Shopping Girl vs. The World

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Seventeen Magazine Freebie Codes January 2012

The holidays are over! Now it's time to think of yourself! Enter these contests everyday for the chance to win something awesome!

1/1: cell
1/2: digits
1/3: contacts
1/4: phone
1/5: facebook
1/6: slide
1/7: sleek
1/8: game
1/9: race
1/10: sports
1/11: action
1/12: disney
1/13: cowboy
1/14: dance
1/15: mouse
1/16: speakers
1/17: case
1/18: listen
1/19: earbuds
1/20: pattern
1/21: leopard
1/22: book
1/23: read
1/24: story
1/25: words
1/26: fiction
1/27: series
1/28: download
1/29: click
1/30: frame
1/31: cam
Grand Prize: bundle
Make Me Chic Scarf: 17MMC

Good luck everyone!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Everyone here at Shopping Girl vs the World (just me) would like to wish you a Merry Christmas!!! The shopping is all done and now it's time to relax for a day.

Thanks for all of your support!

Merry Christmas again!

Monday, December 12, 2011

Holiday Gift Guide: To Groupon or Not to Groupon?

During the Holiday Season group buying sites like Groupon become more popular, helping people save money at the places where they buy their gifts. But is it okay to give someone a coupon as a gift without seeming cheap? To answer this question you have to first answer three different questions:

1. Is it a cheap or unexciting gift?
Group buying sites offer amazing discounts on expensive things, but they also offer discounts on smaller things. For example, the other day I recieved a notification from LivingSocial for 50% off on 5 Big Macs and 5 large fries from McDonald's. Although it's a good deal (and a bulk buy), it might not be the best gift for some people because they can go to a McDonald's whenever they want. The answer to giving coupons like this would normally be a "No". All in all it depends on the person. I'm sure Don Gorske would appreciate a McDonald's coupon like this very much.

2. Is it something they have to participate in?
Many times a week, group buying sites offer deals on activities like bowling, whale cruises, and trips to the spa. These types of coupons are usually okay to give as gifts because it can be something your gift recipient has always wanted to do or the activities are normally expensive. For example Groupon San Diego is currenlty offering $25 for a $65 ticket to the Poinsettia Bowl football game, $39 for a $110 fitness class, and $32 for $80 worth of hair treatments and wine at a salon. These are all examples of acceptable gifts and each group buying site has something for every budget. The answer to this question would be a "Yes".

3. Is it something you can do yourself?
Gift buying sites sometimes offer deals for merchandise at stores. Such as $48 for an $80 curling iron. While it would be acceptable to give the coupin directly to the gift recipient, it would be more courteous to use the coupon to buy the curling iron yourself and directly give the person their gift. The answer to this question could go both ways but it would be safer to go with "No".

Any questions or comments? Leave them below!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Holiday Gift Guide: The Little Things

When buying gifts, we may feel obligated to buy expensive extravagant items especially for family members and close friends but what we don't realize is that little inexpensive items, depending on what they are, may have an even greater impact.

1. Handmade things:
There are times when you need to take it back to elementary school days when your gifts included pine cone ornaments and popsicle stick action figures.
Use one of your talents/hobbies or create something based on the interests of your "gift reciever". Bake some cookies for the foodie in your life, make a quilt for the sleepyheads you know, or paint a vase for the flower child next door.
Homemade Gifts Ideas

2. Gifted Memories:
Use items from memories that you share with someone.
For example, create a scrapbook from all of the pictures you have with each other, make a pillow out of your old baby blanket for your mom, or create a custom CD for your friend of your favorite songs from when you were younger.

3. Inside Jokes and Gifts for a Laugh:
Got a funny memory or know your friend's favorite childhood toy? Buy a fun gift for everyone you know. Does your dad keep talking about his favorite childhood cartoon? Buy him an action figure of the main character. Got a friend who loves bacon? Buy them some soap that smells like bacon.Your co-worker has never seen snow? How about snow in a can?
Perpetual Kid
Fred Flare
ModCloth

Any questions, comments, or other ideas? Leave them below!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Seventeen Magazine Freebie Codes December 2011

12/1: photo
12/2: snap
12/3: pics
12/4: tablet
12/5: ultra
12/6: thrive
12/7: desktop
12/8: portable
12/9: laptop
12/10: tv
12/11: orange
12/12: red
12/13: purple
12/14: blue
12/15: black
12/16: gray
12/17: white
12/18: surf
12/19: text
12/20: eco
12/21: chat
12/22: touch
12/23: dial
12/24: call
12/25: play
12/26: pause
12/27: movie
12/28: screen
12/29: watch
12/30: dvd
12/31: twilight

Grand Prize: Computer

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Holiday Gift Guide: Etsy

Hi everyone!
After a loooong break I have finally come back to you!

It is now the holiday season and everyday for the next few weeks we will be looking for gifts for everyone. After a lot of looking, it can be so frustrating! For the next few weeks I will posting new ways to get through your holiday shopping whether it's gifts for others, items for holiday parties, or pampering for yourself.

First on the list: Etsy's Facebook Gift Ideas.

Etsy has created a gift guide based on pages your Facebook friends have liked. After a few seconds of going through your friends, it pulls up a list of products related to each interest.

You have the option of viewing every match or filtering the results by price range.
This gift finder makes it so much easier to not only buy gifts, but to get a start on all holiday shopping.

Any questions or comments? Leave them below!!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Apoligies to my Dear Followers!

I want to apoligize to all of my followers for the lack of posts lately. Homework and college apps are taking every bit of time from me right now!
But good news! Next week is Thanksgiving break and I will be posting like crazy! In the meantime, continue to follow me on Twitter and Facebook and I will continue to post deals, contests, and mini-posts about interesting things!

Thank you sooooo much!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Seventeen Freebie Codes November 2011

11/01- heat

11/02- wave

11/03- flat

11/04- curl

11/05- sleek

11/06- edward

11/07- bella

11/08- jacob

11/09- cullen

11/10- swan

11/11- alice

11/12- rosalie

11/13- romance

11/14- drama

11/15- glamour

11/16- flush

11/17- kiss

11/18- bloom

11/19- glow

11/20- jasper

11/21- carlise

11/22- emmet

11/23- esme

11/24- renesmee

11/25-volturi

11/26- wolf

11/27- forbidden

11/28- forever

11/29- soulmate

11/30- wedding

Grand Prize: sparkle

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Group Buying Sites

If you haven't had the chance to sign up for a group buying site, it's never too late to start.
Group buying websites such as Groupon, Yipit or Living Social allow discounts of crazy amounts (usually over 50% off) for stores, restaurants or activities in your city. Signing up is amazingly easy, all you do is enter your email and your city and right away you'll start recieving daily emails with deals.
When you see a deal you like, just buy it and print the voucher to bring to the store, salon, or wherever it's for.
But here's the catch, the deal is only valid if enough people also buy the deal i.e. the group buying part.
My first buy off of a group buying site was 50% off from the GAP. I paid $25 for $50 worth of stuff and instantly fell in love. So what are you waiting for?
Here a few sites to get you started:
Groupon
LivingSocial
Yipit
BuyWithMe

Any questions or comments? Leave them below!