Shoppers Drug Mart "redeem your points" event

Today is Shoppers Drug Mart's "redeem your points" event. For 95,000 points they will give you $200 in merchandise instead of the usual $170. Great value so I picked up on more holiday gifts. My purchases include:

• 1 men's Givenchy cologne set  reg. $86.00
• 1 men's Paco Rabanne Million cologne set $82.00
• 1 Beckham cologne set $30.00
• 1 bag of sugar (not pictured) $1.99

I paid $26 in taxes and used my pre-purchased SDM gift card to cover that portion. If you're wondering why I bought the gift card is because SDM gives points on their own cards so it's an easy way to accumulate more points.

today's deals and savings: free gas and new optimum points

• topped up my Shopper's Drug Mart gift card to $25 which earned me another 250 optimum points
• used the last two of my $5 Kellogg's gas cards. prices at the pump are down from $1.30 to $1.28 which is still ridiculously high.