If you’re a shopaholic like me, you’ll want to subscribe to my RSS feed to find out about the latest in shopping.We all know the price of crude oil has come down quite a bit recently. Not so the prices of food and other items. Why’s that? Never mind, don’t bother answering that, we all [...]

We’ve pretty much stayed home this holiday week. We have no place to go while everyone else would’ve gone back home or taken the opportunity to go on Disney cruises.
The city is so blissfully quiet we might as well stick around, potter around the house and do some homecooking.
Guess what? I had all these grand plans [...]

The other day, I tried to play my small part in being eco-friendly. So when I went grocery shopping, I brought along these few recyclable bags so I wouldn’t have to use the plastic ones that the store gives out.
The thing with eco-bags are that they are quite a bit bigger than your regular plastic [...]

I’m happy that my son’s skin has cleared quite a bit after drinking some cooling drinks. Like many teens, his skin is quite susceptible to breakouts and I’ve been looking for acne cures that are simple and effective.
He doesn’t have the patience to follow up with the regiment of applying the acne creams I’ve been [...]

Yes, you’ve all heard me talk about trying to cut back on eating out. Trouble is shopping isn’t just shopping. A lot of times, it’s eating out and it’s starting to get expensive with the ravenous appetites of my teens and fuel prices the way they are!
Even a simple meal at McD’s can cost over [...]

Food is one of the joys of shopping. On a good day, we can all agree on where to eat and we end up having a blast. But many times, it can be a problem especially since my kids have different tastes.
My daughters are much more adventurous when it comes to food and are usually [...]

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. To us, it’s just pretty much an ordinary day. When I was a kid, my grandmother used to celebrate it on a small scale with some special dishes and of course, I had my lantern all ready to be lighted up at night.
Like I said in my last post, I’m [...]

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on September 14 this year. That’s this Sunday.
When my kids were younger, they and the neighbors’ kids would walk around the garden or park with their lighted lanterns when it got dark on the night of the Lantern Festival.
We’ve since scaled back [...]

I was out early on the weekend to get my groceries done. What I hadn’t counted on was running into a friend who likes to boast about how much she’s buying.
Over the years, I’ve grown quite tired of listening to her repeated stories of how much her weekly grocery bill is. Yes, when her kids [...]

It’s become my routine to check the online brochures of my favorite grocery stores to find out what’s on promo this week and to compare prices before I head out there.
I never used to do this before. I’d just buy whatever I need whether it’s on promo or not. But I’ve always been a bulk [...]