Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ottawamom]

Congrats on the holiday Jacqueline. I've never been south in the winter. I hear your pain about shopping with the other half in tow. DH accompanied me to Sobeys when I was doing my $100 threshold spend on Saturday. He kept adding things to the cart. Messed me up totally so I had to add things up again. I didn't want to spend much over $100 because he has a Spend $40 get 40AM on his card that I can use for more miles on the next shop. He thought I was taking too long adding things and was getting frustrated with me.

In the afternoon we went to Jean Coutu on our way to visit his parents. I said I would drop him off, go shop and then come back to visit. No he came with me. I did two purchases then sent him to the car while I did the next two. Cardinal rule No others allowed on Shop the Block trips. It's the only way to keep your sanity.

 

[isabellea]

LOL about the other halves! I have to say that DH is very good about supporting me with AM shopping. He forwards me every e-mail he gets and will hunt for AM at the stores. We did mess up for the Pillsbury AM promo at Sobeys on Saturday but it's more my fault than his.

 

[bababear_50]

OMG, send me out back to cut down a switch to beat my hindend (something my grandfather always threatened to do but never followed thru, instead had marshmallows to roast over the gas element on the stove with a teary-eyed kid) I broke my cardinal rule and allowed hubby to accompany me to Rexall .. during a promo.. when it was busy ....

Plan was to use the coupon for BOTH accounts but nope, didn't work out that way -- was WAAAYY worse in my mind
Poor guy has a "man-cold" and couldn't think clearly as he studied the bottles of cold pill and then gave up! I hadn't picked up a flyer yet since they come on Thursdays and we didn't get them due to the snowstorm so i was trying to figure out what i wanted. FINE, give me a minute, i looking, go sit on a bench, JUST WAIT!! Urgh, I managed to get a few things that included 2 s from my loaded offers and was over the $20 mark by $4.17 so told him he could pick out a treat and I would use the survey coupon. Brightened up a bit and only whined a bit

Get to the till and it's someone being trained .. oh CRAP, hubby isn't gonna want to wait this out... i had everything all lined up ready to go, turned up the brightness on my phone to scan the coupon and pushed on thru UNTIL the coupon was denied because (my own fault!) the one i have saved on my home screen is expired! Now if i was on my own i would step back and let the next person go ahead, pull up the 1st post in this thread and find the coupon with the RIGHT date and use it. Today? Yeah, nope, not happening .. so instead of paying an extra few cents i needed to pay an extra $10.01 .. so not my style at Rexall

Off we go, me muttering to myself as i studied my receipt and realizing i had forgotten to tell everyone the miles won't show and him grinning wildly while munching on his chocolate bar

LOL LOL LOL sorry sorry sorry But lol,,,
My cashier at Rexall thinks it's funny to ask me where my sons are? I just smile at her.
Really ,,,I learned never to take them on a airmiles shop last year,,and obviously she (cashier) has not forgotten our little visit.
Sorry your shop wasn't better Hon,,better luck next time.
Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Sooo ... what happens after the first bad snow storm?? Hubby says "FIND somewhere to go that's warm!!" Ok, I'm up to the challenge, spent most of the weekend online studying pictures, reviews, Youtube videos, Transat Travel site, followed by a quick visit to a travel agency after lunch before the disastrous trip to Rexall. Followed by THIS
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and THIS
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The Duck is going south! We're going to Jamaica in January, to a Sandals resort!!!!! The travel agent was awesome, said we can pay off as much as we want right up till the day before we fly so to just keep cashing in for the vouchers right up till the end of December and they'll send out a cheque to reimburse the amount we hand over. Since it's less than 45 days before we go (OMG so excited) we had to pay it in full today but, cha-ching more Airmiles!!

Not sure i like the look of THIS though
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YES!!
Vacation Time!!
So happy for you!
Hugs
Mel
" Donald Does Jamaica "

 

[kuhltiffany]

Totally know what you mean. My kids are trained to go to the magazine section and keep themselves amused until I tell them we're done and ready to go!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Sooooo, it looks like I'm not going to be getting much sleep tonight! Our stupid phones don't always let us know if there's a message or not until we pick it up, just did and found a message from the travel agency. Seems there is "an issue" with the reservation -- the flippin thing didn't go thru properly and now when i look online it's not available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm freaking out now because .. MY MILES!! I literally spent HOURS this weekend picking the resort out and while we have a window of time from mid Dec - mid Jan, hubby doesn't want to need to miss his family Christmas (me? i have no problem not going but that's a different story!) and he has to be back to get ready to head to Ottawa for the 16th.
He's out of the house all day tomorrow so I'll be setting the alarm, catching the bus and heading to the travel agency as soon as they open!!

 

[marchingstar]

Sooooo, it looks like I'm not going to be getting much sleep tonight! Our stupid phones don't always let us know if there's a message or not until we pick it up, just did and found a message from the travel agency. Seems there is "an issue" with the reservation -- the flippin thing didn't go thru properly and now when i look online it's not available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm freaking out now because .. MY MILES!!

Oh no! Keep us posted--I'm sure we all have our fingers and toes crossed that things will work out. It sounds like the travel agent has been pretty helpful so far though, so here's hoping that it's just a minor mistake with an easy fix.

 

[AngelDisney]

Sooooo, it looks like I'm not going to be getting much sleep tonight! Our stupid phones don't always let us know if there's a message or not until we pick it up, just did and found a message from the travel agency. Seems there is "an issue" with the reservation -- the flippin thing didn't go thru properly and now when i look online it's not available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm freaking out now because .. MY MILES!! I literally spent HOURS this weekend picking the resort out and while we have a window of time from mid Dec - mid Jan, hubby doesn't want to need to miss his family Christmas (me? i have no problem not going but that's a different story!) and he has to be back to get ready to head to Ottawa for the 16th.
He's out of the house all day tomorrow so I'll be setting the alarm, catching the bus and heading to the travel agency as soon as they open!!

Pixie dust sending your way! I hope everything will all work out for you.

 

[bababear_50]

Fingers and toes crossed for you Jacqueline. Deep breath and think positive,
Hugs to you
Mel

 

[Disney Addicted]

Sooooo, it looks like I'm not going to be getting much sleep tonight! Our stupid phones don't always let us know if there's a message or not until we pick it up, just did and found a message from the travel agency. Seems there is "an issue" with the reservation -- the flippin thing didn't go thru properly and now when i look online it's not available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm freaking out now because .. MY MILES!! I literally spent HOURS this weekend picking the resort out and while we have a window of time from mid Dec - mid Jan, hubby doesn't want to need to miss his family Christmas (me? i have no problem not going but that's a different story!) and he has to be back to get ready to head to Ottawa for the 16th.
He's out of the house all day tomorrow so I'll be setting the alarm, catching the bus and heading to the travel agency as soon as they open!!

Oh good grief! I hope it all works out for you!!

 

[CanadianKrista]

Oh no! I hope you get your trip sorted out! Fingers and toes crossed for you!!

 

[juniorbugman]

Hope it all works out for you. Vacation time is important.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Ack! Excited for you and stressed for you all in the same post!

 

[CanadianKrista]

Someone in the facebook airmiles group just posted this:

"Heads up....got a sneak peak of blue Friday flyers last night for foodland so assuming sobeys too. Ontario."

Too bad it's not also STB week at Sobey's, but I'm excited for the flyers!

 

[ottawamom]

Details! please at least two.

 

[hdrolfe]

Got my 50 AM bonus for purchases from well.ca. Nice fast posting! I ordered on Saturday (or Friday? maybe?) it hasn't been delivered yet but was shipped and they already posted! Also my global pet foods from yesterday have posted as well. Nice to see some things happen expeditiously. Waiting for the airmilesshop to post, including the STB bonus for a purchase over $100... wonder how long that will take!

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Not sure i like the look of THIS though

I felt the same way when I had bought all our travel vouchers as well...I told the dd...this better be a great trip, because I have worked hard for those AM lol and don't want to " waste " them on a trip we ended up not liking...heck I know i'll like it...all the drinks I want, buffets, sand, sun and warm ocean waters...I'm sure I'll love it

heading to the travel agency as soon as they open!!

If your travel agent is anything like the one who is looking after the dd destination wedding...she will help you. I'm impressed so far with the travel agent that is working with our family. We have had a few people not " opt " in and use the group booking as they want to use different points systems, or will have to wait until last minute to see if they can go ( my brother in law is a CPA and the wedding is in May, and there are a few teachers too, who are trying to be able to swing part of the trip as well ) So far all our family has had great reviews of her.
Crossing my fingers and toes for you!!!!

 

[dancin Disney style]

Has anyone here ordered furniture from Wayfair? I’m looking at ordering an arm chair, dining chairs, book shelf and side tables.

Im getting everything new for my living room/ dining room. The place I ordered my sofa from has nothing in the way of chairs or accessories that I like. Right now I just don’t have the time to get out shopping for all this stuff....ya, I know dumb idea to do this right now....Wayfair has several options that look good online but I’m wondering about the quality.

 

[hdrolfe]

Has anyone here ordered furniture from Wayfair? I’m looking at ordering an arm chair, dining chairs, book shelf and side tables.

Im getting everything new for my living room/ dining room. The place I ordered my sofa from has nothing in the way of chairs or accessories that I like. Right now I just don’t have the time to get out shopping for all this stuff....ya, I know dumb idea to do this right now....Wayfair has several options that look good online but I’m wondering about the quality.

My mom and dad have ordered some stuff from them and liked the quality. I believe it was barstools for their new house? And maybe dressers. I'd check the reviews for the items you are looking at and see what the average reviews say (I tend to believe them more than the perfect or 0 reviews).

 

[Donald - my hero]

Sitting here in the mall trying to gather my thoughts and decide where to take myself for some junky lunch... give you any idea how my visit to the travel agency went?

Apparently it wouldn't have mattered what we did yesterday, the site was glitchy and shouldn't have shown the room available. I'm not sure what the next step is, she's looking for something else but I'm afraid we're out of luck until next December. I feel like I wasted my miles now, even though the vouchers don't expire I'm now committed to using a travel agency at some point and we've got nowhere to go this year.