The weather has made it a hard weekend to shop, but if you haven’t finished your holiday list yet, I will be on CTV News on the 6 o’clock news on Saturday talking about better-priced toys, award-winning toys and cute gifts for adults for under $30.
Date: Dec 21
Time: 6pm
KGB Decor sells innovative rechargeable LED lights which can create a warm ambiance in any setting. So decorating your home this holiday season can be easy and worry free if you use their lights.
With the ease of a remote control, you can even change the color of some of the lights, be it the Flat Ball, Long Drop or Tear Drop. Place them in any spot in your home and with a simple click, you can change the mood in the room. Adults love their ease, while children will be delighted by the colors.
They are eco-friendly, safe, easy to use, economical, and they can be used indoors or outdoors. By replacing liquid fuel or wax with WizeLites or InMood lighting you can save money.
At this sale, selected items in their inventory will be 50%-80% off; You can choose from a wide selection of their products:
– LED rechargeable candles
– Glass candle holders
– Wax candle holders
– LED rechargeable table lights
– LED rechargeable InMood lights
– Serralunga flower pots (limited quantities first come first served)
Using one of KGB Decor‘s LED rechargeable candles, table lights or InMood lights, you can create the warm ambiance you have been looking for this Christmas. Take advantage of the great deals and tick off items on your gift list and make your Christmas “delightful”.
Location: 400 Stinson, VSL H4N 2E9
corner: Hodge
Dates: Nov 28-30
Hours: 10-4
Tel: 514-812-6359
www.kgbdecor.com
info@kgbdecor.com
Q: I live in Montreal and have several items (suits, shirts, blouses, slacks) of used women’s professional attire that I would like donate to a group in need. I’ve tried looking for info on women’s shelters, support groups, etc… but could not find anything. Do you have any recommendations?
A: Two groups that do wonderful work in the community and accept used clothing, are:
Thrift Shop for Nova: 2750 boul. St-Charles Tel: 514-697-6692. NOVA West Island is a charitable foundation that offers home palliative care, cancer support groups, and runs 4 adult day centers for the elderly, all without government funding. www.thriftshopsfornova.com
La Boutique du Welcome Hall Mission, 4755B Acorn, Tel: 514-523-5288 x149: It’s good to give back to this hard-working charity, as all funds go directly back into Mission services. Their store offers their clients the dignity of a shopping experience, and serves also as a training ground for participants in their work programs. www.welcomehallmission.com
Each Halloween for the past 22 years, a temporary Halloween store opens 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: Crayola crayon box, a beer keg, a vampire, a storm trooper, a butterfly, an m&m and even a slice of pizza.
They offer corporate discounts for bars, clubs, associations etc. This is a one-stop Halloween store.
Dates: Sept 12 – Nov 1
Hours: till Oct 23: Mon-Wed 10-6, Th & F 10-9, Sat 10-6, Sun 11-6
Hours: Oct 24-Nov 1: Daily 10-10
When you use Comfort Keepers, a well-known international company, you can feel confident that your relative is well taken care of and safe when you are not there. Most people seeking their services are the adult children who are overwhelmed by the demands of caring for their parents, their careers and their own families.
You can choose as much or as little care as you need amongst personal care, conversation and companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, nursing, incidental transportation and light housekeeping, to the more specialized care for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients.
Comfort Keepers mission is to treat your loved-one as though they were a member of their own family. They have over 400 caregivers offering care in Montreal, South Shore, Laval, West Island and Montérégie, and can often provide services on very short notice.
In Quebec, they are the first and only company to be accredited by the CQA. They are approved providers for CLSC, Veteran’s Affair and CSST.
Although mostly known as senior care providers, they can provide services to anyone who requests them. From professionals who need their house cleaned, new parents, parental respite, those undergoing surgery or chemotherapy, transportation, mobility, hygiene to meal preparation. Services are flexible to a client’s changing needs, and often visits can be as short as an hour and a half.
Gift certificates are available.
Montreal Errand Runners assists people who need more hours in their day. There are so many times you wished you could be in two places at once, well, they can be the other “you”.
Just about everyone can use help at some time: busy professionals, new parents, two-career families, out-patients after surgery, older adults who are stuck indoors in bad weather (bring the groceries or prescriptions or deliver gifts with your greetings). Corporations can offer a concierge service too.
This friendly company provides so many services:
– auto detailing – on-site or pickup & delivery
– child care services
– contractor referrals & coordination
– courier / messenger
– decorating/remodeling
– dry cleaning & laundry
– event tickets
– fitness
– gifts & flowers
– golf – reservations, tee times, lessons
– gourmet foods
– grocery shopping
– house sitting – short term, long term and car sitting
– housekeeping – daily, weekly, monthly, or on call
– party & event planning
– personal chefs
– pet services
– personal shopper
– photography services
– realtor services
– reservations
– salon services
– transportation services
They say they will do anything that is legal!
www.montrealrunners.com
Tel: 514-882-7219
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: Crayola crayon box, a beer keg, a vampire, a storm trooper, a butterfly, an m&m and even a slice of pizza. 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 (corner Lapiniere) ; Laval, 1990 boul. le Courbusier (corner Boul. Tessier); Longueuil, 2588 ch. Chambly((corner: Jacques Cartier); Dollard des Ormeaux, 4850 boul. des Sources (corner: Anselme Lavigne); Ville St-Laurent, 7155 Autoroute 40 (corner: Begin); Repentigny/Terrebonne, Galeries des Chesnaye, 283 Motee des Pionniers (corner Ch. St-Charles); Downtown 968 Ste-Catherine St. O. (corner: Mansfield).
Back to school shopping has become a two-pronged adventure for parents. With many schools requiring school uniforms or school colors, there is the adventure to find these at a reasonable prices. They are supposed to cut down on the costs of clothing, since you believe that you no longer have to buy a whole new varied wardrobe for the kids.
Uniforms reduce peer pressure in schools by avoiding the competition for fancier designer names on kids’ bums, and more to the point, a child never has to worry about wearing the wrong thing, or worse, something you chose for them for which they would’ve been laughed at. And more importantly, you really do avoid the morning panic of “What do I wear to school?”.
You still, however, have to buy your children a wardrobe of clothing for when they are not in school. This is still a lesson for them in learning about their own individuality (which is lost with the uniforms), and as well, discovering how to think for themselves.
The businesses below, offer you both options at really reasonable prices. This way you can buy both wardrobes and still not break the bank.
Moni, 1000 Beaumont Ave. in rear at l’Acadie Blvd. Phone: 514-273-2544. Hours: Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday (only in August and September). Tucked away at the rear of the Kute Knit factory, you must go up a flight of stairs to check out this spot for children’s casual clothes. Deals could be as low as a two-piece outfit for $5. Look for skirts, pants and tops in sizes newborn to 20. There are excellent prices on school uniforms: jumpers $15, pants $12 to $16, polo shirts starting at $6 and dress shirts starting at $10. Parents can score too, as adult fleece jogging sets can be as low as $10, and there’s casual tops and bottoms for men and women. Don’t miss the $1, $3 and $5 racks.
Les Textiles Goldtex, 8875 Salley St. at Dollard Ave., Lasalle. Phone: 514-365-9699. Hours: Monday to Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You have to go out of your way to find this superb outlet hidden amongst the factories, but it’s worth it. The multitude of brands found are: Gusti, Kricket, Cora, Oshkosh, Tommy Hilfiger, Deux par Deux and Perry Ellis in sizes from newborn to 18. The school color (mostly navy, white and only bit of gray) code section offers you cardigans, tunics, skirts, pants, white dress shirts and polo tops (long and short), and is found in the upper mezzanine, along with fancy party dresses (Mon Cheri), suits, tuxedos and outfits for communion and baptism. If you also have an infant at home (or on the way), this place is heaven for Perlim Pin Pin bedding and comforter sets (Bebe Confort, Karla, Perlim Pin Pin), which can be bought for as low as five pieces for $275. You can pick up hooded baby bath towels for only $3 and sleepers four for $12. Baby accessories are by Evenflo, Safety First, Graco and BB Tresor (nursing pillows). Cribs are here too, by Little Angel and Graco, and strollers by Peg Perego, Graco, Safety First and Evenflo.
Symbole Jr., 399 Notre Dame St. West at McGill St., Old Montreal. Phone: 514-289-9145. Hours: Monday to Wednesday 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday and Friday 930 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is a mini chain store across the city which concentrates on the kiddies, with clothes for boys and girls, from infant sleepers and camisoles to jr. teens (some up to 16) and party clothes. Racks prices are amazing at $3, $5, $8 and $10. School color coded clothing (gray, black or navy) is stocked in polo shirts (long sleeve and short) for $12.99, button down shirts for $4.99-$12.99, girls’ tunics and skirts for $7.99. If it’s names like Baby Gro, 3D Kids, Val & Mik or Baby Bell that you’re searching for, then this is your kind of place. Other locations (hours vary): Panic, 33 Chabanel W. (514-388-2524); Le Petit Coeur, 5727 Ave. du Parc (514-270-8300); Entrepot Panic (some ladies’ and men’s clothes here), 3022 Masson St. (514-721-6512); Panic, 6717 St. Hubert St. (514-271-3315); Panic, Place Vertu (514-337-3131); Panic, 4307 Wellington St. (514-769-8181).