This Saturday (October 21st) get a 2007 calendar in the Toronto Star:

Came across this very useful “Halloween Safety” article at Safe Kids Canada:

Did You Know?

Halloween is a great time for children. However, all the excitement can cause them to forget safety rules, particularly when trick or treating. The tips below will help you to keep your kids safe during this fun time.

All about costumes:

Make sure that drivers can see your child. Use costumes with bright fabrics and decorate costumes with reflective tape. Give each child a flashlight to carry.

To prevent falling, your child’s costume and shoes should fit properly. Costumes should not be longer than your child’s ankles.

If you are making a costume, use materials that are fire resistant. If you are buying a costume, make sure it is labeled “flame resistant”. This means that the costume could catch fire, but it will burn more slowly than other materials. Avoid costumes with loose sleeves, pants, and skirts.

All costume accessories such as swords or knives should be made of soft, flexible material and should not have any sharp edges.

Your child should wear face paint or make-up instead of a mask. Make-up and face paint are better than masks because they don’t block your child’s ability to see. If your child is wearing a hat, wig, or scarf, tie it securely so that it won’t slip over your child’s eyes.

Tips for safe trick or treating:

Children under nine years of age should be supervised by an adult when trick or treating.

Children over nine years of age should trick or treat with an adult or in a group with older, responsible children. If your child is trick or treating without an adult, make sure he or she knows how to cross the road safely. Children should cross only at corners or pedestrian crosswalks. Children should walk, not run, from house to house and stay on the sidewalk or at the side of the road facing traffic.

Children should stay in well lit areas and should only visit homes that have their outside lights turned on. Children should not go inside homes.

Tell your children to bring their treats home before eating them. Before your children eat their candy, make sure you inspect it. Throw out any treats that are not wrapped, those in torn or open packages, or any that have small holes in the wrappers. Remember that small hard candies are a choking hazard for children under three years old.

When decorating your home:

Small children should never carve pumpkins. Instead, let your child draw a face on the pumpkin.

Make your home safe for trick or treaters. Remove all objects around the outside of your house that could cause children to trip or fall. Turn your outside light on.

Avoid using candles to decorate pumpkins. Small inexpensive flashlights can be used to light pumpkins safely.

Keep lit candles out of children’s reach and away from curtains and other objects that could catch fire.

If you’re driving on Halloween:

Be extra careful when driving. Children are excited and may forget safety rules.

When driving in areas with children, slow down and watch for them.

Enter and exit driveways and alleyways slowly and pay extra attention

I suggest you also play this fun Halloween safety game

Ardene is a practical store with very reasonable prices. Getting an extra 20% off is sweet 🙂

Click here to open and print this Ardene coupon

Look for specially marked Ziploc packages where you shop to get your FREE New Release movie coupon. The coupon is right on the package so it’s easy to redeem – simply bring it in to your local BLOCKBUSTER store for your free New Release Movie. Get yours now while they last!

More details on this Ziploc-Blockbuster deal here

There’s a simillar offer on POST cereals:

More details on this POST Cereals-Blockbuster deal here

Thanks to SnowFlakey for this freebie. Send an email asking for samples and they’ll send you lots coupons, and recipies.

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Visit Big Al’s for the largest selection of aquariums, aquarium furniture & aquarium supplies, as well as an extensive variety of marine fish, live corals, goldfish & tropical fish. Plus, purchase $40 or more of regular priced merchandise with your American Express Card & you’ll receive 20% off (excluding glass aquariums).

More details on this Big Al’s Aquarium deal here 

Got this email from Devon today. Thanks Devon 🙂

EnWin CFL Event

http://www.enwin.com/cflevent/faqs.asp

“On Wednesday October 18th, Enwin Powerlines, in partnership with The Home Depot Canada, will launch an energy efficiency campaign whereby every City of Windsor household who is a customer of Enwin Powerlines can receive two free compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs and try them in their homes.

The program is meant to educate the people of Windsor on ways they can reduce their electricity consumption and save money. The program will also help foster a culture of conservation in Windsor.

The EnWin CFL Campaign – which runs from October 18-22 and October 25-29 from 10 AM to 6 PM – offers Windsor households served by EnWin Powerlines two free CFLs by simply showing a piece of photo ID (including proof of their home address) when they arrive at one of the two Home Depot stores in Windsor.

Switching from incandescent light bulbs to CFLs is an easy way to conserve energy and save money.

Each CFL bulb uses only 25% of the electricity of an equivalent incandescent bulb, saving customers up to $45 over the life of the bulb. The life rating of the Philips Marathon 15-Watt mini twister CFLs being given away during the campaign is 10,000 hours, ten times that of normal bulbs.”

Thanks Patricia for these awesome coupons 🙂

chuckecheese tokens and coupons

6 rewards calendars worth 10 free tokens each

Monthly coupons Canada

Monthly coupons United States

hope this will help someone

Thanks demanche for allowing me to post this info 🙂

RW&Co has alot of their pants marked down about 30-50%. They are usually really expensive ($60-70 range) and have some pretty good styles.

kappamaki pointed out the extra $20 discount, and evoviii has confirmed that the $20 applies to any purchase of $95.

In store only, these are really nice stylish pants from this summer, I picked up a few pairs at full price a few months ago. I just picked up two pairs of pants for $29 each, marked down 50%.

I’d never pay $60-70 for pants but $30 is a sweet spot for me for a nice pair of semi-casual pants. Good time to get some nice new pants that don’t look like you shopped at the GAP or Sears

Also: Tip Top Tailors has their Semi-Casual pants on sale for 50% off as well, around $30 but only odd sizes or large sizes in the store I was at.

Don’t forget to use this coupon on top of the 50% sale price

You can find RW&Co’s store locations here

Another good deal at Toys R Us and a wonderful Christmas gift: Easy Bake Oven and Snack Center is on sale for $24.99 $9.87.

Easy Bake Oven and Snack Center details here

Dora the Explorer – 4 Post Canopy is on sale at Toys R Us for $79.99 $19.98. looks like a lovely gift idea. Just make sure it matches the bed specs although it most likely will. The headboard is also on sale for the same price.

Dora the Explorer – 4 Post Canopy details here

Dore the Explorer – Headboard details here

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The International Center Hall 4
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When?
Wednesday October 25 – Sunday October 29
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mrG has a very interesting point of view on face photoshoping. Here is the comment he posted on my No Wonder our Perception of Beauty is Distorted post:

I think we maybe miss the point with these excerises. It’s like what Carl Jung said about UFO’s and how it is not nearly so interesting whether UFOs exist or not, but how tenaciously we cling to the desire to want them to be real — what I find fascinating about these photoshoppings (and I don’t believe the Lazy Canuck for a second) is the vectors the artist takes attempting to anneal the “source face” into the abstracted “perfected face” because it says something very important, psychologically, about the human perception of face features.

Consider the famous zen gardens, or the later paintings by Picasso, each of them studies into the neurocognitive reality, extracting essential details from the subject matter, enhancing and highlighting those details, arriving at not an image of stark mundane photographic exactitude, but at an image of seeing our way of seeing, of seeing vision, of seeing the mechanics of the way we humans turn the noise-laden reality of our bare senses into abstracted Platonic forms which we can readily remember and recognize.

IMHO, criticizing the photoshop artist is as lame a pasttime as criticizing the grammar of the person banging on your door to tell you your roof is on fire. You may not agree with their abstract/extraction of her ‘essential’ features, and the sane response would be to present your own abstract/perfected view of her, but to put a blanket dismissal on the practice or to turn it upside down to assert that every woman is somehow trapped in a game of trying to be her own perfected abstract self is fodder for comic books, not a viable life strategy.

Thus the woman on the right is every bit the woman on the left, in the eyes of the photoshopper, and in the eyes of all those who find they would rather stare quixotically at the right image while finding it easy to pass the other image by. Those who know that woman on the left, especially those who are close to her, and ok, maybe the lazy canuk too, they probably already see that right-side image on the right every time they look at her.

mrG, I agree that it’s not the Photoshop artist’s fault. In fact, I appreciate the artist’s breathtaking changes and creative touches. As you also mention “Those who know that woman on the left, especially those who are close to her … they probably already see that right-side image on the right every time they look at her”.

My only concern is the way these Photoshoped photos are used by beauty companies to portray the image of an “ordinary” person. Photos in magazines have caused many people to lose their self esteem. I basically think this is wonderful art that belongs to galleries and not fashion magazines. Just my point of view 🙂

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On October 14, travel for free aboard STM buses and métro
and get your copy of either The Gazette, the Journal de Montréal or La Presse.

Event details here