Archive for the ‘coupons’ Category

Coupon Ethics – a follow up

As I mentioned back in this post, while still couponing, I have not been as active on couponing networks.  Fed up of many having no ethics when it comes to clearing shelves, taking whole pads of coupons, editing printable coupons using photoshop after it expires to extend the date or terms, copying printed coupons etc [...]

My Shoppers Drug Mart Redemption

I usually use my redemptions to buy stuff I want buy am not crazy enough to pay for, or to treat myself to new makeup/perfume but this time I decided they had some great grocery deals that I could stock up on as well as a few bits we needed.

Simply Food Burgers $6.99
Simply Food Chicken [...]

Coupon Ethics

No blog for a while, I guess I needed to formulate this in my head before putting it in print.  I know there are many sites out there with articles and blog posts on ethical couponing, so it is not new and will probably never change.  Free is no longer good enough, people need to [...]

MultiBionta BzzKit Arrived

Well, it arrived last week and I have been lazy in updating (and it took me a few days to go and get it from the post office because my mailman is lazy and left a note saying I wasn’t here when I was ~shakes fist at Canada Post~).  This is an amazing package from [...]

February Savings in Review

February update: I did stock up on some items this month but mostly it was just savings on groceries.
Purchases:

Regular Prices: $1,174.54
Shelf Prices: $636.24
Coupons $220.29
Discounts/Gift Cards $82.35
Spent $333.60

Money ‘Made’

Swagbucks $25 Amazon
Surveys $15 ( $5 Amazon and $10 Paypal)
Rebates $105.29
3 free coffees & 2 donuts from Tim Hortons (he really needs to stop buying coffee every day)

Found the $3 Eversleek coupons!

I have mentioned several times how much I like L’oreal Everpure and the new Eversleek products so I was very happy to see that there was a $3 coupon to be used on any of their line this month, yet no one had found the coupon.  A fellow SmartCanucker mentioned finding them at a Rexall [...]

New Coupon Organiser

In December I switched to a binder system for my coupons, but recently I have found it was getting very heavy and difficult to carry around.  Another SmartCanucker had bought a coupon organiser from glowgirl16 on Etsy and I was wary of it as they looked tiny and I have my huge binder.  Recently, we [...]

Terrible customer service at Shoppers Drug Mart

Shoppers Drug Mart have a great promo on today, if you spend $50 you get the choice of 10x points or a $20 gift certificate.  Their gift certificates are usually very short on the expiry date as they are not an actual gift card so of course I wanted the points (plus you get points [...]

$40 Groceries for Under $1

We went to Fortinos last night for most of our ‘real’ groceries since they had great deals on chicken and spent about $25 (plus $3.47 at No Frills for 20lbs potatoes)

Quinoa 378g for $2.58 (750g at Sobeys last week was $10.99)
Chicken drumsticks (10) $3.78
Chicken Thighs (4) x 2 at $2.12 and $2.13
Beef stir fry strips [...]

Multibionta 30 Days to Great Challenge

Multibionta™ (mul-ti-bee-ON-ta) is the first multivitamin in Canada that contains probiotics and we have all watched enough yogurt adverts on TV to know how important probiotics are.  In fact, 70% of your immune system resides in your digestive system so keeping it healthy will make you healthier.
I have just started using Multibionta after being lucky [...]