If you're a student in Canada, like moi, here is your SECRET WEAPON!!! *insert evil laugh*
http://www.spccard.ca/
The student price card! It's $8 to buy, but pays for itself. It nets you 10% off at a ton of stores, plus various other discounts at others, and is very worthwhile. Of course, it's not a recessionista skill to spend money just because you get a discount, but everybody needs to buy some things. You get discounts at clothing stores like Suzy Shier, Bluenotes, Stitches, Ardenes, and Bentley, to name a few, plus discounts at restaurants - a free Frosty at Wendy's when you buy a combo, a free appetizer at Swiss Chalet, for example. You even get discounts on Greyhound Bus Fares (which I've never used), but here's the best part - you get a 10% discount at Zellers. Yes. So even those of you that are so frugal that you never buy brand- new clothes or eat at restaurants, will save a bit. It doesn't apply to DVD's, electronics, or furniture, but the 10% discount is enough to knock some of their prices cheaper than other stores where they would ordinarily be cheaper. Zellers has gotten a lot of my business lately because of this. You can even buy the card there. They sometimes ask for student ID along with the card, so be sure to have that on you.
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Here's a tip - if you're using it at any food places PLEASE PLEASE remember to tell your server that you have it WHEN you order. Otherwise it becomes a pain!
ReplyDeleteI work at a Second Cup (SPC gets you a free up-size - pay for a small, get a medium or pay for a medium get a large) and at least a handful of times on every shift someone won't tell me they have an SPC card until after I've rung in the order...this is a pain because then I have to print and void the receipt and then ring it all in again - and voids are annoying and just make more work later...and it's like "yeah, an SPC void AGAIN!". So help out the minimum-wage making counter folks at your fave fast food places and tell them you have a SPC card BEFORE you make them angry at you!