Zellers and Toy Story 3

It's been about 15 years since Toy Story made its big debut (can you believe it?) and I've enjoyed both the first and 2nd installments but have not yet seen Toy Story 3. Have you? If so, what did you think about it?

Now Zellers is giving you a chance to win a Disney Parks Dream Vacation here - a package worth around $8500!! That would be a fun family vacation to go on!

Please read complete contest rules here, you must be 18 and older to enter. Canada only. You can enter once a day, until July 29 2010.

Also, if you are in the market to purchase some Toy Story 3 merchandise, here are some coupons for you:
$10 off when you buy Toy Story 3 Action Links Junkyard
$5 off when you buy Toy Story 3 Barbie
$3.50 off when you buy Operation Buzz Lightyear
$2 off Mr.Potato Head Spud Lightyear
$2 off Mr.Potato Head
$2 off Mrs. Potato Head
$2 off Mr.Potato Head Woody
$2 off Mr.Potato Head Plush
$2 off Mrs.Potato Head Plush
$2 off Child or Toddler's Hardshell Bicycle Helmet
$2 off Toy Story 3 Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger
$2 off Animated Talking Mr.Potato Head with Part Popping action
$2 off Toy Story 3 Bucket of Soldiers
$2 off Toy Story 3 Buzz Lightyear with Karate action
$2 off Toy Story Sheriff Woody
$2 off Toy Story 3 multivitamin gummies
.30cents off Toy Story Honey Graham cookies
$1 off Toy Story Woody hooded towel
$1 off Toy Story 3 Buzz hooded towel

Free pink Vileda gloves

As previously posted, Zellers has the Vileda Sensitive Foam Gloves on sale this week (until Thursday) for .99 cents. Use the $1 coupon from the Smart Source coupon insert and get it free! (Zellers DOES allow overage if there is tax required on the item. I usually take my overage transactions to the customer service desk and not go through the regular cashier lines).

Free Sunlight Green Clean!

Sometimes I think the manufacturers really love us. I mean, they want to give us free stuff! Yes, I know they want us to try it in the hopes that we become loyal customers, but I prefer the lovey-dovey idea instead. (grin).

Keep an eye out for the Sunlight Green Clean in the detergent aisle or in a display. I found a huge display of these at the Zellers at Coquitlam Center and they all had the red "Try Me Free" sticker on them.

The premise is that you would purchase the item and then send in the receipt AND the Try Me Free mail in rebate, and then the company would send you a cheque for what you spent on the item, so the only thing you are paying for are taxes and the stamp.

I've seen the stickers on the product at Save On and Safeway as well.

Cheers for free detergent!

Working a deal - which one is better?

Today our "deal dilemma" is over Ziploc bags.
Recently I blogged about how you could use the $2 Ziploc coupon that was in the March 6 Red Plum coupon insert to get free Ziploc Evolve packs at Zellers. What is interesting is that I noticed Zellers has the regular Ziploc 50 pk bags for $2.49 regular price, and the 100-pk bags on sale at 2 for $5 or $2.50 each. So keep your eye out for the sales to get the best price for whatever it is you are looking for.

In this case, you could buy the Evolve 50-ct bags at $1.99, use your $2 coupon and pay nothing but tax.


Or you could buy the regular Ziploc 50-pk at regular price for $2.49 and use your $2 coupon and snag it for $0.49.


Or, you could buy one regular 100-pk bags for $2.50, use your coupon and get it for .50cents.


Which deal would you work? Any guesses to what I did?

Another use for the $2 Ziploc coupon

This coming week, London Drugs will have Ziploc freezer bags on sale for $1.99. If your London Drugs allows overage (most don't), you can get them for free. Or, you can pricematch it at Zellers and get it there for free. In my experience Zellers allows overage coupons but it has to be done at the customer service area. Sometimes they will adjust the coupon down to the value of the item, and other times they just put the full value of the coupon down.

Speaking of Zellers, if you kept the $1 off Vileda gloves that was in the coupon insert recently, you can score them for free as well. Zellers has them on for .99 starting the week of March 12, for a week.

Ziploc bags - free/cheap at Zellers!

If you received your Smartsource coupon insert last weekend, you can put the $2 off any Ziploc product coupon to good use. The Ziploc Enviro bags are $1.99 at Zellers so you would only pay the tax on them. Check around the area to see if you can snag any other Ziploc products for free/cheap - I think some of the Steamer bags are a few cents extra.

Didn't get your Smartsource insert? Call your newspaper distributor and see if they have any extras, or ask your neighbours for theirs if they are not using them. Another favourite place to get coupon inserts? McDonald's. Yep. They have weekend papers and guess what, weekend papers have coupon inserts!

Some great deals at Zellers

Zellers has ziploc bags for 2/$5 this week, here's how you can get 2 for $1!

Ziploc snack bags, 2/$5
Go HERE and scroll down to the bottom to print 2 $2/1 Ziploc Snack Bags coupons (ziploc.ca)
Final price: .50cents each, or $1 for 2!

Tomorrow is the last day to take advantage of this deal!

Starting Friday, Zellers has a new flyer out, and I plan to get some free Vaseline there with the coupon from here.

Vaseline 325ml, $2
Go here to get 1 $2/1 Vaseline (save.ca)
Final price: Free!

Also, you can get free Satin Care and Gillette:
Satin Care or Gillette, $2
Stack 2 $1/1 coupons from here and also from inserts
Final price: Free!

Aleve, $4.97
Go here to order a $5/1 Aleve coupon, save.ca
Final price: Free!

Greenworks Cleaners, wipes and dish soaps are also on sale, 2 for $5
Greenworks Wipes, 2 for $5
Go here to print 2 $1/1 any Greenworks product, couponclick.ca
Go here to print 2 $1/1 Greenworks wipes, couponclick.ca
Total price: .50cents each or 2 for $1!

I'll also be PM'ing deals for Dove and Pantene using a variety of coupons to score those items for free/cheap!

9 items, for $3.26 TOTAL (taxes included)!

There's been some great sales lately and I've been able to get a few things for free/cheap!

Pricematched the Canadian Tire flyer at LD, and I printed out 2 coupons from here and got the Clorox Wipes for FREE!

Canadian Tire also has Glad sandwich bags on for $1 this week, and I used my last remaining .75cent coupons to get these for .25 each - I paid nothing out of pocket as I used my Canadian Tire $ - so these were also completely free!




Zellers currently has a 50% sale on select Glade and Airwick products, so I was able to get 2 Glade Fresh Effects on sale for $5 each, and I used 2 $5 Glade coupons, to get these FREE!



Our locals Kins Market had a few grandopening specials with cheap produce, and they also provided a coupon for a bag of free oranges - yay!

This was a successful Zellers shopping trip - done in 2 transactions. One was with a lovely cashier who had no troubles taking internet printed coupons, and another transaction was with a cashier who acted as though the coupon amounts were being deducted off her paycheque and who was quite obnoxious about it.

I had a few more Scrubbing Bubbles coupons so I got 6 more for free. Total savings: 6 packs x $3 = $18.

There was a display of Glade candles with a "Try it on Us" coupon tray, so we bought 2 - one for home and one for business. It cost us $10 per candle, but with the rebate coupon, Glade will refund us the money, making the candles free! Total savings: 2 candles x $10 = $20.

The Hannah Montana movie came out last week, and Walmart had it on for $18.49 (or so) for the first few days. I brought the flyer in to Zellers and they price matched it. Also, if you go to the Disney site and sign up for their newsletter you can get a $5 coupon off, which made the movie $13.49 each. Little Miss Smith was so happy to get her own copy of the movie (the other was a birthday gift for a friend). Total savings: 2 movies x $5 = $10.

Total savings this post: $48.

Total savings towards debt: $24.

Total savings towards debt so far: $50.