Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Free Baby Samples

Now that I'm expecting, I've been scouring the internet in search of baby samples and free products. So far, I've received two packages in the mail for free baby samples. Please note I do live in Canada so these apply to canadian free baby stuff.

#1) Johnson & Johnson




How: Go to jnjcanada.com, near the top of the page you'll see 'contact us', click and scroll down until you see 'Email: click here', fill out mandatory fields including your address, and in the comment/question section request a 'New parent pack'. One parent pack request per household.

What: They will send you a coupon in the mail for a free take along pack which includes lots of samples of products. They also include $1.00 off coupons for regular size J&J baby products. Go to a local store and use your coupon(s)!


#2: Shoppers Drug Mart




How: Go to shoppersdrugmart.ca, near the top of the page you will see 'baby', click and it will direct you to a page which talks about their 'V.I.B' program, sign up and wait for your package in the mail! Please note you must be a Shoppers optimum club card holder (which is a free rewards card).

What: They will send you a package in the mail which includes samples, a bib, pacifier, and also bonus point coupons you can use when you purchase certain products.

Coupon Deals

Hopefully I'll be getting into the swing of things soon and getting more deals with coupons. I was checking out the Walmart flyer the other week and could not pass up the deals I saw.

Here's what I got:

Special K Oats & Honey
Reg. Price: $4.99 approx.
Sale Price: $3.99
Coupon: Free! from websaver.ca
Final Price: Free

Kraft Smart Mac' N Cheese (x 2)
Reg. Price: $2.29 approx.
Sale Price: $1.00
Coupon: -$0.75 (x2) from save.ca
Final Price: $0.25

Dole Apple Crisp
Reg. Price: $2.49 
Coupon: -$1.25 from websaver.ca
Final Price: $1.25

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

A Good Mail Day

The other day I had a very good mail day. Came home from work to find all these goodies! Free Samples are the best! The Axe Bodywash Sample was a freebie via Facebook, the rest were from P&G Brandsampler. Please, do yourself a favour and go to pgbrandsampler.ca NOW! Sign up and they'll email you when samples are available. Usually it's every couple of months. First come, first served.


Christmas Exchange Cookies

Not a coupon post but I thought I'd share some pics of the cookies I made for the cookie exchange at work. It was my birthday and I made close to 9 dozen cookies! Nothing says 'happy birthday' like sugar and baking! Joking aside, I was quite pleased with how they turned out. I never make cookies to this extent and had done a trial run of the recipe before with the wrong kind of margarine (still good but not quite what I wanted, they turned out much better with the Crisco shortening the recipe called for) so I'm really glad they turned out ok! I went to my fave home accessories/decor store, Stokes, and found a cookies press for 8 bucks!! I couldn't believe it! It worked really well, too.As for couponing; I haven't been doing much lately as I've been rather 'baby brained'. I'd much rather research about the baby than worry about what stores have what. Plus my stockpile has been holding up rather well so I haven't had the need to go out and buy anything. Ah yes, excuses, excuses! Maybe it's winter blues.... who knows?

Swedish Spritz (Almond Flavou Cookies)







Have I gone Hippie? Cloth Diapering for the Modern Mom

Well, as the title may give away I'm going to be a mommy! So weird, isn't it? I remember being a little girl wishing that I'd be older and feeling as if life would never go faster, and now years go by in a blink, and my lil baby is growing even faster than I can imagine. It's nearly a pound already! When the technologist told me that I couldn't believe it. That lil bump barely popping out is my little baby.
 Now onto the topic of today; Cloth Diapering. Never before did it even cross my mind that I'd want to do cloth diapering. I'm not a hippie. I don't eat organic. I do recycle but I wouldn't  say excessively. So why the heck would I cloth diaper? I was bored one day and decided to do some research on cloth diapers. Basically just to see what they were, how the worked and why the heck people would cloth diaper in the first place. By 'research' I mean Youtube (better than google ;P). Everytime I thought about cloth diapering,  this image of disgusting, smelly, gross dirty diapers swishing around in the washing machine popped into my head. I thought how the heck is this sanitary? Then I Youtubed.  My eyes were opened to a new world of diapers! I never realized there was so much variety and so many brands! I was pleasantly surprised. Not only are the freakin' adorable, they're good for the environment and for your baby, too! And much cheaper than disposable diapers in the long run! I watched a couple videos, then some more... and more... and before you knew it, I was a convert. Disposables? Puhh-leassee that is so 2010. I dare you to youtube cloth diapering! Try not to become addicted!  

Here's my first order. Some people are a little hesitant to start cloth diapering because it's more-so pay up front then wait til you need it. You can't just go down to the local grocery store to pick up what baby runs out of. You have to plan ahead and with all the different options and types it can be quite overwhelming. Basically, you won't know what your babies favourites are until you try them on your baby. I watched a lot of videos and basically made a list of people's most common favourites. From that, I made a list of what types I'd be ordering to start my diaper stash. Once babies here, I'll test them out and order more of the ones that work. All babies are different so all cloth diapers will fit differently.






For my order I purchased:
4 Bumgenius Pocket Diaper One Size
3 Fuzzibunz Pocket Diaper One Size
2 Flip One Size
4 Doublers
1 Rock 'n Green Cloth Diaper Laundry Detergent
1 BumGenius Diaper Sprayer (attaches to toilet)
1 Package Bummis Diaper Disposable Liners
Free Samples

Greenninja.ca was having a black friday sale (even though they're Canadian- ALWAYS buy Canadian if you can please).  It was 20% off everything and free shipping. They have great customer service. I highly recommend them! In total everything with tax was around $215. Not bad for my first stash!! With the discount I saved $50 and then free shipping on top of that. I was quite pleased! I'm hoping for a boxing day sale so I can order the rest of what I'll need for my stash.

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Without Further 'Adieu'...

So it's been awhile, eh? Don't worry! I neglect you no further! Please excuse my tardiness. Life's been rather hectic lately. Couponing was put on the back burner but now life is slowly returning to a normal pace once again. I decided today was the day! I marched over to my local Sobey's on my work lunchbreak and hoped to goodness that the Old El Paso taco kits I had seen there on friday were still the ones with the coupons (and they were!). I actually had a very pleasant cashier. Quite surprising. She complimented me about my jewellery and wasn't even phased by my coupons. Ahhh if only every cashier was like her. Is it just me or do you feel like as soon as you hand a cashier a coupon it seems a red flag goes up and they switch into 'hazard' mode. Like you're trying to shoplift the 'legal' way. "Aiiiiyaaaa" as my past Denny's coworker Jenny would say. Anyways, enough chitchat. Here's what I got:

Total before coupons (with tax): $16.04
Total of coupons used: -$7.19
Total afer coupons (with tax): $8.85



Deal Breakdown:

Oasis Nutrisource
Reg. Price: $4-5
Sale Price: $3.59 plus recycling deposits
Coupon: -$2.00
Final Price: $1.59

Crest Pro-Health toothpaste 85 ml (x2)
Reg. Price: $3.29
Sale Price: $2.00
Coupon: -$0.75 (x2)
Final Price: $1.25 (x2)

Old El Paso Taco Kit
Reg. Price: $4-5
Sale Price: $3.69
Coupon: see below
Final Price: $3.69 plus Free Shredded Cheese Coupon

Old El Paso Salsa 650 ml
Reg. Price: $3.69
Coupon: Free when you buy Taco Kit
Final Price: FREE!





Saturday, 23 July 2011

What Can 75 cents Buy You?

Headed out to Walmart with an envelope full of soon to be expiring coupons. I really couldn't find any good deals that would really be worth buying the product for so I only picked up these two things. In the next couple days I'l raid my Sobey's and put my extra coupons with the products so people can use them up before they expire! With tax and recycling deposits the whole bill came to $0.75. Not too shabby.

Total: $0.75 with tax


Deal Breakdown:

Oasis Tropical Passion Juice
Reg. Price: $1.97
Sale Price: $1.00
Coupon: -$0.50 from gocoupon.ca
Final Price: $0.50

Satin Care Shave Gel travel size
Reg. Price: $1.54
Coupon: -$1.50 from rouge magazine
Final Price: $0.04


July Luxe Box

This month's July Luxe Box by Loose Button goodies:


Consonant Eye & Face Cream Set Sample
Review: N/A

Essie Nail Polish
Review: N/A  I rarely wear nail polish... ever.

Stella in Two Peany Fragrance Sample
Review: Very nice scent.

Trucco Eye Liner
Review: Nice product. Goes on very smoothly, however, not a colour I would wear.

Saturday, 16 July 2011

What Can $5 Buy You??

I was on a mission this weekend. The goal was to see how much I could get for less than $5. It appears to have been a success!

In total I spent: $4.08


Transaction Breakdown

#1-  Canadian Tire

Snuggle Dryer Sheets 20 pk (x2)
Reg. Price: $1.27
Sale Price: $1.00
Coupon: -$1.00 from save.ca
Final Price: Free!

Airwick Air Freshner
Reg. Price: $1.49
Sale Price: $1.00
used $0.45 in CT money
Final Price: $0.55



#2- Save On Foods

Dawn Dishsoap (x2)
Reg. Price: $2.89
Store Coupon: BOGO
Coupon: Buy 2, Save $1.00 from brandsaver.ca
Final price: $1.89/ 2 or $0.95 each

Dove Deodorant
Reg. Price: $3.99
Sale Price: $1.49
Coupon: -$1.00 from flyer insert
Final price: $0.49


#3- Walmart

Gillette Bonus Pack (Deodorant & Razor)
Reg. Price: $3.97
Coupon: -2.00 from brandsaver.ca
Final Price: $1.97

Gillette Foamy Trial Size (x3)
Reg. Price: $1.27 each
Coupon: -$5.00 from brandsaver.ca
Final Price: +$1.19

*No receipt pic as hubby had to buy some stuff for his car*

Monday, 11 July 2011

Save-On Foods Deals of the Week July 11

While flipping through the Save-On Foods flyer this week, I noticed some pretty good sales. I usually don't go to Save-On as it's rather out of the way where I live so you know that the sales had to be real good for me to ask hubby dearest to take me there. I find they have such nice customer service! So much better than Superstore and Walmart.

Total: $4.24 with tax




Deal Breakdown:

Dawn Dishsoap
Reg. Price: $2.89 each
 Sale Price: BOGO
Coupon: -$1.00 WUB 2 from brandsaver.ca
Final Price: $1.89/2 or $0.95 each

Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce
Reg. Price: $3.79 each
Sale Price: 2/$3.00
Coupon: BOGO from websaver.ca
Final Price: $1.50/2 or $0.75 each

Dove Go Fresh Deodorant
Reg. Price: $3.99
Sale Price: $1.49
Coupon: -$1.00 from flyer insert
Final Price: $0.49