It's been a quiet Summer so far around here. Since I don't have kids I don't have to worry about the school supply shopping coming up this month. But I did get to enjoy the Target Summer Clearance this past week. I LOVED it! I totally didn't know about it until Jennifer over at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom started blogging about Targets 30-50% off starting and letting everyone know the 70-90% off was starting soon! EKK! So I had to go since I'm kind of (not set or anything yet) planning a week long vacation to Galveston Island, here in Texas, sometime in September, maybe. It's still so warm and the water is still in the 80's even later in September! Also I'm planning to go during the week, to cut down on hotel prices. We haven't been on a vacation in three years! We went to Six Flags in Arlington in 2010, and had a great time! We also went to Hurricane Harbor, Six Flags Water Park right around the corner from the Amusement Park. We were there for three days, and had a really good time.
I'm re-thinking some of my subscription boxes I currently receive. I admittedly do love getting packages through snail mail, and I love the surprises I get, but not all boxes are created equal. And not all boxes I love.
So Let's start off with the first box I ever subscribed to, BarkBox. They're a great, professonal company. They were really one of the first sub. boxes I had heard about. I'm honestly just not all wild about New York like some people. They are based out of New York, and you can tell by the things they send. Of the two boxes I've received for Stinky, she still doesn't have a new plushy toy! I REALLY thought that would be a given EVERY month. Unfortunatly not the case. The first month she got a small raspberry/mint flavored mini treat ball, the kind you put treats inside and they roll it around and free the treats. Great, if they had've sent some treats that fit inside it, you know, to use with it. Lol I ended up using some cat treats, but still, dog treats would've been nice. The second box had plenty of treats, but NO TOYS! What the hey? Do doggies not play with toys up there in the Big Apple? Do they just sit around and munch on treats all day? Well, needless to say I'm not all that impressed with BarkBox. I'm thinking about switching over to WoofWagPlay in October, since I got the 6 months sub. for BarkBox and that's when it ends. Onto my next re-thinking. I had ordered BleuBox Gold last month, and received it in a very timely manner (like a few days!). The pieces were pretty good, I even gifted one (literally the same day I got the box) to a cousin for a graduation gift. But I don't need jewelry every month. It is a good sub. box, I'm just not that into a lot of jewelry, or receiving it that often. I may pick this back up in a few months, closer to the holidays maybe. I liked that I had a $10. coupon code when I signed up, but $49.99/Month isn't really good for me in the long run. It would just be paying $50. for getting jewelry gifts to set aside for the future. And I feel like I'm missing out if I get the Silver box. Since it's only $24.99/Month it's a better deal, but not as varied. *Ultimately decided to cancel on 7-9-13, after receiving my second box. Quick and easy cancellation by e-mailing [email protected]. (Review coming soon!) Ok, so that's two cancels. Up next? Bespoke Post. Ok, so I got AJ the 3 month sub., and you have the option to skip a month if you don't like the selection. I'm not really sure why, but I have the funny feeling that they are getting great deals on liquidated items and are super-re-selling them. I went to find the sunglasses from the SHADE box last month, and couldn't find them on the website advertized in the glasses case they were in. There were others that were similar, but not those. And there was some SPF 18+ sunscreen and a bracelet. It wasn't that wowing. This month's selection was either Bota or SWEAT. Bota is what we're going with. It's got a waterskin (Bota) and a dice set of 20 die + 4 cups. That sounds much more interesting that SWEAT, which has a gym bag, protein powder, and forming (hair) cream. I'm not all that wowed by the selections so far, so I'm probably not re-subscribing him when we're done next month, or when we choose the last box, whichever. I'm really thinking the Ashton Kutcher Fancy box, or something like that would be better for AJ than Bespoke Post. Also I don't really like the whole showing you what you're getting ahead of time thing they do. (Received shipping notification, so Bota Review coming soon!) Ok, that's three. Onto the fourth, BroBox I'm looking at YOU. I didn't really know what to expect from BroBox, I assumed a couple of full size items. It had several samples. It was an ok, admittedly funny, box. But AJ didn't really like all the items in it. We're going to give it another month or two, since it's only $14.99/Month. But if it's all the same kind of off the wall Bro-samples, we're probably canceling. (Review coming soon!) I'm in LOVE with most of the sub. boxes I'm getting though, so that's pretty much it on the cancellation list. I've fallen hard for Out Of The Box Sampler. I'm going to be setting up an alarm on my phone for when the August "Flip-Flop" box is going on sale. August the 5th? I'm not 100% sure on that, since their paperwork had conflicting dates on different papers, one said August 5th, and another said July 1st, soooo, maybe I'll e-mail them and find out for sure. Ok, so I signed up for Taste Trunk Gourmet Trunk. I honestly had a hard time choosing between the four Trunks. The Gourmet Trunk, The Sweet Trunk, the Health Trunk, and The BBQ Trunk. I finally decided on the Gourmet Trunk, and if I love it enough, maybe I'll add a Sweet Trunk in the future. :) *I received my Gourmet Taste Trunk on 7-11-13 and I LOVED it! Such a great array of goods. I'm definitely going to be subscribing to the Sweet Trunk soon! I honestly wish I had gone ahead and ordered both when I ordered my Gourmet Trunk! ;) (Review coming soon!) |
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