coles mini shops

look at that face! this is the face of a child who is almost finished collecting the mini shops from coles supermarkets. yes. the major supermarket chains have struck again and created a "must have" collection that our kids are going crazy for. i must admit, when the promotion started and i saw what was on offer, i didn't even think about collecting them and thought oh that's nice and left it there... then the craze struck our 7 year old daughter who insisted she needed to collect them. insert eye roll here... thankfully i had the mum brain to think ahead about the fact that i have a 4 year old as well who would jump on the bandwagon and started two sets at once... turns out he loves them more than her!! 

grandma got on the case and told the girls at her work that her grandkids were collecting them and they started arriving by the dozen... and with some swapping and haggling with friends, family and the girls at church - we are so close to our goal... two sets, and two happy kids. woo!

to be fair... they are so adorable! i mean seriously who wouldn't want teeny replica groceries?

(sample from the good old internet, so that one day 10 years from now haha we can look back and remember this ridiculousness)

flybuys freebies

i am so flipping proud of myself, i just scored this fabulous slow cooker by redeeming my fly buys points from the coles group online... woohoo. i am honest when i say i don't know anyone that's ever gotten anything decent from their rewards, so when they relaunched the program a few years ago i actually paid some attention to the emails they sent me and discovered that i could earn bulk bonus points, by buying certain things at certain times - activating bonus offers that were emailed through, and lastly - when doug and i took out extras cover with medibank, we earn bonus points there too! woop woop. so when i got an email recently telling me about points redemption, i thought i would check it out, and i had over 30000! clearly all my bonuses had paid off.

i have been playing with the old crappy slow cooker that i found in the cupboard at mums right before she left, apparently a friend of hers was getting rid of it and she grabbed it, and everything has worked beautifully. it is so so simple. throw it all in, set the temperature and come back hours later and it's cooked perfectly. so easy and good. so when i saw this in the options for redemption, i was all over it. i am so excited to get it in the mail and to get cooking. woop woop. i'll let you know how it goes. :)