 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and I'm here today to talk to you about why I'm no longer subscribed to any beauty boxes just to chit chat and to announce two winners of the IT cosmetics today special value giveaway. I've loved makeup ever since I can remember. I've just loved everything about it. The very first subscription box or bag or whatever subscription service that I ever subscribed to was called Cosmetic and I'll type the words up here because I'm not going to put any links for any of these subscription services below. I'm sure I read about this Cosmetic in a magazine and if any of you all got that let me know. It was so cool. At the time that a lot of the brands that they had in their monthly subscription we couldn't find around here. So it was my very first introduction to subscription and I subscribed to that for years and the last one that I used to purchase and it was before I knew YouTube beauty videos existed was a QVC beauty test tube. I found some great products from there. It was a quarterly subscription. I mean you could cancel it at any time but I found so many things I really liked and they quit having it. I think you can get it somewhere else but I just was never inclined to do that. The next one I remember subscribing to was Birchbox and that was probably in like 2010 2011 and it was $10 a month and you just got an assortment of things and I kept that for probably a year and then I found Ipsy. Well I loved Ipsy. You would get a hot pink envelope in the mail sticking out of my mailbox every month and what I couldn't use. I have a lot of female family members and friends. If something didn't work for me I could easily pass it along and I enjoyed that until probably December of last year. So I canceled that and all those subscriptions were long before I started watching YouTube videos and I started watching YouTube videos in late 2013. Well after I started watching them I decided I wanted to subscribe to the Allure box and I thought it was great. In fact I used to do videos on comparing if it was actually worth it or not and you know like dividing down how many ounces for the you know I just I just really enjoyed that and I was probably subscribed to that for about a year and then I think the next one was Glossy Box and again they had great products. I did some Glossy Box reviews but it just got to the point I was getting too many things. Then FabFitFun contacted me that's a seasonal subscription box and they sent me several seasons and then I decided I wanted to buy it on my own because what I liked about it if you subscribed for a year you could pick out I think five of the eight items or something like that. I was trying to buy one season of the subscription box for one of my viewers and it really aggravated me that they didn't have e-gift cards for the price of one box. So that's a whole other video but anyway I'm no longer subscribed to that. I do miss it. When I canceled my Ipsy I got an email a couple days later and they said do you want to try the Ipsy Glam plus box and it was like $25 or $27 a month and I got two of those and I've canceled that. So this is the first time in many many years that I don't have a subscription service and I tell you I do kind of miss having something to look forward to but I'll tell you what I miss more than anything is the envelope from Ipsy coming to my mailbox every month but I don't think I'm going to be subscribed to anything. Jim and I are doing very well staying in even though we're not used to being in the home all the time 24-7 together. It's gone a lot better than I kind of thought because Jim somebody that likes to get out and about I thought it would be hard on him but it hasn't been. I tell you something I have learned to kind of kind of enjoy my skincare since I've been home. It's just something that has been normal so I don't dread doing my skincare like I did. I tell you I'm so happy I listened to my mother and her frugal ways. She lived through the depression and there's so many things that I've learned from her and I'm not wasteful. I've never been wasteful and I'm happy that I'm not. The last nine years of my career I worked with a fabulous psychiatrist and anytime he saw a patient I was in the room with him. One of the questions he always asked the patients that were anxious or depressed is how much cable news do you watch in a day and a lot of the time it was 24-7 and he told them he said watch your local news and read your newspaper because it will provide to you all the information you need and you won't get stressed out and I pretty well followed that. I've never been one to have cable news on Jim is but a lot of times he watches from another room. On March 6th I had some lab work done. I have to get routine lab work and my cardiologist from St. Louis wanted my electrolytes done and a panel of some sort. Well it wasn't fasting but a lot of times my blood work isn't fasting and when I saw the results and nobody has said anything to me my non-fasting blood sugar was 117. Well it has never been that high and it's not bad for a non-fasting blood sugar but on March 6th I decided to truly clean up what I was eating and I have been excellent ever since and to tell you the truth I'm really proud of myself because when you're in what do you think of a lot of times oh what sounds good what can I eat next and I'm just determined to the next time I have lab work done to go in and have it drawn non-fasting that my blood sugar is going to be lower and that is really motivating to me. I plan to continue uploading videos on Sunday as long as I have something I want to talk about and usually I find something I want to talk about. I have two sisters that watch me every Sunday one of them comments and one of them doesn't and the one of the one that usually doesn't she said to me she said when she brought up my video last Sunday the reds the box was red and that meant she wasn't subscribed to me she said I never did hit the unsubscribe button she said so something's going on so if you all are wanting to be subscribed make sure that the button beneath my videos is not red. I went to announce the winners of the QVC TSV giveaway. The first place winner receives it celebration foundation it's a powder foundation and the brush and that's what I have on today I have the celebration foundation on today and I did my little random comment picker and the first name that came up was Rose Brennan. Rose since your number one even though you said second you'll get the brush and the powder unless you don't want the brush but it's yours and so I hit the button and another name came up and that this name was Cindy Forster. Cindy you also get an IT cosmetic celebration foundation and if you want it I will give you my brush but that's just optional so congratulations to Cindy and congratulations to Rose. Since I've been an adult any time that I bring new clothing, bedding, brushes, no matter what it is I never use anything unless I wash it because you never know where it's been so even though I wash this brush of course you need to wash your brush and of course you need to wash this brush. The only thing I didn't ever launder was something that had to be dry cleaned and I would hang it outside for half a day and that's just what my mother told me to do and if you're still here this is going to be another giveaway. I don't want to mail any more packages I will mail these but I just want to reward the people that hang in there that watch my videos and because I really do appreciate you and today I'm going to do three $25 e-gift cards or a $25 deposit in your PayPal account whatever you want that's what you will get and let me think and you know this will be up for three days it isn't international giveaway since this is a giveaway I cannot reply to your comments but if you go to any video that I have up you know I'll be I'll get right back to you. You just have to be 18 years old or older be subscribed to my channel before this video goes live and in the comment section just tell me what your favorite flower is that's what I want to know so anyway it is all good I appreciate you all truly more than you will ever know and I will see you in my next video take care. It's red since it gives since this is it since is it had so many different and that just kind of ticked me off like the $60 and they haven't changed anyway. I was trying to buy a subscription one but when I come when I I promise I didn't unsubscribe I promise I didn't unsubscribe but you know what I miss more than anything and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna and I just didn't need to get in the meantime