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Oh oh! I have a fun gross dead mouse story.
Our cat killed a mouse and left it on the porch. Me and a friend were playing in the backyard (we were 13 or 14) and raced each other back in. I stepped in what I thought was poop of some sort, trying to figure out what it was. My foot had all this red stuff and chunky white bits on it. The mouse was totally gone too! Splattered into oblivion.
Yep.
are you using windows movie maker? Program has awesome editing but never, ever saves properly and crashes all the time I hate it!
there is a site called online-convert that will switch the file between types for you, not sure if that would get it smaller. I thought the 100mb thing was because of yousendit, does it even matter now?
can’t wait to see the entries!
Great box!
Mine is all ready to go except for one tiny thing I’m waiting on in the mail. Will ship as soon as it arrives! 🙂
I believe I’ve seen a maple icewine… and maybe even had some, but that was a long time ago.
ice wine is a canadian thing anyway isn’t it? Apparently it’s disgusting though! I don’t drink wine much so I have nothing to compare it to.
I swear I read a story about some lady getting fined for taking kinder eggs over the border. The kinder bueno bars are fine though since they don’t have toys in them, and they’re pretty delicious.
Is it illegal to mail alcohol to the states?
I think I read somewhere that it’s illegal to send any sort of food across the border, but I’ve sent and received tons and never had an issue. Has anyone done it? I mean I’m not saying I’m doing to mail windstone a ton of booze or anything I’m just curious now!
We have these chocolate eggs in canada called kinder eggs, apparently not only do they not sell them in USA, but it’s illegal to, they’re considered “contraband” and someone got a huge fine for taking them over the border. Because they have a toy inside, and in the states you can’t put toys inside food or something.
Now I’m wondering if they make maple flavoured alcohol. XD
Oh my god you’re kidding!! The US doesn’t have kinder eggs!! Kinder eggs bring so much happiness to my life, to those who don’t know you have the toy comes all in pieces rolled up in the instructions and they all get curled up into a little egg pod. I got an albatross once when I was little and it had a tiny set of cogs in it, so when you rolled it along the table it’s wings flapped. It was the best.
Incidentally I think the US has Irn Bru on the banned list too because Scotland refuses to give up the ‘secret ingredient’. (It’s GIRDERS!)
(Not really.)
I want a kinder egg for Christmas and a naff 70s jumper with reindeers on it.
When I was young I loved the chocolate in them, I do even now. Considering they’re like a buck and it’s not much chocolate, I still got them all the time. In fact I bought one yesterday.
Anyway I tend to do a big LCBO shop when I visit home, especially for the holidays, so I’ll check out chocolate stuff. I generally hate baileys and anything too thick and milky though, but it’s worth a try. Alcohol is always a good gift because people tend to share XD A friend of mine and her parents love baileys and put it in their coffee all the time (like every single day) so I’ll try getting her something chocolatey.
I’m still quite sure it’s illegal to mail alcohol without declaring it. However as my mom pointed out no one brings alcohol INTO the states, there’s no point. Alcohol is way cheaper there and you can buy it at the grocery store, lol. The customs people are mostly concerned with people buying booze cheap in the states and bringing it into canada to sell at a profit.
But anyway, there are plenty of Canada-only types of chocolate than I can send!
People send stuff to us all the time. The best stuff is made out of chocolate.
What! Alcohol is the best present.
Do they make chocolate flavoured alcohol?
Yes they do – it is a wine called Choco Vine. It is a product of Holland and has the taste of dutch chocolate and fine red wine. YOu can buy it at Costcos and I saw it at Walgreen last Christmas they may carry it again this year. It is delicious.
That does sound delicious! We don’t have costcos or walgreens. Wait no, we have costco, but they don’t sell alcohol. Only at LCBO. But I’ll have to check it out, it sounds very christmassy 🙂
So excited to see what everyone gets. Feel free to post eight thousand photos of your gifts, by the way!
I hate UPS, they always charge more than anyone else. For example, I can send a 13lb 16x16x16 inch box to Calif from here for under $20, the same box with UPS? $48. Yet the guy was trying to convince me that UPS prices were better than FedEx…so far…not impressed.
KyrinI use UPS a lot, they are sometimes a little more than USPS, but not usually that much more! I actually prefer them over the post office, because their rates are almost always better for heavy/large packages and insurance is included.
BUT, when you go to estimate a shipping cost on their site, they always give you the more expensive option first, and you have to scroll down more for their regular parcel/ground rate. Is it possible that happened? They aren’t always cheaper/the same price as USPS, but they are often very comparable.
The issue with UPS I find is shipping normal things! Like a letter. I don’t know about USPS but UPS’s prices are cheaper than canada post for the same services. You can ship stuff canada post slow and with no tracking for cheaper, yeah, but big expedited boxes or Xpresspost is more expensive than UPS.
