Canadian Tire Money

[Robin]

So we where sitting around a campfire somewhere down stream of Marshall Lake and I mention how I had just gone to my first Canadian Tire in New Liskeard, Ontario. I said I thought it was a pretty cool store. IIRC, Christy mentions that she scored a nice item at Canadian Tire with Canadian Tire Money. I guess CT Money is as Canadian as Tim Hortons, but I had no clue what she was talking about and no doubt mentioned it..

Well fast forward to today when the mailman drops off a package for me, and to my surprise I am now the proud owner of my own set of CT Money, proudly displayed in my canoe shop.

​Thanks to my friends Iskweo and Mihun (Christy and Karin)

 

[Odyssey]

I have wads of CT bills in various places; in my van, in my underwear/sock drawer, in my office desk, crumpled notes in amongst my bills and receipts...Recently (to me) Canadian Tire discouraged the paper money and encouraged using a plastic card instead. I tried the card thing but got frustrated when they wanted to know everything about me like phone numbers, e-mails, postal codes, favourite freak'n colours and underwear size. Maybe I should switch which drawers I keep the CT cash in? Anyway, I lost patience and interest in the "handy" plastic card. I went back to the old paper funny money. I like it. It's a connection to my past. Once in awhile I come across old paper bills; they never go out of date.
I knew of a retiring elementary school teacher who was a big CT shopper. His pupils made a school collection of CT money and gave it to him as a going away retirement gift. It was a thoughtful gift from those kids. I wonder what their dads thought when they went to look for their hidden wads of money in their underwear/sock drawers?
Really nice gift there Robin. That's a little bit of our history hanging on your wall.

 

[Mihun09]

Merry Christmas, Robin!

 

[Gerald]

Keep them safely Robin as they will soon be worth more than our official Canadian currency.

Have a good holiday season to you and all this site's members.

 

[Robin]

BTW, while sitting at that same campfire I also blurted out "45 seconds"

Memaquay smiles and asks what's that supposed to mean.....

I told my 5 Canadians friends that it was 45 seconds after crossing the border into Canada that I heard the first of many "Lover Boy" songs of the trip across Ontario...

Another Canadian bit of history aye.

 

[Odyssey]

BTW, while sitting at that same campfire I also blurted out "45 seconds"

Memaquay smiles and asks what's that supposed to mean.....

I told my 5 Canadians friends that it was 45 seconds after crossing the border into Canada that I heard the first of many "Lover Boy" songs of the trip across Ontario...

Another Canadian bit of history aye.

Lover Boy. I think I can speak on behalf of my fellow Canucks when I say...sorry about that.

 

[memaquay]

Wow, that's an awesome present. I had to laugh out loud at Gerald's comment, which is indeed true, CT money will soon be worth more than our puny Canadian dollar. I'm not sure about the Lover Boy thing, but whenever I DJ, someone aways requests "Turn Me Loose" toward the end of the evening, and then I get to watch what I have come to call "The Drunken Zombie Shuffle" as exceedingly liquored up people try to dance to an undanceable tune. Only in G Town.

 

[Iskweo]

I thought you might get a kick out of that Robin. I am on the card now too like Odyssey, but Karin had these lovely fresh unwrinkled bills ...mine are all crumpled up like scrap paper....so I thought, wow, I should frame them. Of course then my thought processes got carried away as per usual, eh voila, history is made.

Enjoy them, you can thrill and amaze all of your friends...lol.

Non stop loverboy eh? You must have hit a real oldies station, or they had a comeback concert somewhere and were being plugged relentlessly. Throw in a little Carol Pope and some Rush and you'd be happening. In Winnipeg we are big on Randy Bachmann.


Christy

 

[yellowcanoe]

The exchange rate..ooh la la...! Carnaval! Chateau Frontenac for $179 a night! Auberge aux Deux Lions for $105 !The Donald can't build the wall high enough!

Je vais embrasser Bonnehomme et boire Caribou.. No bud lite.!

 

[tump_lion]

i have a wad of them, it was somewhere around $30 last time i counted, but that was a while ago -- years ago my grandfather would give me his at the cottage and i would by fishing lures and sundry summer supplies -- back when $1.75 was a pretty big deal -- these days, they are handy book-marks

 

[Iskweo]

You enjoy Carnaval there YC, just be careful the Bonhomme doesnt squeeze you back.

 

[sweeper]

My daughter's attending University of Guelph so I'm enjoying the exchange rate

 

[Mihun09]

I know of a couple, army brats, who bought a trailer with it since he was always getting posted somewhere else and they moved a lot. It was like $800 in crappy tire money.

 

[snapper]

Great looking currency! I'm glad it's still accepted by CT. Most places in the states would have told you to keep it for historical purposes by now and wouldn't recognize it as having value.

That's all for now. Take care and until next time...be well.

snapper

 

[Odyssey]

I like the pretty colours. And the image of a happy Scot on each note. I try to keep mine in one place (you know about my secret drawer by now) but end up with stashes of them everywhere. I've also tried to keep them sorted by denomination. The teller winds up sorting and counting them patiently all over again to be sure. I wait till I have a stack of a few dollars so I feel like a big spender. Big shot me buying a whole car mat or jug of antifeeze with my Canadian Tire money.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/can...n-t-bear-to-throw-it-out-don-pittis-1.2760895

 

[Mihun09]

CT money they will still take and give out, but nobody will take a penny since they took those out of circulation.

 

[tear_knee]

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My dad collected Canadian Tire money, and now I do too. It doesn't make sense to spend it until you've got a really fat wad and can walk in the store flipping bills off the stack and making it rain like you're a baller. Loverboy, Rush.. Ughhhh. Bachman's cool though. And Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc etc.

 

[Odyssey]

Speaking of good Canadian traditions we'd love to share with our southern friends and family, we lost a good songwriter recently. His name is Ron Hynes. I first heard of him years ago when in conversation with an Irish friend. We were listening to some Irish music when she spoke up "You know Brad, that tune there isn't Irish at all. Yer man there is Canadian who wrote that. It's the most popular song in all of Ireland so it is." I researched and found Hynes' music, and have been listening to him since. Rest in Peace Ron Hynes. Godspeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KD7eUfIgCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dc1a8NCQS8&index=2&list=PLmSJr2zg6oBr77Y5Wnu0QIkPOQVAMgAVC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwlR1-jNFA&list=PLmSJr2zg6oBr77Y5Wnu0QIkPOQVAMgAVC&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEHKpY7WHhE&list=PLmSJr2zg6oBr77Y5Wnu0QIkPOQVAMgAVC&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gVrqQm548&list=PLmSJr2zg6oBr77Y5Wnu0QIkPOQVAMgAVC&index=8