Things Remembered {Review&Giveaway}

One of the hardest tasks during the holiday season is trying to find THE perfect gift for everyone on your list.  As the ideas escape you and the clock is tick, tick, ticking closer to that dreaded I mean joyful day you find yourself reasoning why grandma would love to have a membership to her local gym (even though she hasn’t done a crunch since her late 30’s) or why your husband just has to have another World’s Greatest Husband mug (even though the 5 you’ve bought him in as many years seem to mysteriously end up being “broken” when it’s his turn to do the dishes).  Every year I find myself trying to rationalize those insane choices myself, but usually end up settling on yet another gift card for the hard to please on my Christmas list.

What if there was one place where you could go to find the perfect gifts for everyone on your list?  Good news…there is and it’s called Things Remembered!  Things Remembered offers personalized gift options that any member of the family would love to receive.  The Things Remembered mission statement is simple: customer satisfaction.  Pleasing their customers is what sets Things Remembered apart, they are always ready, willing, and able to “serve, guide, and help their customers find the perfect personalized gifts for all gift giving occasions”.  Things Remembered does this by:

*Providing gift solutions for all gift-giving occasions. Whether it's a sweet 16 or a 50th birthday, a first baby or a promotion to a new job, we will help you find that special gift.

*Offering exceptional customer service, not only to help customers find the right gift, but to help with the personalized message to make that gift even more special and memorable.

*Building a relationship with our customers. We want all of our customers to be customers for life, and that's why we offer a Satisfaction Guarantee. In addition, we offer a Rewards Club program where customers receive valuable savings every time they shop.

As I mentioned above Things Remembered has the perfect gift to fit every occasion and no occasion is more giftable than Christmas!  As I also mentioned above I tend to have a very difficult time finding the perfect gifts for everyone on my list, but with the help of Things Remembered the days of giving my husband a “World’s Greatest Husband” mug are over!  So let’s take a look at some Holiday Hard to Buy For’s in a little game I like to play…From No-no to So-So Fabulous!

First up we have the husband, the husband who has 5 of everything and 3 more as back ups.  I find myself stuck buying for this man every year and usually end up buying him the same ugly tie I’ve bought for the past 2 years…even though he doesn’t ever wear a tie!  A total No-no!   With Things Remembered I can get him something he’ll really appreciate and LOVE like this NFL Tankard.  Now he can watch his favorite team play while drinking a cool one out of his new tankard emblazoned with his team’s logo!  How’s that for So-So Fabulous?

 

Or maybe you can never figure out what the get your favorite Aunt Bee so you end up getting her a new sweater, an ugly sweater that even Aunt Bee would never be seen in.  A definite No-No!!!  Things Remembered has a fix for this one too!  Why not give Aunt Bee (and every lady on your list) the  2010 Make-a-Wish Bracelet!  Now that is completely and utterly So-So Fabulous!

 

I received the 2010 Make-a-Wish Bracelet from Things Remembered for my review.  I have to say that I am completely in love with this bracelet and get so many compliments on it every time I wear it!  The Make-A-Wish Bracelet is just one item in the Things Remembered Make-A-Wish collection and it is exquisite!  The bracelet features fine jewelry touches like the delicate, exquisite multi-strand chain on this bracelet. The star motif returns, in honor of Make-A-Wish, and also an engravable round charm bordered in CZ crystals so that you can speak from yours.  You can have the charm engraved with the recipients name, initials, a touching sentiment (I chose “From Now Until Forever” which hold special meaning for me) or just about anything else you can imagine.  Though the bracelet’s beauty alone if reason to give it as a gift this season, the best part if that for every purchase of the Make-A-Wish® gifts, Things Remembered will donate $2 of the purchase price, with a minimum guaranteed donation of $200,000, to the Make-A-Wish Foundation®.  There is nothing better than knowing you are giving someone an amazing gift that they will cherish for years to come and at the same time helping an awesome charity like Make-A-Wish!   (For more information on the Make-A-Wish foundation you can visit wish.org.

Make sure you check out all of the great gift ideas and awesome sales going on over at Things Remembered!  Remember you can check out Things Remembered and tons of other gift worthy finds in MIBR 2010 Holiday Gift Guide!

Buy it!  

You can purchase the 2010 Make-A-Wish bracelet and so many more fabulous gift items online at thingsremembered.com!

Now I have a gift for all of you…Things Remembered is giving one Misadventures in Baby Raising reader a 2010 Make-A-Wish Bracelet now THAT is So-So Fabulous!

Win it:  Mandatory Entry!

To enter this giveaway please visit Things Remembered and have a look around, come back and leave a comment on this post telling me which item(s) you would like to give or receive this holiday season!  This is mandatory and must be completed before any extra entries are allowed!

Extra Entries!

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***Clarification!!!  It was brought to my attention that this part of the Extra Entry options is a bit confusing so I want to clear up any doubt.  For Tweeting (which you can do daily, up to 3 times) you get 3 extra entries each time you Tweet.  So if you Tweet tomorrow only once that is 3 extra entries…or if you Tweet tomorrow all three times that is 9 extra entries.  

For Facebook you can only share once daily, but that one time is worth 3 extra entries as well.  I hope I made it a little easier to understand…if you still have questions please feel free to email me @ a_proffitt79(at)yahoo(dot)com!***

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This giveaway ends on December 10 , 2010 at 11:59 PM EST.  One winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced in a separate winner’s post.  Winner will have 48 hours to claim his prize, failure to do so within 48 hour time-frame will result in winner forfeiting his prize and mew choosing a new winner.

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Simply-Bags: Personalized Lunch Bags and Much More!

School starts today for my girlies, and they are super excited to get back into the swing of things at school.  Back to School means that our Back to School Blowout is still going strong…make sure you’ve checked out all of the back to school products we’ve introduced you too and don’t forget to enter all of the fabulous giveaways as well! 

One of my girls’ favorite parts of back to school shopping is picking out a new lunchbox!  I can’t say I blame them, I remember the excitement of packing my lunch up in a brand new lunchbox and showing it off to all of my friends.  Of course, not all lunchboxes are created equal and finding one that is just right is a major undertaking, especially for my girl Savanna.  Savanna is the type of girl who likes things exactly the way she liked them and as a result of that perfectionism she is not so easy to please.

So we go lunchbox shopping and after what seemed like hours of scouring the shelves and turning her nose up at most of the lunchboxes, Savanna exclaims that she cannot find a lunchbox that she likes.  We leave the stores with no lunchboxes and one very disappointed Savanna.  On the way home from our unsuccessful shopping trip Savanna tells me, “Mom I want a lunchbox that is cute and unique and not too girly…something that’s made for me!”  A few days later I received an email from a company requesting a review called Simply Bags, I go to their website to have a look around and spot their selection of lunch bags …and I knew that I had found exactly what Savanna was looking for!  Simply Bags is a company who specializes in monogrammed bags; from personalized tote bags and laptop bags to diaper bags and embroidered lunch bags, Simply Bags is a haven for people who want something different and special in a bag! 

For my review I decided on a embroidered lunch bag for Savanna.  Their lunch bags are insulated and include complimentary embroidery or monogramming.  We decided on having her name embroidered in pink on the front of the blue polka dot bag.  Simply Bags has an impressive selection of lunch bags to choose from as well.  When I received Savanna’s lunch bag from Simply Bags I couldn’t wait to see it.  I have to tell you that when I opened the box and saw the bag I was completely surprised and greatly impressed at how fabulous it was.  From it’s adorable half blue, half blue and white polka dot pattern to the cute little pink and green flowers embroidered in the corner it was just so cute.  And when I saw how incredible her name looked on the front I knew that we had made the right choice and that Savanna had found THE lunch bag for this school year.  Aside from the color and amazing embroidery job, I was shocked at how much room the lunch bag had inside. 

Modeling her lunch bag

 

Amazing embroidery work!

Tons of room in both the top and bottom (shown above) compartments!

Product Description:  Adorable girls lunch tote for school. Insulated top with zippered bottom. Use with or without the lower portion 9” x 6” storage container. Great colors… Ocean blue or summer green. Coordinates with our girls beach tote for a matched set. Includes name or three letter monogram.

This lunch bag is absolutely worth every penny of its $24.99 price tag…and can you believe that price…amazing!

Buy it!

You can purchase this lunch box and SO much more at Simply-Bags.com!

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