Thanks Winn for this freebie 🙂

This is different from the previous Head and Shoulders shampoo samples. This is a free trial size of Head & Shoulders Dry Scalp Care, Smooth & Silky or Classic Clean.

Click here to get your free Head and Shoulders sample

Thanks LP for this deal 🙂

Future shop photos is having a huge photobook sale until February 14, 2008. Get 60% off all photobooks. Here are the discounted prices for 20 pages:

• Hard cover leather $49.99 $20.00 
• Hard cover linen $35.99 $14.40
• Hard cover suede $35.99 $14.40
• Soft cover $24.99 $10.00
• Extra pages $1.40 $0.56

You can find the 40 page prices on Future Shop’s website.

Click here for more details about this Future photo promo

The old code expired. Here are the new codes.

Signup at costco.ca and use coupon code

GSWEB17E for a Gold Star Membership

EXEC6E for an Executive Membership

You’ll get a $25 gift certificate which means that you end up paying $30 for a 1 year Costco membership.

This is for new membership only. However there is a trick to get this deal if you’re currently a member. Say you’re the primary member and your significant other is a secondary card holder. When your membership ends don’t renew and have the significant other who was not the primary member apply as the primary member. Got it? 😉

Just for your information, a lot of people love Costco because it offers rebates, an inexpensive restaurant, bulk quantities (=savings) and 100% customer satisfaction (you can almost refund any item anytime and they will take it back).

Some notes from last time’s comments:

• This is legitimate.
• Don’t apply through a Costco store, get rejected (because you don’t have a physical copy of the coupon) and come back complaining/whining. Just apply through Costco.ca for goodness sake 🙂
• This is for Goldstar and Executive membership not business membership.
• When you sign-up it says that you get a $25 in the right side of the box, underneath or beside the $0.01 deducted

The codes are:

GSWEB17E for a Gold Star Membership

EXEC6E for an Executive Membership

Click here if you’re interested in reading people’s comments or have questions

To signup go to Costco.ca

Most of this year’s Super Bowl ads sucked. For $2.7 million for 30 seconds you’d think companies would come up with creative commercials. The Diet Pepsi Max “What is Love” ad was awesome though.

It’s Monday! Wake up people and have a good week 🙂

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Very good advice. Originally posted at thewisdomjournal.com:

My, how time flies. Seems just like yesterday that I was a 12 year old kid, going for long bike rides in Sherwood Forrest, the subdivision just around the corner from where I lived. Playing with William, Edward, and my little brother, climbing in the tree house, looking forward to Brent coming over to visit. Those were all good times and my only dread was finding out that we were having liver for supper.

By the time I was 22, I knew who I wanted to marry, was in the process of quitting college, going into debt, and thought that I would be a millionaire by the time I was 30 because I was so smart. Hey, it might take me until 35, but that was the top end. In reality, I was quite ignorant.

If I could go back in time, here are a few items I would tell my 22 year old self.

1. Stay in school. Don’t quit. Sure you’re bored now, but wait until you’re in a dead end job that you can’t stand but you’re afraid to lose. Getting finished with your degree will open up many more opportunities than you realize. I always wanted to go to law school, but without that sheepskin, I didn’t have a chance of even being considered. The lesson learned here is finish what you start by throwing yourself into it fully. Treat your college experience as if it were a job. Arrive on time, do your homework, study, and treat your learning process as if you were at a real job.

2. Money doesn’t spoil, it keeps. Start investing early. How much stuff do you have to show for the money you made in high school and college? If I had invested half of what I made during those years in a plain old, broad based mutual fund, I would have well over $192,000 with no other investments made since then. I’m still kicking myself. Invest early.

3. Don’t buy the first house you look at. Buy the cheapest house in the nicest neighborhood. No, I didn’t actually do this, but it was close. We were so excited to be approved for a loan, having just come out of Consumer Credit Counseling Services that we jumped at the first house we found that met our minimum requirements. I still love that house today, but I wish we had gotten a better inspection, had looked into building, or had found a way to buy a house that was closer to work and school. The lesson learned, don’t be desperate with a large purchase.

4. Establish the habit of living within a budget. Could anything be more important to insure you are living below your means? I tried on several occasions but I was never as faithful to this ideal as I should have been. Today, I make a salary high enough that a budget is a “yeah, we really ought to do that” kind of thing. My goal is to get that done. If I could do it over I would get myself in this habit at the earliest possible age. The lesson learned: budgeting is a freeing process, not a limiting one. If I had lived on a budget, I could have circumvented many painful events.

5. Learn how to negotiate a better deal on everything. Having read several books on negotiation just a little too late, I’ve recognized how I was duped by many people, mostly used car sales people. I wrote a review on Secrets of Power Negotiating that you can read here. Learning these skills would have saved me thousands. The lesson learned: prepare by educating yourself and always be willing to walk away.

6. Keep your medical insurance in force at all times. Several years ago, I quit one job and took another that didn’t offer medical insurance until you had been there for 90 days. You guessed it, my wife had to have emergency surgery at 89 days. True story. 89 days. Do you think the insurance company cared? I’ll let you guess. Thankfully, we were at St. Vincent’s Hospital and they had mercy on us. The business manager told me (after looking over my financial situation) that someone paid our bill. I still get choked up thinking about it all these years later. It took us years to pay off the doctor and anesthesia bills, though. If I had just kept my coverage in effect for a little while longer. The obvious lesson: keep that insurance in effect. It is cheaper than the medical bills.

7. It’s quality of time at work, but quantity of time at home that matters. Your boss really doesn’t care whether you have a family or not. Trust me. Unless you work for family members who DO understand that you need to pick the kids up early, or that you DO need to spend some time with your spouse, you are just a replaceable cog in the machine. When people are trying to grow a business, your need for personal time is secondary, so is the quality of your marital and family relationships. Just remember that when you’re old, sitting in a chair at the nursing home with a blanket on your lap and eating mush, you won’t regret that you didn’t get to spend more time at the office. The lesson learned: family will be there after the job is long gone. Value and treasure them.

8. Don’t listen to those who think there is a shortcut to wealth. NEW FLASH: there is no shortcut. Might as well get that out of your 22 year old head right now. Wealth is created when you provide something interesting, unique and valuable to people who demand it. Until then, you will be trading hours for dollars and you’ll always think you’re underpaid. “Find a need and fill it” is the old mantra and it is still quoted because it’s true. In today’s world it should read “Create a need that only you can fill.” Then you’ll be on your way to wealth. The lesson learned: figure out where there are unmet needs and figure out a way to fill those needs.

8a. Stay far, far away from any Multi Level Marketing “business” that requires you to sponsor new distributors. They are all scams. You are not “CEO of your own distribution network”-you are a commission-based salesperson relying on the liquidation of your social capital (i.e. alienating your friends and family) to make any money at all…and 99.5% of people in MLM’s lose money, as has been shown again and again in numerous studies. The only profit you can ever make is by turning what would be called “customers” into “distributors” and then taking the money from the 99.995% that lose money in the organization and giving it to the 0.005% at the top (the people who started the whole “business” in the first place). Stay away!

9. Make sure your spouse’s values line up with your own. This one step can single handedly determine your level of happiness more than just about any other. Scary isn’t it? If everything seems so right, yet he or she thinks credit should be used at will (and you don’t) or thinks that home schooled kids are strange (and you want your children to be home schooled), you are setting yourself up for heartbreak. Work these things out before you say “I do.” They say love is grand . . . and divorce is 50 grand. The lesson learned: talk to your spouse or potential spouse about what is important to you and the values you think should be taught to your children, even if you don’t plan on having children.

10. Learn how to network. Learn to stay in touch with old friends from high school and college. Learn the skill of asking for help without seeming to be asking for help. Watch how others network. Remember it’s not what you know, it’s not even who you know, it’s how you USE what you know and who you know. One step further, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows YOU. Get in the practice of networking without expecting anything in return. Make sure you don’t come across as a brown nosing leech who is always trying to get an angle, but stay in touch with people. You never know who you may be able to help. The lesson learned: stay in touch and make sure you come across as helpful rather than helpless.

11. Never accept a job just because the pay is higher. Life is more than money. There’s a reason they’re offering you more. Yes it may be that you’re the most qualified. It may be that you have the most experience and the most education. It may be that no one can stand to work for that particular department head and a high salary is the only way to fill the position. Always ask where the person who last held the position is working now. Ask to speak with them, but always do it away from the office. People will give you more information outside of the office than inside. Inside the office, they’re committing treason, outside, hey – they’re just chatting with a friend. The lesson learned: Get the full scoop before jumping out of a frying pan into the fire.

12. Trust, but verify. You can’t believe everything you hear, read, or were taught as a kid. You should always check references, ask probing questions, search out answers, and find ways to learn more about what you’re being told. This is a catch all but it is important. The world is full of schemers who are just waiting to take you for a ride. Don’t become cynical, but verify everything you can. The lesson learned: make sure you know who it is you’re dealing with and what their motives may be.

Learn who you are and what motivates you. Learn what motivates your spouse and children. Learn what motivates your friends. Learn what motivates your co-workers, your boss, and your boss’s boss. Never stop learning, never stop growing. By the time you reach 42, kid, you’ll be a millionaire! 😉

What would you tell yourself if you could go back twenty years?

Follow the link below to receive a free sample of Garnier Fructis Strength & Repair shampoo and conditioner. Thanks to couponlady for this freebie!

Click here to order your sample.

Thanks Joel for this Wonderland promo 🙂

I guess if you lived in the YYZ, Vaughn area this could be a good deal:

A Wonderland Season Pass is now $59.95 when you buy 4 or more.

For a limited time we have lowered the price of our 2008 Season Passes when you buy 4 or more. In addition to unlimited admission all season long during regular operation, a Wonderland Season Pass also gets you early ride times, early entrance into Splash Works, discounts on food and merchandise, discounted tickets to Halloween Haunt and more. If you have already purchased your 2008 Season passes click here to find out how you can take advantage of this new lower price!

Click here to order this Canada’s Wonderland season pass special

Thanks blistex for this freebie.

Receive a free sample of Benefit beauty product at the Bay. Here are the participating locations:

• Montreal:  Ste Catherine, Carrefour Laval
• Ottawa: Rideau Centre
• Toronto: Queen St., Yorkdale, Bloor, Fairview, Square One
• Vancouver: Downtown, Guilldford, Oakridge
• Calgary: Market Mall, Downtown, Chinook
• Edmonton: Southgate, West Edmonton Mall
• Victoria: Downtown

Click here to print your free sample coupon

Thanks MissScrooge for this spectacular deal!

Get 50% on adult regular comfort class fares with VIA Rail. You need to have a Student Price Card (SPC) to get this discount, however if you’re not a student no worries, there’s an alternative.

Students, you can get an SPC card for $8.50+$2.00 and it comes with a a $10 gift card which virtually covers the cost of the card. Click here for details on the SPC card.

Non-students, you can get a VIP SPC card for non-students. Click here for details on the VIP SPC card.

Here are the VIA Rail 50% off promo details:

SPC Card Winter VIA Rail Promo

CONDITIONS:

Save 50% on adult regular Comfort class fares for new bookings made online at viarail.ca for travel between January 30, 2008 and March 31, 2008 inclusive.

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Thanks cookoo for doing a wonderful job of maintaining the Save.ca list 🙂

New on this list:

• CAMPBELL‘S Chunky Soup or Chunky Chili – Buy 3 Get 1 FREE
• FEBREZE Any 2 Different products – save $3 on any two
• FEBREZE Any Febreze product – save $1
• OLAY Olay Facial Skin care products – save $10 on any 3

Here’s the full list:

1. www.brandsaver.ca
2. www.save.ca/en/ (CAMPBELL’S Chunky Soup or Chunky Chili – Buy 3 Get 1 FREE, McCain Thin Crust Multigrain Pizza – Any Variety – save $1, ORAL-B any Pulsar – save $2, Gillette Any Satin Care – save 75¢，Gillette FUSION Any HydraGel – save $1，Gillette SERIES Any Shaving Cream – save 75¢，BLUEWATER Any BlueWater Product – save 75¢, WINDEX LIME ACTION Multi-Surface Cleaner – save 75¢, Kellogg’s Products, McCain’s Slow Cooker Solutions – save $1, TOILET DUCK Toilet Bowl Cleaner – save $1, Cavendish Farms Crispy Microwavable Products – Buy 2 Get 1 FREE, SCOTT Paper Towels – save $1, OLIVIERI Fresh Pasta or Sauce – save $1, Silk Plus Omega-3 DHA – save 50¢, Cool Quenchers Any McCain Frozen Concentrated Punch – save 50¢ on any two, Fruit Smooth-eez Any McCain Frozen Smoothie Base – save 75¢, Old South Any McCain Juice Concentrates – save 50¢ on any two, Tide Pure Essentials – save 75¢, Fibresure Dietary Fibre – save $1.50, Ultra Downy Pure Essentials – save 50¢, IAMS Dry Dog Food 7 lb or larger – save $5, IAMS Dry Cat Food 3.5 lb or larger – save $5, DURACELL 2 Regular Packs or 1 Econo Pack – save $1, ROYALE Bathroom Tissue – save $1, CREST WHITESTRIPS Daily Multi-Care Product – save $5, Swiffer any two refills – save $2, Swiffer Sweeper or Duster Starter Kit – save $1.50, Swiffer WetJet or Sweep+Vac Starter Kit – save $3)
3. www.save.ca/en/hms/ (NICE ‘N EASY PERFECT10 Hair Colour – save $3, OLAY any Olay Facial Moisturizer product – save $3, OLAY any Olay Facial Cleanser product – save $2, OLAY any Olay Body product – save $1.5, Sun Maid Raisin Bread – save 50¢)
   
4. www.save.ca/CAA/ (Febreze or Mr. Clean Auto or Magic Eraser – save $1, Mr. Clean Auto Dry Car Wash System – save $5)
5. www.save.ca/cetaphil_en/ (CETAPHIL Acne Principles – save $5, CETAPHIL Gentle Skin Cleanser – save $2)
6. www.save.ca/crackercuts/ (CRACKER BARREL Cracker Cuts Natural Cheese – save $1)
7. www.save.ca/e6l3t7s8e5n3/ (NESTLÉ ALSOY Infant Formula Product – save $5)
8. www.save.ca/en/pantenerestoratives/ (Pantene)
9. www.save.ca/fancyfeast_en/ (Purina PRO PLAN Selects – save $7.50, Purina Busy Bone – save $3, Pro Plan Wet Cat Food – one FREE 85g Tin)
10. www.save.ca/febreze_en/ (Febreze Any 2 Different products – save $3 on any two, Febreze Any Febreze product – save $1)
11. www.save.ca/garnier_en/ (GARNIER Skin Care – save $2, GARNIER Haircolour – save $2, GARNIER Haircare – save $2 off any 3 products)
12. www.save.ca/gerber/ (Gerber)
13. www.save.ca/gerbercanada/
14. www.save.ca/getanewbrush/ (Oral-B Power Brush (excl. Vitality or Cross Action) – save $10, Oral-B Any Vitality Toothbrush – save $3, Oral-B Power Brush Refill Heads – save $3, Oral-B Any Manual Toothbrush – save 50¢)
15. www.save.ca/hanes_en/ (HANES Underwear – save $1 )
16. www.save.ca/hecolour/ (HERBAL ESSENCES Any Colour Product – save $5, McCain Solo Gourmet Pizza – any variety – save 75¢)
17. www.save.ca/herbalessencesshampoo/ (HERBAL ESSENCES Shampoo, Conditioner or Styling Product – Buy 2 Get 1 FREE)
18. www.save.ca/iamshealthypet/ (IAMS Dry Dog Food 7 lb or larger – save $5, IAMS Dry Cat Food 3.5 lb or larger – save $5)
19. www.save.ca/iamspromise/cat/ (IAMS Dry Cat Food – save $5)
20. www.save.ca/iamspromise/dog/ (IAMS Dry Dog Food – save $5)
21. www.save.ca/maybelline_ny_en/ (Maybelline New York Shine Seduction Liquid Lipcolor – save $1, Maybelline New York XXL Intense Mascara – save $1)
22. www.save.ca/maybelline_ny_en1/ (MAYBELLINE New York Moisture Extreme Lipstick – save $1, MAYBELLINE New York Expertwear Eyeshadow – save $1)
23. www.save.ca/maybelline_ny_en2/ (MAYBELLINE New York Superstay Lipcolour – save $1, MAYBELLINE New York Superstay Silky Foundation – save $1)
24. www.save.ca/mccaincake_en/ (Deep ‘n Delicious Cake – save 50¢)
25. www.save.ca/olayforyou/ (OLAY Olay Facial Skin care products – save $10 on any 3)
26. www.save.ca/olayoffers_en/ (OLAY Any Olay Facial Cleanser – save $2, OLAY Any Olay Facial Moisturizer – save $3, OLAY Any Olay Body Product – save $1.50, NOXZEMA Any Noxema Product – save $1)
27. www.save.ca/oralcare_en/ (Crest Any Pro-Health toothpaste – save 50¢, Oral-B Any Pulsar toothbrush – save $2, Crest Any Pro-Health Rinse – save $1)
28. www.save.ca/purex_en/ (Purex Liquid Laundry Detergent – save 50¢)
29. www.save.ca/quakerricecakes/ (Quaker Large Rice Cakes – save 75¢)
30. www.save.ca/ristorantee_2/ (Ristorante Pizza – save $1.50 on 2, Ristorante Antipasto Pizza Appetizers – buy 1 save $1)
31. www.save.ca/rougee/

Came across this deal on Tanya the netchick’s blog. It has been around for a while but thought I’d post it anyway. Quoting Tanya:

If you are like me, you like deals. I’ve got one for you, that will save ya over $50 for a year-long XBox Live membership.

Simply:

1. Go to Tropicana Twister – Registration Website and fill in the short form there. (The code will be immediately available, so it’s not necessary to supply your real email address)
2. Click submit and enter this access code: AA4XPN3
3. Enjoy your free 48 hr Gold Live trial code!

For unlimited trial codes just repeat the 3 steps… but remember to delete the browser cookie before re-submitting. The codes will be valid till February 2009. I’ve been using the free codes for a few weeks now, and as an occasional Gold user, this is a super simple way to access the Gold features over a weekend.

And, as a bonus… You might just win a great prize from Tropicana! One of the participants on a forum I read just won an Xbox console! Score!

Enjoy!

Visit any Danier location on January 30, 2008 to enjoy the savings 1 day before the sale is announced to the general public. No you don’t need an invitation: Danier sent this announcement to all mailing list subscribers and it does not require you to print anything.

Everything 50% – 70% off. Sale ends Sunday February 3rd.

Although I prefer the Pizza Pizza promotion, this coupon from Cineplex can come in handy if you were going to watch a movie and buy a combo anyway. Using the coupon you pay for one ticket and a combo which is almost equivalent to buying two tickets and getting the combo for free. Did that make any sense? 😛

Coupon is valid only on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday after 6:00pm and is not valid on any statutory holiday during the offer period. Approximate retail value is $12.00. Expires Thursday March 27th, 2008.

Click here for this Cineplex 2 for 1 coupon details

Thanks babybakchoy for this freebie.

Get a coupon from Save.ca for a free 85g can of Purina Pro Plan Wet Cat Food.

Click here to order your coupon for free cat food

If your in the market for a big screen television be sure to check out Best Buy.  For a limited time all 40″ and larger TVs are on sale. 

Click here for information.