Monthly Archives: June 2009

My current washing machine is over 20 years old and has served me very well. With all of the new features my new Frigidaire washing machine will have, I’m afraid I might go into shock. Every time I start a load of laundry I think of the gorgeous red Frigidaire Affinity washing machine I’ll be using soon.

When I open my dishwasher and empty it for the 2nd time in a day, I day dream of the brand new Frigidaire Gallery Dishwasher that will take the old one’s place very soon. I am looking forward to the new dishwasher because our isn’t drying the dishes very well lately and I have to spend time drying them before I can put them away.

My refrigerator is great, but small. We bought it about 5 years ago when we bought our new house and we were on a tight budget so we bought a relatively inexpensive fridge that doesn’t have as much space or a water and ice dispenser. The new Frigidaire refrigerator has an water and ice dispenser on the door and the water will be filtered! Our sink faucet doesn’t allow for a water filtration attachment, so I am really excited that we will be able to get filtered water right from the door of our new Frigidaire Gallery Side-by-Side Refrigerator.

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Why and HOW am I getting new Frigidaire appliances?
I was lucky enough to have been chosen as one of 8 wonderful ‘Mommy Bloggers’ across the country to be a Frigidaire Test Drive Mom and receive all new appliances. Besides the 8 of us who will test and review all 5 major appliances, there are 40 other great ‘Mommy Bloggers’ who will each receive one Frigidaire appliance to test and review on their blog.

Here are a few Frigidaire time savers that would have helped me in the last two days and that I’m really looking forward to:

I could have used the Quick Preheat feature of my ‘almost here’ Frigidaire Range this morning when helping Sebastian bake his chocolate chip cookies.
I did 6 loads of laundry yesterday and was jonesing for Frigidaire’s TimeWise™ technology where the wash time equals dry time – so you don’t have to wait for clothes to dry. I kept having to run downstairs to the laundry area to check on the dryer as it takes longer than the wash. Madelyn’s at the age now where when I run down stairs, she runs down stairs. Then she gets fixated on something to play with downstairs when I’m ready to get back upstairs. Ahh!
I would have loved it if the clean dishes in the dishwasher were actually dry! The new Frigidaire dishwasher has a feature called Effortless™ Dry which gives you best-in-class drying performance, so there’s no more double-duty towel drying.
Maybe I would have made chicken nuggets if my oven had a “Chicken Nuggets” button!?

Over the next few months I will be sharing photographs, stories, and videos with you of my new appliances and I will give you personal examples of how my new Frigidaire appliances help me save time.. because after all, Frigidaire has a “More Me-Time” Guarantee!

Here is a personal story, a little related, but maybe not entirely:
As I write this while sitting at my kitchen table working on my laptop while eating breakfast and I am breaking a little sweat. The sweat is due in part to menopause (I’m 34..it came early) and part CHAOS!
Whatever do you mean Chaos, Alicia? That’s what I feel like my husband’s wondering sometimes when he gets home from work and I’m telling him about my day. Here’s a run down of the last 45 minutes: I made pancakes, scrambled eggs, made a biscuit for Madelyn, helped Sebastian make chocolate chip cookies while trying not to burn the pancakes or overcook the eggs and in the middle of all of that, Madelyn went to the bathroom and came back without her panties or shirt and I had to chase her down to get her dressed hoping all of the food was OK and not on fire! In between all of that I cleaned the pans and utensils as I was done using them because I don’t want ants in my kitchen as in previous years. Gosh, when I read that it doesn’t sound like that much but while I was doing it, I could barely feel my feet touch the floor. I swear I was hovering! I know this is a typical Mom story.

You can learn more about the 5 Frigidaire appliances I’ll be testing and featuring on The Mommy Insider at the Frigidaire website.

More Frigidaire links to check out and how you can win Frigidaire appliances:

Frigidaire More Me-Time Guarantee
The Frigidaire DAILYDARE
Tell Frigidaire what 5 things you would do with an extra hour and you’re automatically entered for a chance to win a suite of NEW Frigidaire appliances!
Frigidaire on Facebook

Review + Giveaway!
Purex® Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheets

June 4, 2009Cleaning & Cleaners, Home & Garden, New postsdryer, laundry, purex, washerAlicia

I am so excited that my new Frigidaire appliances, including a Washer and Dryer, will be arriving soon but until then I have some of my own laundry room excitement. I have been trying out Purex’s new Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheets. I thought surely a sheet couldn’t accomplish and product the same results that detergent + a dryer sheet could but as always sometimes I am wrong. Huh?

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How Does It Work?

1. Drop a Purex® Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheet into the washer, the detergent is released during the wash cycle.

2. Once the wash is complete, transfer the laundry sheet with clothes to dryer. The stripe is heat activated by the dryer to soften and remove static.

3. You’re done! Now, you get someone else to fold and put the laundry away. (that was a joke!)

My 9 year old son does his laundry most of the time now and these are a life saver! I would tell him how much liquid detergent to measure before he went down to the laundry area, but it never failed.. he would yell up to me “Mom, how much of this stuff do I put in”? Ugh!! Haven’t I told you a million times? Then I began to wonder, is 9 years old to young to do his own laundry? Everyone I know convinced me that as long as he’s ok with it, doesn’t break the washer or dryer, hurt himself, it’s all good. Now, I feel even better knowing that he just has to drop one sheet into the washer with his clothes and not worry about messy liquid detergent and remembering to put a dryer sheet in when he switches his stuff over to the dryer.

Purex® Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheets come in three scents and are available in two package types – a Starter Kit (1 Dispenser + 20 Laundry Sheets) and a value Refill Pouch (24 Laundry Sheets). Suggested retail pricing for both the 20 sheet Starter Kit (includes convenient Dispenser) and 24 sheet Refill Pack is $5.99-$7.49.

The Starter Kit includes a refillable Dispenser that makes it simple to protect and access Purex Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheets. Once you have the Dispenser, simply purchase the money-saving Refill Pouch to fill the convenient Dispenser.

As part of The Dial Co./Purex’s holistic approach to sustainability, Purex developed Purex^® Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheets with significant consideration to our environmental impact. If everyone in the United States¹ switched to buying Purex® Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheets, 41 Olympic-sized pools worth of water would be saved each single refill purchase versus purchasing a standard 50oz bottle of liquid detergent! If every American bought just one Purex® Complete 3-in-1™ Laundry Sheet Refill instead of even one bottle of liquid detergent², we could prevent the equivalent of 91 million detergent bottles (27 million lbs), originally destined for landfills, from being produced – keeping over eight football fields worth of packaging out of landfills.

Purex Complete 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets website

GIVEAWAY!
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Review + Giveaway!
Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips

June 4, 2009Beauty & Skin Care, Health, New posts, Past Giveawayscolgate, maxwhite, toothpaste, whiteningAlicia

I’m a very visual person. I want to see what makes something work.. I love the show “How It’s Made”. Toothpaste is no exception. Colgate’s MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips is super satisfying because I can see the hundreds of white strips in the tube and know that they are working hard to keep my teeth clean, shiny, and white.
I’ve been using Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips for about one month and really like how clean and smooth my teeth feel after brushing. colgate-maxwhite

I am not in much need of the whitening factor of Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips because I whitened them recently, but I do think that it’s helping keep my teeth white. I have one tooth that is very sensitive to some toothpastes (it gets a yucky cold feeling when the toothpaste touches it) but haven’t had a problem with MaxWhite.

For under $5, Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips is a great value. It’s the first toothpaste that has mini breath strips, fights cavities, whitens teeth, and freshens breath. Colgate MaxWhite is available in 2 flavors:
Cool Mint and Clean Mint, in tube and transparent liquid formats.

Go to the Colgate MaxWhite website to learn more

GIVEAWAY!
We are giving away 5 tubes of MaxWhite!
Simply leave a comment below (related to MaxWhite, teeth whitening, toothpaste) and you are entered to win!
Entries accepted until June 30st.

Product review + Giveaway:
slotRadio the instant load music player bundled with a 1,000 song slotRadio™ Mix card

June 1, 2009Gadgets, Music, New postsgadget, MP3, Music, radio, SanDisk, slotRadioAlicia

slotRadio

I’ve been using a really great gadget called the slotRadio when I exercise lately. As you may have read in some of my previous posts, I am a poster girl for adult ADHD. That being said, the slotRadio is a pre-loaded mp3 player.. keyword – pre-loaded. People with ADHD love just about anything that’s ‘pre’ such as ‘pre’school which gets the kids out of our hair for a few hours a day so we can better manage our ADHD and the 5 million things we have to do. Pre-loaded means that you don’t have to choose songs to put on the MP3 player and spend your valuable time transferring songs from your computer to your MP3 player.

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The slotRadio comes pre-loaded with the slotRadio Mix including 1,000 songs and you can buy additional cards that slip right into the slotRadio, just like an SD card for your camera does, that come pre-loaded with another 1,000 songs. The slotRadio Mix card that comes with the slotRadio includes Alternative, Rock, Chillout, Country, Contemporary, R&B Hip Hop, and Workout playlists. While I’m exercising I stay pumped with the Workout playlist and when it’s time to cool down I switch to the Chillout playlist.

slotRadio easy navigation controls

More about the slotRadio + slotRadio Mix bundle:

it’s pre-loaded with 1,000 songs
you can buy additional cards
it’s tiny, 2×2 inches!
has a belt clip
comes with earbuds
comes with a storage case
FM radio
1.5” screen for viewing artist and song information
SIMPLE and practical navigation
charges with an included AC adapter
you can use your own microSD™ card with MP3 or WMA files
the slotRadio + slotRadio Mix bundle costs just under $100

Check out the slotRadio website for playlist samples, videos, and more information.

GIVEAWAY!
We have a slotRadio bundle AND a Rock card to give to one lucky reader! Enter a comment below telling me when you would use the slotRadio (workout, gardening, when the kids are screaming..). If you are an email subscriber your email address will be entered twice! Entries accepted until 11:59 June 15th. This giveaway has ended.

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

CONGRATULATIONS to our SlotRadio winner: Kelly H!