had to go with what I could,, which was a small carry on Swiss Gear from Amazon. ca
I know it's not Canadian made (China) but I had a Am azon x-mas gift card to use up.
Hugs Mel

 

[dancin Disney style]

Ok
I had to go with what I could,, which was a small carry on Swiss Gear from Amazon. ca
I know it's not Canadian made (China) but I had a Am azon x-mas gift card to use up.
Hugs Mel

Swiss Gear is a good brand. I was going to tell you to be super careful about the size. In recent months all carriers have been pretty strict about it. Coming home from our cruise we had to put our bags in the sizer box 3 times….and it wasn’t just us. My bags are under size by approx 4 inches so it’s obvious they are ok. They will also hassle people about belt bags. They actually try to make that count as a personal item.

 

[bababear_50]

Yep I believe I will be ok now,,
This is the one I got

 

[tinkerone]

Ok
I had to go with what I could,, which was a small carry on Swiss Gear from Amazon. ca
I know it's not Canadian made (China) but I had a Am azon x-mas gift card to use up.
Hugs Mel

ABA, anything but American!
That is a great piece of luggage by the way.

 

[Aladora]

I have to stop watching TSC when they have Heys products on. I’ve bought three sets of luggage as well as packing cubes and a carry-on backpack type bag that goes over the luggage handle. Every time I watch, I see something I ‘need’. It’s getting expensive, lol.

Okay, so hear me out on this.

I tried packing cubes and absolutely hated them but when my husband and I recently went to Sweden, I decided to try vacuum bags and let me tell you, those things are the bomb! I bought a set on AmazonCanada that included a small vacuum, I did have to bring a plug converter since the vacuum was for a North American socket but that was already on my packing list. The only thing I did not love was that the smallest bag in the set just barely fit into our medium cases and I really wanted some that would fit our carry-on bags for our next Disney trip. After we got home I did find another set that included small and extra small bags as well as a vacuum that charges via USB.

I hoped that the bags would work well and I was amazed that they were even better than I imagined!

 

[alohamom]

Yep I believe I will be ok now,,
This is the one I got

I have that one and it is awesome. Very well constructed.

 

[tinkerone]

Okay, so hear me out on this.

I tried packing cubes and absolutely hated them but when my husband and I recently went to Sweden, I decided to try vacuum bags and let me tell you, those things are the bomb! I bought a set on AmazonCanada that included a small vacuum, I did have to bring a plug converter since the vacuum was for a North American socket but that was already on my packing list. The only thing I did not love was that the smallest bag in the set just barely fit into our medium cases and I really wanted some that would fit our carry-on bags for our next Disney trip. After we got home I did find another set that included small and extra small bags as well as a vacuum that charges via USB.

I hoped that the bags would work well and I was amazed that they were even better than I imagined!

A big pull for me with the packing cubes is that I can have a color for my clothes and another for hubby. That quickly tells me what is where. Also, with the packing cubes, I never have to unpack them. I zip them open and flip the top underneath and slip them into the drawers. My clothes never have to touch anything else. I can take them to the laundry room with me and put the clothes right back into them and do the zip up. I even have a black set that I fold my dirty clothes into and when I get home, it's all tossed into the washer.
Someone here, I don't remember exactly who, suggested compression packing cubes so I picked up a set of them. They work well also. For us, I can see where vacuum bags would work well if I needed space but for the reasons I listed above, packing cubes work better. As long as we all can travel, each our own.

 

[dancin Disney style]

I am not a fan of packing cubes. I can get way more in my luggage by rolling. DD uses the cubes so we have had a trip that she packed one way and then coming home I packed my way. We share a bag so it was a good experiment. My packing got all the same things in the bag with room to spare. Her way filled the bag. I find the cubes leave empty spaces in between and around the outside. Rolling, I start filling in the corner and go out from there.

Since she loves her cubes I got her a set of the zipper compression ones when she was packing to go on the ship. You have to pack a little differently in them but in the end she didn’t feel like they gained much space for her. She also had a set of the vacuum compression ones and she said her things were so wrinkled she had to launder everything. The problem with compressing things is that it’s very easy to make the bag overweight.

I will say though that my one carry on is a hard shell which I generally don’t like but the sides are not equal. The smaller side has a zippered flap and essentially is like a packing cube. I can get a ton of clothes in that side by rolling and packing like I normally do. Then the larger side is open for all the other odds and ends.

 

[Aladora]

I am not a fan of packing cubes. I can get way more in my luggage by rolling. DD uses the cubes so we have had a trip that she packed one way and then coming home I packed my way. We share a bag so it was a good experiment. My packing got all the same things in the bag with room to spare. Her way filled the bag. I find the cubes leave empty spaces in between and around the outside. Rolling, I start filling in the corner and go out from there.

Since she loves her cubes I got her a set of the zipper compression ones when she was packing to go on the ship. You have to pack a little differently in them but in the end she didn’t feel like they gained much space for her. She also had a set of the vacuum compression ones and she said her things were so wrinkled she had to launder everything. The problem with compressing things is that it’s very easy to make the bag overweight.

I will say though that my one carry on is a hard shell which I generally don’t like but the sides are not equal. The smaller side has a zippered flap and essentially is like a packing cube. I can get a ton of clothes in that side by rolling and packing like I normally do. Then the larger side is open for all the other odds and ends.

I am a huge fan of rolling! The Sweden trip was in late November so lots of sweaters and they did amazingly being vacuumed. Denim shorts might not work as well...

 

[hdrolfe]

I'm not a huge fan of packing cubes but they came in handy our last trip, we changed hotels a few times so I had packed in the cubes so that i only needed one at each hotel, made it easier than unpacking everything and repacking. But in general I like to roll things.