I am with Lucky, the fist and only company I've used for
about 6 years now, although I've upgraded my service a few
times. Several months (a year?) ago you mentioned to me
that Lucky had a better plan than the one I was using so I
went to the site and was able to upgrade my service..

There has been nothing comparable since then for existing

>users!

Yes, they always offer much better deals to new users which,
if you think about it, will cause old users to switch to another
carrier, at least for a while, so they can come back as a new
user - if they don't watch for things like that.. Plus a few
new companies are offering really good deals if they prove
reliable, like the President's Choice (was it?) plan I see
in my NO Frills flyers is possibly better than what I have now
but not enough so for me to chance a switch I may regret..

Plus, where I am, the Network the comany uses is important as
some get much better reception than others. Bell is good, Rogers
is not quite as good but not too bad and Telus is pretty bad
according to people I know using those carriers.

Lucky is actually a Bell company for those who don't know.

There is currently a $34/15GB and a $39/65GB but only for *new*

>subscribers. Go figure.

With my 'loyalty' and automatic payment bonuses I get 16 gig for
$35 and for $40 I can upgrade to 80 gig plus USA calling added to
the plan if they haven't changed the offerings since last checked.

I'm at 25GB (+bonuses) across 3 cell phones at $29/mo each.

>That's plenty of data for me too.

I'd imagine your bonuses up you to closer to 35 gig?

Do you get a discount for more than one phone? Not something
I've ever had to deal with..
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That morning, it took me about 90min to manually shovel my 150m

>driveway inorder to get out. The driveway has a couple of hard
>bends too - which means a little bit of extra clearance is
>required inorder to navigate those turns.

Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having
to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my
property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,
about 16 inches. Now that there's 2 or 3 feet of snow built up
beside my paths it probably looks odd from a distance, me walking
along with the bottom half+ of my legs totally hidden..

We got about another 4 inches of snow after I did the paths
yesterday and tonight it's still coming down and likely a lot
more than that again so I'll be shoveling again tomorrow..

I still haven't wandered out to where I park the car to
see what sort of mess I have there [...]

Well... how did it look? :D

Probably due to the shoulder high banks on both sides of my car
the snow on the ground was a little less, more like 6 to 8 inches
rather than 16 inches, but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

But the plow guy goes out of his way to try to not leave much
in front of my car. It was just tough this time since there was
so much snow to push around all at once. And I can't complain much
because I don't pay him. The neighbours apparently have to have
their place plowed out for insurance purposes, and that is right
in front of my driveway entrance so I can just park there close
to where he has to plow to. I'm not sure what I'd do if not for
that stroke of luck. I plan to give them a few hundred dollars
for them making it convenient for me, although they didn't ask
and said it wasn't necessary when I talked to them at the start
of winter since me parking there doesn't change their situation
at all. They have a huge parking area plus access to 3 cottages
that gets plowed out plus about 1/2 mile of the road in that the
Municipality doesn't plow and for that he charges $75 per plow,
but sometimes he has to come 2 or 3 times a week so, even though
that's really a fairly low price, it can really add up fast.

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On 14 Feb 2025, August Abolins said the following...

I was with Koodo for the longest time but recently
switched to Public Mobile (also owned by Telus) during
their Boxing Day deals.

Missed that one. But.. I'm happy with under $30 for 25GG, and
I don't need USA calling.

Just note, PM doesn't have unlimited data - it's a hard cut-
off, I think.

Yup, Public is just like Koodo where they'll cut you off at the end of your "bucket", you can purchase a top up if needed. I spend most of my time either at home or work where I have wifi, so I tend to only use 4-6GB per month.

The only time I would use more than that is when visiting my Dad up north (he doesn't have a computer or wifi) or when camping in the summer. Even then I'd only use about 30 or 40GB that month (only 40GB if it's raining a lot).

Public Mobile used to offer unlimited data plans where they'd throttle you to 512Kbps after you used all of your high speed data, I think they stopped offering these when they started offering the "roaming" plans.


Jay

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>driveway inorder to get out. The driveway has a couple of hard
>bends too - which means a little bit of extra clearance is
>required inorder to navigate those turns.

Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having
to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my
property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,
about 16 inches. Now that there's 2 or 3 feet of snow built up
beside my paths it probably looks odd from a distance, me walking
along with the bottom half+ of my legs totally hidden..

We got about another 4 inches of snow after I did the paths
yesterday and tonight it's still coming down and likely a lot
more than that again so I'll be shoveling again tomorrow..

Probably due to the shoulder high banks on both sides of my car
the snow on the ground was a little less, more like 6 to 8 inches
rather than 16 inches, but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

But the plow guy goes out of his way to try to not leave much
in front of my car. It was just tough this time since there was
so much snow to push around all at once. And I can't complain much
because I don't pay him. The neighbours apparently have to have
their place plowed out for insurance purposes, and that is right
in front of my driveway entrance so I can just park there close
to where he has to plow to. I'm not sure what I'd do if not for
that stroke of luck. I plan to give them a few hundred dollars
for them making it convenient for me, although they didn't ask
and said it wasn't necessary when I talked to them at the start
of winter since me parking there doesn't change their situation
at all. They have a huge parking area plus access to 3 cottages
that gets plowed out plus about 1/2 mile of the road in that the
Municipality doesn't plow and for that he charges $75 per plow,
but sometimes he has to come 2 or 3 times a week so, even though
that's really a fairly low price, it can really add up fast.

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Your Tagline had me recall a small sign that read: "Lord, Grant Me patience. But I want it RIGHT NOW!"

Sorry about over quoting Your post just to show the Tagline I am referring to. Ed
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. SLMR Rob . Lord give me patience, and give it to me NOW

Your Tagline had me recall a small sign that read: "Lord, Grant Me

>patience. But I want it RIGHT NOW!"

Ha.. and these all reminded me of another quote, maybe a bit too long for
most Taglines..

Dear Lord give me chastity and self-restraint.. But not yet, Oh Lord,
not yet!.. St. Augustine 354-430 a.d.

He was apparently not too good at the whole Chastity thing.. B)

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That morning, it took me about 90min to manually shovel my 150...

Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having
to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my
property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,

... but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

SO.. how did you fare after the 2nd blast over the weekend?


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... but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

SO.. how did you fare after the 2nd blast over the weekend?

i meant to add.. that your georgian bay area must have received quite a 2nd dump of snows close to or over 45cm?

i'd say there was an easy 35cm in my central ontario (algonquin) area. but, this time my tractor-neighbour came along on sunday afternoon when the storm was just starting to peter out. he spent an easy 90min working on it though.




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SO.. how did you fare after the 2nd blast over the weekend?

i meant to add.. that your georgian bay area must have received quite

>a 2nd dump of snows close to or over 45cm?

i'd say there was an easy 35cm in my central ontario (algonquin) area. but,

>s time my tractor-neighbour came along on sunday afternoon when the storm was
>st starting to peter out. he spent an easy 90min working on it though.

You lucked out a bit there. I have been working for 1.5 to 2 hours a
day digging my paths around here. I had just finished them after the
first big storm when we got hit with that second storm. Toronto has
been going nuts because they got about 50 cm (20 inches) of snow, it
virtually shut down the city for 3 days and they figure it will take
them 3 weeks to fully recover from it.. Meanwhile it looks like here
the total from the 2 snowfalls is up somewhere around 100 to 110 cm.

My snowplow guy was really good to me too. I think I said I don't
pay him, the neighbours do and I just get the benefit, but when I
cleared off my car and around it today it looks like he actually
came in with his blade lifted and dropped it right at my front
bumper and dragged all of the snow away from it, which was a
really big help.

They said on the news that this is the worst season in 30 years,
although it's hard to say if they meant total snowfall or because
of these bigger snowfalls one after the other.

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