of running errands, coin machines, & doing projects together

Before I got married, I've always saved $2 coins into my cute lil piggy bank and at the end of the year I'll deposit it into my bank. So this year I've decided to continue it with the hubby. So just recently we opened the piggy bank, counted the coins, and deposited into the bank

The machine was quite cool. Looked like an arcade game. We dumped all the coins on the tray which has a conveyor belt on the bottom. The coins will slowly move in batches. We managed to save $490 worth of $2 and a few $1 coins. Which was amazing!


Actually we had to go to a few banks before we found one that was open. A few of them were closed for the holiday season until the first week of Jan. After the bank, we went to Ikea to get either a magnetic or cork board to put up some photos. I would've wanted a magnetic one so that I don't damage the photos. But it was too heavy because we can't drill holes into the walls of our rented house. So I guess I gotta wait till we get our own house to buy the magnetic boards

We stapled on a nice piece of cloth that was given by a friend. It was quite a fun project to do together. I like doing projects together with the husband. We laugh, scold, get angry and impatient at each other but yet we enjoy it. I'm still looking for ideas on how to decorate the board further because it looks too bear now even though the cloth has subtle patterns on it

Then we went to officeworks to laminate photos for him to put into his new wallet because we've learned from experience that over time, the photos will stick to the wallet which damages both the photo and wallet. So since we were there, we looked for hooks to stick on the wall that won't damage the wall if we wanted to remove it

While looking for the hooks, I was also looking for sticky labels because I was putting together a folder to hold our warranties. As we were looking, I found the label maker and told the husband that I've been wanting one for a long time. I've always wanted the old school one but the husband doesn't like it. But oh wells. I'm not complaining because I got a pink one. So that's fine! We stayed up till late last night because we were doing our lil project and playing with the label maker