Tax season is upon us again and right now there is an offer available through Ufile.ca to save $5 off on filing your tax return online. This brings the price down to $10.95 for a single return. It’s $9 to add a spouse and any dependents are free.  In order to receive the discount make sure you use this link only.

Ufile also offers free tax returns if

• Your family income is under $20,000
• You are aged 60 years or older
• You are a post secondary student

Otherwise it’s $19.99 for the actual software in store and you can file up to 8 returns with it.

Another option is to use StudioTax software which is free regardless of your income.

Best Buy has the Init TV stand on sale for $19.99 (save $40). Best Buy offers free ship­ping on orders of $20 or more. You can also reserve this for in store pickup within 20 min­utes for free.

Prod­uct Details

• Ideal for TVs up to 32″
• One clear tem­pered glass shelf
• Smart wire-management holes help you orga­nize your other A/V components

Best Buy also has the Init 50″ Flat Panel TV Stand on sale for $129.99 (save $100). This is a scheduled delivery item because of the size, so no free shipping. You can still however, reserve for in store pickup and save on shipping if you have a way of transporting it yourself.

Product Details

• 44″ wood and glass TV stand
• Accommodates most flat-panel TVs up to 50″ and 135 lbs
• Solid wood with beautiful 11-step brown cherry finish
• 5 mm dark chocolate tempered glass shelves
• Durable chocolate powder coated steel frame construction
• Accommodates 50 lbs for the middle and bottom shelves
• Concealed cord management
• 2 excess cable gathering wheels

Enter L’Oreal Paris Canada’s instant giveaway for your chance to win one of 600 bottles of their new Precious Oils. You have until May 5th 2013 to enter to win a full sized product valued at $9.99. Click here to enter your info and see if you are a winner.

Valor Canada will soon be giving away 2000 free chocolate bars through their Facebook page. Head on over to become a fan now and watch for their giveaway. According to the countdown on their Facebook page, the giveaway should go live around February the 25th at 12pm. Click here to like their page.

The Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corp are giving away coupons for a free play on Mega Dice Lotto.  Simply fill out the form and a coupon will be emailed to you to redeem for a free Mega Dice Lotto ticket plus you will be entered to win $2000.

You must use valid information, and it much match your full name if you win.  Multiple entries per person can/will nullify all entries.  There are the usual restrictions for OLG agents and employees.

Click here to get your free ticket.  Thanks for letting us know about this deal ffleecy

The Costco weekly coupons are out, save on everything from tires to paper towel and food.

Click here to view the coupons for Ontario, Quebec & Atlantic Canada

$5 off pork loin, $4 off toilet paper, $7 off Omega-3 supplements, $3 off trail mix and more

Click here to view the coupons for BC, Alberta, Manitoba & Saskatchewan

$4 off cheese, $3 off pizza, $4.60 off Bounty, plus save on cereal, snacks more

Make your own sale at Home Outfitters with this printable coupon for 25% off a single regular priced item when you use your Hudson’s Bay Credit Card or 20% when you use any other tender.  Coupon is valid until Thursday 28 February and excludes licensed departments, Clad, Saeco, Dyson, Starbucks VerismoTM, Hudson’s Bay Gift Cards, Point of Sale Activation Cards and Online Gift Registry.

Click here to get your coupon

Mer­it­line has two packs of v1.4 five feet HDMI cables on sale for $2.99. The price for the two pack shows as $4.49, but you can apply the coupon code MLCKX25ENL1 at check­out to bring the price down to just $2.99. This code is good for a limited number of orders. It was working as of the time of this post still.

The cables also ship for free.

Mer­it­line ships from China, but because of the low price on this, it will be exempt from any duty or taxes.

HDMI Cable Specs

• Ver­sion: 1.4
• HDMI Eth­er­net Channel
• Audio Return Channel
• 10.2 GHz Bandwidth
• 3D Over HDMI
• 4K Res­o­lu­tion Support
• Expanded Sup­port for Color Spaces
• Con­nec­tors HDMI Type A 19-pin M to Type A 19-pin M
• OD:4.2
• Length: 5 feet / 1.5m

Forum member The__Rock has let us know that March 2-4 will be 18,500 bonus Optimum points when you spend $75 on almost anything in-store. I will confirm this once we get a flyer.

After a frugal February and January, I do need to stock up on some things so may do this promo if the flyer is decent, what about you?  Hopefully they have some $50 promos soon, I prefer them over 75 promos.

Have you ever liked & shared a post on facebook as a way to win a prize?  Apart from there being facebook issues with doing contests right on your wall, so many of these votes do not count because users (rightly) have all of their posts set to friends only which means the page can’t see your share.

When people share facebook posts from the SmartCanucks’ wall we can typically only see 10-20% of those shares (a reminder those who don’t set all posts to friends only, but some of them are shares to other pages) so the other 80-90% would not be counted.

For your share to be counted, you need to click the box shown, which will likely say Friends as default and choose public.  I usually go back and change them to friends after the contest is over so my page doesn’t show them publicly forever.

After our recent post & giveaway about coupon organizers from Glow Girl, some people mentioned that they remembered that I used to have a big purple binder and they were interested in how you set up one to stay more organized.  I did find it easier to actually find the coupons I wanted in my binder, but it was not practical when I often shop on my way home from work using public transit.

The pictures were taken a couple of years ago, so a trip down memory lane with the coupons

I bought this binder on clearance at Walmart for only $5, as you can see it has lots of pockets to help keep things organized and separated.

I kept my flyers in the front section (picture 2) for price-matching.

In the mesh pocket (picture 3) a scissors and some ‘thanks for the trade’ business cards from Vistaprint to throw in with trades to save writing it out each time (they gave my username, thanks for the trade and please remember to leave feedback on them).

The section behind the mesh pocket held envies (I sort coupons I know I am using with my shopping list separated by store).

Behind that, there is a 3 pocket section where I would put coupons that I found while shopping or ones I knew I was saving for people in our local trade swapping meets.

I also used a mix of baseball card holders (packs of 10 sheets at Dollarama) and Currency Holders – these are made for people who collect paper money from around the world and easily hold your larger coupons.  I paid around $15 including shipping from ebay for 20 sheets of currency holders.  Don’t put too many coupons in a pocket or the static won’t hold it closed and they will fall out (why I also chose a zippered binder).

Mine was separated into these sections: Food FPCs, Other FPCs, Food, Drink, Snacks, Pet, Beauty, Household, Other, Printables & Bonus Points, I find the more sections the harder it is to find coupons when they include a number of items etc

BOUCHERVILLE
HEMNES 6-drawer chest $189 (reg $249)
PINGLA Box with lid $2.99 (reg $8.99)

BURLINGTON
FÖRHÖJA Wall cabinet, black $8.99 (reg $19.99)
EMELINA ROS KING Duvet cover and pillowcase(s) $39.99 (reg $79.99)

CALGARY
KVISSLE White Board 80 x 74 $4.99 (reg $34.99)
BEKVÄM Kitchen cart $19.99 (reg $69.99)

COQUITLAM
ÅNN Bath faucet with strainer $49 (reg $99)
ÅNN Sink $50 (reg $100)

EDMONTON
SKOJA glass 31cl, lilac $0.50 (reg $1.99)

ETOBICOKE
HEMNES Corner work station $199 (reg $399)

MONTREAL
EMELINA ROS King Duvet cover and pillowcase(s) $39.99 (reg $79.99) or Queen $29.99 (reg $69.99)

NORTH YORK
HEMNES Bookcase $99 (reg $175)
KVISSLE White Board 80 x 74 $19.99 (reg $34.99)

RICHMOND
MÄRIT Table-runner $1.99 (reg $5)

VAUGHAN
HEMNES TV bench Black-Brown $99 (reg $175)

Click here for more details on these offers

Subway Canada have brought back the $5 footlong for a limited time.  Price is valid only on Veggie Delite, Cold Cut Combo, Pizza Sub, Ham or Egg Salad.

Want something to warm you up? The combo for a 6″ sub from the classic menu with a soup for $5 is still valid too.

Sorry if you now have the $5 foot long song stuck in your head, I know I do!

Gap Canada are offering an online only coupon code to save you 20-35% off your purchase depending on how soon you shop.  Enter GAPCDRESS at checkout to save

• 35% when you shop today
• 30% when you shop Monday 25 Feb
• 25% when you shop Tuesday 26th Feb
• 20% when you shop Wednesday 27th Feb

Not valid on the following merchandise: Leather & Suede Apparel, Women’s & Kids’ Shoes, First Favorites, Junk Food™, Beatrix Potter™ and Threadless®. Qualifying amount applies to merchandise only, not value of gift cards purchased, packaging, applicable taxes or shipping & handling charges. Offer cannot be combined with any other offers or discounts, including Gap Inc. employee discount.

Click here to shop online

Shoppers Drug Mart have new printable coupons for bonus points on Pampers products.  Both coupons are one per customer per transaction with a max of 2000BP per customer and expire April 30.

• 2000 bonus Optimum points when you buy ANY Pampers wipes
• 3000 bonus Optimum points when you buy ANY Pampers Cruisers or Swaddlers diapers

Click here to get your coupons (thanks for letting us know SFARAZ)