Located on the ground floor of what was a jewelry and fur industry building, TF 1435, this side street outlet, sells brand name shoes ( Cole Haan, DJ Pliner, Mephisto, La Canadienne, Pajar) at unreal prices – less than half of what those brands would cost around the corner on Ste-Catherine St. The merchandise is from previous seasons and the selection is pretty decent.
Location: 1435 St-Alexandre, main level
Phone: 514-840-3054
Prillo furniture company finally opened up this large space where they sell off their liquidated stock of their traditional lines of couches, arm chairs, dining rooms sets (chairs started at $39), side tables, wall units and grandfather clocks.. Follow the yellow stairs up to the bedrooms, bureaus and mattresses.
Location: 3400 Cremazie Blvd. East
corner: boul. St-Michel
Phone:514-722-1890
Hours: Regular plus Sun 10-5
Le Spa 2010 book is similar to the Entertainment book. You pay $29.99 for the book and there are discount coupons on its 154 pages. They range from buy one get one deals, a percentage off or free gift with purchase offers for facials, massages, makeovers, pedicures, Nordic baths, peels and eyelash extensions.
You just about get your money back with the $25 wild card which is a gift coupon you can use at participating spas in the book.
The spas are located all over the general Montreal area including the West Island, downtown, Laurentians, Laval, Richelieu Valley and Bas St-Laurent.
450-424-8716 or 877-537-7201
www.lespabook.com
Pourquoi Pas is a popular gift shop right in the heart of downtown in Place du Cathedrale. The shop is quite colorful with it’s fun ideas for parties, the kitchen, kids, girls and guys and whatever.
1– Sparrow Hook $18.95 www.dcigift.com is the cutest thing I’ve seen for hanging clothes in your hall, bathroom or bedroom. It looks like a sparrow sitting on a tree branch and you just hang your clothes on the branch end.
2 – Nature Calls Animal Sound Clock $25 It’s way calmer to transition from sleep to the day when hearing the sound of a rooster, cat, dog, monkey, owl, etc.
3 – Beer Bands $9.50 www.silocollection.com Just in time for the H1N1 scare. You can slip these over your beer bottle and it identifies whose is whose so no one drinks out of the wrong bottle.
4 – USB Hubman $25 www.kikkerland.com Use this human-like hub for speakers, cameras, mice, keyboards, drives.
5 – Ouch $12.95 www.worldwidefred.com is a voodoo doll toothpick holder. It sure is weird to pull toothpicks out of him for your hors d’ouevres but even weirder putting them in.
6 – Sniff $2 www.sniff.tv are multi colored tissues packs with designs of hula girls, animals, wild patterns designs. Sure makes you smile a bit if you have the sniffles
7 – Steady Eddie Person Pizza Cutter $9.95 www.antevanilla.com Koziol started the craze of turning kitchen gadgets into cute colorful designs. This company does it too.
8 – Banana Guard $6.95 www. bananaguard.com No more mushy bananas or ones with with black spots from bumping on the way to work. This is made in Canada
9 – Cheeky Children’s Cutlery $19.95 www.maxwellandwilliams.com For little hands, and fun meals, there is a person sitting on each piece of cutlery and these same people can stand on the table for entertainment, or removed and played with while you eat. Cutlery can be used without them as the kids get older.
10 – Magic top ‘n shorts $24.95 www.magictopnshorts.com Perfect for a traveling gift or stocking stuffer. Just drop in water and the outfit grows to your size
11 – Purse Caddy $9.95 Don’t lose your holiday money with your purse over the back of your chair or on the foor. Hang your purse on restaurant table in front of you. This one folds up to the size of a toony.
12 – Reindeer Shower Cap $$9.95 www.npw.co.uk You always need one ridiculous item that says Christmas and this is it.
13 – Shopper Stopper pills $4.50 www.crazycures.com These colorful bottles are made to cure all sorts of imagined illnesses. This one is perfect for the holidays as it cures shopaholism It’s made in Canada.
Pourquoi Pas
Location: Place du Cathedrale
625 Ste-Catherine St ouest
Tel: 514-524-2124
With the cutesy name of Mortimer Snodgrass, this gift shop has cutesy – and practical- gifts. There are 2 locations, one in Old Montreal and one on the South Shore in St. Lambert (easier if you need parking).
I’ve selected some fun things for him for her, for the kids for the house or for anyone on your gift list.
1 – Salad Servers Plant $29 www.black-blum.com This one is my favorite from this store and one I would happily bring as a gift to anyone for the holidays, for a visit, for an engagement, etc.
2 – Montreal Melon Starter Kit $21 www.seraconcandles.com The Montreal Melon was hugely popular here in the last century and then disappeared from stores. Heritage seeds were found and now you can taste the taste that people loved. It is of course, made in Canada
3 – Walrus Puppet $30 www.cateandlevi.com This is a green toy handmade in Canada from recycled fabrics. Puppets are fun for kids of all ages and these come in many animal forms
4 – Star Wars mini USB key 4GB $40 www.mimobot.com. Star Wars lovers will love to keep this with them at all times.
5 – Party Glass Markers $8 www.vacuvin.com sticks to sides of glasses (sticks around longer than most guests) . Especially good in these H1N1 days, it’s nice to know which glass is your so no one drinks from the wrong glass
6 – Electro Man Extension cord $28 www.kikkerland.com is useful for creating multi outlets and looks alot better than that long bar.
7 – Bike Bell $24 is created right here in Montreal. Save the planet and get on your bike.
8 – Lunch Bag $28 Gourmet Getaway www.builtny.com www.frenchbull.com is made out of neoprene which is the same fabric used for underwater diving suit s0 it is very insulating for keeping foods cold or hot.
9 – Tea Set $36 www.greentoys.com is made out of recycled milk jugs, no BPA, no phthalates, no lead paint and fun for years. It includes a teapot, cups, saucers, sugar bowl and creamer
10 – Humungastache fetch toy $16 www.moodypet.com looks like your dog has a moustache when he grabs the ball in his mouth.
11 – Monkeys i $6 www.worldwidefred.com These plastic toppers fit on your keys so you can tell them apart easily. They come in call kinds of shapes.
Mortimer Snodgrass
Location: 457 Victoria Ave. St-Lambert
Tel: 454-465-5252
209 St-Paul O.
Tel: 514-499-2851 (moving nearby)
www.mortimersnodgrass.com
For over 25 years, Cine Maison Royale has specialized in close-outs of movies, music and video games. Their current in-store holiday deals include Lord of the Rings – Return of the King DVD for $1, DVD box sets and TV series like CSI Miami, Magnum PI and The Office (reg 49.99) $14.99. DVD’s (French too) start at $3.49.
Children’s titles like Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, Barney and Dora the Explorer are $7.99. On the wall of used DVDs (starting at $3.49) you’ll discover little treasures, hard to find titles, along with some newer DVD releases.
In music, you might find 3-disc gift tins by Tom Jones or James Brown at $6.96 and music CDs at a mere $1.96. New generation games for the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 start as low as $9.93 oldie games as low as $2 (like NHL 07 and Spiderman for the Xbox). PC games run $4.97-$9.97 and right now they have overflowing bins with PC games for $1.
Location: 3737 Cote Vertu
corner: Begin
Phone: 514-956-7482 x132
Hours: Mon-Fri 9-4:30, Sat 10-4:30
I’ve been trying to find out about this company sales for years. Their leather garments are high end and high styled. They were hard to break in to, but now they too have succumbed and are having a warehouse sale this weekend. Finally. www.bodchristensen.com
Diesel has had it’s Surplus store on Boul. St-Laurent for a few years (it’s been in my book) and now you have two other stores to score their brands at clearance prices. Coming up soon will be a big sale too.
Homegrown company, MEGA Brands is having a seasonal warehouse sale in the warehouse at the headquarters (4505 Hickmore, VSL). Besides their well-known snap together Mega Bloks, they also sell arts and crafts under the RoseArt brand, and MagNext building sets, King Arthur construction sets, Mickey Mouse clubhouse construction sets, wagons, trucks, Triazzle puzzles, High School Musical and Hannah Montana crafts and Board Dudes. There will be some doorbuster liquidated items, and some liquidated stock.
If you miss the sale, you can catch similar deals at their headquarters’ Mega Blokswarehouse store.
Location: 4505 Hickmore, VSL
Phone: 514-333-3339
Dates and Hours for sale: Nov 11-12-13: 11-8 , Nov 14: 10-4, Dec 2-3-4: 11-8,
Hours for Store: Tues: 12-6, Thurs: 12-8, Sat 10-4 (Dec 12-19 for Christmas rush)
www.megabrands.com
We have fully stocked terrific party stores in Montreal, and these are the shops that turn into Halloween Heaven. Also, every year a company opens up temporary locations for the month to offer you Halloween deals.
For the regular stores, go to Giggles in LaSalle or their temporary shop in Delson or to Party World‘s new location which has an on site party room.
Giggles, 7143 Boul. Newman, LaSalle
Corner: Senkus
Phone: 514-363-9472
October Hours: Mon-Fri 10-9, Sat & Sun 10-5
Temporary location (until Nov 1): Delson Plaza, 35 boul. Georges Gagne
Phone: 450-638-6221
www.giggles.ca
Party World
New location: 188 St. Jacques, Ville St-Pierre
Phone 514-369-2221
Hours: Mon – Wed 10-6, Thurs & Fri 10-7, Sat 9-5
Each Halloween, temporary Halloween stores, open up to answer all of your Halloween needs with 10,000 items including costumes of course but also masks, wigs, make-up, decorations and accessories for adults and for the kiddies.
You could dress up as: Chinese take-out box, Darth Vadar, piratess, Batman, vampire, whoopie cushion, pumpkin and even a toilet. The stores are on the South Shore, Laval and the West Island. If you go to their web site, you can print a $6 coupon. You can hit “other” as you read it here.
Locations: Brossard, 5840 Taschereau (across the street from last year’s store); Laval, 1990 boul. le Courbusier (corner Boul. Tessier); Longueuil, 2588 ch. Chambly((corner: Jacques Cartier); Pierrefonds, 4800 boul. St-Jean (across the street from Loblaws); Mail Place Vertu; Repentigny Terrebonne, Carrefour Lachenaie, 250 Montee des Pionniers.