Pampers wants to celebrate the cold with a free 10pt Gifts to Grow code.  Enter FB1MLK21AP6PD13 for 10 free GTG points, valid  until 11:59 CT Jan 25th.

Check out the rewards page too, there is a $25 coupon booklet available for 400pts

This coupon booklet has offers on 14 P&G brands and is worth over $25 in savings. All coupons expire August 31, 2013.
Brands Involved: Pampers® Splashers® Diapers; Align® Digestive Care; Always® Pantiliners; Always® Pads; Bounty® Paper Towels; Braun® Electric Shaver or Epilator; Duracell® Batteries; Febreze® Fabric Refresher; Febreze Home Collections®; Head & Shoulders® Iams® Dog or Cat Food; Ivory® Body Wash, Bar or Hand Soap; Pepto Bismol® or Children’s Pepto®; Puffs® Tissues; Scope® Mouthwash.

Mac’s are offering a coupon for a free 315ml Carnation Breakfast Essentials drink valid from Jan 21-27 to MyMacs subscribers.  Coupon is valid in Ontario only.

Click here to sign up and get your coupon

Update Jan 21 – these can be redeemed starting today!

Costco’s weekly savings coupons/deals for the week of January 21-27 are out, view them here

Do you shop at Costco?  We used to have a membership but found we spent more there than we would if shopping at grocery stores and as it is just the two of us, it took a while to make it through bulk packs.

Gadoua are giving away 500 coupons for a free loaf of bread daily at 10:00 am on their facebook page.  Quebec residents only.  Obviously at 500 a day these will go quickly so be ready at 10am but they will be giving them out every day until January 30th, so you will have a few chances to snag a freebie.

Click here to visit their facebook page.  Thanks for letting us know cath007

Get a free reed diffuser valued up to $12 from Pier 1 Imports Canada with a purchase of $50 or more and this printable coupon. Offer ends January 23rd. Click here to print your coupon.

The Shopping Channel is selling this handheld MiWand 2 Mobile Bookedge with 1.8″ LD screen Scanner Bundle for $79.99 (includes 4GB Micro SD card and three image programs – Image Broadway,  CraftArtist Greeting Cards,  Digital Scrapbook Artist 2).  If you scan a lot of coupons, business cards or receipts, these are a real timesaver.  The MiWand with no software or memory card is $99.99 at Bestbuy so this is a great deal if you need/want one.

This is their showstopper, so may not be valid by tomorrow but they only posted it on facebook at 10pm ET

Click here to buy online

Play Dr. Oetker’s Man vs Cake game on facebook and get a coupon for buy one get one free on Dr. Oetker Mug Cake (up to $2.69), mailed to home through save.ca.  You do not have to add more coupons to your basket, it can be mailed as a single coupon.

Click here to play the game (for those without facebook, try this link)

Save $2 on Dove Style+Care styling products with this mail to home coupon available through Save.ca and the Dove Facebook page. Click here to order yours.

Save $10 off all regular priced bras when you enter GOWILD at checkout online at La Senza.  One discount per order.  La Senza has flat rate shipping of $9, accepts paypal and the offer cannot be combined with any other offers or coupons.

Click here to shop this promotion

Wear pink Wednesday, January 23rd and get 20% off your entire purchase (excludes MoroccanOil products and clearance items).  This promotion is to help raise awareness of the Toronto Weekend to End Women’s Cancers.

Click here for more information (facebook link)

Take the 2013 Activia Challenge and they will mail you a booklet with $10 in coupons.  Limit of one booklet of coupons per household during the promotion.

Click here to get your coupons

Update Jan 20th – it has been over 2 weeks, has anyone received them yet? they said 10-15 days when we ordered

Ritter Sport are offering a printable coupon for $1 off when you buy any two Ritter Sport.  Coupon expires on March 3rd, 2013, is one per purchase and not valid with any other coupon offer.

Click here to get your coupon – scroll down past the US coupon link (or here for non facebook link)

Visit websaver.ca to get a mail to home coupon for a free box of Special K cracker chips in either Bar-B-Q or Zesty Southwest flavour redeemable on February 9th only.

Limited coupons available and you do need to add additional coupons to your cart to checkout.  Click here to get your coupon.

Updated Jan 19th – still available! &  Jan 20 – All Gone!

There are lots of products out there right now with coupons on the packaging, even coupons for free stuff – like the offer shown above for a free 2L Fanta or Sprite on Pillsbury Pizza Pops or free ground beef when you buy Hamburger Helper as we mentioned earlier.

Our forum members have made a great list of the items that have coupons and freebies on them and you can view it here (huge thanks to PammieD for maintaining it)

Happy freebie coupon hunting!  If you know of any others, feel free to add them in the forum or comment here and I will let Pammie know.

Since today is an optimum promotion at Shoppers Drug Mart, I thought it would be a good time to give an overview of getting the most from your Optimum cards for those who have one in their wallet and rarely use it.

The basic Shoppers Drug Mart program gives you 10 points per dollar spent (rounded down so if you spent $15.98, you would get 150 points).  With redemption levels starting at 8000 points, it would take you forever to earn enough points to redeem, but you can use bonus points, Optimum promotions and coupons to make the most of your card.

Optimum Promotions: Shoppers Drug Mart offers special bonus point days where you can earn extra points.  The typical promotions are 20x points when you spend $50 or $75, 8000 bonus points when you spend $50 or 18,500 bonus points when you spend $75 or more.  Most SmartCanucks Optimum addicts will shop only mostly days when there is a promotion (picking up milk etc on other weeks).

First you want to buy a Shoppers Drug Mart gift card.  Unless there is a special promotion on, you only get Optimum points on Shoppers Drug Mart gift cards, no others.  Some cashiers will tell you that you do not get points, ask them to scan your card anyway as you want to know your point total.  If you spend $50 out of pocket at seven promos in a year, you have an extra 3500 points without spending anything extra.

Use coupons to bring down your total.  Our weekly coupons to use with flyers thread will have a list of coupons valid on flyer items and leading up to a promotion, there is usually a thread in the Shoppers Drug Mart forum.  Check which coupons you have and make a list.  Only cents/money off coupons (coded as 2001 at SDM) are valid towards promotions, you can’t use Try Me Free / FPC coupons (coded as 2002). If you have a coupon for $3 off a coupon costing $3, they should still enter it as 2001 as they get tax refunded on FPC coupons and not cents off coupons, but it really depends on the cashier.

Often cashiers will tell you that you have not spent the required amount so will not get the points, check the screen to see what your base is, once they subtotal it will say how much the customer can earn in points (if they have not yet scanned your card).  It is a good idea to keep a copy of their coupon acceptance policy with you if they say you cannot use coupons.

Use bonus point offers to get more points. Each week, Shoppers Drug Mart will offer bonus points on different items – sometimes the value of the points is even worth more than the item price (or price after coupon) so you can ‘make money’ on it.   Check for items with points on them to maximize your total.

If an item costing $10.49 shows 2000 bonus points, you would not get 20x points on the 2000BP on a 20x promotional day but you will on the base points.  You would get 2000 bonus points, 100 base points and 1900 bonus points from the 20x promo (1900 because 20x points considers base points).  We have a list of bonus point offers in our Shoppers Drug Mart forum.

Beware of items that are not eligible for points. In some provinces, milk does not get points, gift cards are excluded for everyone, some get points on pharmacy, most  do not (you do on most over the counter items unless they have codeine), taxes, eco-fees, bottle deposits etc do not count as they are collected for the government  not by SDM.  The list of exclusions varies by province and where required by law.  The best way to check is not to scan your Optimum card when they start cashing out, wait until the end and ask them to subtotal.  On the screen it will say how many points you will earn on the right side of the screen.  Then give your card.

I will cover redeeming and other tips in upcoming blogs, but if you wants a great quick overview, check out this FAQ by forum member Insane.

Are you shopping at SDM today?  What is on your list?  I am skipping this one – living off the stockpile rather than adding to it.