Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

I recently got an 8-quart Instant Pot , and if you have one too, you'll know the "pot" part where all the food goes is really quiet deep. And the food inside can of course be piping hot. I didn't want any metal utensils in case it ends up scraping and marking up the pot over time, but I also didn't want to use just any rubber spatula. But I did want a spatula-like thing to scrape down the sides, such as when I made rice. So I was really pleased to find this really long-handled spatula-like scraper at my local Dollarama . The scraping head is quite thick and sturdy, so it doesn't have the same flexibility as a rubber spatula, but it works well enough to reach all the way to the bottom easily.

  Here's an easy method for making simple, convenient, low-to-no mess handheld tortilla "pouches" with very few resources. I like it because I'm lazy. Here are the advantages: No oil needed in the pan to brown the tortilla. If you don't let the fillings touch the pan either and carefully keep them all on the tortilla, your frying pan doesn't need to be cleaned at all. If you are careful folding and eating it, you won't make a mess (so don't over-fill this pouch). What's needed: You just need one or two tortilla shells, such as the cheap 10-packs from Superstore that sometimes go on sale for $5 for two packs. And you need some fillings. I used cheap marble cheese and some cherry sauce but you can put pretty much whatever you like. Be careful not to get all excited and overfill, or it will definitely spill and ooze out, and probably scald you because it'll retain heat very well. Notice I left the center empty as a reservoir space (slide 2). This...

I was looking for a fairly portable "desk" for working on my laptop that was cheap, so I shopped AliExpress and Walmart online (both of which qualify for rebates through MyPoints ). Normally AliExpress (which can take over a month to mail Canada) has cheaper prices but this time Walmart came through with a comparable price. This desk by Living Basics is basically a desk for your laptop that also sits / goes over your laptop . Overall, not recommended but sometimes beggars can't be choosers, especially when it comes to price. Here are some observations: The tray is metallic, but the legs are NOT. They are plastic and not very stable. Left to stand on their own, they cause the desk to jiggle with every keystroke. I would have preferred much more solid legs instead of a metallic table. The table itself isn't the load bearing part of the desk and didn't really need to be metallic. Neither did the optional mousepad. The legs feel wobbly and weak, so I wouldn't ac...

In a Currency Market Fund, you deposit money and they trade it for you -- at the core, it's basically a day trading service. Since it is a Currency fund, they trade currencies (e.g., cryptocurrencies). They keep some of the profits but you get most of it. In the case of Volo Capital , the minimum deposit is 10,000 USD, the profit share is 70% to you, and they automatically deposit all accumulated profits weekly. I call it a "deposit" because unlike most investments, your money is not locked in. At any time you can ask them to stop trading with some or all of it and just take out what you want. They have a four-year positive-returns track record. Recent returns were: Jan 2022: +10% Feb 2022: +9% Target return is +7 to +13% per month. Minimum investment is 10,000 USD (approximately 13,000 CAD at the moment) No TFSA/RRSP Profits deposited weekly. I put in 10,000 USD in their Ethereum (ETHUSD) trading fund, and my first day of trades was 2022-Feb-25. You can see in less than...