The Office is one of my favourite TV Shows. At the beginning of some episodes they have a little fun office prank. This week’s prank was Christmas related 😀

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Thanks couponlady, Arch_Dandy & courtreporter for as usual posting this week’s flyer deals in the Canadian Shopping Deals Section

Reminder of useful links:

• Canadian flyers list
• Canadian Coupons Database
• Save.ca Coupons List
• Canadian Hot Deals Forum

And here are this week’s flyer deals (Dec 12 – 18, 2008):

• Walmart Flyer Deals Dec. 12-19
• Zellers flyer deals Dec. 13-18
• Zellers last sales before Christmas DECEMBER 19-24th
• Shoppers Drug Mart Flyer Deals Dec. 13-19 (free satin care, 0.97 sunsilk)
• Real canadian Superstore/Zehrs/Loblaws – No tax event again on Dec 11th
• Price Chopper flyer deals Dec 12 to 18
• Real Canadian Superstore(ON) flyer deals Dec 12 to 18
• Loblaws flyer deals Dec 12 to 18
• No Frills flyer deals Dec 12 to 18
• Zehrs flyer deals Dec. 12-18 (europes best veggies $0.99, ricola $0.99)

The wonderful Smart Canucks forum members have been posting hot deals too:

• Mega Size Pampers for $5.97!!!!!
• Pantene shampoo – .54 at No Frills Dec. 12-18
• Start the Caaaar! Dove Shampoo at Zellers! *PIC
• Zellers extra 10% off Dec 14th only
• Shoppers Drug Mart – Kleenex only $0.09(with coupon) from Dec 13 to 19
• Mark’s Work Wearhouse Flyer – FREE SOCKS!!
• kids shampoo at walmart
• Costco Manufacturer Instant Rebates happening now(Exp.Dec.14th)
• FREE FREE Advil
• McCain $4 WUB 3 coupon
• Head and Shoulders shampoo and conditioner $0.79 at no frills dec. 12-18
• Shoppers Drug Mart – Receive 20x points Dec 13-19 WUB $100 or more of Beauty

You can also visit the Canadian Hot Deals Forum to keep track of other good deals.

Thanks itsjustmebub and couponlady for posting this awesome deal in the Canadian Shopping Deals and Flyers section 😀

On December 11th and 12th or 12th and 13th, 2008 (check your local flyer for date) the Real Canadian Superstor, Zehrs, Loblaws, Fortinos and basically almost all Loblaw Inc. grocery chains are having tax free event from 5pm till close. This means that you do not pay any taxes on your purchase. This applies to everything in-store including electronics! So imagine buying a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 without paying any tax! That’s like saving almost $50 😀

We pay the GST and PST (where applicable) on almost all taxable items excluding purchases of tobacco, prescriptions, dry cleaning, gas bar, lottery or from third party businesses within our stores. No returns accepted or rain checks issued for taxable items during this promotion. We reserve the right to limit purchases to reasonable family requirements. Offer only valid in participating stores in Ontario. Cannot be combined with any other promotional offers.

Click here for a discussion of this Loblaws no tax event on the forum

Thanks jackso for posting about this Zellers Friends & Family event in the Canadian Shopping Deals and Flyers section.

On Sunday December 14th, 2008 only receive an extra 10% discount on almost everything at Zellers including ALL regular, sale and clearance-priced merchandise! You need a copy of the invitation coupon for this event so don’t forget to print it out:

Click here to print your Zellers Invitation.

A Smart Canucks tradition that I’ve started since 2006 is here :)  The full list of free 2009 Calendars in Canada! Like every year, I’ve been maintaining a list of free 2009 Calendars on the Freebies forum. I think no new calendars will be coming out so here’s the final list! Enjoy!

• Free Chapman’s 2009 Calendar
• Free Ocean Spray Canada 2009 Recipe Calendar (plus 5 x $1 coupons)
• Consumer Smart 2009 Calendar Freebie
• Free Telus 2009 Calendar (even none Telus customers can get this)
• Free Canadian Club 2009 Calendar
  
• Free CBM Canada 2009 Calenda
• Free Unity Online 2009 Calendar
• Free Oriental Trading Online 2009 Calendar
  
• Free Xerox 2009 Calenders
• Free Rosenborg 2009 Recipe Calender

Am I missing any Free 2009 Canlendars? If you know of others let me know!

Here’s a huge collection of mp3s that I’ve had since last year. I haven’t added much to the list but thought I’d blog about it anyways for my new blog readers 🙂

Click here to download Christmas Songs

Get a $10 discount when you spend $50 or more at Home Depot stores all across Canada or online.

• For Home Depot in-store purchases click here for the printable coupon
• For Home Depot online use promo code usave10

Home Depot Coupon expires Dec 14, 2008.

Click here to print this Home Depot Canada coupon
Click here for Home Depot

New coupon from Old Navy Canada. Take $10 off any purchase of $50 or more at all Old Navy stores across Canada. This coupon is from SPC and that’s why it has the SPC logo at the top right. However it does not say on the coupon that an SPC card is required to get the discount so you should be fine even without an SPC card 🙂

Old Navy Canada coupon expires on Dec. 14th, 2008

Click here to print your Old Navy Canada coupon
Click here for Old Navy Canada store locations

This blog post was originally made by Sally but when I added the above pic she didn’t approve so I took over authorship of the blog post 😛

Every year Tim Hortons offers free holiday skating in select areas of Canada, its a great family activity and a great way to get the whole family active!

Mom’s and Dad’s don’t forget the helmets for the little ones to protect their precious noodles!

Click here for the full Free Ice Skating schedule

I’d post all the locations but theres hundreds and hundreds of free skate dates and areas!

Happy free Skating!

Sears has a couple of new awesome coupon codes:

Save $10 off $50+ at Sears.ca

Use coupon code 941612145
Expires December 15th 2008.
This coupon doesn’t work on Sears.ca items ending in $0.97.

Save $10 off $100+ at Sears.ca

Use coupon code 941612103
Expires December 31st 2008.

Click here to shop at Sears.ca online

Best Buy Canada has new coupon codes that give you discounts on online purchases.:

• Best Buy Coupon Code: HOLIDAY1962465521104 = $10 off $100+
• Best Buy Coupon Code: HOLIDAY2962484154075 = $25 off $250+
• Best Buy Coupon Code: HOLIDAY3962502787047 = $100 off $1000+

To use codes:

• Click here to go to Best Buy Canada online
• Add the items you want to purchase to your shopping cart
• Go to your shopping cart and near bottom right there is a link that says “Use Digital Dollars”. Click on it and enter the code.

Remember that you can use these codes on all items including reduced ones so you can get some pretty good deals 😉

Save.ca has a new coupon for 75cents off Quaker Snacks. I never tried Quaker Snacks before, but they seem like delicious products and they’re following the new low calories trend so I might give them a try with this coupon.

Click here to order your Quaker Snacks coupon from Save.ca

I knew today’s Christmas countdown title would grab your attention! Well it’s what I think is a classical Christmas movie scene, the Mean Girls Christmas Dance. While searching for this scene on Youtube I came across loads of people doing their own version of this Christmas dance at very different places ranging from schools to Hooters. Here’s the movie scene:

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And here’s the Jingle Bell Rock mp3 just in case you wanted to practice this at home :P  (right click on the link and save it to your computer)

Rainbow Cinemas Canada is offering free morning movies:

• Kung Fu Panda on Saturday December 13, 11am
• Horton Hears A Who on Saturday December 20, 11am

Doors open 10:30am. Movies start 11:00am. Free admission on first come, first served basis and limited to cinema’s capacity.

• Rainbow Cinemas where the free movies will be played:
• Rainbow Galleria, 355 Wellington Street, London
• Rainbow Market Square, 80 Front St. E at Jarvis, Toronto
• Rainbow Promenade Mall, 1 Promenade Circle, Toronto
• Woodbine Centre, 500 Rexdale Boulevard, Toronto
• Rainbow St. Laurent Centre, 1200 St. Laurent Blvd, Ottawa
• Rainbow Cinemas, 40 Elm Street, Sudbury

Click here for more details on this free movie theatre promo

Over the past few weeks we’ve had some posts letting people know about the Annual $5 T-shirt Sale at Threadless.com. While the deals were good (and still are — the sale continues!), a number of our readers have come back and commented about the outrageous customs fees they were required to pay at the door.

To the best of my knowledge, the commenters that have been saying it is a UPS-related issue are dead right. Of all the deliveries I receive from the states each year, only the ones from UPS seem to come with a mountain-sized customs fee. I once ordered a $30 bag from Manhattan Portage and had to pay $45 in customs. It was BEYOND outrageous. That’s why I go out of my way to avoid UPS whenever possible.

Threadless offers four shipping choices — two through UPS, and two through the US Postal Service. While it’ll be slower and without a tracking number, you’ll most likely avoid the customs fee by choosing the “Postal” options. I’m cheap, so I went economy anyways. My first order hasn’t arrived yet, so I can’t confirm for a fact that no customs fees occur through this method. From my understanding and past experience with other US companies though, it’s the safest bet.

My apologies to all of you that have incurred customs fees. If it makes you feel any better I’ll likely be fighting with a UPS driver today over fees from a Christmas purchase unrelated the Threadless later today. I ordered it from a .ca site, so why the heck is it coming UPS from Colorado?? We are not amused.

As far as Threadless shipping goes, they’ve just upgraded their sale again to include a $7 discount for postal economy shipping on international orders over $50. The sales been on a while now, so this is probably the last bump up in savings they’ll offer before they take the whole thing down.