KY Cloud 10 sample (not for the kiddies!)

KY, a company that makes personal lubricants has created a tropical arousal gel. Sorry is this is a little personal for some people but I know some ladies out there might want to try this.

From the official website:

What is K-Y^® INTENSE^™ Arousal Gel for Her? K-Y^® INTENSE^™ Arousal Gel for Her is your ticket to CLOUD 10™. It is not a lubricant, but a uniquely formulated arousal gel that has women saying "it makes sex more satisfying". 75% of women who used K-Y^® INTENSE^™ Arousal Gel experienced feelings of heightened arousal, sexual pleasure and sensitivity where it counts most. Of those women, 90% reported that K-Y^® INTENSE^™Arousal Gel bettered their overall intimate experience with their partner.

They are offering a free sample from their official website HERE

Hope I didn't offend anyone. :)

Moonlight Movies in the Exchange

The Exchange BIZ & the Winnipeg Arts Council present Moonlight Movies in the Exchange

On July 30 & 31, Old Market Square will be transformed into an outdoor movie venue, with a blockbuster Hollywood movie playing each night!

Thursday, July 30
GHOSTBUSTERS!

Friday, July 30
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF!

*** Each night will also feature a very special, world premiere showing of The Kids of IRCOM's brand new music video, produced with the support of the Winnipeg Arts Council***

Moonlight Movies will start at approximately 9:30pm

Out door pools open soon

The 2009 schedule for outdoor public pools is now available HERE

Wading pools and spray pads are free and tonnes of fun for the whole family. There are many scattered through out the city so pick one and go cool off already.

Admission Requirements Wading Pools have a maximum depth of 45 - 60 cm (18 - 24 inches). They are designed for children 12 years and under that meet Admission Requirements. Children under 5 years of age must have a parent, guardian or caregiver 12 years of age or older actively supervising them at the pool. Groups are welcome at wading pools city-wide - please check the Group Admission Requirements. Dakota Park is available for group or day care bookings from 9:30 - 11:00 am, Monday - Friday, July 2 - September, 2009.
Wading Pool Rules For the safety and enjoyment of all participants, Wading Pool Rules apply at all wading pools operated by the Community Services Department.
Wading Pool Closures All wading pools are closed on days when Environment Canada forecasts either the projected high temperature for the day is 21°C or lower or the probably of precipitation is 70% or greater. Wading Pools may need to close unexpectedly - please check Wading Pool Closures for more information.

Frugal finger paints

You can make your own finger paints by mixing 2 tablespoons of white flour with a little water to make a thin paste and then adding a few drops of food coloring.

To make painting extra easy for a young child, have her paint on waxed paper taped to a table in the kitchen or outdoors. Put a blob of paint down on the paper and show her how to slide her fingers around. If you want to save her creation, press a piece of regular paper over the waxed paper and peel gently away; hang to dry.

I personally used normal paper and it worked fine. This does not make the best paints in the world but it really amuses a baby. Best of all you know it's non-toxic. She kept eating it and it was great to have the piece of mind of knowing it was just coloured flour and water.

Springs church charity car show

If you are a car lover then you won’t want to miss this weekend!!! You will see muscle cars, import tuners, rods and some insane out of this world sound systems competing in a dB Drag Race. Come join us for a Father’s Day weekend to remember as we have a wide variety of things planned for you.

This event combines two great purposes; the first is honouring Dad’s on Fathers Day weekend by giving them what they love, cars, cars and even more cars! The second is to make people aware of the struggles our inner city kids face and raise money for great programs at Springs Inner City that build their self esteem and give them a positive alternative to life on the streets.

Why not make it a family event and bring out the entire family as there will be great food, prizes to be won, live band, magic show, kid’s face painting / games and much more!

ITINERARY for Saturday June 20
(Itinerary will be update when and if necessary.)
- 7:00am - set up for Parts SWAP meet
- 7:30am until noon Parts SWAP meet open
- 9:00am Car show entry registration and set-up
- 10:00am until 4:00pm Car show open to public
- 10:00am until 12:00 DB Drag Race time registration and trials
- 1:00pm until 4:00pm DB Drag Race competition
- 11:00am until 4:00pm Autocross Rally Course open to public
- 4:00pm DB Drag Race awards

- 4:30pm Inner City presentation by special guest Mayor Sam Katz
- 5:00pm Car Show Awards ceremony (for all categories) Presented by Mayor Sam Katz

Father’s Day Sunday any entries are welcome to stay over for our Show & Shine for all our service guests...cars can be left here over night (security provided) or brought back by 8:00am.

SATURDAY’S EVENTS:

> DB Drag racing – Sponsored by Hamilton Audio / Mach 5 Audio for all those stereo buffs out there (North America wide competition). Some of the vehicles registered for this event are already from as far away as Alberta and the northern USA.

> Car Show – featuring a wide variety of classifications (including Classics, Muscle, Tuners, Street and Motorcycles)

> Autocross Rally Course – for those that always wanted to try their car out (hosted by Porsche Club of Winnipeg)

> Part Swap Meet - for those looking for the elusive part to finish off their project

**You say what is a dB drag race???

Click here: http://www.termpro.com/

Click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_drag_racing

Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiWK2nv_Pc

This event will be held at Springs church at 595 lagimodiere blvd

CLICK HERE FOR A MAP

Hope to see you out there!

Contest tips part 2

2)Read the newspaper

*I find that contests in the delivered paper are quite rare. I personally do not subscribe to the paper nor do I read it on a regular basis but when I do there are not often contests in it. The kind of paper I am talking about is the local events/news paper. It's hard to describe this kind of news paper. They are usually free papers and usually have a lot of local events and contests in them.

*In Victoria BC this paper is called the Monday magazine.

In Winnipeg MB this paper is called the Uptown Magazine.

ETC ETC ETC

Find your local paper / magazine, ask around or google it.

Often times this magazine/paper will have a contest where the only requirement is to email them your information and the contests are often listen on their website.

In Winnipeg's uptown magazine (for example) the home page for their magazine is THIS PAGE. From surfing the site you will find their contests HERE.

The contests will vary from time to time so check back weekly and enter any you are interested in. I win this way a lot

Another website in winnipeg with local contests is Accesswinnipeg

Win something already! (contest tips part 1)

Here's something I didn't really want to share because the more people playing this game the less of a chance I have of winning. We're talking about contests here! 

Now I understand that some people "professionally" enter contests using auto fill programs on their computer and have all the angles worked out to get the best odds of winning a new washer and drier or a lifetime supply of instant noodles but I am not going to go into that here, mainly because I do not do that myself and do not really have any advice on that topic. The kinds of contests we are going to talk about today are quite small, the prize is something like a CD or DVD and movie, concert or event tickets. Sometimes you can win CASH! 

1) Listen to the radio 

*If you pick the right station you not only listen to the kind of music you like but they also have contests for similar items. You won't win a rock music album listening to a jazz station. Usually the contest will require someone to be the -somethingith- caller and often need you to answer a question or play a game, but not always.

*Set the radio station(s) you listen to's phone number in your speed dial, in your cell phone or house phone, or memorise the phone number. 

*Listen to the requirements for winning. 

*If you only need to call in, no trivia or anything else then call it! You probably won't get in the first time but if you try often you will win eventually. 

I used to win this kind of a contest once a month (the radio station I listened to had a rule where you could only win a maximum of once per month)

* If you need to know the answer of a trivia question and you either know the answer, someone with you knows the answer or you think you have a pretty good guess call in. 

* If it is a game you have to play like answer a few trivia questions in a row CALL IN. Many times these are multiple choice games or have somewhat easy questions. They also often still have smaller prizes if you don't get all the answers right and a large prize for getting it all correct.

*To win radio contests keep calling in. Call in when you think you will win and when you think the odds are stacked up against you. Just call. You will win more often than you think!

* Check out the station's website. Sometimes they have more ways to win or earn points online.

More tomorrow

Easter egg tips and tricks

Ditch the packaged egg decorating kits! You probably already have everything you need for great Easter eggs in your house.

Basic colouring

Did you know that you can use regular food colour to dye your eggs? I have been using it since I was a child and gives a very vibrant or light pastel colour, which ever you like, it just depends on how many drops of colouring you put in your water.

Here's how; Combine 1tsp of vinegar with a half cup of hot water and a few drops of food colouring. Many boxes of food colouring comes with a colour chart or you can follow this one that I found with a quick google search. Keep in mind that all brands on the colouring will vary slightly and that using less will give a more subtle colour while using more will create a deeper colour. Food colouring can also dye your plastic containers and wooden items like your table.  Coffee mugs work great for this project because they are deep enough to submerge the whole egg and are made out of a ceramic which is not likely to stain. As with all craft projects with kids you might not want to do this while your kids are dressed in their Sunday best as it may stain clothes. The chances of staining will depend on the brand of food colouring you choose though I find it's pretty safe. For best results, let the water cool before you start dipping the eggs.

To dry the eggs

I hope you have been saving toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls. Take a few of these and cut them into half inch disks. These disks are perfect for placing the wet dyed eggs on instead of back into the egg cartons to keep the colour from smearing and to display them right away. 

A little more fun?

Sneak into the kids crayon collection and collect the white crayons. If you find your kids don't actually use white crayons you can keep them with the rest of your adult crafting stuff too. If you don't have any white crayons yellow ones will also work but I think the white ones are way cooler.

Let the decorator draw or scribble all over the egg with the crayon before dipping in the dye then when it's dipped the dye does not stick to the wax and leaves cool patterns on the eggs. 

Hope you and your family have a traditional Easter, either with new traditions or old!

Customer service, Warenties and Gurantees

My husband bought Transformers Stratego, a board game by Milton Bradley. It was on discount at 'The bargain shop' and I think I know why....

It was missing the stickers you put on all the little pieces, in other words the game was unplayable.

That was about a month ago, today I looked at the box and they listed their website. From there I navigated the page to find the customer service phone number. I called them during regular business hours and explained that I bought the game a month ago and told them about the piece that was missing. She then took my information and said that they would be mailing me the missing stickers for free.

This is the kind of service I regularly get when I call companies. I say this because I know that people are afraid to call companies to complain sometimes, but they will usually do their best to satisfy your needs.

Did you know that most companies guarantee their product? They want you to be happy with it!

Here are a few more examples of times I have called customer service and been totally satisfied.

Last year I bought a $50 breast pump for milk for my baby. I only bought the one for occasional usage, not the heavy duty one and I used it too much and it broke. I called the company that made it (the first years) and after walking me through some troubleshooting steps and found it was beyond repair they replaced it with a more heavy duty model. I only had to pay shipping to send my broken pump back to them. I saw the newer model at the store and it was worth $150! 

Several years ago after Halloween I bought some Halloween M&Ms discounted at the store. They came in small individual bags and I was putting them in my lunch. I was disappointed to find that some of the bags of candies only had 2 or 3 M&Ms in them, so on a whim I emailed the company about it. They called me a few days later, apologized and mailed me coupons for $10 of free M&Ms. Funny thing though, Christmas was coming so just after the holiday I stocked up on $10 worth of discounted red and green candies. That was a lot of candy.... 

Pretty much the same story about Bicks pickles. I bought a jar of mixed veggies and there was only one pickled onion in the jar, sent them an email and they called me get my information so they could send me coupons for 2 free jars of pickles. Well the coupon didn't state what size the pickle jars had to be so I went to the superstore and got the biggest jars they had. This was just last year too.

More recently, my baby gate broke (1st choice brand). From wear and tear I guess. I called the company and they mailed me a form to send them back with the broken piece from the gate. I am now waiting the coupon for a free baby gate to replace the broken one.

Here's my point. Companies have a customer service and will guarantee most anything they sell. They want you to be a happy customer and want you to try their products again. They hire people to do this. Nervous about calling them, send an email. There are often email addresses on the company website as well as phone numbers. I have also never had to prove purchase with copies of receipts when contacting the companies directly. 

Stores also guarantee the items they sell. I know many big box stores will accept exchanges on many products so long as you have the receipt. Wal*Mart is particularly good when it comes to returns with a receipt and will exchange anything within a year so keep those receipts! I find a lot of stuff from Wal*Mart breaks so this is handy to know. 

I wonder though. With the board game I called about today, could you call about a game you bought used? She never asked me where I bought it, just when. They do want you to be able to use their game and play with more people to get them to buy their own copy too so it wouldn't be stealing unless you lied if they asked whether or not you bought it used.

I will have to try it next time I buy a used board game that is missing pieces. But then again, sometimes it's fun to use random marker pieces.

Make your own: Caramel popcorn and other awesome corn!

After yesterday's popcorn post I decided there needed to be some elaboration on the caramel, cheese, and spiced corn varieties.

These are fantastic and need to be tried if you love cheap snacks and are also awesome to serve to guests.

Note: 1/2 cup of kernels makes about 10 cups of popped corn and is the amount of popcorn used in these recipes

I also use margarine when I make these

Cheese corn is really really easy. 

One super simple way is to sprinkle the buttered popcorn with grated Parmesan cheese or powdered cheese (you can get this in the bulk foods section or take a packet out of a box of KD) toss to coat and you're ready to eat it.

If you want a real cheesy popcorn you can melt one cup the kind of cheese you like, cheddar and mozzarella are favorites in my house, with 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine. Stir constantly until it is melted . The popcorn will have to be in a really large bowl for this or you can do it in batches if you have a lot. I like to pour some of the cheese sauce on the side of the bowl and not right on the cheese (otherwise I find there is a chance to get a handful of soggy popcorn but this is not really a big deal) and toss and stir the popped corn to coat, it will harden as it cools down so toss vigorously and quickly.

Caramel popcorn can be made with lots of different ingredients but the idea is the same. This method uses a syrup which can be maple syrup, honey, corn syrup, pancake syrup etc. the different syrup you use will give you a different taste but it's all good so just use what you have. Melt 1/2 cup of butter or margarine with 1/2 cup syrup, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Toss with the popped corn and anything else you want to add like nuts, M&Ms chocolate chips or just leave it like it is.  bake on a greased baking pan or casserole dish at 300 degrees (Parchment paper or foil underneath keep it from sticking too) for 15-20 minutes stirring every 5 minutes. It's done when it starts to look toasty. 

Let it cool completely.

There are so many ways to season or spice popcorn that it is impossible to list them all here but here are a few ways.  Feel free to substitute ingredients like sea salt for ordinary salt or anything else you have on hand that you might like. It's about personal taste and what you have in your pantry.

Since everyone like a different amount of flavour on their popcorn I think it's a good idea to put one tablespoon of each spice in a small bowl, mix, and then sprinkle the seasonings on the buttered  popcorn a little at a time. When you find a flavour you like extra can be made and stored in a container or spice shaker so it does not have to be remixed every time. 

Indian - Ground cumin, curry powder, fine salt

Asian - Wasabi powder, sugar, sea salt

Tex-Mex - Chili powder, brown sugar

Italian - dried oregano, dried basil, grated Parmesan cheese

Curry salt - Curry powder, salt

Black pepper and parm - Ground pepper, grated parmesan cheese

Chili cheese - Chili powder, grated parmesan cheese

Garlic - Garlic powder or garlic salt

BBQ - (this one makes a lot and is great on steak too!) salt, sugar, chili powder, mustard powder, onion powder, garlic powder, pepper, cumin, oregano

Spicy - Red pepper flakes, chili powder

Hot mustard - mustard powder, thyme, ground black pepper, a dash of cayenne pepper (it's hot!)

Bottled seasoning mix can also be purchased at the grocery store or specialty stores (Dollar stores sell them too). It doesn't need to be a popcorn seasoning mix to be good on popcorn. I like mixes such as,

Chicken seasoning

Steak seasoning

Italian spice mix

jerk seasoning

pizza seasoning etc

Candy is my fathers favorite topping for buttered popcorn. Top with your favorite kind of candy bar (crushed), M&Ms or smarties, chocolate covered nuts, Reece's pieces, etc. 

Bacon is a great topping for popcorn. place 8 slices of bacon (more if you want it really baconey) on a rack in a backing pan and bake at 400 until crisp, about 12 minutes. Coarsely chop and toss with popcorn. This is great with a little brown sugar sprinkled on the bacon before baking and a spice combination of your choice or cheese powder tossed in the popcorn too. use the bacon drippings instead of melted butter topping or in place of the oil when cooking for a real baconey taste.

There are much more recipes all over the Internet. Popcorn.org has a lot of recipes and nutritional information about popcorn if you want to do more research.

Use your imagination and experiment! the possibilities are endless.

Zellers colouring contest for kids

A fun free thing to do with your little ones is to encourage them to enter contests. Free colouring contests like this one offered by Zellers are great and fun. What kid doesn't like colouring? 

In this particular contest the prize is a giant chocolate bunny and the first 300 entrants at each store get a small bunny for free. This contest can be entered daily so your kids can colour one a day or do a bunch you just drop off daily if you are one of those people that enter contests like it's a job. People really do this so don't laugh.

You need to print off the colouring page and it comes in English and French so you can fill out whatever language you like or if you don't want to use your own ink they have the pages available at the Zellers stores too.

This particular contest is running at all Zellers stores across canada.  

A tip for winning colouring contests from smartcanucks.ca

Hint:  This worked for my daughter  when she was little.  I used to supply extra materials to add texture to her colouring page.

Supply bits of green wool (for the grass), or cotton balls (to make a fuzzy bunny), or glitter for a radiant sun.

Mothers/dads, just supply the material.  Let your little ones create.  This helps their colouring page stand out from the rest.

Get the most out of Goozex

In case I didn't make it clear yesterday, I love Goozex! We are a huge gaming family and video games cost so much money. Those that game know that the system is a cash hog, then $40-$80 per game just adds up. 

Gamers also know that EB or other retail stores that offer trade in give very little back, but there is another option.

I already explained Goozex.com yesterday so I won't type it out again but I thought I would walk people through their first free game with Goozex. Because free games rock.

First off you need to sign up. That's right SIGN UP! you can't get a free video game without signing up. There is no cost, they don't take your credit card info. You do have to give them your address but you will not be billed for anything. Also, while signing up you want to chose that you want your trading region to include Canada and USA (Bermuda too if you like, but I don't think there are many users from there) this will give you access to more users, will make your game come sooner and you will have access to more games too.

After you are signed up and logged in, you will see a page that looks like the image below. (Minus my scribbles)

Like the image says, pick the platform for the game you would like to receive and then click 'available'

This will bring up a page that shows all games that are currently ready for trading. Once on this second page pick how the games are sorted. In this case you want to sort it by points'

This will put all games that are worth 100 points on the first page. Remember, you get 100 points to start with and now you can see all the games you can afford. 

Now go crazy. pick any game you are interested in. It's a free game, just get something you would like to try. If you don't like it you can always trade it back and get your points back or give it to a friend to try or whatever so don't be too picky. You won't be able to get the freshest newest game for 100 points anyways so just pick something that looks fun to you. (you can earn more points and save up for a newer game, I get more into that in a bit) To chose a game click the white 'want it' button under the image of the box. This will pop up a window that gives you more options like if you want to get the game with or without the box (without the box usually comes faster but boxes are nice) or if you want to put it on hold right now (You don't want to put it on hold at this time) and click done when you are done with that window (I usually just click 'want it' then click done) and then do it again for another game, and another game.

If you decide to continue to use this service, you can remove the games you don't really care much for. I suggest you keep using this service but please at least get your free game. I would give everyone in the country a free game if I could. Free stuff rocks so hard!

Anyways, after you pick your games just wait for something to come in the mail. That's it. If you like you can set your email settings in you 'account' page. I would suggest that if you never want to hear from them again, but if you plan on using this service you will need to get some emails like when someone requests a game that you have.

Like I mentioned before, you will not be able to get the hottest game but remember 

PS3 can play PS and PS2 games

PS2 can play PS games

Nintendo DS can play GBA (or SP) games

Wii can play Gamecube games

Xbox 360 plays many xbox games (Check which games on their backwards compatibility website)

Don't know what games to get? Like Halo3? try Halo 2 for xbox. Like paper Mario? Try older versions of this game on gamecube. 

Lots of good older games out there, don't pass them up because they are older. Also it's free, don't be so picky. If you don't like it, trade it back to the system and get your points back and get another game for the cost of one trade credit (or one dollar) or give it away to a friend or whatever you like.

Now a little something for those that chose to keep using the system. Here is how to get free trade credits (so you don't have to pay the dollar) and more free games for you. 

On the goozex website there will be a referral code. Share this code with your friends. When you are at their house talk to them about getting free video games and sign them up using your referral code. Not the one you used to sign up because that is mine and I will get the perk for it (I would like to get the bonus but this is about helping you now). Go through the available games together and pick something together. When they get their free game and they give positive feedback (after using YOUR referral) you get another 100 free points and 1 free trade credit.

If you know only 5 people, get them a free game each and that's 500 points and 5 trade credits. this is without even sending a single game of your own or a penny out of your pocket. If you can sign up and get games to 10 people that's the worth of a new release game on goozex. This is a little work, but people like to get free games and it is really easy to convince people to sign up, especially if you do it for them or with them (ask permission before doing it for someone). Trade back any games when you are done with them to get more points and use the free trade credits you got from signing up your friends to get more free games. The cycle never ends and you can keep getting free games forever.

Please use this website if you are a gamer. you will save a lot of money and your friends will like to save money on games too.

Sending the games you are done with to Goozex is the best way to earn points, but this way you can do it without sending games if you like.

Shipping in a bubble envelope is aprox. $1.96 and you only pay if you decide to send your games out. 

I think I made it sound more complicated than it is. This website is so easy to use you will love it.

 

Swap it into something new

There are a lot of websites out there that allow trades online. Some are totally free and for others there is a small fee like "trade credits" or shipping.

Books:

Book Crossing is a great place for book swapping. They have a system that is like a treasure hunt for books. You tag a book with their special code (BC-ID) and then "release it into the wild", meaning that you basically leave the book somewhere for people to find and then notify others on the website where you left it, so that someone else can find it.

You can browse other people's books and even email someone directly about a book you would like and request they email it to you. I have a friend that has gotten a lot of books this way and I have sent and received books in this manner. 

There is no fee for this service but they recommend you buy their stickers and bookmarks. You pay postage for books sent (usually a few dollars) or just release them into the wild at no cost (you just leave it somewhere).

This service is worldwide.

Video games:

Goozex.com is a swapping website for video gamers. They offer games for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Nintendo DS, PSP, PS2 PS and GBA. How it works is you list the games you own that you are willing to trade. When the game is requested you send the game for a point value.

For example, if you have Spore for the DS you list that you have this game on goozex. This game is worth 400 points. When someone else requests the game and you send it to them you will receive 400 points. Then you can use those points to "buy" another game, for example, Animal crossing:Wild world is 350 points.

This is a much better 'game for game' ratio than trading games to EB.

This service takes some time because someone needs to request your game and it goes through a list so people that listed the game first will be the first ones to send it.

This service is available in Canada, USA and Bermuda. European gamers can use Goozex.eu

There is a fee for this service. $1 to receive a trade (Trade credit) , cost of shipping to send. Under $2 to send a normal game in a bubble envelope. I carefully cut open bubble envelopes and send my game in a used envelope (taped paper over the old address) so I don't pay for envelopes but the envelopes are 3 for a dollar at Dollarama if you need to buy some. 

Still, with the cost of shipping, this is still more bang for your buck than trading games in at EB or other game stores (Trade in 3 for 1 game??? YUCK) 

Right now Goozex has an offer where if you sign up you get 100 free points and one free trade credit. This is the same as just getting one free game so you can see if the system works (It does, I have been using it for over a year and have gotten hundreds of dollars in games from this website) without any risk or sending in any games of your own. They also have a guarantee and a great customer service department and will give you your points back if you do not get the game or if the game is broken. I have never had to use this because I have gotten all my games in excellent condition. I highly recommend this website and if you sign up please list me as someone that referred you (My user name is Annchan)

Movies:

Zip.ca I have never actually used myself but have heard good things about it. It is like Netflix for Canadians in which it is a DVD rental website. Movies are delivered to your home with a postage paid envelope and you watch the movie, send it back, then the next movie you request comes in the mail. There are several different price packs to chose from. 

Quote from zip.ca:

Watch all the DVDs you want in a month with our convenient 1-DVD Unlimited Plan for $10.95, the 2-DVD Unlimited Plan for $18.95, or the 3-DVD Unlimited Plan for $24.95.

New members are eligible for a free trial. Trial memberships last two weeks which gives you a perfect opportunity to try the service. If you are happy with the service and selection from Zip, do nothing and your membership will convert to a paying membership and will continue for as long as you want.

You can deactivate your membership at any time. There are no deactivation fees.

So in retrospect, there are varying price points, no shipping and is available in Canada. It's a little more than I would pay for movies but if you rent a lot it is worth your money. Cheaper than renting at the local store and no driving.

Speaking about renting movies, I signed up for blockbuster's and Rogers video's email newsletter recently (Read: before Christmas) and the newsletters contained free rentals and other coupons. I went to their website more recently though (Read: 5 minutes ago to verify) and it shows discounts like $1 off rentals with a different coupon every week. Other local rental places might have newsletters with free rentals or coupons for signing up too so check it out. If you rent from those places you might as well get something off (if not totally free)

There are a lot more websites like these on the web but have been having a hard time finding some that are available in Canada. Here are some other links that have been recommended to me but I have not been able to try them out.

USA only:

Paperback swap

DVD Swap

CD Swap

Please leave a comment with other links for swapping websites or other places for free or cheap entertainment. I would love to learn more and share the links. Thanks!