Country Style Canada is offering a free tea and tea biscuit on November 7, 2012 from 2PM-6PM.  This deal is available only at participating locations so you may want to call ahead before heading out.  The freebie is designed to bring attention to their “Win A Trip For 2 To London” contest which you can enter by “Liking” Country Style on Facebook.

I have subscribed to a number of store newsletters over the past couple of years to find out great deals in record time.  After all, it is my job to bring you the latest sales, freebies or coupons!  It is not uncommon for me to open my Inbox and find 50 or 60+ emails every morning.  Most of them are junk mail, some are so-so deals, some are fantastic discounts and a large chunk of them are contests.  Yes, it seems if a store doesn’t necessarily want to give you a good deal, they will run a contest instead.  And why not?  It makes them appear generous since a lot of these prizes are fantastic (trips, cars etc.) and they end up saving a ton of money!  It’s a lot cheaper to shell out $5000 in points to one customer than offer a $1 discount to potentially a million people. 

I tend to skip over the contest emails unless the odds are really good.  And when the odds are good it is usually a locally run contest where the prize is minimal at best.  But, hey…a small prize is better than no prize!

What about you?  Do you enter contests?  If so, how often?  Have you won any great prizes from entering contests?  Let us know!

Monopoly is back at McDonalds starting today.  Win instant prizes of free food, gift cards to SpaWish, Walmart or McDonalds, SnapFish digital photos, games and more.  Enter the codes online to be entered for sweepstakes.  See a full list of prizes here.

There will also be free codes for sweepstake entries, according to the rules, these are  “SWEEPSATMCD”, “PLYMONOPOLY”, “MCDFREECODE”, “MONOPOLYFUN”, “GOMCDONALDS”, “PLAYITATMCD”, “GOPLAYATMCD”, “CODEFORPLAY”, “TRYMONOPOLY”, “PLAYFORFREE”.

You can find the FREE Codes by “following” McDonald’s Canada on Twitter where followers will be informed about when and where they can discover and enter these codes. (Note, you can view their twitter feed without a twitter account).

Get game pieces on:  specially marked medium and large McCafé hot cups, medium and large soft drink cups, Big Mac cartons, Egg McMuffin wraps (excluding Sausage McMuffin), Angus Third Pounder cartons, Hash Browns bags, 10/20-piece Chicken McNuggets cartons, and Large Fries cartons.

With fall right around the corner, the Rideau Centre has another amazing contest for SmartCanucks readers!  Two lucky readers will each win a $100 gift card to spend at any store in the Rideau Centre. It’s easy to enter. Simply make a post in the comments section on our blog page naming an item that you’d love and the Rideau Centre store where you would find it.

Two winners will randomly be chosen from all of the responses on the  blog. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be removed. Only valid for Ottawa/Gatineau residents! The contest closes on Sunday September 30th  at 8pm EST.

Click here to browse the Rideau Centre stores!

• Age of majority only
• Canada only no purchase is necessary to enter, odds of winning are dependent on number of entries received.

Buy  a participating pack of Orville Redenbacher’s  popping corn and get a $5 coupon for Hasbro board games (expires July 2013) and enter the PIN from the packaging online for a chance to win$5000 or an instant win prize of

• 1 of 10 $250 Hasbro Game Night prize packs
• 1 of 1,000,100 coupons for a free pack of popcorn

This popcorn is currently on sale for $3 at Walmart.

Thanks for letting us know this offer is back again scbpooh.

For those who entered the contest to receive a free sample from Garnier we blogged about here, many members received an email before the contest was over saying they had won the grand prize.

It was clear by just the number of SmartCanucks members that this was an error, many of us received an email stating we had won one of seven $100 Lululemon gift cards and a full size lotion, which is the week 4 prize.

Last night, Garnier sent these ‘winners’ an email stating:

We understand your disappointment and appreciate your patience. In gratitude for your loyalty to Garnier, a voucher for a FREE full-sized (400 ml ) bottle of our new Garnier Body Intensive 7 days will be sent directly to your home within the next two weeks.

Good for them trying to make it right instead of just saying ooops, sorry.

Boo must be delirious because he seems to think he is a genie and can grant wishes to lucky Smart Canucks’ readers.

All you have to do is reply to this post (once per IP address) before Thursday 13th September at 11:59 p.m. Eastern with the following wishes and someone will win the $10 gift card of their wish.

I wish for a $1 coupon for … (insert product)

I wish I could find …. (insert product) on sale this week

I wish for a $10 gift card to …  (insert store)

His genie powers are obviously limited since he can’t make unicorn coupons appear, but maybe the stores will listen to what we want.  Winner will be chosen using a random number generator on Friday 14th September.  Your correct email must be used when posting in order for us to contact you (name in first box, email in second).  Winners will be given 24 hours to respond or a replacement winner will be chosen.

For more chances to win, more winners will be chosen in our matching forum contest here.

• Age of majority only
• Canada only no purchase is necessary to enter, odds of winning are dependent on number of entries received.
• Potential winner will be required to answer a skill testing question.
• You must use a valid email so I can contact you with details on how to claim your prize. Persons who enter with an alias(fake) email will forfeit their prize and a new winner will be drawn.

This contest has now ended and the winner is Val (post 89)

Garnier are offering 20,000 samples of Body Intensive 7 Days Lotion to Facebook users who enter their contest.  It is a simple quiz about your lotion needs.

Enter at Garnier Canada’s Facebook Page

BUMP! *******The contest closes soon, so be sure to enter!*******

•To promote their Back-to-School Sale, Old Navy is hosting yet another contest for Smartcanucks members!
•Entering is easy.
•Choose 3 items from the kids’ collection (girls, boys, toddler girls & boys) that you believe are must-haves to get your child ready for the new school year.
•Then all you need to do is come back here and make a post in the comments section on our blog page, telling us which ones you love most!
•THREE winners will be randomly chosen from all of the responses on the blog. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be removed.
•Good luck!
•Open to Canadian residents only, including Quebec.
- Contest closes on Thursday August 15th at 6pm EST.
•The Old Navy Back-to-School Sale also ends on August 15th so head on over and start shopping!

Enter for your chance to win a Cuisinart compact blender from Cuisinart Canada!

Just fill in this simply survey before August 15th for your chance to win (retail value $80.00)!

Thru August 5th spend $10 and receive a free body mist when you present your coupon.  I might pop in-store and grab this offer up.

Click here to print off coupon.

The London 2012 Olympics start tonight with the opening ceremonies and The Bay is showing its pride for Team Canada with an array of Team Canada apparel and a contest on facebook to win a $100, $250 and $500 Bay gift card. Just go to Bay Facebook contest to enter.

And we can’t forget about the sales  –  60% off swimwear and coverups on sale for 3 days only! And a big clearance sale on women’s wear, men’s wear, shoes and home goods. I was there the other day – got some great stuff.

This weekend only:  Fri July 27th – Sun July 29th – Receive a $25 savings card when you spend $75 or more (before taxes) in store and online.

So show your support of our men and women in London…enter now!

Go Canada Go !!!!!!!!!

Pet lovers this is for you……

PetSmart is having their biggest sale of the year plus they are offering the chance to win $250,000. Enter the sweepstakes by shopping with your Pet Perks card or by going online daily to enter. Grand prize is a trip for 2 to LA where you will meet Bret Michaels and compete in a shopping challenge to win $250,000. Other prizes include a Bret Michaels acoustic guitar, $50 PetSmart gift cards, PetSmart grooming, food and more. Contest is open to residents (18 years and older) of Canada (excluding Quebec).

See the fine print for specific details on the prizes.

Check out the sale flyer for your specific area.

Until August 31st, BudgetAir.ca has a great contest to get you away to San Diego!

The prize consists of a $500 travel voucher towards a flight to San Diego, plus three nights at the four-star Westgate Hotel; dinner and tickets for the San Diego Zoo.

Click here to enter this contest

Become the around-the-yard-hauling-machine you always wanted to be! Enter to win yourself a 2012 Dodge Ram!

This truck, valued at $32,000, is up for grabs in Lowe’s “Haul in a Ram” contest.

Contest is open until September 30, 2012 and one entry is permitted per person. Click here for full contest rules.

Click here to enter to win!