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Tales of Tech Love & Woe

Futureshop have an amazing Facebook App promo where you can earn Futureshop Gift Cards for doing tasks.  Join up on their facebook page here
One of the tasks (for an amazing 3 points each which will get you a $5 Gift Card) is to tell your tale of tech woe and tech love, so here are [...]

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 [...]

Shopping for Bonus Points at Shoppers Drug Mart

Shoppers Drug Mart have a promo where you get 18,500 points if you spend $75 or more.  On a bonus weekend (like this weekend coming) those points are worth $38 if you redeem at the highest level so well worth shopping.

Multibionta (to give to people from for my  bzzcampaign) $20.99 – $15 x 2
L’oreal Hair [...]

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 [...]

A good weekend for deals

The new Toonies for Tummies coupons came out this week so I popped into Longo’s last night to check and see which ones they had (and they had most of them woohoo) but even better were some of the deals.
Cat Chow Weight Management, which admittedly I would not feed my own cats, was on sale [...]

January Savings

I didn’t do any major stocking up in January, so this is mostly groceries.  I am getting back into the habit of tracking everything rather than just coupon shopping.  I notice a lot of people use the same tracker and have a coupon on every item but unless that is all junk they are eating, [...]

There’s no such thing as a free lunch?

Ummm yes there is (although it may turn into a free dinner, but I am free to use it for lunch if I want)!
Before Christmas, WagJag offered people who had liked their facebook page the opportunity to ‘choose a gift’.  Each gift contained a random gift certificate between $5 and $20.  I won $10 and [...]

$1 a day can make a huge difference!

I mean really, I spend more than that at Tim Hortons in a week (and if I go to Starbucks, I spend it in one visit!)
$5.50 is all it took to buy all of this food for the food bank (plus I got HBC Rewards points)

14 x Knorr Sidekicks @ $0.99 – 10% SPC discount [...]

I have a secret…

a chocolately caramel secret
Caramilk were giving away 5000 bags of their new ‘Caramilk Secrets’ on their facebook page and I was lucky enough to snag a bag before they were all gone.
They arrived today and are yummy (as you would expect from Caramilk) and came with a coupon for $1 off if you buy two [...]

My FREE Christmas present to myself

@Swagbucks
I was waiting for a Boxing Day Sale to buy a new monitor, the colour on my old one is getting dark.  When adding the ones I liked to my Amazon wishlist so I could easily check prices today, I came across this one on sale.  $149.99 down to $99.99.  Amazon’s sale prices can be [...]