Exploits Of A Coupon Addict: Keepsake Ornaments

Sunday, September 25, 2011

A Mail Goodies Update

I haven't posted about my little mail goodies in a while. They have been rolling in almost everyday. Here are some pics of a few that have joined the ranks within the last couple weeks.

This is the best goody that has arrived in a long time. It was a box from Bob's Red Mill. Four full size bags of quinoa, hot cereal, honey oat granola and 7 grain pancake and waffle mix. It also included a sample of Almond Butter...YUMMO. The retail value on this goody is over $10.00.

Next week, cam this little gem...2 q's for 2 free twix bars and $1/1 gallon of milk. We drink about 5 gallons of milk a week in our house....and milk q's are far and few, so I was ecstatic when this one arrived:)

This isn't really a coupon (but does come with some discount perks...lol) I finally drank enough coffee using my re-loadable Starbucks card that I have now received my GOLD card....totally geeked about this:)

These goodies all came yesterday. I got some Bath & Body Works q's. a free Swiffer Duster 360, a q for a free pint of Open Nature Ice Cream from Safeway (Dom's) and a gift check from Hallmark to use during ornament premiere. I am totally excited about the last one....hopefully I will win an ornament at this one like I did at the last one...lol:)

Friday, July 22, 2011

Christmas In July

I am a Christmas junkie....I plan for Black Friday like it's a sport and go full throttle from the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas arrives. I love everything to do with Christmas...the decorations, the gift giving, the Christmas Walk, the baking, the time with family, the excitement of my kiddos....and Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments. I am already a Hallmark addict to begin with, and these ornaments just put me right over the edge. I am also a Gold Crown Member, Hallmark's frequent buyer program, which rewards me with...go figure...COUPONS! Here is this year's ornament catalog:)

I get uber-excited when the Keepsake Ornaments are released in July and I quickly begin to evaluate and select the ones that will join my collection and the many others that I will gift. I think my obsession with these ornaments all began in 2000 when my friend Rob gifted me an ornament with the likeness of my beloved cat Hayride and the first in the Snowball and Tuxedo series of which he still gifts to me 11 years later. Here's this years soon-to-be addition:

I am very particular about my ornaments. They are meticulously removed from their boxes one-by-one and hung on the tree and when Christmas draws to an end they are returned to their snug little homes to await next year's festivities. No one else is allowed to take them from or place them in their boxes...sound a little crazy? Perhaps, but they really are keepsakes. I am appalled at the fact that people throw their boxes away. Geesh people, how can you be so careless with these little gems? (ok....did anyone else just have a Can't Hardly Wait flashback with Melissa Joan Hart and the yearbook clip?)

This past weekend was the 2011 Ornament Premiere and you just know I had to go in and scope them all out. I picked up my 2011 Keepsake Ornament Catalog and entered the a little drawing they were holding in honor of the premiere....and I won an ornament:)