Friday, August 14, 2009

holiday surprise

Wow! Folks, listen up! Make sure to head on over to ebay right now (cause you know what they say; the early bird gets the worm! Now usually that's why I never get a worm, because as Prince would say early + Nathan does not compute. Well, minus the early + Nathan, addition in a something in the water. Ok? All is understood now. Right, I didn't think so.)

There appears to be a limited number of drum roll... mistletoe and snowy days hand washes available! No freakin' way! Now, I have some snowy days lotion, and a candle still at home (and at the prices they're asking, I really just can't afford to splurge on both! Though I really, really want to! Oh uh, hey, see that Paypal donation button to your right? Yeah, that one... wanna buy Nathan some snowy days hand wash? Ha ha!) Anyway, I've already snatched up a mistletoe, cause I've NEVER smelled this scent! I'm so excited! This happens to be some really old school method, lusters!

+ method snowy days hand wash - $3.50 (Buy It Now Price) + $4.95 shipping - Six bottles remaining! This is a very clean, crisp holiday scent. Sorta in a sweet water style, but uh, different!

+ method mistletoe hand wash - $3.50 (Buy It Now Price) + $4.95 shipping - Eight bottles remaining! I don't know what this smell like, cause I've never even seen it before! Oh, feeling giddy! I'm betting it sorta like frosted fir, or hollyberry.

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Let me know if you buy some, and what you think when you get it!

the good life

Via method tweet, be sure to check out "Danny Seo’s Tips to an Eco-Friendly Backyard Barbecue: Green Hearts Briquettes and Method Home" (whew, that's a mouth full!) over on EcoStiletto.com, AND they're also offering a great discount code deal with method home thru September 30th! - 20% off! Go, read, check it out! And save! (I sounded just like a television commercial there, now didn't I? Hmm, new career option? LOL)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

the whole kit and kaboodle

Who needs to take pics when method will do it for you (and so much better)? Ha ha! Here's a quick photo of method's advocacy kit they're sending out, following their rather cryptic email to random advocates!

Each cute tiny box comes with two spray bottles, one of the almond wood floor cleaner, and lavender spray cleaner; and two smaller bottles, one with sweet water hand wash, and the other with pink grapefruit dish soap; as well as a booklet (which still mentions the aircare line! Hmm!) and a $1.00 off coupon! More (personal) pics of the box, and a chance to win one soon!

lil' more speculation!

Looks like Target has moved the method aircare aroma rings and candles off their designated shelves, and onto the clearance end caps (the ends of the aisles where they always put the clearance/discontinued stuff. I know them so well.) LOL At least they've done this at my Target, so I'm sure yours will happen soon, if not yet.

I'll be curious to see what happens next. The rest of the aircare line is still on the shelves; I guess we'll have to see if it gets consolidated, or if the clearance items are replaced with something new; or if they're discontinuing the line in sections. OH the world of speculation!

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In other sorta but not really related news, I got a new car two days ago! Yay! (Uh, first time I've ever bought a new car. I think I've gained like, eight ulcers. Gah!) But I believe I must be about one of the only people in the world that really dislikes "new car scent." I mean, people buy things to MAKE their car smell like this?! Wha? And as we know, it's mostly just off gassing and other horrid things occurring in your car that are really bad for you. So I needed a scent enhancer! Cue the aroma ring (and for the record, I'm pretty anti-aroma ring. The rooms in my duplex are just too big for them to work properly for me.) Ages ago fellow advocates had a great idea to place aroma ring refills in your car, to get that wonderful scent! I did this with lavender lemongrass, and WHEW! It was way too strong. That had to go!

But this time around I'm trying out some eucalyptus mint, and you know what, it's working. It actually sorta mingles "well" with the new car smell, while giving it this burst of minty freshness! I like it a lot! So now my new goal is to run around to Big Lots and purchase all those eucalyptus mint aroma ring refills I've seen in there forever, but had no desire to buy at the time! And... go! Do you use an aroma ring refill in your car? What scent?

Sunday, August 9, 2009

long form clean sweeps (+ the contest winner!)

+ Run on over to your fav-OH!-rite Target, cause the new guest-star (stating it's a limited release scent on the back of the bottle) mandarin mango hand wash is hitting the shelves (Jamison, why do you never have faith in me? Ha ha!) I've got to say, when I gave it a good sniff in the store, I wasn't too impressed. (I'm not a big fruits/foods scent kind of guy. I lean more towards earthy, herby, and minty scents. And it really smelled like mango in the store, which wasn't a good thing for me! Eh, what can you do? I realize it says MANGO, but I was hoping it was more MANDARIN. So I snatched one up for the mandarin mango lust contest winner, but DIDN'T pick up a bottle for myself! Can you believe that?! Ok, so but then it was just calling to me at home, going "you need to give me a good try. Wash your hands!" "But my hands don't even need washed?" "But you want to know what it really smells like!" "But that's such a waste of water!" "Succumb!" and so, I did!

And I have to say, I was much more impressed with the scent in actual use, over just the sniff test in the store. The orange does come out much more during use! It sorta reminds me of orange Kool-aid. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? I'll let you decide! But they should be in your local Target store soon, so keep a lookout! Cause they won't be around forever!

+ And speaking of mandarin mango hand wash! How about the big randomly chosen winner to our recent contest? And the winner IS... Kirby! Who had just purchased the lil' bowl blu! Yay, Kirby! Congrats! Drop me your mailing address, and one lustful bottle of mandarin mango hand wash shall be on it's way to you! (And never fear, I'm going to run out and pick up a new contest winner bottle! You won't be receiving my test bottle! Ha ha! I'm keeping it, now that I like it more than I had original thought I would!)

+ You can now find some .75 cent coupons stuck on select bottles of method daily shower spray! Check them out, and pick some up while the savings are good!

+ I've been seeing some random changes in packaging, including the term go-naked being removed from the spray cleaners (now it's just fragrance & dye free; and it's back to multi-surface, from all-surface. Unless these were old bottles? But they looked new to me. Really, I can't keep up anymore. method is constantly tinkering with their packaging? For better or worse, you let me know.) And they're changed the blue color on their lil' bowl blu bottles. Which I really got to say, not a fan! I love the subtle light blue, method! Bring it back. Their new thinking must be bright screaming colors, cause suddenly the blue blu bottle is this deeper bright blue; and some of their hand washes have almost gone neon (I'm talkin' to you, waterflower and refresh mint!)

+ Yo' method, I was standing in your aisle in Target today, and this older woman reached over to buy some lavender spray cleaner. Of course I started a conversation with her about method, and she told me her husband had recently bought some nasty Clorox spray cleaner that attacked her nose every time he used it; and she had started buying the method lavender and loved it (all her words!), and that's what she was sticking with from now on. Of course I was trying to get her to buy a bottle of the daily shower, with the coupon (which she thanked me for pointing out.) BUT she said to me "The thing I can't understand is why they will put out a big refill bottle for their daily shower (which she said she had at home) but nothing for the spray cleaners! They need the same thing in spray cleaners!") I know others would love this, so ding ding idea method, idea!

+ method luster Jamison (mentioned above!) let me in on a small secret that Target will place grey round stickers next to the shelf price stickers, meaning that particular item is being replaced, more than likely with an updated version. WELL, these grey stickers were next to most of his aircare line, which made him think the aircare line was indeed heading for a revamp! So he told me to check out my Targets. Well, Jamison, unfortunately, NONE of the three Targets I went to had grey stickers. But I know Target has this weird way of sort of doing things differently from store to store. So perhaps that's what your store does, and mine in this area does not. Time will, as usual, tell... but next time you're in Target, check the shelf price stickers next to the aircare, and see if you find any grey round stickers! And let us know! Thanks Jamison, and all you advocates!

+ And finally, who else has recieved this rather secretive email from method recently:

"hello fellow person against dirty, congratulations you have won (drum roll please)….a box! we want to give you a heads up that you will be receiving a special treat for being such a loyal method advocate. it will be in a box that is shaped similar to a mini pizza box. the contents inside won't be quite as tasty, although they will smell delish. so when you get it make sure to: 1. feel special, 2. read carefully, 3. spread the method love anyway you know how (hand deliver/ flickr/ youtube/ facebook/ tweet/ blog.) 4. tell us how you did it on method's facebook fan page! sorry to be so cryptic but we think you will be pleased with the surprise!" - Curiouser, and curiouser... (and excited to get it, whatever "it" is!)

Friday, August 7, 2009

new morning routine?



Giggle, giggle! Ok, I just have to share this adorable PSA (or is that Pee-SA? Yeah, I can't take credit for that, either, it was mentioned in the article! LOL) that method just twittered about on their method tweet (which you can also read here on method lust! Just scroll down, a bit further, keep going, to your right... there!)

It's all about.... drum roll, peeing in your shower to save water! The article, which comes to us from mother nature network (mnn.com), says:

"No matter how long we stay in or what kind of showerhead we use, we all have unique shower routines and rituals, some more complex than others. The Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Altantica, via a cute, kid-oriented TV ad campaign called "Xixi no Banho," suggests that citizens add one more task to their soaping-up, shampooing, conditioning and shaving routines — peeing.

The group believes that by adding a yellow stream to the morning's shower, one toilet flush can be prevented. If one flush is avoided each day in a single household, 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water is saved per year.

As you'll see in the below, um, "PeeSA," Gandhi, Michael Jordan and Alfred Hitchcock are portrayed emptying their bladders while rinsing off. Now if that's not inspiration for young Brazilians to tinkle in the tub, I don't know what is.
- Matt Hickman"

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So, uh, what do you think? Of course I know most of your first reactions are going to be "eww! Gross!" But then maybe take a step back, and think it through. As a couple commenters on the mnn.com said say:

"Urine from healthy people is sterile!" and "You Americans are really funny. I don't see what the big deal is. I always peed in the shower. Eating McDonald's hamburgers is way more disgusting." (And they're probably right, especially after you watch Food, Inc. Gah.) and, get THIS! "Actually... your pee contains urea which is an ingredient that is found in OTC fungal treatments. Yet, pee alone won't cure athletes foot." along with "Urea is also found in many lotions. It keeps your skin nice and hydrated. Portuguese urine used to be highly desirable back in the day before commercial lotions were available. It was also used as a tooth whitening agent!"

Wow, who knew, right? And did we want to know? Ok, so I bet no one will admit they do this even if they do, but imagine if everyone followed through, and each person saved 1,157 gallons of water a year. Yeah, that would add up quick! Thoughts? Will these be part of your new morning routine? (No one is going to comment on this post, I just know it! - Be brave!)

Thursday, August 6, 2009

holiday body

So I'm sitting here thinking about the holidays... Wha? The holidays, you ask? Uh, did you know it's a mere 140 days til Christmas?! And did you also know, I saw Halloween decorations at TJ Maxx the other day. Let me repeat that slowly. H.A.L.L.O.W.E.E.N. decorations. Car-azy, I tell ya!

AND, whew, (ok, so I usually try really, really hard to be all green and eco-shiny, but on rare occasion some bad little thing will perk my curiousity, and I'll snatch it up. And in this case...) I took a quick trip into Old Navy the other day, and what did I find but their body care (they have body care?! Yeah, they did... but...) was being discontinued! Candles, lotions, body wash, etc! And I picked myself up some oh so mighty MMM smelling golden pear body wash (for $2.99!) I mean, MMM! It smells like you just rolled around in ripe pears! Without the peary mess all over you afterwards! Win, win I say! This lead me to method's holiday spiced pear scent (an all-time favorite of mine!)...

Which then got me to thinking! What would happen to the world if method added a small body section to their holiday fares! Holy crapola, the world would extra rock! Body wash, people! I mean, we already have hand wash! They used to do holiday lotion! Is it such a giant leap? Would you lust washing in frosted fir? Or hollyberry? Or (dare I say it, I'm not a fan of this fragrance, but I know so very many people that are!) peppermint vanilla? Or even better, some new fragrance surprise they have yet to tada us with! Like my little mock-up, spiced apple? (Yes, yes, it's a mock up! And a good one at that, isn't it? I'm talented! And yes, how many people are going to kill me now cause spiced apple holiday method body wash doesn't exist? Yet! See, if we beg, it might one day!)

Of course this year's holiday line will probably be body free (since it's been finalized for ages now, I'm sure!) But imagine next year! What do you think? Do you love the idea? And am I the only person that finds the idea of stepping out from the shower smelling of crisp frosted fir dreamy? Cause, seriously, I do! Comment below! Let method know!

squeezably cute

Check these out! They're little adorable method promotional sponges! Danny Seo (who has this great method post over on his site, daily danny!) blogged about these recently, and I just think they're awesome! Must find a way to get some! Sounds like the sponges are given away at method parties and such! Danny used these recently to decorate for a blogher party method threw! Too much fun!
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