Today is Pay It Forward Day.  SmartCanuckers are a generous bunch while being frugal.  You can find many tales of Random Acts of Kindness (RAOKs) in our bragging forum.  I know that I have received random envelopes of coupons in the mail after mentioning I needed a coupon etc, and really appreciate those RAOKs.

Today is about paying those RAOK’s forward (and hopefully passing on the trend of paying it forward, but if not, you made someone’s day).

• Buy someone a coffee
• Offer coupons to someone with no postage/coupons in return
• If you have professional skills (web design, newsletter layout, marketing advice etc), offer them to a charity or community group
• Spend an hour with an lonely neighbour
• Top up someone’s parking meter if it is close to expiring
• Pay for someone’s transit fare

You can download some Pay It Forward Day cards here to leave for the person you RAOK – help pass on the RAOKing theme.  Find out more about Pay It Forward Day here.

Now for my RAOK to you – reply to this thread letting me know how you RAOKed someone (today or in general) before midnight ET and I will choose 2 winners by random number generator to receive a $5 TimCard so you can buy someone else a coffee – and get one for yourself! (see full terms below) over

Winners have been contacted, if no reply in 48 hours, new winners will be chosen

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The Ontario Electronics Stewardship, who set the Eco Fee in Ontario, are changing their fees as of May 1st.

The biggest change is for large screen televisions (over 29″) which are increasing from $27.60 to $39.50.  There are many other small changes, including some reductions in fees

• telephones / answering machines up from $1.00 to $1.50
• personal/portable image / audio / video devices up from $0.15 to $0.75
• home audio / image / video devices (non portable) up from $5.15 to $7.10
• Computer Peripherals up from $0.30 to $0.75

Businesses will be happy to know that the very large fee for Floor-Standing Printing and Floor-Standing Copying and Multi-Function Devices is being reduced from $341.20 to $173.75.

Click here to view a full list of fee changes

Get $30 Off Orders Over $250 + Free Ship­ping on $99 at BuffaloJeans.ca! This Buf­falo Jeans is valid until Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Use promo code BUFFALO30 to get the dis­count.

Click here to shop at the Buffalo Jeans.

New coupons have been added to Garnier’s coupon & special offer portal.

• Save $3 when you buy any Ombrelle Suncare product
• Save $2 on any Fructis Style Power Gel or Power Putty

These coupons are available for mail or print via websaver.ca.

Click here to order these coupons

Save $1.00 off any Scott Tow­els product. Wait till the towels go on sale and then use that $1 coupon to save even more 😉 This Scott coupon is valid until Wednesday  May 22, 2013.

Click here to get this Scott Towels coupon

Save $1 on the purchase of any Kikkoman product with this new printable coupon available through the Smart Source coupon portal. As with all Smart Source printables, there is a limit of two prints per computer. Click here to get your coupon.

Krispy Kreme donuts is offering a free second dozen of original glazed donuts when you buy any dozen donuts at regular price. This offer is available on April 28th only and you must print and bring the coupon provided with you. The coupon was posted to Facebook.

The Fine Print

Not in combination with other offers. One coupon per customer per visit. Product may vary by market. Not redeemable at grocery/convenience stores.

Complete the form and you will gain access to a printable coupon for $1 off the purchase of Energizer MAX battery products. The coupon will be valid for two weeks from the time of printing and there is a limit of one coupon per email address. Click here to get your coupon.

Air Canada is offering 15% off flights to anywhere within Canada for a limited time. Simply use the promotion code CANADAFLY15.

Travel until June 26th and book by April 26, 2013, midnight, local time from your city of departure.

The Fine Print

This offer is available on new bookings only. The offer applies exclusively at aircanada.com on Air Canada published fares when booking on aircanada.com and cannot be combined with any other offer. When applicable, the discount applies to the base fare only, as displayed on the Review Page of the booking process. All other air transportation charges, including surcharges, and applicable taxes, fees and charges are not discounted. This offer is valid on Air Canada operated flights (includes Air Canada Express, Tier 3 and Air Canada Vacations) as indicated only. Codeshare flights are excluded unless otherwise indicated.

Sears has a good offer. Get 80% off selected items from the kitchen shop & more great deals! Get Bosch Tassimo T20 single serve hot beverage machine & free T-dISC carousel for $79.99 (regular was $149.99). This offer is valid on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.

Click here to get the Sears offer.

Unlike many people, Valery redeemed on a regular weekend when Shoppers Drug Mart had some deals she could use to maximize her redemption rather than wait for a bonus redemption weekend. Valery did two redemptions to get all of her items from Shoppers Drug Mart

Total Before Coupons $121.16 – $29.47 coupons used: Total $91.69 / Redeemed $85.00 / Total OOP $6.69
Total Before Coupons $77.81 – $17.46 coupons used: Total $60.35 / Redeemed $60.00 / Total OOP $0.35
For one of these transactions, she was also give the $10 SDM promo card and $10 TimCard despite redeeming

Click here to see all of the clearance deals she found and coupon deals she used – including her shopping at Walmart

ccmp1974 managed to score Similac formula for just $2.50 a can by combining pink sticker sales with coupons and Similac cheques this week, and got ready for next Easter while shopping!

8x $24.99 Similac – 50% off pink stickers -8x $5 coupons( doctor office) – 8x $5 cheques (mailout’s and trades) =$20 or $2.50 each can! – This ‘stacking’ was allowed as the cheques are a form of payment and not a coupon.

• 2x $0.05 Easter Cello Bags = $0.10
• 2x $0.01 Easter Colouring cup – 50% pink sticker = FREE!! (odd 50% off of a penny = free!! LOL!!) & 2x $0.01 Easter Coloring cup =$0.02
• 83x $0.05 Easter egg colour kit = $4.15 & 43x $0.05 Easter egg colour kit – 50% pink sticker = $1.29
• 2x $0.01 Easter Shaded mazes =$0.02
• 3x $0.01 Egg grippers – 50% pink sticker = FREE!! & 2x $0.01 Egg grippers = $0.02
• 2x $0.01 Easter garland = $0.02

I wish I could find pink sticker clearance at $0.01!  So what will ccmp1974 do with all those egg colouring kits?  They are going to be given to all of the children in her daughters’ school for next Easter.

Click here to view her full brag

Around the country with this week’s brags – we are on to Alberta where danip467 saved 93% on her Walmart shopping by price-matching, using sales and coupons (with overage) and scored cheese for less than $0.80/100g.

• 2x I can’t believe it’s not butter $2.87 – Pm No Frills @ $1 = $1ea, saved $3.74
• 25x Colgate total 85g $1.97–PM No Frills @ $1 – (20)$1.50 Coupons, (5) $1 coupons = FREE, Saved $ 49.25 plus $10 overage!
• 2x Ziploc bags $3.17 –pm No Frills @ $2 – $0.50 wub2 coupon = $1.75ea, Saved $2.84
• 2x Sunripe juice reg. $2.97, sale $2 –BOGO coupon = $1ea, saved $3.94
• 1x Bath color fizzy $2
• 4x Glade starter kits $6.97 –multi buy $1.97ea-$5 coupon = FREE, saved $27.88
• 1x Cheemo Perogies $2.47 -$1 Checkout 51 rebate = $1.47, save $1
• 1x Storebrand crème $ 2.87
• 1x Coriander bunch $0.77
• 2x Mina ground chicken $4.04/4.02-$2 coupon = $2ea, save $4

Click here to view her full brag including how she scored some cheap cheese!

Sony Style online is clearing out PlayStation merchandise and you can save 75% off. The prices show as regular price, but you can take 75% off everything, plus it will ship for free.

Everything is limited quantities and the best stuff is going fast. It will not be restocked.

For example a PlayStation Vita 4 GB memory card is showing a price of $15, take the 75% discount off and it’s now just $5.  Discounts will be applied automatically and shown in your order summary as shown below

Click here to shop clearance at Sony Style

Get 40% Off one full-priced item at Banana Republic Canada. This offer is valid on Wednes­day, April 24, 2013 only. This Banana Repub­lic Canada deal is avail­able online and in-stores. Enter promo code JTQ8KM91ZX9P at check­out to get this dis­count. To redeem in-store print this coupon includ­ing bar­code below to use at checkout.

Banana Repub­lic Canada is offer­ing free ship­ping online on pur­chases of $50 or more in the same order.

Click here to get this Banana Republic deal online.