For carrying that ad on the sidebar, I get my subscription and the promised 19 free gifts. The “gifts” came in the mail the other week, and big manilla envelope stuffed with mail-back cards and one mini-unit book from Lasting Lessons. (Warning: their site is full of anoying java appelets.)
About four of the offers I could complete on-line without mailing cards back – a printable table manners mini-poster (nice looking, but not quite for us), a whole grain educational kit (I wonder if customs will let it in?), two free issues to another magazine, and some audiobook files of classic books (as yet unlistened to).
There were a couple we can’t use, one $10 off coupon for a chain of stores in the US, and one for an educational video club – oh wait, apparently they did let me put in a Canadian address. Hmm.
The rest I still have to mail off with a pile of stamps stuck to them. Handy tip: use return address labels to fill in your info quickly, and it goes without saying to NOT put your phone number or credit card information on the back of a postcard.
One company’s card was extemely badly designed, as far as a form goes. I’m to return the card, but there’s nowhere for me to fill in my information so they can send me a sample lesson.
I’m not sure how many will come back, as I’m in Canada and all of these offers are American. I’ll be sure to let you know how it works out, though. I really am looking forward to reviewing each of the companies involved and their materials.
Did you get the summer issue or a back issue?
spunky
Andrea
Are you quite sure that you dont want to put the table manners poster up?! LOL!!!
Hmm , I always wanted to put links on my blog to get free stuff but now I am not so sure .
Sorry you didnt get COOL stuff
did any of those 19 things have anything to do with the Pearls? They write parenting books, apparently, and there’s been a big thing about it going on over at a message board I read.
I think I saw that thread on that big message board I think you mean.
As far as I can tell, nothing was included from the Pearls or their ministries, but almost half of the gifts were from conservative Christian companies.
I was going to wait until they came in to post a full list – not linking to the top-secret online stuff themselves, but just the companies. I wanted to see a lot of the things for myself, rather than discounting it out of hand.
yeah, that was my feeling about it too – the “not discounting it out of hand” idea. There was just such an uproar about it, and frequent mention of the “19 Free Gifts” so I was curious to hear what was really involved.
I’m happy to see, though, that you didn’t burst into flames or anything drastic like that, upon receipt of your “19 Free Gifts.”