The power of Smart Canucks.

A true story written by one very lucky member of a Canadian messaging board smartcanucks.ca


The week of June 1st, I put out a plea to trade anyone coupons for Canadian Tire money, I wasn't expecting much, maybe 5-6$ total, but smartcanucks.ca proved me wrong. And the power of random acts of kindness (RAOK) really moved my world.

My Lilman's birthday was coming up, he was going to be the BIG 5!!!!!!!!!!! And as all mom's to older children, birthdays are expensive. His wishlist was a bike, and lego. Not much right? However that's easily $150.00 +!!

I traded with awesome members, who not only sent their trades of generous amounts of Canadian Tire money, but well wishes and handmade birthday cards. One member also raided her husband's CT stash just to trade with me :) A friend who has known Lilman all his life, her and her family generously donated $50.00, my neighbour also donated CT $, and $20.00, plus a bag full of lose pennies!



Not all donated is photographed, about 3 trades are missing of canadian tire money.

this is my son and his FIRST bike I purchased...



It ended up being WAY too big, and WAY to heavy for him to control, so after his sister hopped in a picture too (notice the socks and sandles? It was a scramble to get outside to try it out!! LOL)

we decided we'd return it and get something better suited for a new two wheel rider, and it was the BEST choice, because today, we came back with this:


and the rear view :


And it cost the same as the first picture, but this on is a Schwinn It rocks! I like it much better (has mommy approved handlebars ) and he LOVES it.

I couldn't have asked for a better outcome, Thank you so much for making my son's 5th birthday a HIT! It went over well and I saved a lot of money, making it even better with 2 other smaller gifts he wanted and a yummy cake!!!




Can't you feel their summer spirits??


THANK YOU SC FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


From,

The beautiful house

free hot chocolate sample

Right click! and enjoy!
http://www.malcolms.ca/freesample.html

proplan cat food

free sample and high value coupon ($10) but this stuff is expensive!

ENJOY! and right click pls!

http://www.purina.ca/products/cats/pro-plan/sampling.aspx

Ikea woes

Customer service sucked
Stock sucked
Delivery SUCKS.
Ikea might be on my totally sucky list from now on..

I went there yesterday with my 3 year old and my Man, and this was the FIRST time ever (yes I know, sad, but what can I do?) I went into a store, looking for a large purchase to buy with cash in hand. I walked in wanting to purchase a double bed, with a mattress.. we walked through the sunday shoppers, and made our way to the beds.. We had already picked out the model, of bed, just needed to find the right mattress, and then the waiting started... First, second and third choice were sold out, and what do you know so is the size of bed we want. Funny, thursday they said they were getting double shipment.

I looked at the customer service girl, and kinda went off! I told her I was in thursday, sold out, and now sold out. I said a few more random words then followed suit of my 3 year old and we parked our butts on (a very uncomfortable) mattress and a couple behind us said "If you are looking for customer service come during the week, they don't care here"

I sent my Man in to do the talking after we both decided on a QUEEN sized bed! YAHOO! and voila 30 min later, we had a piece of paper saying we wanted a bed and mattress and they wanted $580.00 (before tax ofcourse) from us. We couldn't stuff it in the car, so we opted for shipping. WHOA. We waited in line for another 30 minutes to get the shipping organized and pay..
WHAT...
$704.12 LATER!!!!!!!!!! I mean $69.00 for delivery? I almost died.

My last words said in Ikea were
"Excuse me, I need to get out of here" while I was trying to get through a line..

Everyone else shopping there was pleasent and happy and not frazzeled.. I walked out of there hot, red faced and my hair a mess!

I too want to be a happy Ikea shopper... But after that.. I don't think I want to go in.. Lucky my Man said he'd go in after work to pick up our dressers...

UGH

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Want to try out some granola bars that are REALLY good for you?

I just got my FPC coupon in the mail today!! :)

(right click please!!!!)

How do you recycle?

We recycle on a daily basis, from our drinking straws (washed) to juice boxes, cartons, paper, envelopes, and pop bottles!

In QC, we pay a $0.05 deposit whenever we buy bottled pop, and if we return it, we get that five cents back!! So in the begining when we got our blue bins, I was just poppin' the bottles in the bin, and either they'd get recycled, or someone who collects them (which happens ALL the time, people going threw bins to get the bottles) would take them. I tried to keep the bottles, but they'd get too much and I'd never remember to return them!!

I recently cleaned out my water closet and donated a bunch of things to the local St. Vincent du Paul so I had room, I've been collecting our bottles (No we don't ransak others bins) for about a month and have 5.5 black trash bags full!!!!!!!! five cents times A LOT is money in the bank for the little ones.. It doesn't seem like a lot, but one, we are recycling, and two its "free" money to put in their bank

How can that not be a bargin?

Freebie Run!

Grabbed:
1x FPC Herbal Essences Conditioner (From a trade! )
3x Satin Care (1.97/ea used $2 save.ca satin care)
4x Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Gel refills (2/$5, Used 3x $3 printable and 1x $2 from a trade) -- Funny thing is.. I don't even have the starter kit, so I have the gels, but no handle
2x Arm and Hammer toothpaste (BOGO FREE, used .75 coupon)

It was a good day!! And even though I was ontop after using the Scrubbing bubbles $3, I wasn't hassled! So I just ended up paying tax, and 1.25 for the toothpaste.. ah gotta love smart shopping!!

What $25.66 looks like in a coupon home....

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3 different stores, $25.66 after taxes and... Coupons! LOL
8 Packs of Juice boxes, and the three jugs of Purex cost 19.50$, and the Dawn, and Straws were from Giant Tiger for .99 after coupons, and the Pledge, Satin Care, Arm and hammer tooth paste (used 3x .75 coupons on the bogo sale at zellers ) were from Zellers, that purchase was $6 and change, with the FPC's and $2 satin care!

I'm beat

Herbal Essences Oh yeah baby

We had to run to dollarama, and we ran into loblaws afterwards because I remembered their $1.88 Herbal Essences deal..



So I grabbed:
12x Bottles of shampoo and conditioner 22.56
1x bag of sealtest milk (not pictured) 5.58
2x Froot Loops boxes 5.98 (not pictured)
4x Oasis 3.76 (not pictured)
(plus, bottle of PC Cola)
total: 37.88

USED:
1x $5.00 Sealtest coupon
6x .50 herbal essences
2x BOGO Herbal essences
1x $2 WUB2 Kelloggs cereal

Total After Coupons: $24.12
Total saved : 13.76$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe the herbal essences deal, my deal worked out to be $1.31 a bottle! I thought a 2/$4 deal was awesome! The sealtest coupon I received through requesting it, and yeah, froot loops really isn't the best cereal, but Princess just went through a 4 day hunger strike because her body wasn't injected with sugar first thing.. and I bought them so she would eat something.. LOL

FREEBIE ALERT!

Remember to right click to open in a new tab or window..or you won't get it!

Free Kashi Granola Bars

Yum!!

I spent under 50$ on *PIC* and used $23.47

These are the items I used coupons on, all these except the Dawn and Glade FPC were from trades. I got the best deal at Zellers though. I got the shoes, Pledge, and Glade got 5.10 for SPC discount, plus after that used the FPC's! $16.06 was the savings all together! I only spent 39.50 tax inclu (but not charged on the fpc's!!) And the money used was given to me to buy the shoes, thanks to my Man :)
Grabbed the dawn and always at G.T's.
The ginger ale was 2/$3 at IGA, I had 4 buy 2, save $1 schewpps, so I got 8 bottles for $8.00. The bread was free too, I used a FPC from an extra in a trade and its so yummy!! Oasis ended up .49 after sale and coupon, Then got 1 airmile (whoo hoo.....) lol. And Yes. I CLEARED THE SHELVES for the Schwepps But kindly told the stocker that I did, and he restocked it right away! Now thats awesome service!

I had a great time, weather was nice, the kids were well behaved and we came back all in one peice, and no one was full of mud or ate dirty snow!

I call this a sucessful day

*warning, I'm renting, the countertops are in NO way a reflection of me, or anyone who resides in this hell hole, As goes for the "cupboards"*

So no savings today, or yesterday!!! Shocking huh?

Well we weren't feeling so hot, so we stayed in,but yesterday, we ventured outside in the beautiful weather soaking it in! I managed to get some nice shots!!

Introducing Princess..


Introducing LilMan





heh.. I saved her from getting soaked!



Until next time biotches

Walmart.. No Coupons Used :)

So on Fri. I have a very important date with a judge and my fantastic lawyer (and my ex and his lawyer) and I was scouring walmart to see if there was anything I could scoop up.. I only found shoes but DF got them for me, so I started looking at the kids section and found some AWESOME deals for LilMan and Princess!!

I got:












White and black runners $5.00
Tan/Pink runners $5.00
Black Winter boots $5.00 (I'm going to go again, to look for a larger size for next winter I Love them!!)
Black cords $2.00
2 long sleeved boys shirts $1.00 each
1 short sleeved rock n roll all over print boys shirt $1.
Polka dotted pink shirt $3.00
White long sleeve shirt $2.00

TOTAL: $24.00


23$ bones for 3 pairs of shoes, 5 tops and 1 pair of pants!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGoodness!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were all in the clearance sections, I was surprised, as we went to a fairly new walmart that NEVER has any clearnace deals.

Walmart and Zellers

Walmart has a sale on Royale Toilet Paper for $4.00 use your save.ca cpn get 12 double rolls for $3.00

Zellers has Cottonelle toilet paper on sale 6 double rolls for $3.00 use your 1.00$ cpn off 6pk or larger and get it for $2.00!!

Giant Tiger!

So I was just at their flyer and saw the crest pro-health toothpaste for 1.68$ less your .50 save.ca spn thats 1.18$ a tube.. and its really good toothpaste :) Thats a steal since I just spent 2.50 with a cpn on saturday... *sigh*

duh!

First off, I have to pay my respect and condolences to my step-family. My two step-brothers who shall be referred to by M and S, tragically lost their Mother Jackie Hiemstra on February 21, 2009. She is watching her family now in a safe place. I cannot imagine the pain that M and S are feeling right now, I just want them to be okay.

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Walmart has a good sale on this weekend, some of the flyer contents are listed here and another great thread listed here and it lists which coupons to use at what store on what item!

So far this weekend, I'll be heading to walmart. Grabbin' up 4 pks. of 24-roll Royal TP (96 rolls !! ) for $12! And then some Scott Paper towels they are 2/$5 and I have $1. off cpns for them, so most likely I'll grab 3 pks. and spend $9! We go through a lot of paper towels its crazy! And this sale is just in time, and I'm running low!

Thank goodness I cleaned out my water closet, I have room to store the craziness! 5 black garbege bags later, and 3 large toys donated to my local St. Vincent du Paul.

Now go. run. Hug your mamas, hug your children. Life is short and we should live for today.


Happy kids and smiling lunches..

Lunch gets boring. . . Big time! I'm bored of making the same requests.. so sometimes to change it up, I get creative..




The kids love it, and I'm not repeating things a bazillion times like "sit and eat!" Grated cheese is a "treat" I guess in little kid land, eating itty bitty foods are fun! I also make food on a stick.. lol Cheese cubes, meat cut in cubes, grapes, melon etc.. they enjoy that too! Sandwiches make for awesome ears, and eyes, hot dogs work for smiles!

Just a little Deal I snagged today..

I had to get a prescription filled today, so I took the kids out for a quick 45 min quick trip! Ofcourse, I stopped in Zellers and grabbed a few things:


3x Dawn $3.00
2x crayons $4.38
8x Campbells soup (kids were hungry 1 missing ) 5.36$
1x fusion power razor 10.97
Total: 23.71
used:
3x .50 dawn cpns
1x 10.00 fusion razor from a trade
-2.40 SPC %
Total cpns/spc: $13.90

Total Spent before taxes: 9.81 (11.89 incl)

I wish I had some campbells coupons then I could have saved a lot more, so not much a brag, but still good considering if none of it was on sale, it would have cost: 18.73 before taxes!

My man and I had an awesome haul this weekend when I did groceries! I managed to get $263.78 worth of groceries (on sale, before cpns) for $117.33 after cpns! It was amazing, a few free things, groups of 4 items (Quaker snacks) for 1.68 with tax!!! Oasis 100% juice for .99! Which was AWESOME as it is, had a few .75c off cpns too. Stocked the cabinets, fridge and freezer FULL!!!!!!!!!

Positive.

I was talking with someone in my family I haven't spoken to in a while. Its nice to throw in a fuck or two, say jesus christ without saying "sorry.." we have an odd relationship, on and off. She loves me. I know she does. I love her so much. She's been there for me in so many ways. When I was a young girl, I often thought how much I wanted to be like her. Once I changed into big girl panties, and made my very.own.descisions. things went sour. I quickly realized how I am so thankful I'm not like her.

But she is wise. She is smart and beautiful. She taught me there are no boys colours, girls can wear jeans, and once you pay your own rent, Skittles, ice cream and a nice glass of white wine is allowed w.h.e.n.e.v.e.r. you want!! She gave comfort when needed, made you feel like shit when needed, and she always gives good advice.

The recent advise was about thinking positive. I know my mama has said many times all the wonderful things that can come from thinking positive. But this person spoke in a different way, a different tone, and I hung up the phone knowing, positive thinking brings positive behavior. It will also push those negative people out of the way because they can't stand anything but. So positive I shall be.

Supah'mom shall be positive, I shall be me.

Be who you are. Think positive. I promise.. Good things will happen.







“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
Oprah

Saved big today!!

Hey everyone! I took the kidlets out today, after battling with 2 pairs of my DS's pants, we had to get a few more, so at Zellers I got:


2 pairs of huskey boys jeans 50% off = 9.97 ec
2/5$ Glade refills = 5.00
6 kids VHS $1.00 = 6.00 (1 not pictured)
also got but not pictured:
2/5 Herbal Essences = 5.00
2/3 mr clean products = 3.00
and a few other things..

Used:
3x.50 off herbal essences
BOGO Glade coupon (but cashier took off 4.19, the reg. price, not sale! we were talking and she was distracted!)
2x1.00 mr.clean coupons


Total before tax/coupons/spc for my entire purchase: $52.09
Total after tax/coupons/spc for my entire purchase: $40.30
Saved: $11.79!!!!!!!!!

Savings from items on sale: $31.44 + Coupons/spc = 43.23!!!

Savings to be had!

Here are some sales to use with coupons to grab you some great deals.. freebies and almost free!

We'll start with Giant Tiger:
Tampax Pearl 4 ct $1.26 - Use $1.00 brandsaver cpn w/o restrictions = .26!!!!
Puffs plus with lotion 72ct box 1.38 - Use .50 cpn = ,88!!!!!!!
Jergens Natural Glow facial lotion 1.97 - Use 2.00 cpn makes it = FREE!!!!!!!!
Dawn Dish Soap 325ml .97 - use .50 cpn = .47!!!!!!!!!!!

Zellers: (Remember to use your SPC discount!!)
Easy Ups 16.97 = $3.00 cpn = 13.97!!!
Gerber Graduates Puffs 3/6.99 - $1/WUB2 = 5.99
Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, All Bran 1.97 box - Use $2/WUB2 = 1.97 for 2 boxes!!!!!!!
Charmin toilet paper 8.97 - use .50 cpn = 8.47
Crest ProHealth toothpaste 1.97 - use .50 cpn 1.47!!!!!!!
Fusion Razor 10.97 - 10.00$ cpn or 5.00 cpn = FREEE!!! or 5.97!!!
Dawn 325ml 1.00 - .50 = .50!!!!!!!!!

Shoppers DrugMart:
Cheerios cereal 1.97 - 1.00 general mills cpn = .97!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, in Aylmer, on Saturday the 21st, there are selected items up to .75% off!! Take a look! Might be worth it atleast for the points!

Tomorrow I'll be trekking to Giant Tiger to get some dawn dish soap, the jergens lotion (getting atleast 1 for FREEE!!!!) and a few other things, saturday will be shoppers, loblaws, Zellers and sunday walmart!

Oh I love shopping sprees without spending loads of money! Stay tuned for PICS!

Giant Tiger Deal

A great way to add to a beautiful day for me is shopping! and of course, that means coupons! Hey - what can I say I'm addicted! We headed to Giant Tiger,

I got :











Ack!! Please look past the fingerprints!! I have a 3 year old and a 4 year old who just had lunch !!


for:
Dawn dish soap .97 x 3 = 2.91
Tampax Pearl 1.26 x 3 = 3.78
Cute spring flats $5.00 (reg. 14.97) - orange sticker

Cpns used:
3 x.50 dawn = $1.50
2 x 1.25 any tampax pearl= $2.50
1 x 1.00 any tampax pearl = 1.00
$10.00 off the shoes (they were not there 3 days ago!)

Total Savings: $15.00
Total Spent: $6.69!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Herbal Essences WOM

This offer is closed now, :( I haven't recieved that lovely pink envie though :( I haz the sadz. BUT, I did score on a loblaws deal, and did manage to trade with someone at Smart Canucks and got a FPC that way.. I LOVE the new Hydralicious line! Its wonderful, the shampoo is out of this world thick, and does wonders with my hair!
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So everyone, the fantastic WOM company has another promotion!!
Fill out your information here matchstick will contact you if you qualify and you could receive coupons for Herbal Essences New Hydrolicious Line! Ofcourse I've filled it out, 1. because Herbal Essences is my line of hair care to use in the shower, I love it!! It leaves my hair silky smooth and very manageble! 2. because Matchstick.ca is an awesome company to spread the word about new and upcoming products!!

Take a look and you could be lucky, and if not, my fave save.ca site has a coupon for herbal essences you can get some great savings on and try it out anyways!!

Good Luck everyone!




Alright, here are some links that could get you started by weeks end if you order today.

RIGHT CLICK THESE LINKS and open in a NEW tab or window, or else the sites could track you back to this blog and not send them out...

www.save.ca/en/
Dawn dishwashing soap .50 (get at Giant Tiger for .97 after cpn .47!!)
.50 off Herbal Essences shampoo, conditioner or styling product!
$10 when you buy 3 OLAY products (watch for other posts to get some killer deals!)

www.save.ca/proplanselects/
$3.00 off busy bones dog treats (get at food basics, walmart, loblaws for freee!!!!)
Free Product Coupon for Purina Wet cat food tin!!!!!!!!!!!

www.save.ca/snacksthatfit/
Quaker snacks!! the sweet and salty bars can be found at walmart for $1.00 a box! Buy 4 with this coupon and get them for FREE!!

What can 9.74$ buy you?

A lot! Today we all headed out to Zellers and grabbed their awesome sale on Mr. Clean Magic erasers and antibacterial wipes! They have their wipes, erasers and cleaning fluid on sale for 2 for $3.00.

I used the save.ca coupons available here that I've saved and traded for a while, and scored!

I grabbed:
12 boxes of wipes
6 boxes of erasers


after coupons and SPC discount I spent 8.10$

We had a little problem at the cash.. but I walked away happy! So no need to vent!

Thanks for looking!