I wish I could say thank you to everyone who has ever served our country. Since I can’t, thank you Grandpa! We love you! We are so fortunate that he made it through so many tours.
The kids decided it was my birthday this weekend and made me (with daddy’s help) an amazing breakfast! Red velvet pancakes with as many candles as could fit! I haven’t taken many pictures at all (weird!)
But we did totally go to IKEA yesterday. I failed to snap a photo of our food carnage. My husband ate everything – everything! And got salmon, crabcakes, tiramisu, etc. We ended up spending $62 at the restaurant and our $105 purchase got knocked down to $33. We really didn’t get much. I got the wrong size shelves last time, so we took those back and repurchased them, along with the shoe rack I forgot and a pile of doodads. My son loves picking out things to buy. He picked out candles, shovels, lanterns, and I’m sure more things made it in our basket (many were removed). He’s so funny! My daughter never does that! I bought a plate for putting meals on for photos. I’m sure you’re excited you don’t have to see my country style corelware any longer.
Some new Memorial Day deals that caught my eye: Free Shipping at Bare Minerals, Disney Store and… that was pretty much it this morning. If you haven’t stopped by for the deals yet, I’d say take a peek at the Citrus Lane and Birchbox Deals below for sure!
Deals Covered Earlier this Weekend
Subscription Boxes
- Birchbox – Save $5 on your first box – Half Off!
- BoxyCharm June Spoiler
- Citrus Lane – Best Pricing of this year so far, I think!
- FabFitFun VIP Box Spoiler #2
- Fancy has Father’s Day Boxes!
- Gilt City Use code DIVEIN25 to take $25 off $100 and DIVEIN50 to take $50 off a $200 purchase!!! Get an $80 for $40 Blushbox (adult intimacy box) at Gilt City! FYI Blushbox also sells a wide variety of beauty items and I scored some great stuff!!!
- GLOSSYBOX: Get a complimentary NIOXIN Diamax Hair Thickener ($50 value) with a subscription to Glossybox! Use voucher code HAIR. Exp 6/30.
- Golden Tote has a new item in both bags!
- Googaro: Use coupon code MEMORIAL to save 25% off ANY subscription. Exp 5/30. New & previous customers, not existing.
- Julep is now offering Perfect 10 Mystery Boxes
- Julep New York Fashion Week Sweepstakes
- Kiwi Crate: Use coupon MEMORIALDAY here to save 20% on single crates. Exp 5/26 (Monday).
- Popsugar June Spoiler/Clue + $15 Coupon
- Popsugar Summer Special Edition Spoiler
- Socialbliss Style Box has a coupon for Memorial Day weekend! Save $15 off a 6 month subscription with code NSSTAR15.
Not-Box Deals
- Abe’s Market – Free Shipping on everything Plus an additional 35% off select items (they’re moving their warehouse) with code MOVING!
- Bath & Body Works Awesome Memorial Day Sale
- Gap: 40% off!
- IKEA: Food rebate weekend – Buy $100 of furnishings, get your food comped. Gotta get the coupon when you check out from the Restaurant!
- Illume Candles Is matching the BBW sale with 20% off and free shipping! Do not forget to check out the SALE section!
- Origins – great eye cream deal!!!
- Philosophy is offering no minimum free shipping and 20% off with the code summersave! Ends 5/27.
- Sephora – Beauty Insiders choose 3 deluxe samples – Being a Beauty Insider is free! Use code PACKUP
- State Outline Necklaces $11.95 Shipped
- Tea Collection Memorial Day Sale
Now for some Monday Mini Reviews!
I’ve had such positive responses about Monday Mini Reviews I’m going to keep them going! Today – Loot Crate & Bluum.
Loot Crate
May Loot Crate’s Theme was Adventure! I mostly stuck around for Zelda, and that’s pretty much all I liked out of this box. However, one of my friends recently explained to me the attraction that children (and adults!) with autism have for Minecraft – she has a son with autism – and I’ll be passing that to her, along with the various paper/sticker doodads from the box. And whatever else I can jam into a Loot Crate for her, she deserves it!
FYI – Save $3 off any subscription with the coupon JUNELOOT.
Dangerous To Go Alone Opener & Pin
Zelda Legend Link T-Shirt ($19.99) Totally Epic. Sorry H, you don’t get this shirt, but your ummm ample bosom wouldn’t fit into it anyways. xoxox.
So sad.
I’m thinking about getting NerdBlock Jr. next month for the kids maybe!
Bluum
May Bluum Box – for my 41 month old boy. Save half off your first box! Use code HALFOFF .
- Bitsy’s Sweet Potato Oatmeal Raisin Smart Cookies – July Stork Stack
- Kids Banz Sunglasses – In his June Bluum
- Nature’s Bakery Raspberry Fig Bar Received in every single subscription box ever.
- Cuddly Bandages – They are cute bandages. I don’t know about the website photo on the sexy bare midriff though!
- Wipe Clean Letters – Received in daughter’s September Bluum.
My daughter loved using these cookies for spelling.
He was so funny 0 he said over and over that he spelled his name. <3 him!
Have an awesome week, Happy Monday!
Comments
Although I know meatballs are one of the easiest things to make sometimes you just don’t feel like it. On that note IKEA meatballs are something I would have tossed in my cart for sure. I really like them. The nearest IKEA for me is at least a hour and 1/2 round trip so I rarely go there. The last time I went I spent about a hour in the bathroom and it is one of the last times I have made the mistake of venturing so far from my own toilet. ha ha While I was in there I couldn’t help but notice how clean they kept the ladies restroom. 😉 I hope you enjoyed your family time.
They have great meatballs! I just buy the chicken meatballs at costco and serve them with brown gravy (better than bouillon makes an i think all natural packet) and instant mashed potatoes, because i’m totally lazy & that’s what my daughter prefers. Ours is only 15 minutes away but our car is in VT, so it’s not an all the time thing! Everyone but my daughter enjoys the lingonberry jam with them, but I have a big stash of it. Sometimes I just use cranberry jelly. We ate *plenty* of meatballs yesterday!!! Today we are having ribs & waffles. I don’t know where it came from except from my husband’s food-loving fantasies.
Hi girls! The girl with The cuddly bandages on her belly is world famous yoga guru Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl who healed her appendix wounds with the Cuddly bandages. Everything is as you perceive it. They work on even older people too, like grandma or grandpa, everybody needs a friend not only children! I hope you enjoy them no matter how you chose to use them, and I am sure Rachel will be happy that you found her sexy as she was really ill when this photo was taken! 🙂 Shama schwieler, inventor and mother of four.
I think the point is that your website says “a new bandaid for kids is born.” It doesn’t say anything about that, and did she have laparoscopic surgery in three spots for the appendix? It’s an odd & out-of-place photo and there is no media mention of that person on your site as far as I can see, no accompanying text, and if you click it, it doesn’t go to her story. Of course people besides children like fun bandages but it doesn’t really mean that a racy shot really goes with the rest of your site (which is yours and you can do what you’d like with it!).
How was that “a racy shot”? It was three wounds taken care of. The wounded person is a person, and someones child. Mine. My first baby and her first surgery. Your opinion is yours and you see what you see. My daughter spend x days in emergency care due to broken appendix. You see sex in the picture and that is your opinion. It was a wounded child, happy to be taken care of by her mom. Not 4 years old, still someone’s child. And the product can heal anyone who is open for it.
I wish you all the best and am sorry if Rachel’s wounded belly offended you in some way. We removed it now as I do not want this kind of comments on my children. There is always a person behind you know.
So I had to check out the Cuddly Bandages website after reading your comment and um…yeah, that picture totally seems out of place. Cute cuddly bandages on children to bare midriff with undies poking out…weird! My daughter was looking over my shoulder while I visited the site and was equally confused…she asked if they go on belly buttons, then made a comment that they shouldn’t show that. The truth is spoken by a 4 year old.
LOL I know it was *so* weird!!