Bargain Moose

Spend $50 or more on kids’ sale priced clothes or footwear and get a free backpack from Sears.ca until 19th August, 2011.

• Click here to shop at Sears

There looks to be 4 different backpacks to choose from – two for boys and two for girls.

This offer is available while quantities last and there is a limit of 1 free backpack per customer. You can combine this offer with other gift with purchase offers. Not valid on items ending in $.97, $.88 and clearance merchandice.

You will have to add the free backpack of your choice to your cart, doesn’t look like you will be prompted to make a choice. The four choices of backpacks can be found on the image here.

Purl Mama is offering 20% off a collection of back to school items including designers such as Three Little Trees, Kinderville, Beatrix NY and more.

• Shop Pearl Mama’s Back to School collection here

Some of these items are already on sale, so with coupon you will see your savings add up.

• Discount: 20% off back to school collection
• Coupon Code: cool4school
• Expires: September 6, 2010

I really like the matching Beatrix NY backpacks and lunch-boxes. They are something I would have loved to have as a child. This Papar the Owl one is so cute! See the matching lunch box here.

This is a nice promotion for all students or parents with students. If you present a valid student ID during the month of September, Thrifty Store will give students 20% off EVERYTHING* in store. It is that simple.

• Click here to find a Thrifty Store near you!

Thrifty Store can be really good for students on a budget, especially university students living away from home who need to pay not only for tuition and books, but living expenses such as rent, food, and clothing!

This promotion goes from September 1st – 30, 2010.

*The 20% discount excludes new things like mattresses, pillows, and paint.

Zellers is gearing up for back to school. They have featured deals each week, and this week’s deals are:

• Save 25% on all kids’ Cherokee apparel ~ Infants’ 0-24 Months and Kids’ 2-18 ~ (Reg. 5.97 – 29.97)

• BOGO 1/2 price on ALL kid’s footwear (Reg. 8.97 – 49.97)

Make sure to check out your Zellers online flyer for further deals at your local store. Zellers really tends to get into the back to school ‘spirit’ with there sales around this time, so keep your eyes open!

• Zellers store locator

Zellers will often have the same stuff as The Bay, just cheaper. I remember when they carried the Vancouver 2010 Olympic wear we got several shirts from Zellers for around $5 – $10 that were 4x more expensive at The Bay!

Notes: Use your SPC card at Zellers and get an extra 10% off your purchase! As Zellers is part of the HBC family you can often get additional discounts for using your HBC Mastercard there.

Every Little Bit is a eco-friendly, green minded Canadian company. In the back to school spirit they are offering 15% off their entire online store, including clearance!

• Discount: 15%
• Coupon Code: SCHOOL
• Expires: August 31, 2010 (around midnight)

Shipping depends on which province you reside in and is detailed on the website. They offer free shipping with a $125 purchase.

• Click here to check out Every Little Bit

I really like their name, it always reminds me of that saying “every little bit helps.” I looked around their website and found some nifty items:

• Eco-Friendly, Self Powered Speakers
• Built NY Gourmet Getaway Lunch Tote
• E-Racer Bamboo Car
• Ecolution Women’s Sherpa Jacket – Organic Cotton *sale*

I think they have some really nice stuff, and that Sherpa Jacket is a really great sale price, coming from one who has started to buy some organic cotton clothing.

American Apparel Canada is offering some favourites at 20% off in celebration of going back to school. This sale goes until August 30, 2010.

• Discount: 20% off select items
• Coupon Code: FALL2010
• Expires: August 30, 2010

For the selection of items that this coupon gives you a discount on, click through the following links:

• Click here for women’s
• Click here for men’s
• Click here for kids’

It was funny to see that they are selling Sharpie permanent markers at AA. They also have totes, backpacks, gym bags, and various other school-ish supplies besides clothing.

Free shipping on orders over $75.

We were sent this cool site by Mooser Susan, thanks so much for telling us about it! BigMama is a textbook rental website for Canadians. You search for the textbooks you need, decide how long you need them for (one semester, period, 60 days…) and instead of paying full price for a textbook, you pay marginal the price.

• Click here to check out BigMama Textbook Rental

Returning the book is free, and shipping is fairly cheap (around $5 a textbook). With the following coupon you can get 5% off:

• Discount: 5% Off
• Coupon Code: FALL2010
• Expires: ?

Now this sounds like a heaven sent for students, and indeed in some ways it is but as per usual I did some further research for you guys.

• Out of the five textbooks I need for this semester they had one.
• The textbook they did have though I could do a price check on. At my university the textbook new was $110. According to BigMama they say it is new $136.70 and rents the textbook for $41.92 a semester + shipping. Which is not bad, but I bought the textbook with the student guide used off another student for $50. Which I will then resell for probably around the same amount.

Pretty much you have a few factors to consider:

A. If you buy used you can resell your textbooks and recover quite a chunk of the money if you buy responsibly, pretty close to all of it. But if they change editions on you or the universities around stop using that book, you are screwed and stuck with a great big paperweight – that is made of paper. Also If you buy used it can be quite stressful to find the best prices and values so that when you resell you can recover your money.

B. If you rent your textbooks you can shop around less, and know you wont be stuck with the textbooks at the end of the semester. You will not pay anywhere near new price for your textbooks. But you will also never have a chance to recover any of the money you spend on renting your textbooks. The downside also is BigMama may not have all your textbooks.

Both have negatives and positives. I currently am stuck with a bunch of English textbooks I can’t get rid of. However, I just sold my Microeconomics textbook for what I bought it for last semester.

Couple last notes:

• BigMama buys textbooks.
• With every rental BigMama plants a tree.

Happy back to school in under two weeks!

If you or your kids need a new laptop bag for heading back to school soon, you could have a browse through the clearance items at Dell Canada.

• Click here to see the clearance bags @ Dell Canada

Dell Canada has reduced quite a lot of their laptop backpacks and cases, and there are some decent deals with free shipping too. Let’s see some examples:

• 5dot Eco-Lite Sleeve for $10.99
• 5dot Connect Variegated Sleeve for $12.99
• Belkin Evo Sleeve for $19.99
• Dell Signature Backpack for $24.99
• 5dot Connect Deep Forest Backpack for $29.99
• Mobile Edge 15.6″ Academic Backpack for $45.99

I’ve just picked out a few there, they have a massive selection to choose from.

Office Depot is trying to help you save on back to school supplies and more with this coupon for $15 off your purchase of $75 or more! I just did back to university shopping for one, and I know how much paper, report covers, pencil cases, erasers and everything else can add up in a hurry!

This is both a printable coupon for in store use and a coupon code for online.

For use in-store check out the store locator here and:

• Click here to print your Office Depot $15 off $75 coupon

For online at Office Depot:

• Discount: $15 off $75
• Coupon Code: 34925117
• Expires: August 27, 2010.

There is some fine print on the coupon that has a few exclusions, most notably electronics and software.

A $50 spend will get you free next day delivery from Office Depot!

For the rest of this month, you can save up to an extra 25% off the cost of your kids clothing from The Children’s Place Canada, when you take these printable coupons to your local store.

• Click here for The Children’s Place store locator

Firstly – you can get 15% off any purchase with this coupon: (Expires 1st September 2010)

• Click here for the 15% Children’s Place printable coupon

Secondly, if you spend $50 or more, you can get 25% off instead: (Expires 22nd August 2010)

• Click here for the 25% Children’s Place printable coupon

I know the second coupon is only valid today and tomorrow, so you might need to be fast if you want to make use of it.

I thought these printable Canadian coupons would come in particularly handy if you happened to be on the hunt for good prices for kid’s school uniforms, or that kind of thing. I’ve taken a screen print of the back-to-school promo from their website, in order to illustrate this post. The site usually shows US prices though, so the Canadian prices in store might be slightly different.

Lately, I’ve been writing about quite a few of the customized label sites, as it is a popular topic because of the kids going back to school soon. I found lovablelabels.ca recently, and I dropped them a line to see if they wanted to give the moosers a coupon code too.

Click here to use the Lovablelabels.ca coupon code online

• Coupon Code: BMLove
• Discount: 10% off
• Expires: 30th September 2010

They sell various back to school packs, which seem to be good value. For example, the Be Girly pack is $44.95 and it contains:

• 15 Regular Sticker Labels
• 40 Slimline Sticker Labels
• 72 Press n’Stick Clothing DOTS
• 12 Shoe Labels
• 2 Mini-Metal Tags (two 4” silver ball chains incld)
• 12 Square Labels

Canadian shipping is free too!

If you buy a pair of shoes at shop.Puma.ca, you can get a backpack free.

• Click here for Puma Canada online free gift with shoe purchase

When you add a pair of regular price shoes to your shopping bag, a Puma backpack will also be automatically added to your order, no code required. The details say the choice of backpack is at the discretion of Puma, but the free backpack is showing up as the Deck Backpack ($30US value). This deal will be available until the 6th of September, but take advantage of this offer while supplies last. Sale items and Mongolian Shoe BBQ are excluded from this deal.

Remember, you also get free shipping with orders over $85US.

(P.S. Puma ship from the US, so watch out for possible customs)

(Wednesday update: Bumping for new eyes)

Over at The Shopping Channel Canada, they are hosting 7 days of deals, which are all special back-to-school offers. They’re starting this offer today, Monday the 9th of August 2010.

• Click to see the back-to-school deals @ The Shopping Channel Canada

Every day, they will have a different offer:

• Monday: Dell Inspiron 545s Desktop computer & 17″ monitor for $479.92
• Tuesday: Canon all-in-one Colour Printer, & free photo paper for $64.63
• Wednesday: T-Fal Avante Deluxe 4 Slice Toaster for $43.50
• Thursday: Pandigital 7″ Digital Picture Frame for $38.46
• Friday: Memorex miniMove Portable Boombox for $37.62
• Saturday: Seasons Collection Cotton Master Duvet 3 Piece Set for $80.65
• Sunday: Seasons Collection – Diamond Collection Sateen Sheet Set for $29.98

I might update this thread every day with the new deal, and if it is a good deal, I will probably bump up the thread so you can see it.

I always think the shopping channel can be very handy if you’re a bit stuck for cash. They usually offer a free payment plan, so you don’t have to fork out a big lot of cash all in one go. Interest free credit for the win!

(Ends 16th August 2010)

On the Lancome Canada website right now, they have an interesting deal on a free gift with purchase.

Click here to shop online @ Lancome Canada

• Promotion Code: BACK2SCHOOL
• Discount: Free GWP on $39 spend
• Expires: Unknown

If you spend $39 or more at Lancome Canada, use the above promo code as you go through the checkout. You get a free cosmetics gift worth $132! The gift consists of the following pieces:

• Rénergie Anti-Wrinkle and Firming Treatment – 15ml
• Génifique Eye Youth Activating Eye Cream – 7ml jar
• L’Absolu Rouge Advanced Replenishing & Reshaping LipColor Pro-Xylane – Perfect Fig
• Définicils High Definition Mascara – Black 2.5g
• Bi-Facil Double-Action Eye Makeup Remover – 50ml
• Cils Booster XL Super-Enhancing Mascara Base – 2ml
• Lancome Signature Cosmetic Case

I’m not quite sure why you need a new make-up kit to celebrate the kids going back to school, but whatever floats your boat, eh!?

Shipping is free on an $85 spend, which is a bit high, sadly. You do get 2 free Lancome samples with an $85 purchase too, so that’s a small incentive.

As mentioned in yesterday’s post about Zellers, it’s nearly back-to-school time! As such, a lot of stores are competing  for you to spend your cash on stationary and school items. Staples has a back-to-school centre shown online, with a number of good offers available.

• Click here to see the Staples Canada back-to-school shop

Some examples of the items on offer:

• Staples lead pencils 10 pack for $0.38
• Staples Tank-Style Highlighters, Assorted, 12/Pack for $5.08
• Staples OOPS! Sidewinder Correction Tape, 2/Pack for $4.46
• Staples Pink Erasers, 3/Pack for $1.11
• Staples Latch ‘n Lock Poly Report Cover for $2.23
• Sharp EL531WBBK Scientific Calculator (272 Functions) for $7.48

When I was little, I remember the preparation of getting ready to go back to school! It seemed like such fun… arranging your new pencils and pens in your new pencil case… sorting out your backpack etc. I usually only got a new packpack once every two years, so that was a special treat.