Thanks Cloudie for suggesting this deal.

RBC is having a promotion similar to TD Bank’s iPod promo last year, except that the freebie is a laptop, not an iPod.

Open an RBC Signature No Limit Banking account and get a free Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Laptop from RBC.

Qualifying Steps:

Open a new RBC Signature No Limit Banking  account or RBC VIP Banking account between May 1 and September 12, 2008 and complete the following steps by October 31, 2008.

1. Use CustomSwitch to transfer your account balance and any pre-authorized payments from another Canadian financial institution.
2. Transfer or set up at least two pre-authorized payments from your new account.
3. Transfer your automated payroll direct deposit or monthly pension direct deposit to your new account. If you don’t have an automated payroll deposit, they can discuss other options.
4. Select paperless statement option on your new account.
5. Pay at least one bill through RBC Royal Bank Online Banking from your new account.

Once you qualify

RBC will contact you via mail at the address in their files when you have met all of the required criteria. A confirmation number will be provided for you to confirm your shipping address and language of choice.

You must keep your account open until at least December 2008

Evaluation of this Promo

For a signature account there is a monthly charge of $13.95.

Let’s say you sign up immediately in May. You must keep your account open until at least December 2008. That’s 8 months.  i.e. $13.95 x 8 months = $112

The Asus Eee PC currently costs $299. You’ll end up paying $112 for it instead which is an awesome deal. Of course the whole process is a pain and a waste of time and if you value your time you may decide against it.

Click here for more details on this RBC Free Asus Eee PC Laptop

Team Fortress 2 is one of my favourite games (behind Unreal Tournament) and I can’t believe that we’ll be able to play Team Fortress 2 with the new Gold Rush upgrade for FREE this weekend! 🙂

From May 2 – 4 play the full game for free:

1. Install Steam
2. Create an account
3. Play TF2 for free

Be warned… Once you try Team Fortress 2 for free this weekend you’ll end up buying the game. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Click here for more details on playing Team Fortress 2 for free

Thanks Sweetpea for suggesting this freebie 🙂

Sample includes (1) POWERBAR Sport bar and (1) POWERBAR Gel pack.

Only while supplies last, offer expires May 30, 2008. Limit of (1) per household. Available for residents of Canada only.

Click here to order your free PowerBar samples

Thanks Jellybean for suggesting this freebie!

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 is “Free Comic Book Day” which means that you can receive a couple of free comic books from many participating stores. You’ll almost certainly find a store nearby (I found 3 in Kingston).

Click here to find your nearest local participating comic store

[pic by St-Even]

TTC passholders affected by last weekend’s sudden walkout by 9,000 transit employees are being refunded for the two days’ lost travel time.

The refunds will consist of the following:

• April Adult Metropass – $7.50
• April Adult Metropass Discount Plan (MDP) – $7.00
• April Adult VIP – $6.50
• Adult Weekly Pass – Week 17 – $9.50
• April Senior/Student Metropass – $6.50
• April Senior/Student MDP – $6.00
• Senior/Student Weekly Pass – Week 17 – $7.50
• GTA Pass – Week 17 – $7.50
• Day Pass – if marked April 25th only – $3.00

Click here for more details at CityNews

Thanks Filza for the lovely freebie 🙂

Here’s what Filza had to say:

Fantasy Fair is an entertainment park in Woodbridge, GTA. It is included in General Mills free pass to fun venues. While browsing the website I saw that ALL MOMS CAN RIDE FREE ON SAT MAY 10, so i thought it’s a great freebie and you can publish on the blog.

Click here for more details on this Fantazy Fair Moms freebie

Thanks Tanya M for suggesting this surveys website.

I’ve never personally heard of this Surveys company before. Here’s what Tanya said:

I joined this not too long ago, and got a survey today about printers.. reward is $10.00 us!! i would join!!

Click here to sign up with The Socratic Forum

Thanks Craig B. for emailing me about this freebie.

On Tuesday April 29th, 2008 you can get a free cone from Ben & Jerry’s as part of their annual free cone day. This year marks their 30th birthday.

This is a list of all the Scoop Shops in Canada. They are listed by province.

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Thanks Jinny for suggesting this freebie 🙂

This isn’t 100% free since you have to pay $1 for shipping. But for $1 you get to pick two samples from a large assortments of specialty  teas. Well worth it I think.

Click here to order you “Design a Tea” samples

Thanks Tracey for emailing me about this new General Mills promo 🙂

General Mills has a great promo on called “Free Pass to Fun”. On specially marked packages there is a coupon for free admission to family attractions throughout Canada. You just clip the coupon, go to freepasstofun.ca for a list of attractions that are participating in your area (and there are LOADs of attractions in almost every region) and you’re on your way.

Click here to visit General Mills FreePassToFun.ca for more details

Thanks consumatrix for this freebie 🙂

Looks like while some companies have suffered great loses from the Biophenol A (BPA) ban, some are using it as a way of increasing their profits.

Playtex Baby is mailing out a free BPA-free Playtex Drop-Ins Original Nurser:

Click here to order your free Playtex baby drop-ins nurser

Thanks alajen for posting this on the French blog.

Stock up and get a $10 gift card. When you spend $25 or more (before tax) on participating P&G brands.

Participating stores: Atlantic Superstore, Extra Foods, Fortinos, Loblaws, Provigo, Your Independent Grocer, Zehrs, The Real Canadian Superstore and Valumart.

Participating Brands: Tide, Cheer, Downy, Profit, Bounce, Bounty, Charmin, Cascade, DawnMD, Febreze, Swiffer, Puffs and Mr. Net

Instructions:

1. Spend $25 or more (before taxes) on any of the participating P&G brands
2. Circle the purchases of the participating P&G brands* on your original cash register receipt(s) rom participating stores.
3. Complete this voucher and mail it along with your circled original cash register receipt(s) with ufficient postage to 2008 LCL Spring Cleaning Offer, P.O. Box 9977 Saint John, NB E2L 4R1

Click here to print your mail-in form

Also note that you can get LOADs of hot P&G coupons from Brandsaver to save yourself even more money.  Click here to get P&G coupons

Click here for more details on this Lobalws-P&G promo

Get a DIESEL cell phone accessory designed to hold a 1.5ml vial of Fuel for free at Sears fragnance centre.

Click here to print this DIESEL/Sears coupon

If you bring a tumbler/travel mug to any Starbucks in Canada on Earth Day, April 22, 2008 they will fill it with coffee for free! It can be any travel mug and if you use it again on subsequent days, they will give you $0.10 off your drink.

Thanks consumatrix for this freebie 🙂

Get 10 free 4×6 digital prints when you create an account (free) at Black’s Photography online.

Click here to visit Black’s Photography website