toasters & juicers, meh, but a Ring setup?

Yeah, you can save on the toasters and TVs, but how about the entire Sunpak Premium Series 18 Inch Bi-Color Ring Light Kit with BOYA Wireless Microphone and Bluetooth Remote to really look your best (for $120 less!) on the Best Buy Deal of the Day page.

On CNN: Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay

Here is one of the more fun articles from CNN about the writer’s experience with this clay healing mask. Well, I found it interesting, anyway!

(CNN) —  Hunting for buzzy, quality products on Amazon is not unlike searching for buried treasure. You dig and dig, and when you finally come across something that hits the ultimate trifecta — it’s got a gazillion positive reviews, is decidedly cheap and is actually great — well, the satisfaction is on par with finding that treasure. (Or finding, say, an incredible $25 Amazon ice roller that immediately depuffs your face.)

The latest cult-favorite Amazon beauty must-have checks all these boxes and is definitely considered a treasure among its devoted users. The Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay is a natural, calcium bentonite clay mask that the brand declares is akin to the “world’s most powerful facial.” And Amazon reviewers agree. The mask currently has more than 30,000 reviews (75% of which are 5-star) and the product’s organic hashtag, #aztecclaymask, has some 60,000 posts linked to it.  CNN article is here.

digital instant read thermometer is less!

I bought this model about six weeks ago for a couple of bucks more and frankly, I am so pleased with it I don’t even mind…well, just a bit.  The ThermoPro TP03 Digital Instant Read Thermometer can scan air temperature, meat, Thanksgiving turkey – anything.  Push the little button on and off for light if you need it, otherwise the unit shuts off by itself. Magnet on back keeps it out on my range hood, so easy to grab.  Only $11.89 now on Amazon.

Pumpkin Bread on the cheap

Had to research the purchase date of the case of organic pumpkin puree I found on a basement shelf – two years ago and still in code (like that’s ever a factor).  At that time I was thinking of making dog food since it’s so healthy.  Yup, see how that turned out.  Paid a quarter a can for pumpkin, 50¢ clearance 5 lb bags of flour from Jewel (when they clear out their odd name brands, stock up), sweetened with raw sugar from DT and clearance Torani pumpkin spice syrup plus cinnamon and other spices tossed in.  Major cost was four expensive eggs since I won’t buy cheap deals any more.  Added most of a bag of Craisins in place of nuts although both were available.

I really am a crap photographer, ’cause it looks (and tastes) way more appetizing in person.  Gonna wrap one loaf to freeze.