Yup, it’s called BT Cafe, and this hungry big boy enjoyed the dish above complete with a beverage (you can choose either hot or cold) for under seven bucks!
vancouver on the cheap. eat, drink, buy. do.
Gasoline is around $1.30 a litre in Metro Vancouver. As gas prices rise, is there a price you simply won’t pay for gas? Is it $1.50, $2.00, or some of other amount?
The grocery landscape in Vancouver is changing for the cheaper, it seems. Call it a sign of the times: BC does have one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada. I, for one, welcome discounts of any kind as prices for everything from gas to heating are expected to continue to rise. So when I saw that Office Depot on Broadway closed shop and was replaced by Joti’s No Frills, I thought to myself, “Who the hell is Joti? What the hell is No Frills? And more importantly, should I care?” I still don’t know who Joti is, but I do know that No Frills is yet another Loblaw’s brand (The Real Canadian Superstore being the most known one here in the West). And yes, if you care about saving on your grocery bill, you might wanna pay one of Vancouver’s three No Frills stores a visit. Read the rest of this entry »
This is one of those posts where you ask yourself, “Should I keep this one to myself?” You know, when you spend some time to find that perfect deal and want it to last forever, so you don’t tell anyone so as to keep it all your own? But what sort of true cheapster would I be if I didn’t boast about the wealth of savings I uncovered? After years of switching from one promotion and one rental car company to the next, I’ve found some of the cheapest car rentals in town—economy size of course. Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday morning, I woke up to “Pinched,” the semi-regular thrifty living segment on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition. For this edition, Shiral Tobin spoke to a UBC professor about how this professor lived a year without spending any money. That’s not exactly true: she did buy food, pay her bills, fill up the car with a tank of gas a month, and buy stuff to entertain her friends at home. But other than these “necessities,” she claims she didn’t spend a dime. “Is this professor the ultimate cheapster I’ve been looking to emulate in terms of my own spending habits?” I thought to myself. But then I thought, “Who can really afford to do this and at what cost?” Read the rest of this entry »
When I’m not searching for the cheapest Vietnamese sub or how to flip my Christmas sweater for something better, I blog about how British Columbians can avoid serious injuries. Texting while driving, drowning, and pedestrian injuries are some of the preventable injuries I write about. At this time of year, we’re all about savin’ your noggin’ from throbbin’ by wearing a helmet when you’re skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, or whatever you’re doing on the slopes. To promote helmet use, the Preventable Snow Team will be at some of the local hills handing out $40 vouchers for new helmets. Read the rest of this entry »
Does your head hurt? Do you feel bloated and out of shape? Is your home so messy and so filled with crap you don’t want to spend any time there? If so, you might have a holiday hangover. A case of the Double H is not due to you mixing drinks until 5 AM on January 1. It is in fact due to so much over consuming in December that come January, you make drastic new year’s resolutions in the attempt to never inflict such hedonism on yourself ever again. Read the rest of this entry »
