Ghostbusters Hat and LottoMax Ticket

Since I am on vacation, I’ve been a little lenient on my spending habits. That being said, I will only post two of the items I’ve purchased.

Item 1: Ghostbusters Baseball Cap - $24.99

Anyone who knows me understands that I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan. As soon I saw this hat, I knew I had to have it, even if I never wear it! I think the price was pretty reasonable for a hat. The last hat I bought lasted me about 2 years, so if this one lasts that long, I’ll be satisfied. Of course, I’ll never throw it out anyways. 100% Treasure in my eyes.

Item 2: A LottoMax ticket with Encore - $6.00

This is the first time I’ve ever bought a lotto ticket. A little back story...I was bored waiting for our food to arrive at a restaurant, so my mom gave me a $1 scratch ticket from her purse. I won $2. Then I got another ticket and won $6. Then I got another and won $15! I took the $15 to the casino and won $100 on the penny slots, so on the way out of the casino I thought it was fitting to attempt to win $50 million to end the day.

I’m not a lottery fan. The chances of winning are so slim and $6.00 is a lot to shell out weekly. Of course, my opinion will change if I win the $50 million, but I’d rather invest $25 a month and have a guaranteed $250,000 when I retire. Just my opinion...So let’s hear yours!

Vote Treasure or Trash for one or both items by leaving a comment below.

Happy Halloween Weekend Everyone!

Molson Canadian

This is one is pretty straight forward and needs little explanation.

A Pitcher of Molson Canadian Beer - $13.99

Dad and I split it while on vacation, just so we could watch the Raptor's season opener at the bar (since our hotel room only had basic cable!). Good times.

Treasure for me. Treasure or trash for you? Vote Below.

Treasure or Trash - The Results Are In!

Reading week has officially begun! That being said, I figure it's time to tally up the first few rounds of Treasure or Trash. Thanks to all who participated. If you haven't voted yet, it's not too late to voice your opinion - I'll tally them up again at the end of the semester. Here are the results:

		Treasure	Trash
Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns		8	1
Tim Horton's Sausage Wrap		0	13
Drake's Thank Me Later		1	4
Panormous Pizza		4	0
New Clothes		5	0
Taco Tuesday		2	5
Mazda2		4	7
Jackass 3D		6	3
Double Cheeseburger		2	6
Total Treasures and Trash		32	39

So, it appears that more people disagree with my purchase decisions than agree with them. Good thing it's my money!! I blame the Tim Horton's Sausage Wrap that not even I enjoyed. Thanks again for visiting. Until next time...

...Oh! If you think there's a product out there that I need to try, leave a comment here and I'll consider it. A friend of mine suggested KFC's Double Down - so expect a Treasure or Trash for that in the near future.

BBQ Chicken Wrap!

It’s time for another edition of Treasures and Trash! For any new viewers, please read my original post explaining the concept of this blog by clicking this link:

http://tinyurl.com/2wjsdo3


Lisa and I went back to the TLC on Tuesday, but this time we avoided the tacos. Instead, we both purchased:

BBQ Chicken Wrap with fries - $8.99 – The Last Class @ Georgian College

Before I get to the wrap, I must admit that TLC makes the BEST fries I’ve ever tasted. These are 100% treasure and I recommend them to everyone that goes to Georgian. Now onto the wrap – decent price for a restaurant comparable to Swiss Chalet’ price point. The quality, however, far exceeds that of Swiss Chalet’s in my opinion. The wrap included diced breaded chicken, lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, tomatoes, and mild sauce. Tax inc., the bill came to $10, a very reasonable price for a poor student - good value! I’m going with treasure on this one.

Now’s your chance – Treasure or Trash it! (Sorry, no picture this time!)

McDonald's Double Cheeseburger Value Meal

After seeing Jackass 3D, I began to drive home when hunger hit me. I began thinking of the restaurant options in the area and settled on McDonalds. I love their Double Cheeseburgers and haven’t had one in five or six months. So I stop by McDonalds and look at the menu – I was tempted by the Big Mac, but the $8 price tag deterred me. I decided to stick with the Double Cheeseburger Value Meal and the employee says “Your total is $5.64.” I’ll admit, I’m kind of cheap when it comes to eating out, but I expected the price to be much lower. I can get $3.99 meals at both Wendy’s and Tim Horton’s and I just assumed McDonalds would offer the same.

The McDonalds was not busy, so I got fries right out of the fryer and burgers right off the grill (Oh, how the size of the patties have shrunk!!). Both tasted excellent! The one thing I don’t like about McDonalds is that once the fries get cold, they taste awful, so I ate them rather quickly. The Double Cheeseburger tasted just like I expected to taste. Regardless of its smaller size, it served the need.

So, despite the increased cost and reduced size, I enjoyed the meal. I don’t visit McDonalds often, but they’ve managed to keep the taste the same, so I’ll probably go back (not for a month or two though).

So vote below - Treasure or Trash McDonald’s Double Cheeseburgers!

Jackass 3D!!

A few buddies and I decided to check out Jackass 3D opening weekend. The trailers looked entertaining enough and I had enough SCENE points to get in free, so, if it sucked - it was still free!

The theatre was packed, which was awesome because I love hearing other people's reactions and I'm sure they loved hearing mine. There were lots of outburts of laughter, lots of groans, and lots of gagging from the crowd. There was also a lot of genitals, fecal matter, and very angry animals (none of which were harmed during the production of this movie!) so if this stuff offends you or grosses you out, don't go see it - You've been warned. It's immaturity at its best!

Overall, I thought it was a very humourous and entertaining movie worth the free admission - I'd even say it was worth the $12 regular admission. I'm willing to bet that anyone who has seen it will vote Treasure and likely the opposite for Trash, but that's just what type of movie this is.

So vote below - Treasure or Trash!

Mazda 2 Potential

It's been a slow week in general for me, so since I have no new purchases, I will talk about my most recent want - a Mazda 2.

I've been exposed to many of their ads over the last few months at Cineplex before movies, on television and most recently I got a personalized ad in the mail. I read over the brochure and it did peak my interest. I am in my last semester of school and I plan on moving to a new city when I graduate. Having a car would make life that much easier...but do I want a Mazda2?

The price looked very reasonable at $13,999 new, but after looking a little deeper and reading the fine print, by the time I added all the features I wanted (Automatic, A/C, Cruise control), it was just under $24,000. That's like taking on another student loan!! Can I realistically afford this? I guess I will have to sit down over reading week and figure it out.

Until then vote Treasure or Trash on my want - not my purchase.

Taco Tuesday!

Newest purchase! We had an hour break between class, so some friends and I went to the school pub for some grub. It's TACO TUESDAYS!

Tacos from our school pub - The Last Class. One taco - $1.39,  minimum order of 3.

So, you could choose between soft or hard tacos and the toppings included lettuce, tomatos, and cheese. Salsa and sour cream was on the side.

Overall, these were really just your typical taco. They lacked in flavour (the cheese was good!) but the price was pretty reasonable. The tacos could have used more toppings - I'm thinking green peppers and hot sauce...I prefered the soft tacos over the hard tacos and if I buy tacos again, I'll stick with soft.

So, vote below. Do you like Tacos? Is $1.39 reasonable? Treasure or Trash it!

New Clothes!!

Hope everyone had a great (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend! If you haven’t voted on older items yet, please take a minute to do so!

Now, on to this weeks most recent purchase:

This is a pretty exciting purchase for me. I believe it's the first clothing purchase I've made this year that didn't have the Ghostbusters logo on it. I went into International Clothiers looking for some business clothes (and I found some neat stuff!) but I ended up spending about $100 on two new sets of clothing as shown above. The other set is pretty much identical, but with blue jeans, a blue outer shirt and a white shirt with blue writing underneath. I REALLY needed some new jeans, all of my current pairs are a) too short on the legs or b) too big on the waist.

Generally, $100 is too expensive for my taste, but I really needed some new clothing and got two entire new, stylish outfits out of it.

So, now's your chance - Vote Treasure or Trash. You can base your vote on the style of clothes, the pricetag, or a combo of both - it's all up to you!

Panormous Pizza from Pizza Hut!

Thanks for your continuous support of my school blog. This week’s purchase was …

Panormous Pizza from Pizza Hut – Cost 15.99

 A friend and I were hungry and we decided we wanted pizza. The next big task was deciding which of the many pizza places we should order from! We looked through some flyers promoting various pizza places, but decided to try the Panormous Pizza.

The Panormous Pizza consists of two square pizzas with 8 slices each and 1 topping each pizza. We decided to go with chicken on one and classic pepperoni on the other. Since we split the cost, it was about $8.50 each for 8 slices. We could have easily split these four ways with other friends because these pizza are truly "panormous" and we were stuffed after 4 slices.

I think this is a great deal for pizza, about $1 a slice, but this is an even greater deal because in the past, Pizza Hut slices have been closer to $2 or $3 a slice. They’ve repositioned themselves and lowered their prices and in my opinion, created great value for the customers. I vote Treasure.

So, now is your chance to share your opinion. Was this a good deal? Do you like Pizza Hut pizza? Use whatever criteria you want to make your selection (you don't even have to share your criteria! Just say Treasure or Trash!).

Side note: Because this is a school project, I moderate comments, so it will take about an hour for your comment to appear in the comments section.

Thank Me Later - Drake

First of all, thanks for taking some time to visit the blog and props to those who voted on Treasure or Trash on the first two items. If you are new to this blog, feel free to vote on each item. At the end of the month I will summarize the results for ALL items and post them as a blog entry. That being said, my third purchased item is:

Audio CD – Drake – Thank Me Later                           Cost $14.99

I spent about a month contemplating whether to buy this CD or not. This CD was likely the most commercialized CD of the summer. It is most likely attributed to Drake being from Toronto (close to my hometown) but the reviews of this CD just further emphasized the buzz. I finally made my decision after watching “Born To Be” featuring Drake – basically a 30 minute infomercial on his success.

Wanna hear something funny? That last rap/hip hop CD I purchased was Stankonia by Outkast with the hits “Ms. Jackson” and “B.O.B.”. That was in 2000. I have not bought a rap/hip hop CD in close to a decade!

Why did I consider buying it? As already mentioned, the buzz for this CD release was massive. Drake was everywhere. The first single “Over” really caught my attention and grew on me fast. The next two singles I’ve been rather indifferent about, but I was hoping there would be more songs like “Over” on the CD.

So, I took a gamble. I bought the CD. After my first listen to the CD, I immediately thought trash. I’m not a huge fan of the vulgarity in the rap genre, but after a few listens, the music and lyrics have grown on me.

Drake does some great duets with Alicia Keys and Jay-Z and the CD, overall, has a very mellow, laidback feeling. It’s something to listen to when you just want to chill, not so much when cruising down the streets at full blast.

Ultimately, my vote goes to treasure. Drake is worth the hype and I personally believe he will be around for years to come.

So, blog readers, this is your chance to vote Treasure or Trash. Use whatever criteria you want to make your decision and post it below!