*Spoilers* September 2013 Popsugar Must Have Box

[jnm9jem]

Still no tracking update for me 

 

[LindseyJ]

My tracking hasn't updated since it left some place in NJ on Friday. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> getting very impatient, lol. I'm also waiting on an order from julep and it isn't updating either!

 

[PinkShanyn]

Quote: Originally Posted by naturalactions /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
Last January I read an article that you are considered "well read" if you read 7 books a year. I had read no where near 7 books in the past 5 years so I made it my New Years resolution to go beyond 7....this year I have read 21 (including Revenge Wears Prada from the June Box). I am super impressed with your 30 and even more so with your goal of 50!! Great job!

Only 7!?  I read 7 last month.  (The joys of not having cable or real-live internet at home) -- i'm practically amish.   /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[PinkShanyn]

Spoiler

THE 

SHARKIES 

ARE DELISH!!!!

 

[LindseyJ]

Is everyone getting the same headbands or are there different colors? I cant seem to find very many pictures and couldn't tell from the ones I did find.

 

[boxesandboxes]

These are mine -

Spoiler

 

[ewiggy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Glossygirl /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  your coasters are so unusual and nice looking!

Thanks! It's probably weird, but I really love these coasters, haha. Mine aren't the exact ones in the photo, but pretty similar. I've seen them at places like West Elm, lots on Etsy, etc. 

Quote: Originally Posted by Shauna999 /img/forum/go_quote.gif


I have the same set of coasters- my parents bought them years ago in Northern MI & I snagged them years ago when I moved into my first home. Their pretty cool- each one is a different type of wood! I have a coaster collection..lol.. Crazy coaster lady here

Ooh, neat! I'm actually from Michigan, so I would LOVE that, but mine are just boring mass-produced ones from Target. Yours are a family heirloom!  They definitely seem like the kind of thing that will last forever. 

 

[melanie0971]

It's really hard to get cheese curds here - they used to sell them at Trader Joe's, but they're not very fresh. I'm having major cheese envy right now, lol. Regarding coasters, I have a lot of vintage wood furniture and so I absolutely use coasters, but I hate the cardboard/paper ones, they get nasty and fall apart if they get wet at all, and isn't the point of a coaster to absorb any moisture from a glass? Useless, in my opinion. I use something like this:  

Love those coasters! And I agree about the curds a Joes, though I haven't seen them lately. I need to find the trade list for the poster with the 30 lbs of curds. Maybe some soul fall in my package lol

 

[nicepenguins]

Last January I read an article that you are considered "well read" if you read 7 books a year. I had read no where near 7 books in the past 5 years so I made it my New Years resolution to go beyond 7....this year I have read 21 (including Revenge Wears Prada from the June Box). I am super impressed with your 30 and even more so with your goal of 50!! Great job!

Yay!!! I am an English professor so I love it when people get into reading! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[melanie0971]

My box has been enroute to my local PO since this morning at 7! Usually when that happens I get it that day but it hasn't updated. Argh! Did it get lost leaving New Berlin? Maybe it is picking up those cheese curds after all...

 

[SonyaB]

I just got my box and I am really happy with it, I will use everything that came this month.  I am pretty crafty, and I love to read.  It's like this box was tailored for me this month.  I am going to try attaching the coasters to cork backings and using 3 layers of polyurethane to see if I can make them more suitable for wet glasses.  With 8 in the box, I am not worried about ruining 1.  The headbands are not very practical for me, but my 12 year old loves them.  I find this box better than the April box, but still wish it was on par with last September's box. 

I used the shoptiques card on a silver double knot ring, it's very much like the one that came in the Fall Luxury Box that I missed out on.

 

[Channydoll]

Quote: Originally Posted by SonyaB /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I am going to try attaching the coasters to cork backings and using 3 layers of polyurethane to see if I can make them more suitable for wet glasses.  With 8 in the box, I am not worried about ruining 1. 
Let me know if that is successful for you. Maybe I will do it also if it works out for you.

 

[AshJs3]

Got my box too! Much faster with it shipping from New York. I already have everything unpacked! It usually sits around for a few days. The book is really nice. I was expecting paperback but it's a beautiful hardback. The diffuser is already sitting out in my kitchen smells (and looks) great! I'm going to try to find something crafty to do with the coasters. They are just too pretty!

 

[KayEss]

I can't believe my package still isn't even tracking by reference! Luckily I'm on vacation so I don't care much, but it's crazy how slow my box is this month.

 

[have2haveit]

This box didn't make me happy but I'm glad it made some if you guys happy. Hey, you win some you lose some but still I love popsugar! I hope October's box rocks my world! :rocknroll2:

 

[amdoerr]

Thanks! It's probably weird, but I really love these coasters, haha. Mine aren't the exact ones in the photo, but pretty similar. I've seen them at places like West Elm, lots on Etsy, etc.  Ooh, neat! I'm actually from Michigan, so I would LOVE that, but mine are just boring mass-produced ones from Target. Yours are a family heirloom!  They definitely seem like the kind of thing that will last forever. 

HELLO my fellow Michiganders /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> :hand:

 

[flynt]

Quote: Originally Posted by SonyaB /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I just got my box and I am really happy with it, I will use everything that came this month.  I am pretty crafty, and I love to read.  It's like this box was tailored for me this month.  I am going to try attaching the coasters to cork backings and using 3 layers of polyurethane to see if I can make them more suitable for wet glasses.  With 8 in the box, I am not worried about ruining 1.  The headbands are not very practical for me, but my 12 year old loves them.  I find this box better than the April box, but still wish it was on par with last September's box. 

I used the shoptiques card on a silver double knot ring, it's very much like the one that came in the Fall Luxury Box that I missed out on.

Oooh that is a good idea on the polyurethane; I totally have some left over from fixing up my coffee table.  You should let us know how it works out.

  What's the shipping like for Shoptiques?  I don't mind gift cards but it seems like most of the ones we get have extortionate shipping fees (10$ Charm and Chain shipping, I'm looking at you).

 

[jannie135]

Quote: Originally Posted by naturalactions /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
Last January I read an article that you are considered "well read" if you read 7 books a year. I had read no where near 7 books in the past 5 years so I made it my New Years resolution to go beyond 7....this year I have read 21 (including Revenge Wears Prada from the June Box). I am super impressed with your 30 and even more so with your goal of 50!! Great job!
Aww thanks! I was actually a huge book junkie in school, but then I kept failing classes because I would read all day and not do homework... so my mom tried to ground me from reading one year... it's really weird to smuggle books into your house and swear to your parents that they're for english class lolololol. I was suuuuuch a rebel.

I don't think I'm well read though... I read a lot of YA books and sometimes chick lits. But I try to read around 5 "classics" a year. I read Persuasion by Jane Austen and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne so far, so three more to go in that category lol. Also I read multiple books at the same time, is that weird? Right now I'm reading Eat Pray Love, Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon, and this ebook called Kick. 

I think the most I've ever read was 47 books in 2 months during summer break. I had no life that summer haha.

 

[Eleda]

I had two boxes, so two gift cards, which I wanted to combine of course, but you it is only one per account, so I had to use them separately and create 2 accounts. All was completely free - indian clay bangles and a buddha necklace (it is 20 bucks, but on the checkout if you share on facebook it will take 5 dollars off, so completely free and the shopping is 9.50). Overall I am ok this time with the gift cards.

 

[SonyaB]

Quote: Originally Posted by flynt /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
Oooh that is a good idea on the polyurethane; I totally have some left over from fixing up my coffee table.  You should let us know how it works out.

  What's the shipping like for Shoptiques?  I don't mind gift cards but it seems like most of the ones we get have extortionate shipping fees (10$ Charm and Chain shipping, I'm looking at you).

Shipping was $9.24 and that is via Ground.  It's ridiculous, but I think it varies between shops.  They did let me know if I spent $65.00 more I could get free shipping /eyeroll.