Archive | July, 2006

Because you can never have too much soap

by Mir at 4:00 pm on July 31, 2006 in Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

How about a free container of hand soap? I don’t know about your kids, but mine seem to use about half a bottle of the stuff every time they’re told to wash up.

As an aside, remember how we’ve talked about giving your dollars to companies you admire? I am a proud supporter of Dove products both because they are affordable and because I just love this. Love it. I’m always happy to give Dove my money. They’re doing more than just selling shampoo. The only way I could love them more would be if they actually came over here and cleaned my house.

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Contest time (and it’s not about me)

by Mir at 2:16 pm on July 31, 2006 in Contests, For the kids

Wow. Um. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the shameless sucking up and all, but that wasn’t really what I had in mind when I mentioned having a contest.

Ahem.

No, I was talking about your chance to will some of the hottest merchandise around, something that will make small children shriek with glee and parents have extremely mixed feelings about whether or not even Mozart would’ve been considered genius if a toddler had forced his mother to listen to the same piece over and over and over again…. (more…)

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I picked it out just for you

by Mir at 8:23 am on July 31, 2006 in Quick Tips

Remember how I said that I hardly ever have to actually buy souvenirs for my kids when I travel? This trip did not fail to live up to swag expectations.

My children are oohing and aahing over the t-shirts, rulers with embedded caculators, fancy pens, and post-it notes. Oh, and the nasty-tasting but whimsical plane-shaped crackers from the airline. All free. They’re happy, and so’s my budget.

I’m setting aside the saved money for the kids’ therapy funds, natch. Someday they’ll need to spend some time working through their mother’s cheapness. So, for posterity: Mama loves you, kids. More than bargains, I swear.

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How about a contest?

by Mir at 1:18 pm on July 30, 2006 in Contests

I apologize for the radio silence; the internet at the hotel here is a bit fickle. (A bit fickle = nonexistent 99% of the time.)

Have you survived okay without me? You didn’t pay full price for anything while I was gone, did you? Wait. If you did, don’t tell me. I can’t bear to know.

Anyhoo, I thought maybe we’d kick off the week with a contest. I have some free stuff to give away and I’ll spend my entire cross-country flight home today figuring out how we’ll do it. (And maybe eating peanuts and reading a trashy novel. I can multitask.) Stay tuned for all the details tomorrow.

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Beep beep!

by Mir at 3:35 pm on July 28, 2006 in Hot Hot Hot!

One of the fabulous vendors here at BlogHer is passing out a discount coupon, and it turns out that the site in question has a lot of very neat stuff.

Check out AuntBeep.com, a “premiere online Boutique and Gallery for all things fashionable, eclectic & bizarre in Los Angeles.” Find something that tickles your fancy? Use coupon code BH0620 for 20% off your purchase. (Code valid for up to 6 uses per customer, not applicable to artwork.)

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Friday, all day, even in California

by Mir at 12:55 pm on July 28, 2006 in Hot Hot Hot!

The time change has me all turned around and confused, but I’m pretty sure it’s Friday all over the U.S. and Canada right now. Isn’t it?

(You in the back, hush. It’s not nice to make fun of the mentally impaired.)

While I suffer for my craft (translation: sit here at BlogHer surrounded by some of the most amazing women writers of our time, eating free food and performing Vulcan mind melds), you should check out the Friday Sale at Amazon. If you want to.

If you’re here at BlogHer? For heaven’s sake, come say hi!

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Charity begins at. . . Starbucks?

by Mir at 6:15 am on July 28, 2006 in Quick Tips

Good morning! This little tidbit is something I learned from Carmen yesterday, and she had bags of coffee to prove it, so it must be true.

Apparently Starbucks takes the bottom cup of beans or so from every industrial-sized bag they use and wrap them up and give them out rather than repackaging and reselling then. Some Starbucks’ leave them sitting on the counter, some you have to ask for them. But what you’ll get is a nice little package of enough beans to brew a pot of coffee. For free.

Starbucks, I hereby officially repent of referring to you as the Evil Empire.

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It’s O-Day! Woohoo!

by Mir at 2:00 pm on July 27, 2006 in Hot Hot Hot!

[Insert your own "O-Day" joke here. I'll wait. Okay, are you done now? Was it good for you?]

It’s O-Day again, and that means a special 12-hour promotion from Overstock. Shop Overstock through this link to take 13% off your entire order. Offer good from now (noon MST) until midnight MST; that’s 2 PM to 2 AM for your east coasters, and 11 AM to 11 PM for your west coasters.

You cannot resist the lure of O-Day.

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Bloomies sale and code

by Mir at 12:00 pm on July 27, 2006 in Hot Hot Hot!

Use coupon code JULY40 to take an additional 40% off of already reduced prices at Bloomingdales. Coupon is good through Monday, July 31st.

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Free food for Fluffy

by Mir at 7:01 am on July 27, 2006 in Hot Hot Hot!, Pets

Take the Purina One 30-Day Challenge and get free pet food.

Woof.

(Have I mentioned what time it is in California right now? California, where I currently am? Who’s gonna bring me some coffee?)

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