Memorial Day and Rebates

This past weekend being Memorial Day and all, I thought to myself, what does one do for Memorial Day?  The answer came to me instantly.  Shop!  I know this is probably pretty shocking to you all, but yes, I went shopping this weekend!  One of my last stops of the day happened to be none other than my home away from home, where everybody knows my name (not really but that’s the dream), Ulta!  I know I’ve mentioned my love for that store before, but it has grown so much deeper after my last trip there!

I was getting ready to leave having done pretty well and only purchased two nail polishes when I made one of the greatest discoveries to date!  I was looking for my sister-in-law and found her in the hair care aisle.  (Although, she wasn’t the discovery mentioned, I still think she's pretty great)  As she’s telling me about a product she was looking for I couldn’t help but notice a little glimmer out of the corner of my eye.  That’s when I saw it, one of the most exciting things you can see at a store:  A “Try Me Free” Sticker for a full rebate!!   Win!!

Now if you’ve never done one of these before, you’re really missing out!  Basically you pay for the product then mail in a rebate form and your receipt and within about 6 weeks they’ll mail you a check for the original product price you paid!  They don’t reimburse you for tax, but as far as I’m concerned that is a complete non-issue! 

This rebate was on Not Your Mother’s Beach Babe Texturizing Shampoo.  While this isn’t necessarily a product I was looking for or needing, I just couldn’t pass it up!  This shampoo is normally $5.99 (or $6.62 including tax), but the complete cost to me of trying it would only be $.63!

To make this situation even sweeter, Ulta (a.k.a. the best store ever) was having a buy one get one 50% off sale on certain hair care products, Not Your Mother’s included!  So I decided to pick up the conditioner that goes with it as well.  Any girl will agree that in order to get the full effect of a new shampoo you have to try the conditioner!  Without the discount and rebate my total for these products would have been $13.24.  But the total cost to me after I receive the rebate and factor in the discount is only $3.93! 

I’ve already used these a couple times and I love them!  They make my hair smell like a coconut so that’s an automatic win as far as I'm concerned!  I haven’t quite figured out the “texturizing” effect, but I can report that I had a pretty good hair day after use!  I’m going to try scrunching my hair after using it sometime to see how that works! 

So what’s the moral of the story here?  When you’re shopping, always keep your eyes peeled for stickers on products that are advertising that you can try it free!  Make sure you always read the fine print before you buy so that you understand the conditions.  They usually limit these deals to one per household and there are usually date windows of when you can redeem.   Now go to Ulta right now and get you some!!!

Thanks for reading!!

~Sarah