 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and today is Tuesday November 4th, and I'm filming in the afternoon. I wanted to film this so I had a video to go up on November 15th because I do have a few women who enjoy having their Sunday morning coffee with me and I've been uploading every other Sunday and I didn't want to disappoint the people who look forward to it. Today is basically a chit chat. I'm going to talk about what's new and I want to talk about a great deal I got. I haven't had any great deals in a while and I got a really really good one. Well, something really strange happened to my channel and it has never happened like this before. When I put up this video and I'll put a picture up here, I started getting a lot of views on it and then for some reason it triggered a bunch of my older skin care videos and I was just watching every day. There were more views. There were more subscribers. I've been every day I'd say Jim come here. Look at this. Look how many how many of my videos were watched So anyway, and I heard from a lot of you on my old videos And I was able to get back to everyone. I've been doing YouTube for six and a half years And I have never had I had 700 new subscribers this month. I seldom ask anybody to subscribe because I figured that if they want to subscribe they know it's free and they can subscribe. So when I get a bunch of new subscribers, it's like a shock And I'm hoping that all the new subscribers don't think I just talk about skin care because that is probably my least favorite thing to talk about I just like to talk about things that have been helpful for me that might be helpful for you I like to talk about things that I find that are really a good deal and I do touch on skin care from time to time and and I'm not wearing a lot of makeup Today I have on absolutely no makeup I didn't even put any powder on to cover the darkness on on either side of my nose I have on mascara little bit of eyeliner because I thought I needed to practice and some lip gloss and My hair looks smooth today. I'll tell you why I yesterday was the day I Always on the first Sunday of every month I use the color wow dreamcoat and I have to blow it dry and then I use my in styler to straighten it and It lasts all month long for me. I don't have frizzy hair anymore It's probably the biggest game changer for styling my hair that I've ever found and it just works really well for me I do want to tell you I've been uploading every other Sunday, but in December Natalie the beauty diva and Ocarole from the Ocarole show and I we're going to do our annual Collaboration with our 20 favorite things from the year 2020 and I don't know what date that's going to be It'll probably be on a Saturday, but that might kind of mess up my every other Sunday So I just kind of wanted you to know that not that it's that important. I just wanted to share it with you I have been enjoying being 67 on my birthday in the morning I took a bath I put on my very favorite pajamas, and I'm wearing another pair of favorite pajamas right now and I used my very favorite scent that you cannot buy anymore and I have had this since the late 80s and It is opium Perfumed body oil spray and that's how much I have left It is my all-time favorite, and I'm very stingy with it I do keep it in a drawer and it smells every bit as good now as it did then and I just use it like on my wrists and And might put another squirt someplace else, so I'm really stingy with it And it makes me sad that they don't make this anymore. I do like the black opium I have that perfume of the regular opium I have all different kinds and I enjoy it, but nothing like this one right here I do like scents and a moisturizer also and I use it in place of Spraying a scent. I will put moisturizer on my wrist. I'll put it behind my neck I'll put it behind my knees and I just love it and on my birthday Jim said I will go pick up Anything you want from anywhere for your lunch and I said, you know what I really really want And he goes no tellin and I said I want the gluten-free crust Pizza from Domino's and I like the Pacific vegetable and it's my favorite. It's delicious And we only have two options for delivery Where we live and one of its pizzas two different kinds of pizzas So anyway, we just had a really good day I talked to all my family members and I talked to so many of my friends and I enjoyed it a lot. We've truly had an autumn Ever since September 17th We've had autumn weather. We had a few days of it raining and we've had some Cold nights, but it's been beautiful and it has been beautiful today And the rest of the week it's supposed to be beautiful too I'm just going to show you one of the gifts I got for my birthday Because I've used everything in here before with the exception one thing And it is by so de Janeiro and they pronounce it the boom boom cream But I think that uh, you can probably say bum bum, but when you go to their website, they say boom boom Love this love this. This is a body wash This is a spray scent. I've never used a hand cream And a good friend of mine bought me a set like this last year So I know I love it what I like to do with it I like to use it as my nighttime scent. I like to put it on like the spray. I'll spray my pillow I'll put the lotion on my wrist and the back of my hands And I just love the smell of it. I'm not really sure. I think it's pistachio And something else that it just smells delicious It's the only time that I like to smell like something good to eat and it is it's it smells great On march 5th, I started making an effort to really watch my simple carbohydrates my sugars My flower, you know, and I really I usually try to avoid gluten even though I'm not Allergy to it and um last month I mentioned that I'd lost 17 or 18 pounds and my goal was just to maintain my weight Well, I have lost two more pounds. So I've lost 20 pounds And I've really wanted to do it very slowly because, you know, I know that my jowls are going to be a lot worse That my skin, turgor isn't going to be as good And I just think if you if you lose weight slowly Everything kind of comes together a little bit better and I'll put a video above and below on What I did to lose weight and some meal ideas But it really surprised me that I continued to lose that I lost two more pounds and and I'm and I'm happy But I did increase what I was eating to try to maintain. I think maintaining is so much harder than losing So I thought I needed to let you know about that and to my built bar buddies They're now making and you probably already know this but I'm never going to be one that get its information out quickly on something new But they're now making half size bars and I think you get 40 of them for around 37 dollars But if you order them don't ever order unless there is a sale because I placed an order When I got a 20 off email And I ordered I think three boxes. I think there were 18 three boxes of 18 And something popped up and there was a special on certain flavors So I went ahead and ordered another set of them and it averaged out to the bars being a dollar 33 a piece And I get a lot of protein and people ask me why I like them. Well, number one, I like the flavor of most of them There's only a couple That aren't my favorites. Um, but I can eat them. I still like them better than other protein bars But they are sweetened with erythritol. I'm not sensitive to that and there's no gluten in them And sometimes like when Russell Stover came out with sugar-free candy years and years and years ago It was definitely self-limiting because if I ate more than two pieces My stomach would roll. I mean it would hurt and this hasn't bothered me at all My least favorite flavors are the lemon and the orange and my favorite flavor. I've got a new favorite It's apple almond crisp crisp I have no idea if they are in stock or not But this to me tastes like a caramel apple and I just love them the peanut butter the cookies and cream And the coconut almond it tastes just like an almond joy are my favorite I do have a discount code below and if you use it I do earn some money that I've been I'd only got that a couple of months ago the discount code But I've been buying belt bars since a year ago last October Well on august 19th, I had to make a really short trip somewhere And all I needed was this key thing right here And had it in my pocket. It's just a key fob You just have to have it on you when you go someplace And I had it in my pocket and I went where I needed to go It was kind of a little bit stressful, but everything turned out fine. It was no problems But you know, I mean, I think I was a little bit preoccupied Well, I left to come home That had to be in my pocket or I couldn't have started my car There's no way you have to have that in your pocket to do anything And then I came in the house 99.9% of the time I have a special place. I hang my key and I put it there Well, I noticed the next day it wasn't there and I started looking for it No trash had gone out and there wasn't hardly any trash in the trash bag And that was the only I thought this is the only thing that's leaving the house So I went through that and it wasn't there. I've looked everywhere I've been looking since august the 19th for that key fob Well, I couldn't find it and I started to order one So I called the company where I purchased the car and they said, oh, no problem We can order you another one. They ran around $300 and I thought no, I'm not going to buy one for $300 But I knew I couldn't lose this one This is what I take when I am going someplace because it has my house key If Jim's not going to be home, it has my house key And I hooked this to my purse. But by the way, I've only had my purse out of the house twice since March 11th So I thought I've got to be able to do something because I know I'll find that key Oh, I started thinking what if I lose this? Well, to make a long story short I ordered a tile and here it is right here And if I lose my keys I can go to an app And press it and I'll do it. I'm going to show you it'll go like 500 feet So I go to my app. I press tile and then it says then it reads find your key It's quite loud Found it But the other thing that is so nice. It just thrills me if I can't find my phone if I press a tile twice It'll wake it up And I had it on silent So even if you have it turned off it will if you have it on silent it will turn it on You have to have a smartphone or an alexa So if you have an alexa device and you don't have a smartphone It will this will it your alexa will only let you find your keys and like I said, this one goes 500 feet So I liked it so much. I bought some for eight of my family members And I bought them in packs of two And these are the ones that are for 400 feet not 500 feet. These are the 2018 I bought the 2019 if I if I would have known there was only a hundred feet difference I would have ordered the 2018 instead of the 2020 but I'm thrilled with it. So Several of my family members are going to be getting these and it's just not to find your keys There's a lot of other uses but I was I'm really happy with that and I like to find some unique things So one of these days I will probably have to buy a second key, but I haven't given up hope I have looked everywhere that I know to look And since I was a little stressed that day, there's a chance I I might find it in with my canned goods. Who knows I have the traditional lazy susans in both corners in my kitchen And to get something on bottom jim has some back issues and I was trying to put some of his things up higher That he could easily grab and I thought there's got to be some sort of an organization for lazy susans So I went online. I looked at a lot of different sites and I found something I liked from amazon I started out. I ordered one and I'll put a picture what how it looks like in my cabinet And I liked it so much that I ordered one for my other cabinet I kind of made a mistake. I mean, I love them and I'm but what I made the mistake was I think these were 2299. I could have ordered four from the same company for 59 99 So I'm trying to decide. I know I'd like to have More for each lazy susan. I think you can fit do three around Each level so if I ordered two more I could do I could do like on the on the top Do double decker on the top and leave the bottom for the taller things But I've really been happy with those and it's the little things that are making me really really happy I always have a pair of scissors that I only use on food in the kitchen But I was watching a video from el from the channel el is for living And she had these scissors that you can take apart just like that And I thought I'm going to order a pair because I do like to use scissors in the kitchen And I like to make sure they're clean the ones I had were longer So I only use the you know the longest tip of it because I knew I couldn't clean in there So I ordered these I've been using them. I like them so much. I ordered two pairs gifts So thank you el I uh, I really do like my scissors So I know the people I'm going to give these two are going to like them too I get my son and my son-in-law Some strange gifts, but they always like it. They always know they're going to get something different and that is something I ordered them on One day last month. I I had some things on qvc that I was looking at to buy For christmas gifts and I thought well one of these days rack u10 is going to be A lot of times it's 1% But they throw in 10% Fairly often. So I check every once in a while. I'll go see what rack u10 is paying So one of the things I wanted to order was a couple of these 14 in one Wrenches bionic wrenches Uh, I know the guys will like them. I know they will even if they already have them which they might You know, they could keep one in their car one in their garage So I ordered those and then I saw this earlier in the year On qvc. It's a fire gun stop fire fast for electrical kitchen barbecue and auto So I ordered each of them a pack of four of these And they also had this jump starter on sale Well, when the grandchildren turned 16, this is a gift that I give them And they're small and if you've never seen one before I think this was 79 dollars Um, they come with jumper cables and they have a bag and the cords are in here But this is a has a real powerful light. It'll do flashing red Whatever you want it to do it has two usb ports And if you want to jump your car all you do is you open this up You put this end in here You attach it It tells you exactly what to attach And then you press the button And it'll it will blink green And as soon as it has a solid green light you go and you start your engine and you Go remove it and my grandsons have loved it. I've loved it. Jim loves it I mean like if you're you don't ever have to depend on anybody else If I go out and something's happened and my car won't start if I left a light on I don't even say anything I just get it out and I use it My grandsons have used it several times and they said they have helped some young ladies in distress But it's a really good power bank. You I charge it once a year And I don't know how many charges are in there without it being recharged But it's really good if your power goes off. I can just go outside and get it I can charge My phone so many times. I'm just happy to get it. So all those things I got This one was on sale They all had special prices and I got 10 percent Ebates so that made me happy. I think I spent $35 for makeup type products for me this year I did have a haul that I did. I think I put it up in august. I'm not sure I'll put it here up here and down below And that's when I used some of my ultra ultra reward dollars. I used 125 of them And I bought some things for me and I bought some things for a giveaway I hadn't ordered anything since there next year. I will not be diamond. I will not be platinum I'm will just be a regular ultra purchaser. So we're going to see how many points I can rack up next year I've had a sephora gift card for over a year. I have not ordered one thing from sephora Tomorrow when the 10% I'm just like a regular person on sephora I have two things I want to order. So I hope I'll get those things That that gift card will be closed And I'm also going to tell him not to automatically renew me for the $15 a year free shipping This is the first year that it hasn't been beneficial You can order anything when when you do it In the past when I just wanted to win this or that It's really paid off, but I just haven't been wanting makeup for myself at all Well, there's been something I've had my eye on for quite some time that I thought was a really good deal And I'll show it to you then I'm going to tell you what I paid for It is a trio of eyeshadows by tart and I do like tart eyeshadows And I had them in my favorites for quite some time And I knew I wanted to buy them for gifts Well, I got an email from Ulta and it said they were paying 10 times points on any palette So of course, you know, my brain went off about 10 times points. I think I'm going to look at that So I'm going to buy two of them. I'm going to pay for two of them I want to see how many dollars I earn and when I went to check out Rakuten was 10 percent And what the name of this palette was the get given get palette Anyway, I'm going to tell you I'm going to show you how many dollars I had before I place the order and after Before I place the orders. I still had a hundred and forty eight dollars and fifty cents in ultra reward dollars And they just spend just like cash and after I place this order. I now have two hundred and five dollars So I gained fifty six dollars and fifty cents in ultra reward dollars And nine dollars and eighty cents from Rakuten Now I'm going to show you the palette Because I'm going to do a giveaway, but I'm going to I want to show you the one that I'm not giving away This one I had my eye on for my Daughter and daughter-in-law and I'll show you. I mean, I think they are very nice palettes Without any discount. They you know, if you pay forty nine dollars for them These are like 17 dollars and something apiece and you do get quite a bit of eye shadow And it's very pretty eye shadow the total of my purchase was 98 dollars And if I take away the fifty six fifty and the nine eighty that is a savings of 67 percent I'm going to take it one step further and I'm going to add the tax if you added the eight dollar and 33 cents tax I think it was a hundred and six Thirty eight and if I divide that by six These palettes each cost six dollars and 67 cents. So even throwing in the tax. I still save 62 dollars on it So I'm really happy that I can do a giveaway I'm not going to open them up. I'm going to put I'm going to put the shades right here of the two palettes. I'm giving away and I'm going to have two winners I ordered this gift set to giveaway And I think it was called The carnival getaway and it is the boom boom cream right there it has the Cologne And the shower gel bath gel. I use it as a bath gel So I'm going to have two winners the first winner is going to get these two palettes and I'll show you the colors there and then and This bag a boom boom cream and the second winner is going to get the same two palettes And I'm trying to think what I want you to do if you want to enter And to be interjected to be 18 years older older and leave a comment below I want you to leave a sentence because sometimes if you just put a word It triggers other people that are looking for giveaways So I want you to use it a sentence and just tell me what your favorite flavor is Uh, it could be chocolate. It could be cinnamon. It could be mint. It could be licorice just What is your favorite flavor and the very first person I pick We'll get all three and the second will get the eyeshadows And as always this is international and since this is a giveaway I cannot reply to the comments But if you leave a comment on absolutely any video I've done in the past I can get back to you. It's really easy to get back to you So anyway, it is all good. I hope everyone is doing well and I'll see you in my next video. Thank you for everything and I want you to take care I basically at shit at I've been enjoying my I do like So and I just I just love was the septimp sip like some I usually don't And I know And so I'll go and see what I just get