Thursday, March 30, 2006

Travel Size vs. Full Size

It seems like the weather is getting nicer each day, and I am already looking forward to some traveling over the Spring and Summer: a road trip to a friend's wedding, a camping trip at the end of Spring and I'm flying to Mexico at the end of Summer. Now, if you are like me, you probably bring some personal products with you when you travel, and whether I'm lugging my bags through a busy airport or hiking into the back country, I don't like to be weighed down. I do, however, tend to bring along the same kinds of things wherever I go: some shampoo and conditioner, soap, deodorant, a toothbrush and toothpaste, floss and mouthwash, hair gel, shaving cream, a razor, lotion and sunscreen. So, just for fun, we here at Minimus weighed all of the stuff I travel with and compared it to the same stuff in travel sizes.

Here's what I usually travel with.


And here are the same types of items in travel sizes; enough for me to travel with for about a week.


Finally, we weighed both the full size and travel size to see what the difference was. The travel sizes came in at just over a pound; sixteen and one half ounces to be exact.


We had to weigh the full sized items on our bigger scale. They weighed in at nine pounds. (Have I really been carrying that much stuff around?)


So, I will definitely be making Minimus products a part of my travel plans this Summer, especially on those trips when every pound counts; on a plane or when hiking, for example.

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posted by Paul Shrater at 3:16 PM

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Check out the Newsletter

Happy Monday. We hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy their first weekend of Spring. If you haven't already done so, you might want to sign up for our Newsletter. Every month our newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about our new products and find out what's on sale. We are also planning on making some special offers and having some fun contests for our newsletter subscribers.

Signing up is easy.
Go to www.minimus.biz and sign in to your account.
Click on the "my account/track order' button just under where you signed in.
Click on "Edit My Profile"
Click the box that says "Subscribe to Mail List"

If you don't have an account with Minimus, go and create one and you will have the option to subscribe to the Mail List as well.

- Robert

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posted by Paul Shrater at 12:05 PM

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

New Sale Items

This week we observed the first day of Spring. To mark the occasion I asked around to see what some of the favorite products were here at Minimus so I could include them in this month's list of sale items. I love spicy food so, my personal choice was the miniature Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce in bottles. Enjoy!

- Robert Black

Here's what's on sale right now:

Nabisco® Teddy Grahams® Cookies, 1.25 oz package On Sale For: 0.69

OraLine® Floss & Go® Single use 18" mint waxed floss On Sale For: 0.12

Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce Green, 1/8 fl. oz. Bottle On Sale For: 0.62

Dep Sport Styling Gel, 2 oz plastic tube On Sale For: 0.99

General Mills® Lucky Charms Cereal (Bowl), 1 oz On Sale For: 0.52

Kar’s® Blazin’ Hot Nuts, 1.5 oz packet On Sale For: 0.45

Kar’s® Unsalted Trail Mix Original Blend, 2 oz packet On Sale For: 0.59

Stash Enlish Breakfast Black Tea, Single bag, sealed packet On Sale For: 0.16

Land O’ Lakes Cocoa Classics® (selected varieties), 1 1/4 oz. packet On Sale For: 0.50

True Lemon Crystal Flavoring, 0.7 g packet On Sale For: 0.08

True Lime Crystal Flavoring, 0.7 g packet On Sale For: 0.08

Kraft® Strawberry Jelly, .5 oz cup On Sale For: 0.12

Smucker’s® Diet Concord Grape Spread, 3/8 oz cup On Sale For: 0.14

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posted by Paul Shrater at 4:00 PM

New to the Minimus Family

This blog entry is from our Marketing Manager, Robert Black.

Hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself. I am new here in the Minimus Marketing Department and, along with Paul, I will be adding regular entries to the blog. It looks like it's been a while since the last entry so we certainly have some catching up to do.

Watch this space for some contests we will be unveiling in the weeks and months ahead. We'll be giving away some cool Minimus stuff so you won't want to miss it. You will also find blog only coupons and specials, brand new items and updates about what's going on here at Minimus.

Robert

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posted by Paul Shrater at 3:53 PM