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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
BOGO rose lip balm for Mom, with free karma.
Just in time for Mother's Day, you can try their new "Perfect As Is" lip balm, which is 75% organic and is made with natural rose flavor, stevia, and a bunch of natural oils. The lip balm is .25 oz, which is almost twice as big as your standard lip-balm tube, and with promo code MomPK09 it's a BOGO offer. Plus, when you order three, you get free shipping, so throw one of their Eco-Sensual lip balms in your cart and you're good to go (I think that's cheaper than shipping would be, anyway).
If you're stumped for a pretty, karmically sound Mother's Day gift, look no further!
Free 5-lb. Cinco de Mayo burrito at Taco del Mar.
Free KFC meal, courtesy of... Oprah?
There's some interesting fine print here, which I don't really get either. You can download and print this coupon from 9am CDT 5/5/09 to 9:59pm CDT 5/6/09 only, but you can use it from 5/5/09 to 5/19/09, excluding 5/10/09. Why not 5/10? Who knows?* You can print the coupon four times, but only use it once per person at participating locations.
Sounds like a fustercluck just waiting to happen (Bawk-AWWKK!!), but maybe this will be better organized than other recent free-food giveaways.
*Oh, right, Mother's Day. Stay classy, KFC.
Four-course dinner for two, $39 at PF Chang's.
Now you can get a four-course meal for two for $39.99. You choose two cups of soup, one starter, two entrees, and two mini-desserts from the prix fixe menu. Yes, you can get their famous chicken lettuce wraps, and yes, my beloved honey shrimp are included, as is the yummy Dali Chicken. I think I might be talking myself into dinner here!
Free Arby's iced tea on National Beverage Day.
There's passion fruit, mandarin peach, diet peach, and diet blackberry, which all sound tasty. On the downside, you have to go in and say the words, "I'm parched, FruiTea me," which I'm not sure I'll be able to do.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Clinique Bonus Time... now with customizable gift!
I love Clinique Bonus Time as much as the next girl, but I admit that it's a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes it's full of stuff I'll actually use, and sometimes I poke through it and think, "Gaahh, I guess these are going in the next beauty swap." If I had a nickel for every Clinique black mascara I've acquired, I'd have... enough to buy my next Bonus Time qualifying purchase.
Well, no more! Order from Clinique.com and you can pick the contents of your Bonus Time gift. Start with a choice of one of two springy green bags, and then the website leads you through the process of choosing 7 different kinds of samples from various categories. By the time you're finished, you'll have a beauty kit full of hand-picked items that are just what you wanted! The downside is you have to pay for shipping... but they're offering free shipping with a $40 purchase, another great excuse to spend even more.
Free True Shimmer Chapstick.
They're also giving away a bag of Revlon products worth $100, so you could totally score here.