Happy Fourth Night of Hanukkah! We’re halfway through the holiday, and have more fun and festive giveaways planned!
This is about the time when it starts getting nice and toasty warm once the menorot are all lit.
Let’s get to our giveaway for tonight!
Today’s prize is: a Kate Spade Lola Glitter Medium Phone Wristlet in Sienna.
YES. PINK SPARKLY PART DEUX!
How adorable is that?
Want some specs?
- The bag measures approximately 5.1″h x 9.0″w x 2.05″d
- It has a zip top closure and a front snap
- Inside are six slots for cards and a zip up coin compartment
- There are slip pockets inside and on the back
- It Sparkles.
Want to enter? Yay!
Just leave a comment and tell us about something that cost less than $5 (or similar in your currency) that’s invaluable to you?
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to tote the essentials in sparkly pink fantasticness. Not responsible for feelings of sparkly pink joy, but we highly recommend and encourage them.
Comments will close 14 December 2020 at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
Winner update: Congratulations to Mary! Please check your inbox shortly!
Colored pens or stickers for my planner. Even if my to do lists never get done, at least they look nice!
A belt clip for my work id.
A clerk at a (now-defunct, sigh) truffle shop in San Francisco asked if I liked baking, and gave me a mini offset spatula when I replied affirmatively. I use it all the time!
A good sourdough starter.
Easy! The cheap reading glasses that litter every tabletop, hang from every lampshade, double as a headband and hide in every drawer.
My library card. It cost nothing but I would be in the poorhouse without it
Years and years ago I received a set of blunted scissors that slide into a flat case during a gag Christmas gift swap that was under $5. I was so disappointed at the time (I really wanted a cool coffee mug) but over the many years, I have used those scissors at least once a week every week as they’re small but sharp, and great for cutting off loose threads and sales tags and cutting my waxing strips into smaller pieces, etc. I would miss it terribly if it disappeared.
Well, it’s not mine, but I found some really cute holiday pencils for $1 to give my mom for Christmas so she can do her puzzles, etc. 🙂
Travel-size hand sanitizer
Post it’s!
Lip balm! (I’ve been happy with many brands/varieties, so I’m not especially picky) Also, clearance mugs for drinking lots and lots of tea.
Travel sized hand lotion
Fuzzy socks! My feet are always freezing cold.
Those Kindle books on sale, anywhere from .99 to $4.99!
A large Diet Coke from McDonald’s for a dollar.
Stretchy cloth headbands to keep my increasingly unruly hair out of my face. Pulling it back in ponytails was starting to give me headaches.
A sachet of Earl Grey Tea!
Colorful lip balm
A good pen. My favorite right now is the Pilot Precise in lots of fun colors.
A sheet mask! Leaves my skin feeling and looking amazing after my radiator has sucked all the moisture out of it during the winter
Burt’s Bee’s lip balm!
My little luggage scale. (I’ve been mailing lots of things and it’s so very handy!)
My favourite pen – it makes writing a joy.
My holy grail tweezers that I stole from my mom. I panic at the thought of losing them!!
Pony-tail holders, for sure. I hate having my hair in my face!
Burt’s Bees Lip Balm but only in Pink Grapefruit!
Chapstick!!!
My reading glasses!
Trader Joe’s English Breakfast tea
My Pilot Frixion pen. Great for working on crossword puzzles and making grocery lists (why, yes, we already have 6 cans of tomato soup).
A stunning bookmark that I got for free from a publisher – it’s an eye-catching close-up of a medieval manuscript illumination. Always makes me happy to see it poking out of a book I’m currently reading.
My spiral notebook and pen. I am tech friendly gal, but I feel lost without my notebook and pen besides whenever I’m at a meeting — even a virtual one, when I’m on the computer!
Happy Hanukkah ! I can’t live with out my $0.99 a slice pizza place by my work. I hope they make through this pandemic. Even if they up the slices to $1.99 I will support them and they will feed my pizza addiction!
I worked in a law office for years and would automatically pick up a pen from my desk every time I went to court or to an appointment. I had a flight to take once and found I had 24 office pens in my purse. After that I started buying distinctive pens for my desk and my purse and I loved cruising the aisles in stores for the latest. I never spent that much but I had so much fun with them. I had several clients ask to keep the pen I gave them to sign their documents
Hair bands. I am constantly putting my hair up, then taking it down a dozen times a day.
Any kind of gum. It helps my anxiety to chew it.
A box of five dozen pens from Staples (the blue sticks). I am the supporter of a large community of pens that come in and out of my life, and a recent box of them make sure that I contribute to that community as well as having them follow me home. Plus, every once in a while you get one with really smooth motion, and that is *nice*.
Something that costs less that $5.00 that’s currently invaluable to me are Incoco nail wraps from Ulta. My nails have been doing that thing where they layer and split lately. These nail wraps are about $4.00 and they stay in place for about two weeks! I put a set on Thanksgiving day and only took them off TODAY (12/13). My nails are still layering a little bit but they at least aren’t breaking while the wraps are on.
An hour at my indoor swimming pool doing laps costs me $4 and always makes me feel better.
Hoopla and Libby, both free apps I use to get ebooks from our local library. With the pandemic, I have stayed out of our little library branch, and ebooks are a wonderful way to keep up with the grabby hands I make at book recs. The apps save me a ton of money, too!