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Vancouver Art Gallery

If you fancy a bit of Art and Culture but can’t afford the $17.50 admission fee to get into the Art Gallery…you can still go by donation.

On Tuesday Evenings 5pm – 9pm Vancouver Art Gallery do admissions by Donation

I gave a token $5 last time I went there and it was well worth it.

Current Exhibitions

• Western Landscapes - March 7 to May 18, 2009
• Enacting Abstraction – February 14 to May 10, 2009
• How Soon Is Now – February 7 to May 3, 2009
• Legacies of Impressionism in Canada – January 31 to April 19, 2009

Visit the Vancouver Art Gallery website for more info

FoodVancouver.com Coupons & Discounts

More coupons and discounts to save you money on those nice dinner treats we all like from FoodVancouver.com.

Some require printing off a coupon and some restaurants you just have to mention the ad.

Good information and recipes also on the website.

Save.ca

At Save.ca you select the coupons for Groceries you are interested in, they mail your coupon by the next business day and redeem your coupon a supermarkets and drugstores across Canada

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Beluga Whales at the Vancouver Aquarium

Here are some coupons for attractions in and around Vancouver, great for when friends or family visit and you have to be a tour guide!

Here are some of the following attractions you can get money off coupons for

• Burnaby Village Museum
• Capilano Suspension Bridge
• IMAX Theatre
• Science World
• Vancouver Aquarium Gift Shop
• Hell’s Gate Airtram
• Harbour Centre Lookout

coupons for Vancouver attractions

Allegiant Air

Well if you are in Europe there are hundreds of options for cheap weekend getaways but if you are in Vancouver however there are about 3 places you can go Calgary, San Francisco or Las Vegas! I have managed to book cheap flights to Calgary and San Francisco before direct from Vancouver but found a super cheap way of getting to Vegas.

All you have to do is cross the border and drive down to Bellingham Airport, WA and fly from there. Allegiant Air do excellent hotel and flight packages, leaving on a Friday night, staying 2 nights at New York New York hotel and flying back Sunday night cost me less than $700 US for 2 people. If you stay the extra night then its an even better deal!

And when the guys at the border ask you what you have been doing in Las Vegas you can say…Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas baby! (preferably smelling of booze, wearing an Elvis outfit and doing the whole wink, nod, pretend-gun motion…just to really annoy them)

Tip: Book on http://www.allegiantair.com/ for weekend trips to Vegas

Win with Transat Holidays

Can’t afford to treat yourself.. you can always try and win it!

Here are some competitions sites from the newspapers in Vancouver, Canada which are the best places to find genuine competitions as you don’t usually have to sign up for anything or get 3rd party crap

Metro News
24hrs
Georgia Straight
The Province
Vancouver Sun

Straight.com latest contests

Dollar Stores

In London I wouldn’t even consider going into the pound shop mostly because its just stuff you don’t need and really badly made stuff but in Vancouver its almost a way of life!

There are some really good ones and some not so good, if you really want to know I like the one in Park Royal, the 2 in Lougheed Mall are a bit crap although they have some uses and I think its because Walmart is also there. I hate succumbing to the evil Walmart but I will if I can’t find something from the dollar store. There is also Dollar Giant in Abbotsford which is the size of a supermarket. I like the names…EFAD(Everything For A Dollar), A Buck of Two, Dollarrama, Dollar Depot etc etc

I actually held a cocktail party and bought the little umbrellas, stirrers, shot measurer, magarita and martini glasses, table cloth and serviettes from less than $12, its all going to get broken anyway so why not… noone really needs to know where you got it from.

Marcella's Blog

For those of you out of a job because of the recession and cut backs why not apply for this job deemed the ‘best job in the world’. It sounds like such a hardship… “caretaker” of a tropical Island on the Great Barrier Reef but you will have to compete with 18,000 other applicants! I have a friend of friend that has applied and posted her video application on her blog she set up specifically for the job.

Marcella’s Blog

http://iwantthebestjobintheworld.ca/

Some information about the job

Candidates are required to create a video application in English of up to one minute explaining why they are uniquely qualified for the job.

The job pays 150,000 Australian dollars (about 100,000 US dollars) for six months and includes free airfares from the successful candidate’s home country to the white sands and clear waters of Hamilton Island.

more info & application form

Hurry though, applications close in 2 days!

Red Flag Deals

Here’s a tip for all you internet shoppers, when you are about to purchase something online beforehand you should check for any coupon codes on the web to get an even cheaper deal.

Here are some sites

http://www.redflagdeals.com
http://www.retailmenot.com
http://www.ecoupons.com

or you can just type coupon code and whatever store you are buying from in the google search. Most big online store will have a coupon box to add your code to at the checkout and you can just try a few to see if they work, you don’t feel guilty when you are trying to dupe the computer

P-mate

Women, Now You Can…PEE STANDING UP!

This awesome device comes in very handy when you are out and about in the great outdoors.

I actually have used something similar at Glastonbury Festival and I bought this particular one on this Canadian p-mate site

It’s extremely handy, I use my p-mate out of the boat when we are fishing, relaxing and drinking beer, men can just pee over the side but I had the choice of hanging dangerously of the side of the boat (not really an option as I can’t really swim) or going to shore which is a pain if you have to go 2 or 3 times in one trip and I was always worried about bears.

So this she pee is really useful, it’s sometimes not as easy as it looks and I felt I had to take a leap of faith the first time I used it but its way better then holding it in and being uncomfortable the whole time.
Some more information and international sites here