Free Salon Services for the Ladies at Yonge & Bloor courtesy of Proctor & Gamble from April 13 to May 13:

The folllowing services are available: skin assessment, make-up consultation, hair colouring, hair styling.

Click here for details on this free salon service

Robert D. Gibb is posting a stunning series of articles on Air Miles on the forum. I found the series very useful and enlightening so I’m posting it on the blog as well.

Robert D. Gibb is a Contributing Editor (DRIPs) at the Canadian MoneySaver Magazine.

This is a good week for the AirMile Deals

1. Buy 5 Get 50 AM House Brands

Last weeks items hould continue this week. Whether the are still onsale is always a consideration in week 2. However, there are a couple of other considerations:

a. House brand OJ was part of the 5/50 @ $3.50/1.89L container. Essentially you’d get 10 AMs/item and @ $0.13/AM you effectively pay $3.50 – (10x 0.13) = $2.20

However, this week Minute Maid 1.89L is $2.50. The difference is only $0.30 and you might feel name brand is worth more.

b. HE Laundry Soap 2.95L. The best the House brand comes on sale is around $5.50. As part of a 5/50 deal that reduces the price to $4.20. (See 2)

2. Week 3 (of 4) of the Spring AirMiles Promo

This promo awards bonus AMs when you buy multiples (usually) of about 50 various name brands. Buy 5 different product offers and earn a bonus 50 AM ($6.50 value). I usually find it hard to find 5 items I want and they’re often high-priced. However, the front page of the flyer usually has one or two inducement products of better value. This week’s is a good one:

Buy 2 Sunlight Laundry 2.95L @ $5.99 and get 50 AM bonus. That’s $3.25 AMs each taking it down to $2.74 each. (See 3) Are there any coupons on Sunlight?

3. Tuesday is “Spend $35 Get 10% Off Day”

If you have the We Care books you could basically get another 10% off using a $2 grocerty and $2 meat coupon

Remember the Sunlight above?

$5.99 @ 20% off is$4.79. Got a $1 coupon $3.79. Add in the $3.25 in AMs earned and you’ve effectively got the Sunlight for $0.54.

4. Name Brand Offers

Just a few of note:

Diana BBQ Sauce $2.99 Buy 2 Get 15/AM

Buy Tuesday @ 20% off (see 3) = $2.40 each and get about $1 in AM each.

Knorr Soups/Broth @ $2 each part of a Buy 8 Get 80 offer. That’s $1.30 AMs each.

Buy Tuesday @ 20% off. That’s $1.60 each. I have coupons worth $0.50 each taking it to $1.10 each and I earn the equivalent of $1.30 each in AMs. That’s an 18% profit!!!!! Outstanding!!!!!!!

Lipton Soup @ $2.50 each part of the same 8/80 offer

Tuesday gets it at $2.00 each plus $1.30 in AMs.

OB

Good Hunting To All!

Thanks bcteagirl for posting this on the forum 🙂

Car Care Event

30$ off Twin Stack Compressor
15$ off Wet/Dry Vacuum
2.60$ off All season bleam blade
6$ off Black or Grey Floor mats
3$ off Armor all Protectant
3$ off invisible glass window cleaner
2$ off turtle wax, ice

ALSO ON COSTCO.CA:
60$ off Michelin, set of 4 tires (15$ off per tire).
40$ off BFgoodrich set of tires (10$ off per tire).

Looks like all car coupons this week, at least out this way!

For a limited time, earn 100 bonus aeroplan miles.

Enter this code 100BONUS online with pins from participating Quaker and Tropicana products at www.breakfastcentral.ca to earn your bonus Aeroplan Miles.

Offer valid from March 31, 2007 to April 30, 2007 at 11.59pm ET. Look in store for specially marked Quaker and Tropicana products to find your pins. Enter a pin for a Tropicana and a pin from a Quaker product along with the promo code 100BONUS.

Limited of one bonus 100 aeroplan miles per Aeroplan Member during the offer period.

Open to Canadian residents Aeroplan Members only.

Some good deals at the Bay this week.

Click here to read the flyer

Awesome freebie 🙂

Click here to print the coupon

According to Wikipedia:

Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day is an annual event, held in late April or early May, in which Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops give out free ice cream cones all day. Over one million free cones are given away each year. Charitable organizations are often present at the stores each year and enjoy a significant amount of fundraising success.

The first Free Cone Day was held on May 5, 1979. It was done by Ben and Jerry as a customer and staff appreciation event for the one year anniversary of their ice cream store’s opening, and has continued ever since.

The 28th annual Free Cone Day was held on the day of April 25, 2006.

The 29th annual Free Cone day will be April 17, 2007.

Here are Ben & Jerry’s store locations in Canada

Free 2 litre white milk coupon inside:

Regular Cheerios (575g)
Reese Puffs (400g)

Free 1 litre white or chocolate milk coupon inside:

Oatmeal Crisp (475g – 525g)
Lucky Charms (400g)
Nesquick (400g)

Regular variety milk only. Offer not valid on premium varieties of milk including Omega 3, Calcium and/or Protein enriched, Lacteeze, Lactaid, Lactose free and Filtered milks. Offer void where prohibited. Offer not valid in Quebec or Nova Scotia.

Click here for more details on this IGA Quebec photos deal

Click here to print this coupon from Gap Canada’s website

Click here for more details on this Shoppers Drug Mart Deal

I mentioned this deal ages ago and it’s still valid 🙂

Whether you’re an existing Sympatico High Speed customer, or are just signing up for Sympatico today, you can now receive a $50 bill credit on your Sympatico account when you provide us with your SPC card details!

More details about this Bell Sympatico promo here

Giant Tiger Kingston (but I guess the same deal is in other GT stores) has the Cadbury Creme Eggs on sale for 43cents. There are LOADS of eggs left.

Bought 16 creme eggs from there today 🙂

I think I should’ve bought more 🙁

This is a post from last year but is probably valid this year too. I have a flu so sorry I haven’t been able to go hunting for easter deals this year.

Here is last year’s post:

Easter is over, but this only means that bunnies and eggs are going to be on clearance at Shoppers Drug Mart, Pharma Plus, Zellers, Walmart, etc.

I tried finding the best deals out there:

Cadbury EggI went to Shoppers Drug Mart today and they had the Cadbury Eggs (Crème, Peanut Butter and WonderBar eggs) reduced to 59 cents (regular is 99 cents). I’m not sure if this is at all Shoppers Drug Mart branches but from the way it’s priced I can almost 99% guess that it’s on sale at all (or at least Ontario) Shoppers Drug Marts.

Easter Bunny Clearance

Lindt Gold Bunnies are on sale for $1.96 (save $4.00) at Pharma Plus. This offer is in the weekly Pharma Plus flyer.

If you can’t find the Lindt Gold Bunnies at Pharma Plus, Zellers also had them on sale for $2.49 and Staples is expected to reduce them to $2.97.

I also suggest you checkout your local Wal-mart and other grocery stores. The sooner you go the better. By Wednesday, most Easter chocolate will be gone so hurry.

Paul hit the nail on the head with his comment on my previous iPhone post. Having traveled to Europe I agree with what he had to say:

I’m not saying people should get a nokia and not an iphone, My point is that for the features the iphone has, its price is ridiculously high and with that price you can get much much better products as the iphone with quality camera, camcorder, built in GPS, same/better music quality, etc. The iphone would be a good solution if it’s price was cut to 1/3 of its current price and even less. If the iphone wasn’t from apple, no one would even look at it, but since it’s from apple and apple is cool, the iphone is great and is worth whatever price they put on it, even if it’s a total rip off, and everything else from everyone else is crap. And I’m saying this as a cell phone expert, I switch phones every 3 months and have had many phones from different manufacturers and write reviews.

But one thing you have to remember is that, Motorola has been the dominant manufacturer in north America and Nokia and Sony Ericsson haven’t had much investment in Canada, and only up to a couple of months before the SE k790 was brought in by rogers, all the phones by all the carriers were low-end feature less products and all the Good high-end phones were for the Europeans and Asians, and it is still this way more or so, so the iphone will leave a good impression to people who have been carying crap phones from Fido, Rogers, Telus and Bell over the years and have no idea what’s going on on the other side of the world.