Bargain Moose

This offer is only available to college and university students. When you buy Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010 you can receive 3 additional applications for free: Outlook, Access and Publisher.

• Click here to read all the details & learn how to get your 3 free apps

• Click here to buy Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010

You can buy 1 licence for $128 or split the cost with friends and get 3 licenses for $138. Home & Student 2010 comes with Word, Excel, Power Point and OneNote. I’m not sure the value of the additional applications… but it would probably be nice to have the entire collection as a student.

You will need to have a valid student ID to receive this deal.

Deal valid from July 1st through September 25th, 2011.

So Jodie posted here about the fabulous back to school promotion that Apple is having: buy a computer and get a $100 gift card for the app store. Fabulous. A lesser known deal is that if you buy an HP printer from the apple store with your computer you can get $100 back. These promotions can be combined.

• Shop The Apple Store

The HP printer and the MAC computer must be on the same receipt: then you are golden. Get this: HP printers start at $100, so you are essentially getting a new printer FOR FREE, or just for the cost of the tax. It is worth the trouble to send in the rebate form, receipt and codes.

I just gave in and replaced my computer. As a university student I got $100 off my new macbook pro, got the free $100 gift card to the app store, plus bought an HP printer for essentially $20 ($120, then take off the $100 rebate). I decided to pay the extra $20 to get the wireless printing feature: with it I can print directly from my iPad.

Stack your deals people! Be sure to check out the rebate form for qualifying printers.

If you are a  post-secondary student, parent purchasing for post-secondary student, or faculty and staff member at all grade levels,when you buy a new Mac with Apple education pricing  until 20th September, 2011, you’ll get a $100 Back to School Card.

When you buy a qualifying Mac from The Apple Store for Education, an Apple retail store or a participating Apple Authorized Campus Store, you’ll receive a $100 Back to School Card for use on the Mac App Store, the iTunes Store, the App Store, and the iBookstore.

Qualifying Mac must be purchased using Apple’s Education Individual Pricing. If the qualifying Mac is returned, and the Back to School Card has been redeemed by depositing its value into an iTunes account (even if no purchases have been made against the value of the Back to School Card), then the $100 will be deducted from the exchange or refund. Terms and conditions apply. Not all Apple products qualify for education pricing.

Apple offers special education pricing on Apple computers, software, and select third-party products to Post-Secondary Students, Parents buying for a Post-Secondary Student, or Teachers, Administrators, and Staff at all grade levels. Quantity limits apply.

• Click here for full details

As my PC repeatedly shuts down, I would love, love, love to get a Mac. So far, I’m happy with my iPod and iPad! Not sure I’m ready to make the upgrade just yet, but when I do, I’ll be seriously looking at a new Macbook.

Here’s a dealio for the smarty student Bargainmoosers. You can pre-order the 2011-2012 SPC card for a price of $9 (+$2 shipping) now and with that you can choose a $10 gift card for various stores. The gift cards all have min spends which I will detail below.

• Click here to order your SPC card now

Choices of free gift cards:

• $10 off $50 @ Suzy Shier
• $10 off $50 @ Buffalo David Bitton
• $10 off $25 @ Jean Machine
• $10 off $50 @ Danier
• $10 off $35 @ The Body Shop
• $10 off $79 @ Bench

So if you were going to order an SPC card anyway, then you might as well get one of the $10 discount cards too. It’s a bit of a shame that they all have minimum spends attached. If I was buying one, I’d go for The Jean Machine gift card as it has a pretty reasonable minimum spend, and you can never have enough pairs of jeans!

There’s sometimes  bit of confusion as to who can use the SPC card and where you can use it. Many stores accept it, but you’ll almost always get asked for your student ID along with the SPC card, as you really need both to validly claim a discount.

Student Price Card has a fantastic offer with The Body Shop: When you spend $20 get $10 off your purchase! This offer is applicable in store only, through the 5th of June, 2011.

• Check out the Body Shop Locator

I recently bought my mother the Olive Body Butter for Mother’s Day, and she is pleased. This morning she told me that she put the body butter on her very dry feet at night, and they were still nice and soft the next morning. I am trying to get my hubby to use more lotion because his skin is always dry. The Body Shop is helping me out: He loves the scent of the Almond Body Butter and thus will apply it more often that other stuff.

You know: if you buy exactly $20 worth of stuff, that is 50% off!

Expires: 5th, June 2011

Costa Blanca and Urban Behaviour are both having a special SPC (Student Price Card) event. Get 30% off regular priced merchandise at either store from April 15 – 17, 2011.

• Urban Behaviour Store Locator

• Costa Blanca Store Locator

If you are a student, or have a student in your family and they don’t have an SPC card, it is easy to get one and they cost just $10. They run from July – July… so every year you need a new one. But it is a mere $10 investment, and you usually get a cool coupon with it too.

H&R Block is an affordable solution for students to get their taxes done. You will only pay $29.95, and they will take care of it all for you so you can better spend your time studying, or spending the money you just got back. On top of it you will get a free SPC card (value $10) and additional limited time double discount coupons.

• Find your local H&R Block to learn more

Here are the one time use coupons you will get:

• Aéropostale – 20% off your purchase*
• Payless ShoeSource – 20% off your purchase*
• Esprit – 30% off regular and sale*
• Jean Machine – 20% off regular and sale*
• Bluenotes – 20% off your entire purchase*
• Mexx – 30% off regular & 10% off reduced price*
• Future Shop – $10 off any cell accessories $49.99 or more.*

* See coupons for individual restrictions / further details.

I recently got sent an invaluable resource by iTunes, and I use that word rarely.. so it means something to me. While I was wandering through my weekend email from iTunes about the recent crap music and TV shows that are out to buy/pre order, and all the various things I don’t need and am not going to buy… I spied an icon that said University Survival Guide. Honestly, this guide applies to anyone in any sort of education, be it junior high, high school, college, part-time, or university. Being in university and trying to find a way to better manage my course load I checked it out.

• Click here to check out the iTunes University Survival Guide

The Basics: The University Survival Guide is a selection of 39 Apps compatible with either your iTouch, iPad, or iPhone that make your life as a student easier. They costing between $0 to $24.99. They range from fun stuff like Facebook, Twitter, Rate My Proff – to your note taking apps like InClass and Momento. There are your dictionary apps… and if you are writing any papers you will recognise the need for My APA or My MLA, whichever one you are required to abide by. There is even a Shakespeare Pro app, if you are having some difficulties (who doesn’t have problems with the bard?).

My review: So far some apps have been hit and miss, but the hits have been right on. My favourite app that I now couldn’t live without is inClass. I take notes on it, and I have them organized by term, class, date, proff, etc. It is simple.. effective.. colour coded. It is WONDERFUL! I will soon be buying My APA as I am a Psyc student, and we live by the APA law. Wunderlist looks promising but it is designed for a iPhone not an iPad so I am hoping to find an iPad equivalent. I haven’t made it through even all the free apps yet, but they do have some really great stuff there.

I highly suggest checkout out this list. If you have any need to get your life/schedule organized or need help writing this is a great list of apps.

Baskin Robbins has teamed up with SPC to offer you more ice cream for your money, who can resist? Students need sugar! With SPC card in hand you can upsize any regular beverage or sundae to a large for free. A large sundae… yummmmmm!

• Click here for the Baskin Robbins store locator

Don’t forget about the Baskin Robbins’ birthday club, which will give you a coupon for a free ice cream on your birthday too. More ice cream for less is an excellent deal. I think the SPC card is redeeming itself since the loss of some major companies from it this last year.

Don’t forget, the SPC card is only $10! Whether you are a part time student or full time student… in junior high.. high school, college or university, order your SPC card to save.

OfficeforMac is offering the illustrious Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Home & Student edition for $40 off it’s usual price of $159. It is the downloadable version off their website. I would suggest after you download it, back it up. I have recovered my 2007 version that way when the hard drive went on my laptop!

• Click here to get $40 off Office for Mac 2011

Now I know their are two camps, those who are against anything Microsoft ever touching a Mac. Then there are those who don’t care or who are willing. I fall into the latter, primarily because Office for Mac makes my documents compatible with my teachers, and I can open powerpoints and other docs my teachers use in class. Thus, I honestly don’t think I could uni. without it.

Offer Expires 6th, January 2011.

I have been wondering since The Bay left the Student Price Card why I have one. So when I opened my email to find out that The Gap and Banana Republic have joined SPC, it was like a little wish had come true. Not only that, it is a decent 15% off all regular priced items.

• Click here for The Gap store locator

• Click here for Banana Republic Store locator

Unfortunately, it does not include sale items, or their factory or outlet stores. But this is a good start.

Bookbyte is a US textbook company (bills in USD), just wanted to make sure you guys know that. But over the last 1 and 1/2 years I have purchased about 2x textbooks a semester from them, and been pretty happy with them! Infact, this coming semester I am tickled pink. Not only did I get a great deal on two textbooks (will say more later) but I also found a coupon to get an extra $5 off my order.

Click here to shop Bookbyte

• Coupon Code: save5
• Discount: $5
• Expires: ?

I just finished ordering 2 textbooks from Bookbyte. I ended up ordering them separately because I had found one of the textbooks here for a reasonable price, but then the deal fell through. So I did pay seperate shipping for the textbooks, but I did get to use the coupon on each shipment. Shipping for each textbook to Canada was only $11. They ship via USPS Priority, and I have never had to pay duty to USPS yet *crosses fingers* The following is why I am tickled pink:

Abnormal Psyc Textbook:

• University Price New: $139.00 CAN
• University Price Used: $105.00 CAN
• Bought at Bookbyte for: $62.54 CAN (including shipping and taxes)

Methods in Research Textbook:

• University Price New: $136.00 CAN
• University Price Used: $102.00 CAN
• Bought at Bookbyte for: $67.92 CAN (including shipping and taxes)

I looked at Chapters, Amazon.ca, EVERYWHERE… and I keep coming back to Bookbyte every semester for at least 1 – 2 of my textbooks. If I can’t buy them off other students Bookbyte is almost always the cheapest.

Anywho, if there are any university students out there, I KNOW how expensive textbooks can be. Try shopping online for them. They do take a few weeks to come in, so I would say buy now so they come in for January.

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.

Old Navy Canada posted about this special deal on their Facebook, and it has started to make the rounds. They are offering an exclusive deal to teachers and students: 25% off their entire purchase on July 23 to July 25, 2010 ONLY. This is an in-store deal (of course).

• Click here to read about this promotion on Old Navy’s Facebook

Here is what Old Navy says:

We love students and teachers! They’ll receive 25% off their entire purchase, this Friday through Sunday only. Students—show your college or high school ID to receive your discount. Teachers, show your school ID or pay stub to receive yours.

This should be pretty easy to do, and we are giving you a day’s heads up to find your student/teacher ID and dust it off! Being a student can be expensive so thank you to Old Navy, for giving the ol’ pocketbook a break!

What is an SPC Card you say? “SPC Card is your pass to exclusive student discounts and deals on fashion, shoes, accessories, sporting goods, restaurants and more.”

On average a SPC card holder gets 10 – 15% discounts at many retailers such as The Bay, Zellers, Atmosphere and more. It is easy to become an SPC card carrier, you just need to be a student (part time, 1 course, full time, etc) and have a student ID. A great idea to get your teens.

• Click HERE to pre-order your 2010 – 2011 SPC Card

SPC has started pre-orders for the new 2010 – 2011 SPC card, to be shipped out July 21, 2010. To encourage buyers, SPC is offering a choice of 5 different $10 shopping cards to choose from as a gift with your pre-order.

• The SPC card costs $9.00.
• Shipping is $2.00 per.
• Total Cost: $11.00
• Then you get a $10.00 shopping card, free.

Your choices for the free $10 shopping cards are:

• $10 Espirit Card – $10 off (min $20 spend) – Good August 1 – December 1, 2010 (excludes outlet stores)
• $10 Bluenotes – $10 off (min $50 spend before tax + discounts) – Expires December 23, 2010
• $10 Suzy – $10 off (min $50 spend) – Expires July 31, 2011
• $10 Jean Machine – $10 off (min $25 spend before tax) – Expires January 31, 2011
• $10 Pentagone – $10 off (min $50 spend before tax) – Expires December 1, 2010

I have had an SPC card for the last year since I started university and it has saved me so much money! There is also an SPC app. you can get for your touch and iphone where you can quickly reference which places accept the SPC card. Its a marvellous money saver!