Author: Marvo

REVIEW: Method Green Tea + Aloe Hand Wash

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Do you know a relative, friend, co-worker, or mistress who’s a little too obsessive compulsive? Sure, we all know one.

They wash their hands over 30 times a day; have a Costco-sized bottle of waterless hand sanitizer on their desk; opens public restroom doors with a paper towel; puts enough layers of sanitary covers on a toilet seat that it provides a slight cushion; or uses Lysol on EVERYTHING.

Well if you have yet to get that person a Christmas gift, what better gift to give them than the gift of cleanliness.

Might I suggest the Method Green Tea + Aloe Hand Wash.

Editor’s Note, Part Two: Um…For you smokers of the ganja, there is no correlation between the name Method and the fact that the color of this hand wash is green. Method products come in a wide range of colors.

I’ve been a really big fan of Method products for a while, although to be honest I’ve never used any of their products until now.

The reason why I didn’t try any was because I couldn’t get my dirty hands on Method products here on this rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (We so desperately need a Target). However, Impulsive Buy groupie Akiko gave me some.

Editor’s Note, Part Three: Um…When I say, “she gave me some,” I meant she gave me a bottle of Method Green Tea + Aloe Hand Wash. Just thought I’d clear that up, since she is an Impulsive Buy groupie.

I think I became a fan of Method products after reading an article about them in one of the Business 2.0 issues I stole from my doctor’s office.

I’m a fan because their products come in nice curvy bottles and I’m sucker for things that have curves, like Catherine Zeta Jones and the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Another reason is because their products are biodegradable, non-toxic, naturally derived, and aren’t tested on animals, which satisfies my tree-hugging side. Finally, I like the company because its name starts with the letter “M.”

As for the Method Green Tea + Aloe Hand Wash, besides being green in color and environmentally-friendly, it smells really good.

So what does green tea combined with aloe smell like? It smells clean. It’s not fruity, flowery, or girly. It just smells clean.

Just the way obsessive-compulsive people like to smell.

If you think about it, our obsessive-compulsive friends maybe on to something with all of this cleanliness. Think about all the things that get touched a lot on a daily basis by people. You don’t know what kind of people they are or where these people have been.

Imagine all the germs on these things, like doorknobs, money, elevator buttons, handrails, and Paris Hilton.

Item: Method Green Tea + Aloe Hand Wash
Purchase Price: FREE (retail price $4.00)
Rating: 8 out of 10
Pros: Clean scent. Environmentally friendly. Nice curvy bottle. Oh yeah, let me feel those curves on that bottle. Oh yeah, let me feel those curves on the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Teehehehehe.
Cons: Kind of pricey for hand soap. Can’t get it here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Memey Christmas!!!

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I’m not one of those people who would jump into a volcano if everyone else jumped into it, but I was asked by Impulsive Buy fanatic, Mellie from Golly Blog Howdy to do this meme, which seems to be really popular right now in the blogosphere.

At first, I didn’t want to do it, but it’s the giving season, Mellie is one of the Impulsive Buy’s biggest fans, and Mellie said it would be like me doing a product review on myself.

So here I am, jumping into a volcano…

Three names you go by:
1. Marvo
2. Marv
3. Mar

Three screen names you have:
1. Marvo (That’s it)

Three things you like about yourself:
1. My sense of humor
2. My creativity
3. My ability to talk about anything and nothing

Three things you hate/dislike about yourself:
1. My slouch
2. My gut (Stop looking at my gut! I’m working on it!)
3. My bank account

Three parts of your heritage:
1. Japanese (Unless my mom and dad aren’t telling me something)

Three things that scare you:
1. Panhandlers
2. Ben Affleck movies
3. Creamy Alfredo Ramen

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. iPod (The way I drown out the rest of the world)
2. Power Mac G4
3. Peanut butter and guava jelly toast

Three things you are wearing right now:
1. Nike running shorts
2. Plain gray t-shirt
3. Gap plaid boxers

Three of your favorite bands/artists at the moment:
1. Stephen Lynch (comedian)
2. Do As Infinity (Japanese rock band)
3. Alkaline Trio

Three of your favorite songs at present:
1. “Baby” by Stephen Lynch
2. “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” by My Chemical Romance
3. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day

Three things you want to try in the next 12 months:
1. Get a real job (This freelance writing thing is tough)
2. Lose 10 pounds
3. Beat down spammers Bob and Texas Holdem with a rusty shovel

Three things you want in a relationship (love is a given):
1. Sense of humor
2. Good conversation
3. Intelligence

Two truths and a lie:
1. I got an angry letter from a multi-billion dollar fast food chain
2. I can touch my nose with my tongue
3. I’m a compulsive recycler.

Three physical things about the opposite (or same) sex that appeals to you:
1. Nice smile
2. Nice legs
3. Baby-making hips

Three things you just can’t do:
1. A cartwheel
2. Name all 50 state and their capitals
3. Eat anything with coconuts (I HATE coconuts)

Three of your favorite hobbies:
1. Writing/Blogging
2. Watching the Daily Show
3. Eating stuff I shouldn’t be eating and then exercising to make up for the fact that I’m eating stuff I shouldn’t be eating

Three things you want to do really badly right now:
1. Buy a new digital camera (Mine broke an hour ago)
2. Order a pizza
3. Go to the bathroom.

Three careers you’re considering:
1. Professional writer/blogger
2. Advertising copywriter
3. Homely, slightly overweight stripper

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. Seattle
2. Vancouver
3. Italy

Three kids names:
I don’t have kids (at least, none that I know of), but here are some random names.
1. Aaron
2. Candace
3. Mellie

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Live
2. Pay off my car loan
3. Make out with either Angelina Jolie or Winona Ryder or both at the same time

Item: Marvo
Purchase Price: $5.00 (I believe that’s the going rate for homely, slightly overweight strippers)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Pros: Ability to put together a sentence. Long sideburns.
Cons: Homely. Slightly overweight. Slouches.

REVIEW: Maruchan Creamy Alfredo Instant Lunch Ramen Noodles

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Editor’s Note: We at the Impulsive Buy would like to wish all of our regular readers a very Merry Christmas. We hope your holiday is filled with good times with family and friends.

We also hope it is filled with awesome gifts that you don’t have to return, although most likely you will have to return some because they are either too big or totally lame.

Here at the Impulsive Buy all we want for Christmas is just more stuff to review or gift cards to buy stuff to review.

Finally, as our crappy Christmas gift to all of our readers, we present to you “‘Twas The Day Before Christmas: The Impulsive Buy Edition”

‘Twas the day before Christmas, I had nothing to review.
Holy crap! What the hell was I supposed to do?
I looked in the cupboard, which was almost bare,
Except for a cup of ramen noodles on the top shelf there.

“Oh, hell no,” I said shaking my head with disgust on my face.
Even though I bought the ramen so I could review it in the first place.
Creamy Alfredo Ramen Noodles, I bought it over a month ago.
It was so cheap, it only took 33 cents of my dough.

I boiled water for this ramen flavor I’ve never had before.
Pulled back the lid of the ramen to smell what was in store.
Took a quick whiff and then closed the lid as quickly as I could.
Then I said a quick prayer, got my rabbit’s foot, and knocked on wood.

“People actually eat this stuff,” I couldn’t believe.
It smelled so bad that I let out a few dry heaves.
If I can’t stand the stench, I wonder what eating it would entail.
No wonder it was labeled “Reduced Price for Quick Sale.”

I let it sit for the instructed three minutes, after I added the hot aqua.
But I let it sit for another five, as I prepared to eat something I didn’t wanna.
Taking deep breaths, meditating, and affirmations didn’t help.
“Do it for your readers,” I said to try and encourage myself.

Maruchan Creamy Alfredo Instant Lunch Ramen Noodles Closeup

I peeled back the lid and looked at the milky white mess.
Ooh, a whole 1,370 milligrams of sodium goodness.
The aroma of the Alfredo Ramen came up to my face.
I had a few garbage cans next to me, just in case.

After a few more dry heaves, I think I was ready to consume.
If it smells bad, it’s gonna taste bad, I was going to assume.
I picked up my fork and gave the Alfredo Ramen a stir.
It really looked like vomit in a cup, I so badly wanted to defer.

The first bite was not bad, but it could have been a total fluke.
I took a second bite, “Oh, man. It was. I think I’m going to puke.”
Tried to force myself to eat a third, but my body wouldn’t take the risk.
I put down my fork, because I had more than enough of this.

I went to the sink and poured the Alfredo Ramen down the drain.
If only the garbage disposal had taste buds, it would know my pain.
After a few spins of the garbage disposal, it was all disintegrated.
But even with all of it gone, I still felt so nauseated.

So I sprang to my car and headed to the nearest drive-thru.
A burger and fries will help me cope with what I’ve just been through.
After eating fast food and getting some rest, I began to feel all right,
Merry Christmas to all and avoid Alfredo Ramen for the rest of your life.

Item: Maruchan Creamy Alfredo Instant Lunch Ramen Noodles
Purchase Price: $0.33 (on sale)
Rating: 0 out of 10
Pros: Dirt cheap.
Cons: Smells like puke. Looks like puke. Tastes like puke. May make you puke.

REVIEW: Peanut Butter Toast Crunch Cereal

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This review WAS going to start off about how I love peanut butter and how I go through a bottle every three weeks.

Then I WAS going to say something about how you may think I like peanut butter because it’s something I enjoy licking off of a woman.

Then I WAS going to say that I don’t like to lick peanut butter off of a woman’s body, because I’ve tried it and the smell of the peanut butter sort of turns me off.

Then I WAS going to say that the only things I’m willing to lick off of a woman’s body are canned whipped cream, pudding, Cool Whip, chocolate syrup, and ice cream.

Finally, I WAS going to say how I’m definitely not willing to lick peanut butter or canned cheese off of any woman’s body, even if it’s Winona Ryder’s.

I WAS going to say all of that, but then I realized that several reviews over the past month have been very sexual in nature. Hmm…Let’s see, there was the cookie porn in the Chips Ahoy Cremewiches review, the phallic nature of the Tootsie Pop Spy Stix review, the viewing of hot corn in the review for Firefox 1.0, and the licking of pudding off of woman’s body in the Jello Oreo Instant Pudding review.

Since I don’t want to seem like a perverted product reviewer, today’s review will be Rated G. It will be a nice and wholesome review. A review that the whole family can read and enjoy…except the beginning part about licking peanut butter off of a woman’s body.

So here it goes.

Today’s review subject is Peanut Butter Toast Crunch Cereal from fine people at General Mills. Yes, it’s the same wonderful folks who brought us the popular and delicious Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal.

I’m surprised by how long it took for them to come up with this inspired idea. Peanut butter toast is something I have long enjoyed. As a matter of fact, I’m consuming some scrumptious peanut butter toast right now as I type this fascinating review.

Despite my affections for the quite delectable peanut butter toast, I do not feel the same about peanut butter-flavored cold breakfast cereals, like Cap’n Crunch’s Peanut Butter Crunch. These cereals don’t have an authentic peanut butter flavor, which disappoints me quite dearly. I was hoping that the new Peanut Butter Toast Crunch Cereal could overcome this obstacle, which had plagued its predecessors.

Unfortunately, the Peanut Butter Toast Crunch Cereal could not meet the difficult challenge of appeasing my delicate palate. Its meager attempt at authentic peanut butter flavor fell quite short and has disenchanted me further from peanut butter-flavored cereals.

If there was one thing that I found quite impressive with this cereal it would be the fact that it stayed crunchy in milk for a decent amount of time. But we don’t buy cereal for its ability to stay crunchy, we buy cereal for its flavor and this cereal, my loyal readers, has greatly disappointed me.

Peanut butter is still magnificent for spreading on toast, but not so splendid for breakfast cereals…and licking off of a woman’s body.

Item: Peanut Butter Toast Crunch Cereal
Purchase Price: $3.09 (on sale)
Rating: 4 out of 10
Pros: Stays crunchy in milk for a respectable amount of time.
Cons: Doesn’t really have an authentic peanut butter flavor. PB not good for licking off of a woman’s body.

Happy Holy Crap It’s Almost Christmas And I Didn’t Buy Anyone A Gift Day!!!

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Sorry there will be no review today, as I make my way to the crowded shopping malls to do all my Christmas shopping.

I must prepare to fight with little old ladies for $5.99 DVDs; find ways to overcome my claustrophobia; try to find the perfect gift, but settle for gift cards; and sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what I REALLY want for Christmas is for him to take his hand off of my ass.

(Just a friendly tip for you Christmas shoppers. If there’s a valet service at the mall you’re going to, take advantage of that sucker, because it’s sooo worth it.)

Oh yeah, I pulled the winners for this month’s prize drawing yesterday. The three lucky winners will each receive one (1) box of Jello Oreo Instant Pudding.

There 3 winners are:

1. Jenny (Ficklewhimsy Jenny)
2. Aymie’s Mom
3. hmw

Congratulations to the winners.

Okay, I haven’t done this in a long time. I’m going to let you vote on what product I’m going to review on Monday, December 27th. I’m going to give you three options.

The product with the most votes will be reviewed and the other two products will be banished to product review hell, where they will never get reviewed.

Here are your three choices:

1. Pop-Tarts Frosted Caramel Chocolate Snak-Stix
2. Subway Toasted Chicken Bacon Ranch Sub
3. Mountain Dew Baja Blast

Voting will end at December 26th at 11:59 pm (Hawaii Standard Time).