/r/frugalcanada
Think of this as the exact same as the r/frugal, but specifically for Canadians. There are many ways to save money that is only applicable to Canadians, and instead of sorting through all the posts that may not be applicable to the ones in r/frugal, we now have one place where we can go to focus our interests!
stolen from r/frugal:
Frugality is the mental approach we each take when considering our resource allocations. It includes time, money, convenience, and many other factors. The purpose of r/frugalcanada is to share what we have each learned specific to the Canadian market. Let's all work together to keep r/frugalcanada on-topic, friendly, honest, helpful, and within our posting parameters.
• Since this is a commercial-free place, please do not post blog spam, catalog pages, promotional codes, sales announcements, or solitications on r/frugalcanada. It does not matter if you do not have a financial interest in these commercial submissions. These posts will be removed.
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does anyone else struggle with finding stuff at a good price online?
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When I was growing up Farmers Markets were a great way to cut out the middle man and support local growers and makers while getting a very fair price.
Seems like these days Farmers Markets are more expensive than the grocery store. I saw liter of maple syrup for 40 dollars last weekend at farmers market.
My wife bought a small bag of loose leaf tea for $21.
Are there any markets around that still have vendors with great prices?
Was disappointed to see the Shoppers Friends & Family 20% off select regular priced items no longer applies to eggs, milk, carbonated soft drinks, and bathroom tissue among the usual restricted items such as lottery tickets, gift cards, and prescriptions. The greed continues. ☹️
UPDATE: The discount still works for eggs but not for a case of pop or milk.
UPDATE FEB 24/24: They walked it back. The Friends & Family offer for Tues, Feb 27 makes no mention of restrictions on eggs, milk, carbonated soft drinks, or bathroom tissue, though electronics are still excluded. You also have to text "FAMILY" to 736-898 for the offer as per this week's flyer (the offer used to automatically appear in the app the day before the event).
Used to buy the 50% off items all the time. Now that it's only 30% it doesn't seem worth it. Any alternatives? Loblaws sucks now
Wouldn’t it be worse because then only green bottles can only be recycled for these specific waterbottles? Where as clear ones could be use for different brands? No subreddits made for asking questions will let me post a pic so I had to improvise
Hi all I have a company phone but I have a side business I’d like to have a separate number for. I really only need unlimited texting, and I have my own equipment Is there a plan you can recommend that is very cheap that covers those bases? Thank you!
With the new curbside pickup everything has to be ordered online. Anyone know if I can use my points online?
Literally a day ago I was looking at $9 frames and now the cheapest is $39.
Does anyone know the reason why?
I'm a security guard, working the night shift. I walk for 8-12 hours at a time without seeing a soul, it gets boring. My solution - podcasts and audiobooks. My problem - technically not allowed by the employer, and semi-fascist use of surveillance cameras to keep tabs on us by said employer.
So I'm looking for cheap, decent wireless earbuds (ear buds? mans-of-war, men-of-war?) - the smaller in profile they are, the much better. Ideally, it'd be one of those numbers I just pop into my ear and nothing is sticking out.
Appreciate the help.
Hello!
I'm located in Ontario, usually do my grocery shopping at Superstore, using the Flipp app to Price match. This week, Foodland has Club House spices on for 20% off at the checkout (this is how it reads in the flyer). If I took the flyer/flipp app to the superstore, would they:
a) Honor/match the 20% discount off their own price?
b) Honor/match the discounted Foodland price (provided I can prove what it is)?
c) Tell me to kick rocks with this 'discount at the checkout' crap?
EDIT: Hit post too soon.
I live in the west end, and unfortunately my favourite butcher closed shop. They had fantastic prices on just about everything, plus regular sales that were usually lower than sales at the big stores. But I haven't found anyone to replace them. The meat from Farm Boy is fantastic quality and super delicious, but incredibly expensive (14 bucks for 9 porkchops? On sale?!. My local no frills is of dubious quality, and I don't find the prices at Halendas all that great. Does anyone have any ideas?
I made the mistake of posting this on r/Frugal when I should've posted here in the first place.
The problem: Ever since payless closed, I've been at a loss for finding shoes. I hate walmart's shoes as they never have anything in my size, forcing me to buy mens that don't fit/support me right. (I'm a women's 11½ / 11 wide, men's 10/10½) I've tried looking online too but online shoes start at $90 and up, I don't have that much to spend. My budget is 40-60 bucks, maximum and I am both looking for comfortable walking shoes, runners and/or winter boots.
Not sure if this is the place to ask, but anyone know how to redeem these for fuel? Do I pump first then go in? Or go in then pump?
I have $20 worth of points and just want to put $20 of fuel in my car.
I googled it and it says I can just not how. Anyone have experience with this?
I'm not sure where to post this on reddit, as i'm a new user (please redirect me if there is a better reddit page to ask this in). However, I've been struggling to support my 6 year old daughter and I for the past 3 months (due to personal / family related issues).
Money is pretty tight, and I worry that she isn't consuming the correct amount of calories / nutritional value foods currently. I was wondering if anyone would have advice on what to pack her for school lunches that are affordable as well as nutritious?
I'm in vancouver and go US a lot so shipping out of US isn't an issue. I remember when I used to do this 10 years ago it was better to ship out of US. Is that still true?
It was cheaper shipping and I could sell in USD? I don't know how it works now. Would I put item location as USA still?