This Sunday, some West Island businesswomen will be getting together to sell their products and donate proceeds from sales to the SPCA. So come shop for the puppies – and help the SPCA with their work against puppy mills. The hosting company, House of Shoes, offers up loads of shoes and boots at not to be believed prices. Bring your moms, sisters, aunts, co-workers and friends to shop for a good cause. I will be there from noon to 1 pm signing copies of my Smart Shopping Montreal book and answering any shopping questions you may have. Come on over and say “hello”.

Location: Inside Kiddyland, 15761 Boul. Pierrefonds , Pierrefonds
Tel: 514-783-1727
Date and Time: Sun Nov 2: 10 – 5
www.houseofshoes.piczo.com

Halloween takes a new twist on the West Island. For those entrepreneurial kids out there, Moms who can’t stand the mounds of candy going into their kids’ systems, or people who like to make a buck, dentist Dr. Farnaz Lari will pay you a toonie for every kilo of Halloween candy that you bring in. If that wasn’t incentive enough, Dr. Lari will also give out free light-sabre toothbrushs. She’s not a grinch after all, she does hope the kids will eat some of their favorites and turn in the rest. In her daily practice she gets to see the ongoing deterioration on kids’ teeth caused by candy so she’s spearheading this anti-decaty movement.

The candy will get weighed in and the kids will get a toonie for each kilo – plus the toothbrush. The candy must not be opened (no bites!). The candy will be donated to the West Island Assistance Fund for their Christmas Basket Program.

Location: Clinique Dentaire D.D.O., 4520 boul. des Sources
Tel: 514-421-3368
Date: Monday Nov 3
Time: 9-6

In September I was surprised to see a Shermag warehouse sale. I am now saddened to see a Shermag 10,000,000 inventory liquidation, the famous Quebec name for quality furniture being cleared by “asset disposition professionals”. The distribution center is open to the public. You can buy cribs and baby furniture, bedroom sets, dining room tables, chairs and credenzas, and more. The prices are up to 80% off.

Location: 795 90th Ave., LaSalle
corner: Airlie Tel: (head office 819-566-1515
Hours: Thurs & Fri 10-9; Sat & Sun 10-5
Dates: right through December
www.shermag.com

Those of you still stuck for Halloween ideas, might want to listen tomorrow morning, October 28th on CJAD 800AM for my advice on where to go to find costumes and home decor for Friday night. Boo!

Here are some of the the addresses of the stores I mentioned on the show this morning:

Giggles, 7143 Boul. Newman 514-363-9472 – for buying costumes and accessores
Joseph Ponton 480 St. Francois Xavier, Old Montreal – for renting costumes
Halloween ClearanceCenters, see blog post from Oct 22, called “Tons of Halloween Costumes?”

(more party stores and costume rental shops in my Smart Shopping Montreal book)

Location: CJAD 800 AM
Time: 7:40 a.m.

Orage blends alternative fabrics and unique styling to provide well-made outerwear. The Lole part of the sale is women’s activewear and outerwear. At the Fall liquidation sale, this well-made clothing is available for men, women, boys and girls and juniors including tops, bottoms, skirts, baselayers (think longjohns), fleeces and sweaters. Interestingly they ask (and this is a first for me) that you refrain from wearing any Orage or Lole clothing or accessories to the sale. Note, if you’ve gone to the sale before, it has moved to a new location. Ask to be put on an email list for further notifications.

New Location: 1100 boul. Marie-Victorin,  Longueuil
Tel: 450-646-0867
Hours: Thurs & Friday, Nov 6 & 7: 12-9; Sat, Nov 8: 9-5
www.orageski.com
www.lolewomen.com

I’ve known about this company for years but haven’t written about it because they weren’t located in Montreal but all that has changed. St. Lawrence Textiles (you can they have been around a long time by the way they spell their name) is now in Ville St. Laurent. They are currently having a warehouse sale for baby and children’s clothing with lines that wear well – Baby’s Own, Creme de la Creme, Nick & Eddie, Cora and Sol 7 Sun. Ladies can find a deal on silk and cashmere sweaters for $30 (regularly $80-$180) and men can buy T’s and turtlenecks.

Location: 6869 Henri-Bourassa Ouest
Corner: Felix Leclerc
Phone: 514-387-7373 X 287
Dates: Oct 23- Nov 8
Hours: Mon -Fri 9-6, Sat 9-5

Already thinking about the upcoming Holiday season, Gem Entrepot is opening its warehouse on a Saturday morning for you to buy all accessories at 25% off. This includes jewelry, shawls and scarves, purses and more. The Christmas wrapping paper is in and it is beautiful. As always you are welcome Monday through Thursday from 10 to 3.

Location: 4732 Thimens, Ville St. Laurent
corner: Dobrin
Tel: 514-335-4422
Date and time: Sat Oct 25: 9:30-12
wwwgementrepot.com

Manhattan Industries is having a 7-day sample clearance sale over the next 6 weeks for men’s and womens’ clothing and shoes at 50% too 70% off. If these are the names you like, head over here: Industry (edgy streetwear for men and women sizes XS-L), Industry shoe company (mens’ casual and dressy leather shoes sizes 38-44), Pure & Simple (women casual basics, some for men), Debbie Schuchat (designer 2-piece outfits, blouses, dresses, outerwear), d Collection (sweater knits , Me(el) (ladies feminine tops, dresses sizes XS-L). There’s also undies, socks, men’s sport shirts, slippers and ladies pj’s.

Location: 6150 Transcanadienne
Corner of Isabey, Ville St. Laurent
Dates: Sat Nov 1: 9-1, Fri Nov 7: 5-9, Sat Nov 8: 9-1, Sat Nov 15: 9-1, Fri Dec 5: 5-9, Sat Dec 6: 9-1, Sat Dec 13: 9-1

It’s time for the Delta Dailyfood door sale. This company makes prepared frozen meals for the airlines, supermarkets, schools, businesses, etc. At the end of each month, whatever hasn’t been sold to them, is offered to the public at really inexpensive prices. Some of the food is in bulk and others are individual or family dinners. Tell all your friends and form a buying group. On the menu for this sale: salmon cooked on a cedar plank or in a beurre blanc sauce, Tandoori chicken, beef steak with sweet pepper sauce, pop corn chicken, cabbage rolls, ziti with Asiago cheese, Pacific snapper with spicy sauce and on and on with over 60 choices.

You can be on their e-mail list for future sales. http://www.deltadailyfood-na.com/ds/en.htm for a full list of products, map and directions and a printable order form.

Location: 26 Seguin, Rigaud
Directions: Exit 9 on Autoroute 40
Date and time: October 26: 10-3
Please note that the next door sale will take place on Sunday November 30, 2008.

Each Halloween, Magasin Halloween, a temporary store, opens up and answers all of your Halloween needs with 10,000 items including costumes of course but also masks, wigs, decorations and accessories for adults and for the kiddies. You could dress up as: Snow White, a whoopie cushion, a robot, a carhop, a tree, a race car driver, a shark, Batman or Batgirl, a policeman, a pirate, a t-bone steak and even a chest of drawers. The stores are on the South Shore, Laval and the West Island.

Locations: Brossard, 5985 Taschereau (in the old Pier 1 Imports store); Laval, 3912 Autoroute 440 (corner Cure Labelle); Longueuil, 2877 ch. Chambly, Mail Place Desormeaux; Pierrefonds, 4830 boul. St-Jean (across the street from Loblaws)