I did it one year through the Onoway school. I have no idea who the family was (I like it better that way) but they were a lower income working family with 3 school age kids that could use a hand. I was given the ages of the children and a couple of "interests" for each. I put together a box...
How do you find the family? I used to do it through my kids school but they are grown now, one year I found an ad on kijiji and helped them out, I'm not sure how I feel about that, I think I may have been taken advantage of in that scenario - still felt good to help out and I'm sure they...
I used to sponsor family each year - basically use about $500 to buy gifts, food, gift cards etc.
I found it has become much more difficult to find that family in need..... Food Bank, Santa's Anonymous get my "holiday donations" while STARS & Stollery get the rest.
I'm well aware that I'm in...
Difference with a boat is you don't need one for every person.... When we got our first boat I sold off 4 quads and 3 dirtbikes - One unit to maintain and fun for 7 people instead of 7 units where by the end of every weekend 3-4 needed something....
If I had $300K for a boat I'd be living on it...
the cruz 95.7 FM auction has a couple of xpel packages that are bid real low right now. auction closes in about an hour and there are 3 - $800 packages with bids ranging from $105 to $110. They are not the full front end but 24" hood, bumper, fenders, mirrors and A pillars.
Pretty sweet deal...
Based on recent RB and Michner pricing those things will likely fetch north of $4k each.....
Sled pricing is crazy right now but smaller machines are hard to come by in good condition because there was a huge void in the market for a long time.
Seems crazy to me that a 1994 340 & 440 can fetch...
I just pulled a personal loan from my bank (RBC) $70K at 5.25% over 5 years to buy our lakelot.... We were quoted the same rate earlier in the year on $80K for a boat that we never pulled the trigger on.
My LOC attached to the mortgage is Prime+2% so I could have pulled the loan at 4.45% on the...
I purchased a factory paint pen for my color code on both the Miata and the M3 ad the installers filled the chips/scratches before applying the xpel, if you get up close you can tell where the chips were but from 5 feet away you'd never know.
The joys of living in a summer village..... No one ever shows up for trick or treating, even the few kids that live full time in our subdivision head over to Wabamun to get their wares....
Supply issues are going to drive up the prices and limit selection dramatically.
I grabbed a set of almost new Hakkapeliitta LT3 studded for $800 last week