I hate shopping for household staples. Laundry detergent? Boring! Vitamins? Sure, let me just pull my hair out first. I am always looking for ways not having to go to the store for things I don't like. Things like chocolate cake? Now, that I will make a trip for. So, where is this rant taking me? To what I consider to be my new life hack... Online shopping. Not the online shopping for the fun stuff, I mean the boring stuff, the heavy stuff, the stuff you have to go to the drug store, the health food store, and the grocery store just to get the right items that one store does not carry. I found Amazon Pantry! NO, this post is not sponsored by them. I just felt I should pass this precious info on to you.
So, here is the deal... You can go online to Amazon and make what they call a pantry box, for $5.99 they will ship up to so many pounds to your front door. I loaded mine with laundry soap, vitamins (more on that later), grains that I usually have to hit a fancy health food store to find, and drinks that usually take up my whole cart. Click and done!
Pros: I don't end up having to go to three separate stores for the exact products I like, so I save on gas. With the price of gas, that makes up for the shipping. I didn't end up buying things that I didn't need (like chocolate cake). I did not have to do the heavy lifting from the store to my home. I saved time not doing a store search. I remained in the comfort of my air-conditioned home.
Cons: Although they do have coupons online, you can probably do better on some of the pricing by coupon clipping at the regular store. You need to be diligent and search through the items to see what is on sale. I found some things cheaper and some more expensive. They did not have generic brands. I did not get a chocolate cake that should have slipped itself into my cart when I wasn't looking.
If you want to know more about the Amazon pantry, you can check out one of their current specials below the contest on our link.
I told you earlier I would tell you about the vitamins. My doctor recommended I take Fish Oil, you know that whole Omega-3 thing? Well, I did my research and found this brand called Dr. Tobias fish oil. This stuff has some of the highest ratings in independent lab tests and I found it on sale on Amazon. Score! Those went right in my pantry box. I put the link below the contest in case you are interested.
So, on to the Giveaway. ThemeTrip is sponsoring a chance to win a $50 e-card from Amazon so you can try this life hack yourself, just because we appreciate our readers. Yup! Just because. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2014. One prize will be awarded.
As always, we must do a full disclosure on every single thing we can think of. My eyes are brown, I hate feta cheese and... Well, just make sure you read our giveaway terms and conditions on our contest or I will go on and on. Full disclosure: We are Amazon Associates, but this giveaway is in no way sponsored by Amazon. If you click on the Amazon link and actually buy from them, we are given a monetary thank you. We are not sponsored by any social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, or where ever the newest place to visit online is. Our friends and family enter our contests, they may actually win. If we made it impossible for them to play, we would have no family or friends. BUT!! We do not choose our winner. It is randomly selected through the Random.org App. at RaffleCopter. We do not cheat! We were taught not to do that. That it is very, very bad. Are you still reading this? Awesome. Thank you. Good luck and come back daily to enter.
Congratulations Thomas M, Our $50 Amazon e-card winner! Thomas was chosen by random.org and has been notified. Thank you to everyone who entered.
So, here is the deal... You can go online to Amazon and make what they call a pantry box, for $5.99 they will ship up to so many pounds to your front door. I loaded mine with laundry soap, vitamins (more on that later), grains that I usually have to hit a fancy health food store to find, and drinks that usually take up my whole cart. Click and done!
Pros: I don't end up having to go to three separate stores for the exact products I like, so I save on gas. With the price of gas, that makes up for the shipping. I didn't end up buying things that I didn't need (like chocolate cake). I did not have to do the heavy lifting from the store to my home. I saved time not doing a store search. I remained in the comfort of my air-conditioned home.
Cons: Although they do have coupons online, you can probably do better on some of the pricing by coupon clipping at the regular store. You need to be diligent and search through the items to see what is on sale. I found some things cheaper and some more expensive. They did not have generic brands. I did not get a chocolate cake that should have slipped itself into my cart when I wasn't looking.
If you want to know more about the Amazon pantry, you can check out one of their current specials below the contest on our link.
I told you earlier I would tell you about the vitamins. My doctor recommended I take Fish Oil, you know that whole Omega-3 thing? Well, I did my research and found this brand called Dr. Tobias fish oil. This stuff has some of the highest ratings in independent lab tests and I found it on sale on Amazon. Score! Those went right in my pantry box. I put the link below the contest in case you are interested.
So, on to the Giveaway. ThemeTrip is sponsoring a chance to win a $50 e-card from Amazon so you can try this life hack yourself, just because we appreciate our readers. Yup! Just because. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2014. One prize will be awarded.
As always, we must do a full disclosure on every single thing we can think of. My eyes are brown, I hate feta cheese and... Well, just make sure you read our giveaway terms and conditions on our contest or I will go on and on. Full disclosure: We are Amazon Associates, but this giveaway is in no way sponsored by Amazon. If you click on the Amazon link and actually buy from them, we are given a monetary thank you. We are not sponsored by any social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, or where ever the newest place to visit online is. Our friends and family enter our contests, they may actually win. If we made it impossible for them to play, we would have no family or friends. BUT!! We do not choose our winner. It is randomly selected through the Random.org App. at RaffleCopter. We do not cheat! We were taught not to do that. That it is very, very bad. Are you still reading this? Awesome. Thank you. Good luck and come back daily to enter.
Congratulations Thomas M, Our $50 Amazon e-card winner! Thomas was chosen by random.org and has been notified. Thank you to everyone who entered.
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