The Body Shop Rewards Program



If you like buying high quality shower gels, soaps, lotions, and body butters, you might just want to visit The Body Shop.  They even sell shampoo and cosmetics as well.  Yes, the store can be expensive, but they offer many different sales throughout the year.  The Body Shop's prices can be actually quite similar to Bath & Body Works' prices, especially if you shop during a sale.  Except there is one major difference - The Body Shop offers a rewards program.

That is right!  When you visit The Body Shop, you can sign up to get discounts everytime you shop.  The cost to join the program is $10, but that more than pays for itself in no time.  Check out some of the great discounts!

The Love Your Body card offers:

• 10% off all purchases
• Bonus points earned towards free items
• Invitations to exclusive events
• Special offers and coupons
• A birthday offer

So what are you waiting for?  You should visit The Body Shop and cash in on this deal.  If you'd like to read more about some of the great scents in store for you, check out The Best Body Butter Scents at The Body Shop. 

Have Yourself a Low-Budget Easter

Even if you don't have a lot of money to celebrate Easter, you can certainly have fun.  You can spend time with your family, eat too much food, and have a great time all around.  You seriously don't have to spend much money at all.

The first activity you can do for Easter is dye Easter Eggs.  It does not cost a lost of money.  A carton of eggs can easily cost about $2.  You can also buy a kit to dye eggs for around 2 bucks, too.  If you have food coloring, you won't even need to buy a kit.  Once you've got everything together, just simply boil the eggs and start dying.  For Easter Egg dying tips, make sure to check out: How to Dye Easter Eggs.

Another activity you can try is hunting for Easter Eggs.  You can take the eggs you just dyed and hide them all over your house or your yard.  As long as you don't let the eggs sit out too long, you can actually eat them after you are through hunting them.  Some people find that a little gross, but my cousins and I did that all the time, and none of us died from it yet.  If you'd like to read more about Easter Egg hunts, make sure to visit: How To Add Excitement To Your Easter Egg Hunt.

If all else fails, just take your boiled eggs and make some egg salad or deviled eggs with them.  Everyone loves egg salad and deviled eggs.  If you are lucky, some of the colors from the Easter egg dye will seep through and color the actual egg if the egg was cracked.  That is fun and festive!

So have a very happy Easter this April.  There is no reason to spend a lot of money on Easter this year or any year.  Happy Easter!

Payless Shoes New Rewards Program

In case you are looking for a great bargain, you might want to drop by your nearest Payless Shoes.  Payless now offers their own rewards program.  You can easily sign up at the register the next time you are in the store.  The sales associate will hand over a card to you immediately.  Once you confirm your registration online, you will have access to all sorts of deals.  This by far is one of the best rewards programs I've seen offered by a store.
Benefits of being a Payless Rewards member:

• Instant 20% email coupon for next visit.
• 5% off each time you go to Payless
• Special birthday offer
• Exclusive coupons and deals
• Free shipping for online purchases over $50

Plus, membership is free!

If you shop at Payless Shoes anyway, this deal just makes a lot of sense.  Unfortunately, I joined 4 days after my birthday, so I can't tell you what the birthday deal will be this year, but the other offers are so good it doesn't even matter. 

For more birthday bargains and loyalty / rewards program offers, check out: Party On! Birthday Bargains!

Free Birthday Gift From Sephora

If you have not signed up for Sephora's Beauty Insider program yet, I strongly recommend you do so.  Not only do you get additional discounts, you get a free birthday gift each year.  There are absolutely no strings attached.  You simply walk in the store, go to the cashier, tell them its your birthday, and hand over the card.  You don't even have to make a purchase at that time.

This year, Sephora is giving away lip gloss.  The birthday gift is a small box with 2 lip treatments: 1 mini sugar lip treatment and 1 mini sugar rose tinted lip treatment.  Each are SPF 15.  Most of all, they are totally free.  The lip treatments smell nice and are very smooth on your lips. 

I highly recommend checking out Sephora's loyalty program and getting a free birthday gift the month of your birthday. 

For more free birthday deals, check out: Party On! Birthday Bargains!

Stand Your Broom Up On Its Own!

Are you bored and looking for some low-budget fun?  Do you have a cheap plastic broom?  Well, you are in luck!  For this Spring Vernal Equinox, you can try to stand your broom up on its own.  Yes, you can take you plastic broom and stand it up on its bristles.  This is supposed to be due to the tilt of the earth and the gravitational pull right before the first day of Spring.  You can also sometimes make a raw egg stand up because of the Spring Vernal Equinox as well. 

For more information on this, check out: The Almanac - First Day of Spring

However, there are some non-believers, or party poopers as I'd like to call them, that say standing the broom by itself on its bristles is just a trick that can be done at anytime.  They believe the bristles are so soft, it will cause the broom to stand on its own no matter what.  The gravitational pull should not be strong enough to make the broom stand by itself.

You can read their article here: The Truth to the Broom Trick

All I can say is, my cousin tried the broom trick at her house tonight and got her broom to stand up.  I also tried the broom trick at my apartment and got my own broom to stand up.  You can see my own lovely standing broom in the photo above.  So I think there is something to the story.  However, I have been unable to get an egg to stand on its own.  I will try that again on March 20th.

For now, if you are really bored and don't feel like paying for entertainment, try the broom trick in your own home.  Fun times!

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