This is the first place Chris and I have lived in that’s had a working balcony. When we first started dating, neither of our places had balconies (although Chris’ did have a pretty nice roof top patio for the whole building to enjoy). Our first apartment was constantly under renovations, and we hardly ventured out on to that balcony at all.
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When we moved to our current place back in November, I was excited we finally had a balcony we could enjoy – with a pretty nice view to boot (we have a partial view of the CN Tower, my favourite Toronto landmark…I write partial because a good portion of it is covered by a huge hold tree...)
So when Walmart Canada asked me to take the Frugal Heroes Challenge, I pretty much knew I wanted to use the $100 to make my balcony as pretty as the view from it.
My closest Walmart is a Superstore less than a five-minute drive from my house. It’s open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and pretty much always busy. Chris and I saw chairs we liked in the weekly flyer, and I headed out alone to make the purchases one Saturday night (although I called Chris multiple times to check in with him to make sure he was OK with my decisions).Good thing too, because I packed the shopping cart – poor Hannah would have had no place to sit and wave to fellow patrons (her favourite past-time when shopping with her family).
The Garden Centre was laid out well, and even though I made my trip in the evening, where the flowers are housed was lit up well enough that I could easily see all the flowers and their gorgeous colouring. I decided on two red Impatience hanging flowers – mostly because the tags say they are low maintenance and last the spring, summer and fall. And because I found red ones – and red is Chris’ AND Hannah’s favourite colour.
I also spent some time in the seasonal section, checking out the swimming items and summer toys – but decided that at 15 months Hannah wasn’t quite old enough for sidewalk chalk or Ninja Turtle Bowling (even if I consider myself still “young” enough for both of those items).
Here is a list of items I purchased:
- One glass table
- Two red folding patio chairs
- Two hanging plants
- One watering can
- One package of Sparklers (for Victoria Day)
The total came to $97.12.
I couldn’t be more pleased with my new balcony. Everything was really easy to set up – we literally just took off the wrapping, and unfolded the table and the chairs. I love that all the furniture folds down – it will make it easier to store come winter.
So here's the big makeover reveal!
Balcony Before:
Balcony After:
If you had $100 to spend at Walmart, what would you buy?