The Return of Super Sunday Freebies!
Super Sunday Freebies haven’t been appearing here lately and I said that they would be back last week, but alas, I lied. However, this week they are here and I have some free samples to share with everyone!
First off, Johnson & Johnson have a promotion where new mommies can call them and get a New Parents Pack. The pack includes two coupons for free products up to $5 among other coupons and samples of body washes and shampoos. The number to call is 1-866-565-2229.
- Another one for the moms out there–Sam’s Club is giving out samples of Huggies steps 1 and 2 diapers.
- For those of you expecting, StonyField Farm is giving out samples of YoMommy prenatal yogurt.
- Costco is giving out samples of Dove cooling cucumber and green tea deodorant. When filling out the form they ask for your personal Costco member ID, however, it is not a required field so you can just skip it.
- Aquafresh is giving out samples of their toothpaste, Extreme Clean.
- Colgate is giving out samples of their Max Fresh cool mint toothpaste that have mini breath strips inside that dissolve as you brush, keeping your breath amazing!
- To feel clean when you’re not able to get to a faucet to wash your hands, check out VioNexus.
- Zenyaku is giving out free samples of skin care products.
- If you have frizzy or hard to tame hair you can receive a free sample of John Frieda’s Frizz-Ease.
- Visit Always’ site for a free Always pad sample.
And that’s all of them for this week. Hopefully this makes up for missing a few weeks, but Super Sunday Freebies will be back next Sunday with some great freebies for moms in celebration of Mother’s Day, so be sure to check back for that.
New Theme!
Hello loyal and devoted readers (all five of you!) Ha, kidding…Maybe. We have a new theme and it’s exciting! The colors and our logo have stayed exactly the same, but the layout of the site has gone in a bit of a different direction. For instance, it’s a bit plain, but I’m in one of those plain Jane moods and I think this layout fits my current mood quite nicely.
We have also maximized our advertising space, as you may have noticed, so if you are an advertiser and you are interested in our ample advertising space, we would be more than happy to accommodate you with what you are looking for; just go here and fill out the form.
Hope you all enjoy the new theme.
You Never Know When You’ll Need a Utility Light
It’s standard procedure to make sure you have a few flash lights stashed around the house at all times just in case anything were to happen; say the power goes out one night and you’re well out of candles, so what do you do to make sure you don’t trip over the dozens of kid’s toys laying in the middle of the living room? Or perhaps you have to go into the creepy crawler-infested basement, you will most definitely need a light with you to make sure there isn’t a giant spider or even worse, a mouse coming your way.
I’ve been in these situations myself all too often; in fact, I have even been in a few tough situations where I wish I had a flash flight stashed in the car, but of course there was no light of any kind to be found since I’m not the best “worst case scenario” planner out there.
However, in light of all of the rough situations I’ve been in where I needed a light of some kind to make my way through the dark house or basement or even the side of a highway when the car decides it’s exhausted and suddenly stops, I can’t imagine the kind of situations the rest of you have been in. But you are in luck! There is a website out there that carries lights of all kinds, including spotlights, utility lights, military equipment and even 24 volt lights, making them beyond prepared to prepare you for the unexpected.
MagnaLight can not only help those preparing for the worst, but they are also a great resource to check out for those who can’t get enough of the outdoors, such as hunters and fishers. What I saw on their site that I really liked is that they sell rechargeable lights as well, so you are not wasting money and polluting the environment with batteries. They stock for virtually any and all situations and activities, making them a go-to resource for whatever type of light you find yourself needing.
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
I had never heard of Joe Hill, the offspring of Stephen King who wrote this novel under a pen name because he did not want to gain attention to his work for the sole reason that he is Stephen King’s son, until my grandmother, a Stephen King fanatic, told me a little about the book when she was a quarter of the way through it. After she had finished she lent me the book and I wearily took it and began my journey into the life of Judas Coyne, an ex-rocker with a wicked taste for paranormal items and much younger women.
Heart-Shaped Box opens with a run of the mill, usual day of a retired rock star, Judas Coyne, his clerk and annoying friend by business-association and his goth fan-girl girlfriend whom he refers to as Georgia, that being the state in which he picked her up in while on tour with his band. The only thing remotely intriguing about this washed up rocker living in a desolate section of the United States in a farm house is his collection of occult and otherwise eerie knick knacks that fans had sent him over the years.
Judas’ attraction to so-called haunted objects has over the years evolved into an entire room full of random junk that most likely isn’t worth keeping around, but who he had built himself into being over the years on the road with his band is a man in which the goth lifestyle flocked to–And it had obviously stuck with him years after the other members of his band died off and disappeared. When his clerk sees a haunted suit online, Judas doesn’t think twice before telling him to get it. Days later, the suit arrives in a heart-shaped box and the horror, ghost-chasing story unravels.
Heart-Shaped Box is not the great horror story in which people have been claiming; it is however, a horror story that is about the same caliber of a Stephen King novel–And not his early work, which was what had built King to be known as a great horror story teller. This novel, while interesting and captivating at first, begins to drag on by the time you reach the middle of the story. While Hill is describing light, smells, temperature and feelings, you start to think to yourself “Yeah, I get it, now on with it!” This feeling is nothing short of what is felt while reading a recently published King novel.
Hill’s attention to detail is either an attribute beloved by readers or an attribute that can be seen as nothing but a writer wanting to write a novel instead of a novella. While his detailed explanations and back story of the characters is thorough, I found myself more interested in the story of Coyne’s girlfriend, Georgia; or Marybeth as we later begin to refer to her as, while my interest in the main character simply went stale, leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
While I can respect that Hill used a pen name in order to separate himself from his father and publish his novel by himself, this story runs dry way too early in order to be called a great horror story and it can easily be seen that the majority of Hill’s interest in horror stories and writing them came from his father. This novel reads as if Hill simply read Stephen King’s instructional writing book, On Writing, and decided to try on the novelist’s suit for a while.
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2nd Annual Cookbook by Moms On Sale Now
For those of you who submitted recipes to the 2nd Annual Cookbook by Moms sponsored by MothersClick, I’m here to let you know that it is now available just in time for Mother’s Day!
With special forward by Missy Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef, this book is sure to be a great addition to your kitchen. To see your recipe in a fancy shmancy cookbook, to learn the family recipes of other women and to support the Girls and Boys Clubs of America, you can pre-order your copy of the cookbook today! Click here or email info@MothersClick.com to pre-order yours.
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