Lighters. 3/$1

I picked up 30

Wire Saw and Fire Starters (little stick things that just about light themselves, even wet)

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hammer, i have bought those fire starters as well,i only bought one pack to see how they work, and like you said, they almost light themselves. I plan on buying more!!!

To be perfectly honest, I had been given them and was skeptical at first. But I subsequently got lost attempting to complete my Duke of Edinburgh Gold award (2 night 3 day self planned hike through unfamiliar territory as a team). We were in Powell River, lost, soaked, and one of the group was injured. Those sticks literally saved the day. Absolute necessity.

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saved by a loonie, wow not many people can say that!!

found a couple surplus military wool blankets at the local value village, sweet!!! Hero army surplus has them listed for $39.95...... i paid $5 each

another adventure going through.....dollar stores and discount bins!!!
Canadaian tire discount bin- can of campstove gas(white gas) $5
dollar store haul-
4x boxes of bandaids
4x boxes of gauze
4x emergency blankets
4x personal first aid kits
6x fishing lures
1x package of plain fish hooks
6x packages of fire starters
4x cans of stew( best before date 2014)
Total cost after taxes $50.... not bad i'd say

get the catholic candles that are sold in the dollar stores. put in hot water to remove the sticker if you want. candles have high wax content so they burn for a long period of time. you know those catholics and long services.

thanks streetmedic, i will look for those next time im wandering the isle of the local dollorama!!

EDITED UPDATE Canadian Tire, as 114 these stores across Canada are NOT closing in the near future.

yes this is true, i heasrd that Sport chek bought out the canadianTire franchise. so hopefully there are some good deals to be had. I'll be keeping my eye on this one!

I had a great time at one of my local dollar stores today and okay, I went a bit overboard.

As the owner is checking my purchases through he decides to give me all of my Seed packets (Which were on at 4 for $1 to start with) so I walked away with 16 packs of seeds for free!
These I will grow and can as the expiry date is less than a year.
After I had finished the guy says "Do you drink wine?" Hell yeah! So he goes back into the isles and comes back with a battery operated wine chiller, which he gives me for free and smiles and says - "When the SHTF and you've made your own wine - at least you will be able to enjoy civilization a while longer".

I hope there are more like him if it does come to crunch time.

Be prepared!

(Reuters) - Canadian Tire Corp offered to take full ownership of the country's largest sporting goods retailer, Forzani Group Ltd, for C$771 million ($798.5 million) in cash as it looks to battle rising competition from U.S. rivals.

Canadian Tire, which currently holds about 4 percent of Forzani Group's shares, offered C$26.50 for each Forzani share -- a premium of 50 percent over the stock's Friday's close.

oh ok i thought that the Fronzi group was buying out canadain tire. thanks for the clarification