Originally Posted by CKMaddAll (Post 10958531)

My GF and I have just moved to Winnipeg and our best money saver is with the superstore credit card - I think our receipts give us 10.5c per litre off at Superstore... a pretty good deal in my view.

On my first day here I made the mistake of going to Safeway... where: 1 Red Pepper, 1 Jar instant coffee and 1 bag oranges, cost $19! Safeway should be called SafeDistanceAway.

Originally Posted by CKMaddAll (Post 10958575)

I imagine that is the case re quality, but we are currently on one income and its a 0.8 at that (I like to say that I am currently working a .0!)

I think half my trouble was not understanding what the Safeway Club was!

Had a Costco experience this weekend... not sure the term "Friendly Manitoba" applies there!

Originally Posted by MrsL22 (Post 10958841)

Haha I do agree about safeway. We only go there when we see a deal in the flyers. Expensive.

Most of our shopping I do at Superstore, and we tend to buy lots of non perishables when they are on sale. We always buy gas from coop because of the yearly rebate. It's nice to get the cheque in the mail.

Originally Posted by MrsL22 (Post 10933292)

So having just moved to Canada (end of August) as a PR, my husband and I are trying everything to save money wherever we can, and it currently it seems VERY easy for us to spend spend spend.

Anyway, I was looking into reducing our home phone, TV and internet which we are paying $120/month for on Shaw. I've just found the exact same package with MTS for $80/month as part of the 'newcomers to Manitoba' deal. Which you must prove you are a new immigrant (less than 1 year in Canada).

http://www.mts.ca/mts/personal/welco...new+manitobans

So my question is, are there lots of deals like this?? If there is, I would love to hear about them! (Or just in general, any saving money tips wouldn't go a miss!)

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Originally Posted by MrsL22 (Post 10933292)

So having just moved to Canada (end of August) as a PR, my husband and I are trying everything to save money wherever we can, and it currently it seems VERY easy for us to spend spend spend.

Anyway, I was looking into reducing our home phone, TV and internet which we are paying $120/month for on Shaw. I've just found the exact same package with MTS for $80/month as part of the 'newcomers to Manitoba' deal. Which you must prove you are a new immigrant (less than 1 year in Canada).

http://www.mts.ca/mts/personal/welco...new+manitobans

So my question is, are there lots of deals like this?? If there is, I would love to hear about them! (Or just in general, any saving money tips wouldn't go a miss!)

:thumbsup:

Originally Posted by chiefmissile (Post 10968239)

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That's a great post, unfortunately too late for my OH who took out an MTS $45 wireless 24 month contract. I am a little bit peed off, our local MTS store should have told us about this deal, we used our landing papers to get by the credit check, so you would have thought they would have signed you up to the best deal for newcomers? Oh well I will get the TV package when we move into our new house in Dec. Will visit the MTS store and see if there is anything than can be done to change to the newcomers deal.

Regards

Andrew