Bath Body Works has now opened their Holiday Shop for the season. You can start picking up and putting away the Christmas  scents as gifts or start using them in your own home now.  We like this time of year because we really enjoy the smell of the Christmas hand soaps.  Vanilla Bean is a favourite at our house.  Here are some of the deals that are available at Bath & Body Works right now:

Signature Collection Buy 3 Get 2 FREE

Antibacterial Hand Soap 3 for $15 OR 6 for $25

4oz Candles Buy One Get One Free

Wallflowers starters and singles 4 for $24

Pier 1 has a daily deal coupon out valid October 19 2011 to October 21 2011.  Save $10 off your purchase of $50 or more with this printable coupon.

The fine print : Offer does not apply to delivery or other service charges.  Coupon does not apply to prior purchases and cannot be used on gift cards, UNICEF or other non discountable merchandise purchases.  Offer is not valid with any other offer or discount or at store closing sales.  Limit one offer per household.  Void if copied and no cash value.

Print your coupon here.

Moores is having a BOGOO event.  Buy One Get One Free on everything in the store (*excludes shoes and clearance) .  Moores has some pretty nice clothes but they can be expensive.  If you can pick one up an item for Free it makes this deal a pretty amazing one.

Shoes are Buy One Get One 50% off the second pair as well.

Buy One suit or sport coat and get one for $100.

Read Sales terms and conditions here.

Sale ends October 23 2011

Find a Moores near you here.

If you are planning a major trip, it may be worth your while to check out Flight Centre’s Travel Expo this weekend! Admission is free and it’s a good opportunity to collect info about different destinations, tour companies, travel gear, and perhaps even enter a contest or two.

In fact if you are 1 of the first 100 people through the doors, you’ll receive a $100 Flight Centre Voucher!

Here are the details…
Dates/Times
Saturday, October 22nd – 10am – 5pm
Sunday, October 23rd – 11am – 5pm

Location
International Centre
6900 Airport Rd.
Mississauga, ON

Click here for more information!

(Unfortunately, the dates for Calgary & Vancouver’s Travel Expo have already passed!)

For all those Blackberry users out there this is a great freebie!  As a way of making up for the recent service interruptions to Blackberries,  RIM is allowing all Blackberry users to download $100 in free premium apps.  There are some pretty good apps to choose from too.  Here is the current list:

• SIMS 3 – Electronic Arts
• Bejeweled – Electronic Arts
• N.O.V.A. – Gameloft
• Texas Hold’em Poker 2 – Gameloft
• Bubble Bash 2 – Gameloft
• Photo Editor Ultimate – Ice Cold Apps
• DriveSafe.ly Pro – iSpeech.org
• iSpeech Translator Pro – iSpeech.org
• Drive Safe.ly Enterprise – iSpeech.org
• Nobex Radio™ Premium – Nobex
• Shazam Encore – Shazam
• Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant – Vlingo

The press release states that more free apps are to come and that this promotion will be valid until December 31, 2011.

Click here to read the press release from RIM and Blackberry.

I was just going to plan my Costco trip and was wondering what coupons I could expect this week.  Well, wonder no more, thanks to couponlady we can all know what coupons Costco has in store for us.  Here are this weeks coupons!

East:

West:

Chapters Indigo is having an online exclusive sale.  Save 20% off select children’s Halloween costumes.  We already have our girls costumes as we have several items in our dress up trunk.  If you are still looking for a costume for your children check out the sale.  Maybe you’ll find you’re looking for.

Visit the 20% off sale here.

Free shipping on orders over $25.  See here for restrictions.

With Halloween just around the corner, Amazon has a new sale on DVD and BluRay movies.  You can now save up to 50% (and sometimes even more than that!) on a big selection of Halloween, Sci Fi, Anime and Horror movies.  I’m thinking about picking up The Walking Dead on BluRay for my brother for Christmas, it’s on for only $29.99!  And, as always, shipping is free on orders of $25 or more.

Click here to go straight to the movie sale at Amazon.

Garage Clothing has an online exclusive sale on right now.   They have a selection of tanks and tees on a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale.  There are items starting at only $5 so you can potentially get 3 tops for $10!  They offer free shipping on order of $75 or more which is a bit high so I recommend seeing if any of your friends are also interested in ordering so you can either split your shipping cost or get it for free.

Use the code SMARTCANUCKS10 to save $10 off $75!  Expires December 23rd 2011.

Click here to check out the sale at Garage.

It’s time to turn on furnaces here for us in southern Ontario. The cold weather has finally arrived and brings with it the need to heat your home. We have a gas furnace that we call “The Beast” because it takes up a fair amount of space in an awkward spot in our basement and when it comes on you can hear it rumble to life. Our furnace has been around since our house was built in the 70’s. Needless to say I am sure it is not the most energy efficient but we hate to replace when it is still going strong. We have tossed around the idea of getting a new furnace but with having to put on a new roof, eaves and soffit this year the furnace is going to have to wait for another year or two. We have it cleaned every other year by a professional and replace the filters as needed to keep it running as effectively as it possibly can.

We also have a wood burning fire place in our living room and burn fires in it quite regularly in the cold months as it helps to keep the chill out of the first floor. We have it inspected and cleaned by a WETT certified chimney sweep on the opposite year of the furnace cleaning to make sure there are no problems and we certainly do not want a fire!

With a new furnace looming in the next few years it brings to mind other methods of heating. In our small town it is not uncommon for people to heat their homes with wood burning stoves. The house we rented before we purchased this one had been converted the year before we lived there from wood burning to a gas furnace. I imagine the gas furnace was just less of a hassle for the landlord to worry about. Wood burning stoves are a great economical means to heat your home if you have the desire to do so. Wood is cheaper to buy (off a farm by the cord: a cord is a wood pile measurement of 4ft tall by 4ft deep by 8 ft wide that wood is sold in). It can get you off the grid heating and be easier on your pocket. Wood burning stoves aren’t going to be for everyone and for some people they are the only means. By using a wood burning stove you could lessen your carbon foot print and be using a heating source that can be replenished.

Corn Pellet stoves are something else that could lessen your carbon footprint and have you using a heating source that can be re grown. When I was a child my friend’s farm house was heated by a corn pellet stove. At the time I thought it was something unique and different to them. As I have gotten older and look into more cost effective and “green” ways to heat my home I realize that corn burning stoves are another eco-friendly way to heat a home. Corn pellet stoves can heat your home for the cost of a bushel of corn per day.

There are also Pellet stoves that burn compressed wood or biomass pellets to create a source of heat. These stoves slowly feed fuel from a special storage compartment into the burn-pot area. There these stoves create a consistent flame that requires little to no effort on your part.

There are several methods to heating ones’ home that I have not covered. Some of these are hot water heat and electric base boards (we had electric base board heating in a rental we had in the city and it was quite pricey).

Of course I have missed some other means to keep your home comfortable so please feel free to share any others you know of.

Here are some final tips to help reduce your heating bill for the cold months.

• · Make sure you have sufficient insulation

• · Place plastic window kits over old and leaky windows if you cannot afford to get new windows.

• · Use insulation gaskets/covers behind you outlets and switches that are on outside walls.

• · Make sure weather stripping is intact on the bottom of outside doors.

• · Turn down your thermostat 5 to 10 degrees while you are out of the house.

• · Open your curtains to let in the sun. You might as well use the solar heat instead of paying for your heat.

• · Make sure heat vents are not covered by furniture. This will allow the hot air to better circulate through your home.

If anyone has any further tips for reducing heating bills please pass them on. We all like to save where we can!

If you have a Brita Pitcher here’s a printable coupon for Brita Filters.  The coupon is good towards the purchase of any one Brita filters, 3 or 4 pack multi pack , one Brita faucet filtration filter.  The coupon is for $2.00 off and expires November 15 2011.

If you’re looking at getting a Brita pitcher or you need a new one they alos have a coupon for $5.00 of the purchase of any one Brita Pitcher *exlcudes Slim and Classic.  Expires December 31st 2011.

Coupons are valid only in Canada.

$2.00 off filters here.

$5.00 off pitcher here.

If you’ve been thinking about printing some of those digital pics you have then NOW is the time to head on over to Black’s!

For 3 days only (October 18-20) you can print out 50 of the larger 5×7 sizes for only $5!

Click here for details

Sears has a great Anna Sui gift with purchase on now until October 29th 2011.  Spend $60 or more on Anna Sui products and receive a full size, eye colour, lipstick and mascara.  While this gwp has a higher threshold the products that are free are full size.  One thing that concerns me is that apparently you have no choice of shades. Perhaps this would be a good one to go in-store for.

Click here to check out this gift online.

Pet Smart is offering Howl-o-ween pics for only $4.95 get a 4×6 photo and frame.

Also:

Free goodie bags to the first 100 customers brought to you by Mars Petcare and Greenies

Pet Parade and Costume Contest @ 3:30pm

All this takes place one day only, this Saturday October 22nd 2011.

Kettle Brand Potato Chips are giving away a coupon for a FREE bag through their Facebook Site.

Click here to “Like” them on Facebook and then be prepared to refresh a number of times before the form finally loads. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

I had my coupon within the first 5 minutes though

Om nom nom!!

*Offer has ended* All bags have been given out.