I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it! So I had to write a blog post to let everyone know! Overstock.com now ships to Canada! It’s been in the works for a while, but while I was searching for sheets last week I came across that they started shipping to Canada very recently.
I had avoided the site for some time because It was such a tease, cheap prices and great deals but no shipping here.  I hope to find some great deals,  that  I’ve previously browsed being ”teased.”  Hopefully more retailers follow suit and will ship here!
I know some like to buy Canadian only, but me I just like getting great deals!
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been having some major technical problems on Smart Canucks. After spending loads of hours fixing and patching things with the help of my friend David, we were able to bring things back to normal!
I’m back to blogging about hot deals and freebies daily 😀
The “Submit a Deal or Freebie” form is also working now so if you come across good deals, coupons or freebies please don’t hesitate to let me know 😉
A very special thank you to MissScrooge who spent hours designing this blog and coming up with creative ideas. I’m also very excited to have the expert contester RoseofBlack. She will be sharing contests and her knowledge and experience with you. A couple of contest gurus will also be joining our editorial team soon.
I hope you find the Canadian Contests Blog useful and may the luck of the Irish be there with you 😀
I’m delighted to announce that Smart Canucks now has a new blog that will be dedicated to technology and electronics deals.
The new blog will be run by my friend David and me. Deals in the electronics and tech world change pretty fast and you’ll notice that good deals will expire in a day or two if not hours. So make sure you visit more frequently and if you come across a good deal please do let us know!
We’d also love to get your feedback and comments. What would you like to see in the new tech deals blog? How can we make it better?
Colour Design Sensational Effects Eye Shadow with Positive, Pose, Designer and Guest List
Le Rouge Absolu Reshaping & Replenishing Lipcolour SPF 15 in Creme de Marron, full size
A clear Lancome Signature cosmetics case and 3 matching gold-colour cosmetic pouches
High Resolution Fibrelastine Intensive Recovery Anti-Wrinkle Cream (15 ml jar) and High Resolution with Collaser-48 Deep Collagen Anti-Wrinkle Cream (10 ml pump).
2nd
A pendant (Sapphire & diamond accent)-gold plated sterling
(worth ~$45)
3rd
2 hand knitted Baby blankets courtesy of Julie (worth more than $40)
Dedicated to Autism Awareness.
4th
Alfred Sung Silver Bracelet (worth $20).
5th
Jeweled mini photo frame from Carlton Cards (worth $16).
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Jeweled mini photo frame from Carlton Cards (worth $16).
The blog’s commenting system is now up and running again 🙂
We tried to recover as many lost comments as possible. If your comment still doesn’t show I’m sorry you’ll have to post it again. Things are working perfectly fine now.
If you’ve left a comment on one of the posts here on SmartCanucks.ca and it hasn’t shown I’m very sorry about that. For some reason, most comments are getting marked as spam even if they’re not. I’m working on fixing this right now.
When it’s 50 days to Christmas (November 5th I believe), I’ll post an interesting video, picture or commentary each day for all of us to enjoy 🙂 It may funny, nostalgic, weird, dramatic or whatever!
The ideas will be contributed by members of the forum, blog readers or other bloggers. If you have an interesting submission or would like to contribute please email me your idea to [email protected]. If you’re a blogger I’ll add a link back to your blog when I publish your Christmas post.
As for the SmartCanucks.ca blog in general, I’d love to get suggestions on what you’d like to see on the blog. What do you like? what do you hate about the blog? Suggestions are more than welcome 🙂
Do you own a own a cute pet or does a family member or close friend own one? If you do, you could win the Smart Canucks Cutest Pet Contest and receive a FREE gift
Submissions open from now till October 24, 2007.
From October 25 – 31, 2007 all Smart Canucks get to vote for the cute pets. The top 15 winners receive a prize each. Prizes:
1st – $20 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card 2nd – $15 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card 3rd – $10 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card 4th – $5 CARA gift card 5th – $5 CARA gift card 6th – 1 Engalnd magnet (you get to choose the magnet first) 7th – 1 Engalnd magnet (choose next and so on) 8th – 1 Engalnd magnet 9th – 1 Engalnd magnet 10th – 2 SmartCanucks magnets 11th – 2 SmartCanucks magnets 12th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet 13th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet 14th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet 15th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet
This new little Baby Girl so tiny small and neat And especially magic makes your family complete No words could ever relay or truly express The wishes sent for you at this time of happiness She′s shining an Angel with a tiny sweet nose So completely made up ten fingers, ten toes She′s laughter and teardrops so small and brand new And amazingly angelic and she′s sent to bless you She′s one special Baby the best of life′s treasure And she′ll surely bless you loving family pleasure.
Here’s what Jim had to say on his blog:
Lot’s of new baby photos on my wife’s flickr if you’re into that sort of thing.
EDIT: We’ve actually decided against Virginia. She’s had the name for two days and it just didn’t seem to fit. Plus, people are already giving her annoying nicknames that we don’t approve of like “Ginny.†The official name (we’ve already written it on the Health Card app, so there’s no going back now) is Emily Jennifer Jane.
Just a heads up for the next time you forget your cell phone at home. As of last week, the cost of a local call on a Bell Canada payphone is 50 cents. I think it’s safe to assume that other payphone companies will follow.
It’s a been a long time coming — not only has there not been an increase in payphone costs since 1981 (back then they were a dime) but competition from mobile phones has pretty much rendered the standard payphone obsolete. They’re really only there for the small percentage of the population that hasn’t gone cellular yet and for when the rest of us forget our mobile devices on the charger at home.
In a different age I could see a lot of people getting bent out of shape about this, but really – does anyone care that the cost of a phone call has doubled?
Do you have a son, daughter, grandchild, sibling, nephew, niece or cousin that was born in 2007 or 2006? If you do, they could win the Smart Canucks Cute Baby Contest and receive a FREE gift
Submissions open from now till May 31st, 2007
First week of June all Smart Canucks members will vote for the cute babies.
Prizes:
1st place: $25 Shoppers Drug Mart or Indigo/Chapters or Cara gift card 2nd place: $20 Shoppers Drug Mart or Cara gift card 3rd place: $15 Cara gift card 4th place: $10 Shoppers Drug Mart or Cara gift card 5th place: $10 Shoppers Drug Mart or Cara gift card
I chose these gift cards because they’re all Canadian companies. I like Cara because you can use their gift cards at several restaurants including Swiss Chalet, Montana’s, Kelesy’s, Second Cup and Harvey’s.
How to join the contest
1. You need to sign into the forum. If you’re not a member you can register here.
2. Go to Upload an Image. A new form will show up. Use that form to upload your images.
3. Now that you’ve uploaded the image go to Your Images. Copy the code next to “BB Code IMGâ€, reply to this thread and paste the code you copied in your reply message.
You also need to provide the following information:
Baby name or nickname or initials (full name is not required for privacy reasons)
Gender
Month and year of birth (day not necessary)
Your relationship to the baby
4. You can upload several photos of your baby but you can only officially use one for the contest. However you can refer members to the other photos if that will help you get more votes .
I just finished upgrading the blog and I also changed the template. The new template has two sidebars instead of one so there’s more space for for adding other useful stuff in the sidebars 🙂
During the upgrade I lost about 10 comments from the last two days. I’m terribly sorry about that. It was purely unintentional.
Please let me know what you think of the new design and what you’d like to see in the sidebars 🙂
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