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Nifty Thrifting: Bath and Body Works

I'm starting a new label with this post called Nifty Thrifting!  Now I'm not the most serious or dedicated thrifter you'll ever meet but I like to think that when I want to, I can be pretty good at getting my money's worth.  I, for one, find frugality a fun challenge and hopefully I can give you some easy and enjoyable ideas on how to save money as well!
 
Bath and Body Works
Not to give them free advertising, but I do appreciate a good sale and bbw just happens to come out with some good ones from time to time.  Apart from saving a boatload of money at this most recent sale (off of original prices, mind you) I found a few ways to get yet even more bang for my buck from the company.

P.S. Also, check out the retail me not app and website.  They've got tons of promotions that allow you to get all kinds of good deals with the mere copy and paste of a coupon code (or flash of the phone screen). 
When I placed this order online, I got 20% off my entire order, just for putting in a code. That balanced out to free shipping and still more money knocked off of my total.
On a different, in-store trip, on top of straight up great prices for the bbw semi-annual sale, I got $10 off of $30 with a coupon from the retailmenot app on my phone.  Even though the coupon I had was for their website, the saleswoman honored it and I got 10 whole dollars off, just like that!

Remember: there is almost always a coupon you could be using (without even having to go much out of your way) to save yourself some sweet moolah (I may or may not have re-watched Napoleon Dynamite yesterday).
 
Anyways, on to my story of milking this order for all it was worth. . .

So when you order something from bbw.com, it comes in a box that looks boring and normal on the outside. . .
. . . But kinda cool on the inside.



                                  So I taped down the flaps so the sides would look fancy too.
                                                                          

                               And now it serves me well as a cute movie storage case, although it could store a great deal many other kinds of things as well.





                      Online orders also come with a lot of brown paper (I think for padding) and I didn't want to waste it all (eco-conscious fanatics, you can thank me now :P).
So I decided to take some yarn and pre-wrap the products I had ordered as gifts .
 
If you've ever had someone else's birthday sneak up on you, you know that it's pretty handy to have ready-to-go gifts.  Viola!
Oh yeah, and then I stored them in a BBW bag I already had.  And felt pretty good about having not wasted or thrown much away from this order.

Remember: Don't forget to label the wrapped gifts though or else you might end up giving someone a gift that surprises even you!
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