and the winner is...!

It's time to announce the big winner of our Baggu Bag contest! The winner, chosen from wonderful randomness which may or may not include spinning a wheel with everyone's name on it, playing a game of Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, and or taping everyone's name up on the wall and spinning in a circle, blindfolded while pointing is... Ann Marie (AM)! Congratulations! Send me your mailing information to my email address, and I'll get your Baggu Bag and tiny bonus method gift right out to you!

A special thanks to Baggu Bags for helping make this contest possible! And even more thanks to everyone for being a part of the contest! Don't fret if you didn't win, cause method lust is about to have another contest! Wha?! Who?! How?! Would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?!

No! But we are about to have a method aircare contest! Aircare is back again! Well, but like just for this short contest, then it's pretty much gone again. Forever. So uh, yeah, continue your depression jag. But while maintaining said depression, check back oh so soon for the method lust aircare contest!

clean sweeps

+ method's got a great deal going on right now! You get a free reusable "Plastic Rehab" tote with any all-surface cleaner purchase! Can you believe that deal!? These regularly run for $15. Grab the deal while you can! (This was mentioned in method's twitter, methodtweet! I'm not sure how it works on their site... anyone from method care to give more details? Thanks!)

+ While (again) roaming the Harris Teeter aisles this past weekend, I stumbled upon the lustfully wonderful method hand wash cardboard stand, and my eyes bulged out! It's as if that sucker had been wiped out! Apparently last year's scents are still a big deal, as there was only one cinnamon bark left (all beat up, too. Poor cinnamon bark bottle), one hollyberry, and surprisingly (as I always think this is everyone's favorite scent, though not mine. - Too vanilla-y, not enough peppermint for me) four peppermint vanilla's were sitting there. I'm curious to see if these get restocked, but either way, I'd do a run and grab before they're gone!

+ Where is everyone? It's like the day after Christmas and you're all in a sugar coma! I haven't heard barely a peep out of anyone for quite a while! Peep, peep!

no thanks

Ok, are you ready? Cause this post is gonna go ALL the way around the block, down the street for an ice cream sandwich, over to Mary Jo's house for a quick visit, and then back around in a taxi cab to get to it's point. ok? You've been warned.

So today I was roaming Old Navy (and as an aside, I used to work for Banana Republic, so I still consider myself an honorary employee, only without benefits, a paycheck, or anyone actually saying "Hey, old pal!" to me when I walk into a Gap store (Gap owns Banana Republic and Old Navy, by the way.) So ANYWAY, Old Navy has been rocking! out the candles as of late. PS - as method should know by now (and all my friends for that matter) I'm a candlewhore. HORRIBLE. SO BAD. CAN'T GET ENOUGH. GIVE IT TO ME, BABY. ONE MORE TIME.

Well, today as I usually do, I had two candles in mind I have been wanting to buy there - have been wanting to buy, but hadn't because everytime I smelled them I went "MMM! Hmm? I'm not sure..." as I'm really picky. But today I was determined, and I walked right out of that store with... two totally different candles. (This post must be about method candles, right? Uh, no.) They were Island Lime (coconut, lime, and ginger. Hint hint, method!), and Spring Lily (lily of the valley, tuberose, and pear blossom. Hint hint, method.) And they smell DIVINE. So I go up to the counter to purchase them, and the woman is all nice and such, and we chat for a bit, and she gets ready to put them in a bag, and oh my word here he goes, but no I simply said "Oh, I don't need a bag." but I had forgotten my Baggu bags and she chatted a bit more, and suddenly was like "Well I have to put them in a bag, because it's store policy." To which I simply said, nicely, "Well, I definitely don't want to take a plastic bag." It's like my mantra now, I think I chant "no plastic bags shall I take" in my sleep and during all yoga poses. No, seriously. Well, if I were to actually do yoga (that downward-facing dog pose is freakin' HARD!) And she sort of was "uh, well" and that was that. She thanked me, I told her she could watch me walk all the way out of the store if she needed to, but no problem, and on I went.

Whew, where the h#!? is he going with this? I thought this blog was called method lust. Ok, so I was patting myself on my back, mentioning out loud in my truck (cause I talk to myelf... out loud. Yes, I have troubles.) about how I was doing so great, not a single plastic bag from a retail store once this year. Then I started going "But when it comes to the dry cleaners (plastic bags on your clothes), the grocery store (only the plastic bags for tiny produce items (green beans, small potatoes, etc.) or fast food restaurant food bags (which I usually will try to remember not to take, but fail at sometimes) it's much more difficult for me. I'm 100% successful with not taking a single retail plastic bag this year at a checkout line, anywhere! For six months! I'm very proud of that fact. But what do YOU do with the other situations? How do you handle plastic bags on your dry cleaning (which I realize, dry cleaning alone is a bad method word, I know, I know. One step at a time, ok?) Or for your produce? How do you do it? Give us all some pointers and tips!

I told you, had'ta visit Mary Jo, in order to get here. But, here we are. Ok, I really didn't have'ta, I could have just went "BAGS!" and been like that. But it was way more fun, right? And yes, it's not really about method, but I'm a big advocate of no plastic bags, and so is method! (Hello, Plastic Bag Rehab!) And maybe they'll get some new candle hints out of this eh?

Hey, you know, I just realized my Old Navy candle is called Island Lime, and uh, it smells totally like coconut. That don't make no such sense... oh well! (At least I didn't take the bag.)

bag rehab

method lust reader Kristin sent me an email, wanting to know how she could purchase herself one of those great green "Plastic Rehab" totes method has, because apparently it wasn't available on the method home site anymore.

Well Kristin, I believe you, I really do. Now just sit down with some nice lemonade, relax, and let that stress go; cause it's getting to you! Those great totes are still available on the method site, just head over to "explore the collection" and it's the very last item in the list. (Or make it even easier, and just hit the special tab, then click on swag; and it will hightlight all the non-cleaning items, including the tote, for you! Also, you can purchase this really sweet pale blue tote on HSN (see above pic!) It's the same overall design, front and back, with the addition of the method 'm' and HSN logos on the front (and again, it comes in the blue.) I happen to actually love that blue color, it's so great! (But when is blue and chocolate never great?)

So whether it's the green or the blue tote, method has it in the bag! Ba-dum. So sorry... (Both bags are around $15.00.)

b*tch

Indulge me for a moment! You know me and all my "use a reusable tote bag for all your shopping!" speeches I've given here on method lust. Well, I wanted to show you a great one my best friend Rich got me for Christmas last year (It's from Angry Little Girls!) Is this not hysterical, or what? (He's got a twisted sense of humor, let me tell you!) But the fact that my friends are buying me reusable totes for holidays must mean I'm definitely getting the word out about environmentalism, and the need to be proactive! (And here I thought my friends just ignored everything that came out of my mouth! Ha ha!)

You can purchase this bag here. I showed it to a co-worker, and she said I should take it to Big Lots the next time I go shopping there! I died laughing! (Read this previous post to find out why!)