Category: Announcement

Today is The Impulsive Buy’s sixth birthday.

I thought about shutting down TIB forever today because ending it on 8/9/10 at 11:12 am seemed pretty cool. But it shall live on since I just spent a few hundred dollars to renew TIB’s hosting fees for another two years. It shall also live on because even though I’ve written over 700 reviews, I still enjoy eating stuff I shouldn’t and then writing about it.

Each review I’ve created is like one of my illegitimate children. The companies provide the products and I fertilize it with my creativitity and ability to put words together. Soon after that happens, a new review is brought out into the world. Just like the illegitimate children of NBA players, the reviews I’ve written are all a little different, but you can tell who the father is. Yes, I’ve knocked up my fair share of companies over the years, and I’ll keep doing it as long as they’re willing to put out…products.

Or until I die from their products.

Thankfully, over the past few years it hasn’t been just me knocking up companies and spawning illegitimate reviews. TIB has had a number of wonderful reviewers contributing their thoughts on products that I either couldn’t get my hands on or was too scared to try. So I’d like to thank former and current reviewers Ace, Reprobate, Kayla, Stacey and Kelley for helping TIB become what it is today.

Finally, I would like to thank all of you — the readers of this quasi-product review blog.

Without you folks, TIB wouldn’t be where it’s at today, which I’m sure is somewhere towards the bottom of the Top 1,000,000 websites on the internet list. We’re way below YouTube and any porn website, but I’m pretty sure we’re slightly ahead of a Tumblr page that shows nothing but pictures of turtle asses. I truly appreciate you taking the time to stop by this small parcel of the World Wide Web to read product reviews that contain either profanity, fart jokes, slightly obscure geeky references, sexual innuendo, celebrity drug use/alcoholism/promiscuity references or a Brach’s pick-a-mix of any of the things I just listed.

Once again, thank you for reading The Impulsive Buy

Marvo
Editor
The Impulsive Buy

PS – If you’re a regular reader of TIB, you know we hold a prize drawing to celebrate TIB’s birthday. This year, those who enter will have a change to win one of six mystery boxes which contains products that TIB has reviewed over the years.

PPS – If you would like to enter the drawing, leave a comment with this post. You can say whatever you like, except the phrase “whatever you like.” If “whatever you like” is in your comment, your entry could be disqualified. However, the only instance when “whatever you like” will be accepted is if it’s immediately followed by the words, “Big Boy.”

PPPS – Please fill out the email field, because we’ll be emailing the winners for their mailing address.

PPPPS – We will stop accepting entries on Sunday, August 15, 2010 (11:59 Hawaii Standard Time). Only one entry allowed per person. The drawing is open to EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD.

PPPPPS – The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you spam about how to unlock your hidden potential in bed. The Impulsive Buy also promises your mailing address will not be used to send you information about a used car dealership’s Slasher Sale. Bribes will not be accepted. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail, damaged mail or whatever cheesy movie SyFy comes up with next.

Here are the five AXE Twist Travel Pack winners and where they would like to go on their next vacation:

1. Anna who “would LOVE to go to Phuket, Thailand!”

2. Tyler who “would like to smell all AXE-like in the land of England, where they call it Lynx.”

3. Adam G who is “thinking somewhere in the South Pacific region all the way up to Japan area.”

4. Chuck who “may try and head to California.”

5. Andrew who would “love to visit Louisiana, mostly New Orleans and the beaches that now are safe and the cleanest they’ve been in years!”

The winners have been emailed and they will soon be enveloping themselves in the scent of AXE.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who entered.

We’re right in the middle of summer travel season and whether you’re traveling to another state or another country by air, you’ll want to pack light because those damn airlines will charge your ass for checking in baggage, which, by the way, used to be free for decades.

The folks at AXE want to help you pack light, unless you’re traveling to a nudist colony, then you probably won’t need any help. But for those who do need help, they’re offering the opportunity for five lucky TIB readers, via a prize drawing, to win a set of AXE travel-size body sprays, deodorants and shower gels that meet TSA standards.

To enter The Impulsive Buy’s AXE Twist Travel Pack Prize Drawing, leave a comment with THIS POST. You may say whatever you like, but your comment MUST include where you would like to go for your next vacation.

It can be specific, like “a nude beach in Hawaii with Marvo serving me cocktails with paper umbrellas in them,” or less specific, like “anywhere, but here.”

Please don’t forget to fill out the email field because I’ll be emailing the five winners for their mailing addresses. The Impulsive Buy will stop accepting entries on Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time. Only one entry allowed per person and it’s only open to those who live in the United States and are 18 years old or older. (I’m sorry to my non-US readers, those in the US Military living overseas and high school boys who love the smell of AXE)

Good luck!

Fine Print: The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you spam about how you can get generic erection drugs from Canada. The Impulsive Buy also promises your mailing address will not be used to send you requests for donations from my alma mater, the University of Hawaii. Bribes will not be accepted. Sending pictures of your boobs (male or female) will not help your chances. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail, damaged mail, or you getting trapped in a YouTube vortex of dudes getting hit in the nuts and puppy videos.

Here are the two winners of the recent Pepsi Baobab prize drawing and their favorite fruit(s):

1. margaret (who likes mangoes, bananas and grapefruit)

2. Raymond (who likes apples)

The winners have been emailed and I hope to soon send their sodas on their merry way from my kitchen to their lips.

Congratulations to the two winners and thank you to everyone who entered.