Coupon Sites

Yes I am one of "those" people and so is my sister. We coupon and we work together to get amazing deals on things we use all the time.

I get asked a lot where I get my coupons from.

The first place and one of the best places is to go to your local stores and walk the isles they will be there! There are some stores that have a coupon bored at that front of the store where they all are. The Real Canadian Super Store used to but they removed it. A lot of people take the whole tare pad of coupons for some items, this annoys me! I take 5 for me 5 for my sister because couponing is about saving money, not preventing others from using coupons.

Second place is you can email companies and and some of them will send you out coupons. Not all companies do this so don't pin your hopes on it.

Third are websites and this one is a goldmine. Now some of these websites offer mail ours and some of them offer printable coupons. You can only print 2 per computer per web browser. So you can print with explorer, chrome and Mozilla.  Stores will take black and white coupons but I like to print in colour. Each site will allow you print every so many days. For myself I check every week to print whats new. 

These are the websites I use:
https://www.websaver.ca
www.smartsource.ca
www.tastyrewards.ca
www.pgeveryday.ca
www.save.ca
www.savealoonie.ca
https://www.gocoupons.ca

All of these sites require you to sign up for an account. 

A couple of mistakes that new couponers tend to make:

--Print ALL the coupons even the ones you want or need. 
--Buy things with coupons that they don't use!!!
--Stock things with expiry dates that will not use up before they expire.

I will try to do a weekly post of my savings and some tips that I have found useful along the way. 
For me finding great deals and having coupons on the stuff we use daily is very exciting. 

Facebook groups for your area and Canadian ones are always a great way to find good deals and where you can trade what you for ones that you might want more.

I am a member of those groups:

Chassitis Couponing Group  (It is a local one)
Kayla's Canadian Couponing Group 
Canadian Coast to Coast Couponing Group (This is my favourite group)


POINTS!!! I might be a little bit of points addict. I collect Scene Points and PC points. 

Scene 
PC Points 

Yes, I am a PC insider but it is mainly a great deal for parents buying a lot of diapers and things that are baby related. I am one because of my sister and I buy things for diaper cakes and such. 

NOTE*** PULL UPS ARE NOT CONSIDERED DIAPERS which means no extra points for that. 

Apps I use:
 
Checkout 51 (This my favourite and the one I use the most.)
Caddle (I just started using this one and I am not a huge fan of it yet)

There are other apps out there but anything that requires me to connect my bank account to I will not do as there is too much of a risk.


Online Shopping:
Rakuten Canada (They used to be Ebates)
Honey 
 

Do you coupon? Find it scary and hard? Now sure where to start? 

This is my Haul from last week

Captain crunch .78 cents

-- 1.00 coupon
--1.00 cash back from caddle

Bear paws .88 cents
--1.00 off coupon

Soup .50 cents each
--.50 off cauliflower soup when you buy any campbells soup.

Tuna cans .66 cents each
--buy 3 cans save 1.00

Kind bars 8 of them FREE
--1.00 off coupon

Crackers 2.79
--1.00 off coupon

Cascade dishwasher pucks tub 10.00
--3.00 off coupon
--3.00 cash back from check out 51

Dish soap .30 each (40 bottles)
--save 1.50 wyb 2 bottles coupon
--2400 points

French fries FREE
--1.00 off coupon

Handsoap 1.48 each
--50% in store
--.50 off coupon

Would have been 87.83 (these items were all on sale to begin with)

Paid 32.59

Earned 2400 points

Making it .54 cents per item (60 items bought)

No, all 40 bottles of dish soap were not just for me. My sister, a friend and myself split them up so I got 14 bottles and they each got 13 bottles. We all use a lot of dish soap seeing as between the 3 of us we have 7 Adults, 8 Children and 6 Animals. 

Do you have any money saving tips you would like to share?






 

Orange Shirt Day

Sept 30th, 2019 is #orangeshirtday #everychildmatters

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/at-least-3-000-deaths-linked-to-indian-residential-schools-new-research-1.1161081

Photo credit 


This day is important for so many reasons but the main one for me is that we never forget what happened so we can do better in the future.

Residential schools in Canada where in a word "HELL". These school stole children from their homes, families and communities. The children who "survived" these "schools" went on to have serious issues with addiction and other coping mechanisms. It caused entire languages to be go extinct because generations of children were not allowed to speak them or learn them.

They killed children, so many children died in these schools and if they didn't their light was stolen from them. These schools tried to wipe out the first nations and would have succeeded if it wasn't for those who fought back, spoke their language in secret, held onto their traditions despite all of the odd against them.

The abuse, rape and hard labour that went on in these "school" was disgusting, disgraceful and a true black mark in the history of Canada.

We can't go back and undo what we did but we can remember, honor and never forget those who were and are effected by the schools. Yes generations of children and adults are effected because the children who attended these schools went on to have children of their own. Between dealing daily with the trauma of the things they experienced and not knowing how to love or raise children of their own, raised them the best they could but it left scars and trauma for the new generations of children to carry forward. There is a whole lot of passed down traumas all because of what residential schools did to these children. We can offer to help whose who are effected. We can make a difference, we can do better!

We must never forget so we never repeat!

Homeschool Week4 SK

So far we are rocking it, staying on time even with everything going on between my appointments and my grandmothers triple by pass and valve replacement and of course complications after I think we are doing well with staying on task.


This week we are learning geography, its just the basics so he gets an idea on the world etc. If he chooses we will go deeper into it but right now he is 5 so I am not too worried about it.

Still down to 1 truck right now so any outings has to be in walking distance unless I drive everyone to work. 

We are finishing up the workbook Reading Readiness book which I found at a dollar store and we will be moving onto Math Readiness which is another book that I found at our local dollar stores.

Also exciting news my Canadian Daily Stem Activities book arrived from Scholastics so we will be adding that to our daily routine as well.

Week 4 Day 1: Sight word "The"(Flash cards that I made), Song about Canada, workbook, ABC Mouse, nature bored, Grumpy Pug Book, STEM (living things) we did a video and then the activity in the book, walk

Week 4 Day 2: Sight word "the" work sheet, Canada puzzle, workbook, ABC Mouse, Nature bored, At the zoo book, STEM living things activity, play group.

Week 4 Day 3: We are off to the Dairy Museum, which means there will be no seat work.

Week 4 Day 4: Sight word "the" flash cards, Giant Canada Puzzle with pieces to put on, workbook, ABC Mouse, Nature bored, What is cold? book, STEM living things Collage, walk

Week 4 Day 5: Sight word "the" work sheet, colour map of Canada, workbook, ABC Mouse, Nature bored, The penguin chick book, STEM label my body parts, park

Do you greet strangers?

It might be just a Canadian thing or it might be just a me thing. Every person or animal I walk by I either say hello or at least nod. If they have a dog and I am not in a hurry I will ask if I may pet it.

I feel if I walk by someone it is rude not to say hi or nod, but here everywhere we go everyone says hi as they walk by.

Even those people that I walk by and know from my past, which I am not a huge fan of I will still smile and say hi.


Always believing that you never know who needs that smile and simple hello as you pass by is what motivates me to do it. I guess you never know what someone else is going through and a simple gesture of kindness can go along way to making their day or week.


When I am in a mood and someone smiles and says hi, I can't help but smile back and it's almost like a mood changer in that moment. I get out of own head and pulled back to reality.

Even when we visit big cities I still do it, and most of them do it back or even are the first to do it. Cashiers I always ask how they are doing and wish them a good day.

Too many people in this world are grumpy with each other, the least I can do is smile and say hi instead of acting like the entire weight of the world is resting solely on my shoulders.

Do you say smile and say when you walk by people? Do you say it back when it is said to you? Do you think its a Canadian thing or is all around the world like that?