POPSUGAR Must Have - September 2012
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Off topic. Is anyone participating in the contest? There is another entry method in the official rules:
"Alternative Method of Entry (AMOE). You may also enter the Contest by mail as follows. On a plain 3†x 5†index card, legibly handprint or type your first name, last name, date of birth, complete address, city, state, zip code, home phone number (including area code), and email address (if any) and mail your completed 3†x 5†card to: “Enter to Win a POPSUGAR Must Have Bag Membership,†PopSugar Studios, 3523 Eastham Drive, Culver City, CA 90232. To be considered eligible in the Contest, AMOE entries must be postmarked not later than October 12, 2012 and received no later than 11:59 p.m. PST on October 19, 2012."
I will try, who knows!
Good luck to whoever decides to try too!
"Alternative Method of Entry (AMOE). You may also enter the Contest by mail as follows. On a plain 3†x 5†index card, legibly handprint or type your first name, last name, date of birth, complete address, city, state, zip code, home phone number (including area code), and email address (if any) and mail your completed 3†x 5†card to: “Enter to Win a POPSUGAR Must Have Bag Membership,†PopSugar Studios, 3523 Eastham Drive, Culver City, CA 90232. To be considered eligible in the Contest, AMOE entries must be postmarked not later than October 12, 2012 and received no later than 11:59 p.m. PST on October 19, 2012."
I will try, who knows!
Good luck to whoever decides to try too!
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Great tip! I didn't think that would work but it let me resign up with the coupon as well. Yay!
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Hey I feel like a total stalker because I was convinced to get the boxes after stumbling onto your blog from a google search on the boxes and I just kept reading your blog like it was real life reality show series. I had no clue you were on this message board. I used your link since I couldn't find any of my friends that were already signed-up. Your blog is kinda addicting....
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I canceled and re-subbed with the three months for $60 deal. I've been paying full price this whole time, and was considering canceling, just because of budget stuff, but this month's box looks sooooo good. Mine just passed me and will turn around on Monday, maybe I'll get it in a few days. I won an iron from a sweepstakes, sold it on ebay, and used the money for the 3 month subscription! Thank you, Universe.
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I just did the same! I canceled my Myglam/ipsy, my birchbox, and my sample society today as well, to make up for it at least.
Sample Society got me to resub after last months box, but I realized today that even though they're bigger samples, I only tend to use 1 out of the 4 they send. So I'm still better off cancelling.
I like all three of those a lot, but I think the popsugar bag is just more along the lines of what fits better for me and what I would find useful. So I'm super stoked to get in on the deal for it!
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omg, me too! i am obsessed with your blog Jennifer! no clue you were on here?
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I am glad you guys read!! And thank you for signing up under me AliMo! My obsession with free stuff is insane.
And I just recently joined here. I used to just lurk, but figured I should stop being such a creeper and try and actually post!
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Was it the girl who was super excited about everything? That was such a cute video. She was fun to watch.
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Yow! I just looked up the prices for the scarf. I love scarves. I have a solid half-dozen in a bag on my coat rack so I can grab one on my way out the door every day (I would have them hanging from my coat rack, but I also have kittens who *love* playing with dangly things), and those are just the year-round scarves. My winter scarf collection is even larger (I went through a bored-and-fidgety phase where I crocheted a *lot* of scarves). This particular brand is over $55 *when it's on sale*. Regular price: Over $80. I happen to love scarves, so this alone would have made the box worth the money if I had paid for it since I would be willing to pay $35 for a nice, large, drape-y scarf.
Total box value: I'm guesstimating a couple of prices, and I'm not including the coupon, but I'm coming up with a total box value of over $170 if I go with the lower price for the scarf -- and over $200 if I include the coupon and the higher price for the scarf. The funny thing is that I keep looking at this particular box and thinking about whether I can justify spending the money on it, but it didn't cost me anything thanks to referrals! So extra-awesome I can't believe this subscription box is for real. Except it is.
I think the product sourcing is helped by the fact that this particular website/company's main focus is celebrities, and a lot of these brands have a celebrity-oriented push (almost every single place I looked for information on the scarf was about how various celebrities wear them, for example), so they're already giving stuff away in the hope that pictures of their stuff land in _Us_ or whatever magazines have lots of pictures of those events (I'm so disconnected with the celebrity culture that I'm not even sure of any other magazine that would have this sort of thing, but one of the websites I just looked at for info on gifting suites mentioned _Us_, so I will, too). These boxes are kind of like mini-gift suites, although we do pay $35 a month for them, and we don't get to pick out the goodies. It also seems like their boxes are stepping up with every one they send out. I thought the first one was one of my favorites -- until the August box arrived. I thought that one was fantastic -- until I saw what the September box contains. After this one, they're probably going to have a lot of people signing up, so they are going to have to have a good October box, so it's going to be interesting to see how that pans out. I want to upgrade to a pre-paid subscription one of these days, but I have to reconfigure my budget before I can do that, so it's going to take a little while.
(Something I had completely forgotten about until now: About ten years or so ago, I wanted to find a company that would send me a care package of miscellaneous fun stuff every month. Bath stuff, home stuff, maybe a snack -- basically, just a variety of things that I wouldn't normally buy for myself. There were a lot of places that offered gift baskets or care packages, but they weren't *subscription* services, and the prices were pretty much in line with the value of the boxes, plus you had to pick which box to get, and I could never make up my mind between the various options. I wanted the company to pick and surprise me, and it would have been nice to get more bang for my buck and not pay more or less what the box was worth. Flash forward to today, and, wow, this is pretty much exactly what I had been wanting a decade ago. I'm really looking forward to what they send out as autumn and winter roll through!)
Anyway. Now I just have to wait for it to go from Troutdale (about 10 miles from my apartment) to Auburn (about 150 miles away) and back to Portland (where I live), so I'm probably looking at a Wednesday delivery. Friday would be cool, too, because that's a three-day weekend for me (Columbus Day makes me *love* working for a bank!), and, curiously, my August box arrived just in time for Labor Day weekend, so I kind of feel like it could be a long weekend tradition. Smartpost annoys the hell out of me with the Porland-Seattle-Portland thing, but this is actually the quickest subscription box delivery for me aside from Good and Lovely (sent via USPS first class, mailed from about three miles away).
Total box value: I'm guesstimating a couple of prices, and I'm not including the coupon, but I'm coming up with a total box value of over $170 if I go with the lower price for the scarf -- and over $200 if I include the coupon and the higher price for the scarf. The funny thing is that I keep looking at this particular box and thinking about whether I can justify spending the money on it, but it didn't cost me anything thanks to referrals! So extra-awesome I can't believe this subscription box is for real. Except it is.
I think the product sourcing is helped by the fact that this particular website/company's main focus is celebrities, and a lot of these brands have a celebrity-oriented push (almost every single place I looked for information on the scarf was about how various celebrities wear them, for example), so they're already giving stuff away in the hope that pictures of their stuff land in _Us_ or whatever magazines have lots of pictures of those events (I'm so disconnected with the celebrity culture that I'm not even sure of any other magazine that would have this sort of thing, but one of the websites I just looked at for info on gifting suites mentioned _Us_, so I will, too). These boxes are kind of like mini-gift suites, although we do pay $35 a month for them, and we don't get to pick out the goodies. It also seems like their boxes are stepping up with every one they send out. I thought the first one was one of my favorites -- until the August box arrived. I thought that one was fantastic -- until I saw what the September box contains. After this one, they're probably going to have a lot of people signing up, so they are going to have to have a good October box, so it's going to be interesting to see how that pans out. I want to upgrade to a pre-paid subscription one of these days, but I have to reconfigure my budget before I can do that, so it's going to take a little while.
(Something I had completely forgotten about until now: About ten years or so ago, I wanted to find a company that would send me a care package of miscellaneous fun stuff every month. Bath stuff, home stuff, maybe a snack -- basically, just a variety of things that I wouldn't normally buy for myself. There were a lot of places that offered gift baskets or care packages, but they weren't *subscription* services, and the prices were pretty much in line with the value of the boxes, plus you had to pick which box to get, and I could never make up my mind between the various options. I wanted the company to pick and surprise me, and it would have been nice to get more bang for my buck and not pay more or less what the box was worth. Flash forward to today, and, wow, this is pretty much exactly what I had been wanting a decade ago. I'm really looking forward to what they send out as autumn and winter roll through!)
Anyway. Now I just have to wait for it to go from Troutdale (about 10 miles from my apartment) to Auburn (about 150 miles away) and back to Portland (where I live), so I'm probably looking at a Wednesday delivery. Friday would be cool, too, because that's a three-day weekend for me (Columbus Day makes me *love* working for a bank!), and, curiously, my August box arrived just in time for Labor Day weekend, so I kind of feel like it could be a long weekend tradition. Smartpost annoys the hell out of me with the Porland-Seattle-Portland thing, but this is actually the quickest subscription box delivery for me aside from Good and Lovely (sent via USPS first class, mailed from about three miles away).
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Is the SSFAN50 still working? i tried it and it gives me an error. I tried FREE4SHOP its working though.
Thinking of receiving two boxes each month so I could give away the duplicates to my sister in laws and friends.
**EDIT -- tsk. Gave in! Was eyeing on buying new boots for fall, but I could not resist this awesome deal!
Thanks for the code!!
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I am very excited to get this month's box. I sneaked a peak well actually fully looked on youtube. and i love everything that's coming in this box. I didn't love last month's box but boxes like this will keep me subscribed.
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I'm your fellow Portlander, so I feel your pain. I have to wait too. Isn't it maddening to watch the box track on by and keep going and then circle back? I want to feel that scarf in my hands, right now! lol
I have been wishing for a fashion box so hard, and I love that gray color. I know that scarf is going to be perfect for me.
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Could be worse, I'm in Oregon too, but more rural. It took 6 days to get to me once it hit Troutdale last month.
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