Coupons, dealz, Freebies, Photos

Humpday Freebie Week!

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It’s April Fool’s Day! Did anyone get pranked? Not I, this whole week has been freebies galore, for me! Monday, Tuesday, Today, and Tomorrow. What does Friday bring, I wonder?

freeeeMonday morning at around 11am I was doing some monotonous envelope stuffing, and needing a little something to perk me up. My co–worker who collects the mail from the  school board mail room came into my office and gave me a white and blue package I did indeed recognize. I received my P&G Brand Sampler (that I had posted about)! That same day, after work I headed to my boyfriends to make some supper, as I didn’t want it to go to waste sitting in the fridge all week. To my surprise, I received another sample box at  his place (I totally cheated the system and entered in three different addresses so I could receive more freebies: Boyfriends, My place, and Work. Oops!). Photo to the left for extra emphasis. I’m so excited! Razors, shampoo, dental floss, face moisturizer, coupons and teeth whitening strips! Oh boy! On Monday, I also e-mailed Colgate-Palmolive company from their website and complimented their 360 toothbrush that boyfriend introduced to me a year or so ago. A woman quickly e-mailed me back thanking me for the letter, kindly noting that they will be giving me coupons in the mail! Nice!

Tuesday I received a card in the mail from my Mom’s Aunt. It was a sweet Easter card with a generous cheque written all out to me! I’ll be paying off my VISA with that (I bought a couple of $19 sports bras at MEC this weekend). Speaking of credit cards — My boyfriend and I signed up for the PC Financial MasterCard card (just to earn points for free groceries!) and have been using it for about a month and a half. I’ve yet to receive my “$20 worth of free groceries coupon” in the mail — boyfriend received his in the mail on Tuesday. Mine should be not too far behind!

Then today, I received an Easter package from my parents in the mail. Hey now … nobody is ever too old for a little treat, every now and then from their parents! Actually, it’s the first care package I’ve had in about a year or more. I requested one from my Mom, because I haven’t gotten any snail mail (okay besides the Easter Card, but I requested a pkg from my Mom weeks ago) in a while and wanted something special from my Momma (hehe!). I’ll never grow up. She always buys the good stuff, you know? The things where I hate spending money on — like Neutrogena hand cream. It’s such amazing hand lotion, but it’s like $8 a bottle, and I’d just buy the dollar store kind that works like crap (or the free Aerie lotion I received just last month, ha!). Just to save the money for something else, like TROPICANA orange juice! Can’t skimp out on the good o.j.

Tomorrow, I’ll be heading out to the mall to pick up my monthly freebie from Aerie. I can’t get over how great their marketing is, and how they’re promoting their new Aerie stores. On any given Thursday, they have a monthly freebie you can pick up. No purchase necessary, just walk in — present your Aerie card, they punch it and you walk out with your gift. March was a really ugly beach bag, and February was hand cream that I use at work (and smells just like the store does). They’ve been doing this for a good while now and you just need to have a stand alone Aerie store (not one that is inside an American Eagle store) and pick up a card. A few other freebies I received from Aerie are free undies (when they were actually out of the monthly giveaways – awesome!), candles, lip glosses, eye mask for sleeping and even a cute little blank note book.

So, I can’t leave all you guys empty handed by just telling you all about my freebies and goodies this week (Canadian only, unless otherwise noted). So I leave you with:

  • Free bottle of Pledge Multi-Surface Cleaner!!! (A+ cleaner, in my books!)
  • Free samples and coupons when you sign up with Alberta Style Canada
  • Get ready & save the date. Brandsampler is giving away $90 worth of free coupons starting on Saturday, April 4th!
  • I’ve yet to order from this new website. But you can check it out for yourselves. This website allows you to select coupons and they ship them to you for free (CAN & USA)

I used a lot of parentheses in this entry today (love it).

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Daily, Triathlons / Duathlons

BC BOUND!

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As you all may know my boyfriend is a Triathlete and is currently training for Ironman Canada.  Yesterday we went to Hamilton and he raced an “easy 30k”. Originally he wanted to do this in under 2 hours. But he was seconds under his time last year and finished it in 2:09:20. Last summer he completed the half Ironman which was conveniently in Ontario, just a few hours drive up north.  I’ve gotten the grand tour of this province, being his cheerleader girlfriend ever since he started racing around the province. Ever weekend in the summers are practically booked up with waking up at 4am to prep for the drive to the race site an hour or two away. Occasionally we book hotels and drive up the night before, like the half ironman I mentioned, which was quite a few hours away. Needless to say, this weekend wasn’t a sleeping-in one. We stayed up late on Friday and Saturday (we had to go to Hamilton two days in a row. Racers pick up their time chip and freebies the day before a race.)

Anyway, onto the big news that I wanted to tell you all! I am thrilled to announce that we have booked our (direct) flights to British Columbia for later on this year!  It’s only a four hour flight, same as flying from Toronto to Newfoundland. Sooooo, we’re going to fly to British Columbia in August, and once Ironman Canada is over and done with, we’re going to scope out the beautiful scenery in Banff, Alberta. Air Canada had a ridiculously great seat sale that we couldn’t pass up. Initially I had wanted to fly home for the long weekend, during the first week of August. But eff that. I’ve always felt obligated to either fly home to see my friends/parents, or go to Ireland to visit my brother’s family. This time? It’s all about me baby (and boyfriend lol).

I’m really excited about this, as it’s a huge accomplishment for my incredibly dedicated boyfriend who has been in training ever since the race season ended in October, and me to even watch this race with all the big names:  Craig Alexander (the current Ironman Triathlon World Champion who I met *tee hee* at the Half Ironman race last August), and actually…I don’t even know who else is going. I’m totally going to be a huge nerd and make a monster sized, ridiculous poster with the Newfoundland flag saying “GO SCOTT GO!”.

You guys, I am … So. Stoked.

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