The Saws Have a New Home!!!!

Since around Christmas, I've been getting gas for my car from the Canadian Tire Gas Bar. This has gotten me about $1.50-$2.00 in Canadian Tire Money every time I fill up. I've been wondering what I was going to do with the money for awhile, especially now that I had almost $20 which is enough to buy something descent.

The saws that I got for Ukrainian Christmas this past year have remained in their package. I had no where to put them, so I didn't bother opening them up until recently. I first needed a tape measure, so I took the one out of the saw kit. And then the other day, my brother came downstairs looking for a hack saw. So I opened up the rest of the kit, thinking I was going to get to saw things. Sadly, I didn't, as my dad pulled his hack saw out and was out the door before mine was out. I now had the saws out of the package with nowhere to put them.

This was when I hit upon the idea of using my Canadian Tire Money to buy a tool kit especially for them! So I went to Canadian Tire earlier today with some friends and bought myself one! It had to be a bit bigger so it could fit the cross cut saw (it nearly didn't! I have to keep the cross cut saw on an angle!) Thanks to the Canadian Tire Money I had, it only cost me $0.17!

Merry (Early!) Ukrainian Christmas

As per tradition, my family bought stocking stuffers after Christmas. The tradition that we started is that we each spend $20 on the other members of the family, wrap whatever we buy up in unmarked presents, and put them in each others' stockings. We then have a fun night of opening presents where we guess who gave us what. Normally this tradition falls on Ukrainian Christmas Eve, but this year my brother will be out of town so we opened everything earlier this evening.


This tradition is so much fun! It's always such a surprise to see what everyone gets! And this year was especially surprising: I got not one but multiple saws!!!!!


A lot of people probably don't know this about me, but last year, I was extremely sad that my brother would not let me saw the end of our Christmas tree off. This year again, my dad did the sawing and didn't even tell me he was going to bring the Christmas tree into the house! (My bro joked that I was off pouting when he came home and I wasn't around that night). There was also Christmas Eve, when we were watching Home Improvement and a guy carved a tree out of a block of ice, after which I declared that I wanted a chainsaw.


So for Ukrainian Christmas, my brother got me not one but MULTIPLE saws!!!!! On top of that, I also got a hammer and some nails. So if you need anything sawed, (or hammered) you know who to come to!