Shop for FREE with your BDO Rewards Card!

Saving and Shopping has never been this rewarding! 

If like me, you have a BDO Rewards Card that is!

Because from now until December 31, 2014, BDO Rewards cardholders get to shop for FREE at our favorite stores! Just imagine if you have 100,000 rewards points. That’s equivalent to a Php100,000 shopping spree! 

How? We just simply convert our BDO Rewards points from qualified BDO bank transactions, SM and retail partner purchases to gift certificates from RSSI (Benefit Cosmetics, Shiseido, Topshop, River Island, Warehouse, Howards Storage World, True Value, Daiso Japan, etc), Resorts World Manila (Adidas, Bally, Beyond the Box, Bvlgari, Pandora, Rimowa, Rolex, etc) and select Lucky Chinatown Mall stores, Rustans, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, Mango, 7 for All Mankind and more. 

Redemption is easy! If you are already a BDO Rewards cardholders just go to your BDO branch of account and look for the branch manager or marketing officer to fill up the redemption form. Another way to convert points is through the BDO Rewards call center hotline, at +02 631-8000 

Branch or call center will then submit request to BDO Rewards Marketing and your GCs will be delivered to your branch of account so you can claim your GCs. 

If you don’t have a BDO Rewards card, but your parents or a sibling has one, you may redeem their points for shopping GCs, with their permission, of course. To save them the hassle, you can even be the one to do the redemption for them, all you need is an authorization letter! 

To get a taste of what’s it like to shop for FREE with a BDO Rewards card, join the BDO Rewards Giveaway! 

Three winners will each get Php2,500 in SM Movie passes and 2,500 Starbucks GCs. 

Just retweet “I want to win the #BDOrewardsGiveaway!” and link to https://www.bdo.com.ph/bdo-rewards/special-offers 

Contest starts on Nov 20, 2014 and last day for entries is on Nov 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM. Join, Join, Join!

Sweet REUNIONS with Western Union

I know what it’s like to live abroad and miss life back home with family and friends.

Now that we’ve moved back, I also can’t help but miss our closest friends who I haven’t seen for years now. Like my friend, Xsa. 

We used to both live on the East Coast. We’d visit her in PA, and she’d drive over for Thanksgiving, or just to hang out with us over the weekend, so we can shop in SoHo and walk around Manhattan, while catching up on life.

Last time we visited Xsa, I was still pregnant with Berry! That’s over 5 years ago!

So I get it. Reunions are practically like life events. It holds so much meaning, even in this age of Skype, Viber, and Facebook where we can chat with loved ones and friends real time. Because there’s nothing like catching up on life face to face, especially over a spread of sorely missed Filipino dishes.

That is why I am so excited to share with you dear readers, Western Union’s new promotion - Western Union Reunions. Because if there’s one thing we all have in common, regardless of means and family backgrounds, is that we Filipinos value relationships and get sentimental when it comes to nurturing the ties that bind us to family and friends.

Western Union, in partnership with Philippine Airlines, is giving away a total of 30 roundtrip tickets to Filipinos residing in EACH participating country abroad such as Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Norway, and more, so they can bring them home to be reunited with their loved ones. 

Because really, the best kind of treat for a homesick Pinoy, is a free roundtrip ticket back home. She’ll surely find time in her busy, busy schedule to fly back in a flash to see loved ones, even just for a short while.

To be eligible, all they need to do is send money to the Philippines for a chance to win roundtrip tickets back home. That simple! 

For more details, visit http://bit.ly/WReUnionCA.

Smart Family Ties + Instagram the Fam!

While Berry & Xavi are too young to be carrying around their own mobile phones, here's something for those of you with school aged kids who have been bugging for their own mobile numbers!

Smart recently launched the Smart Family Ties postpaid plan, which comes with three lines and three handsets. You and your family members get to choose from this array of smartphones like the O+ USA 8.2, O+ USA 8.31, Lenovo A269i, Alcatel Magic, Lenovo A369i and the O+ 8.37:

Family Ties Plan 900 includes unlimited calling within the family circle, unlimited SMS to Smart subscribers and 200 all-network texts, as well as 100MB of free data for each line.

Family Ties Plan 1800 comes with unlimited calls and texts to all Smart subscribers, 200 free all-network texts and 300MB of free monthly data for each line.

If you've got more than one kid, no prob! Family Ties subscribers may add up to six additional lines per subscription by just adding P300 per line for Plan 900 and P600 per line for Plan 1800.

Ayan, no excuse not to stay in touch!

But the best reason why you should go for a Smart Family Ties plan is the SAFETY feature via the Vodafone Guardian app:

In partnership with telco leader Vodafone, Smart will be exclusively offering the Vodafone Guardian App as a pre-installed app on smartphones, available under the Family Ties Plans. 

The Vodafone Guardian app works like a virtual parent in a sense. With just a few taps on the app, parents can set call and text-messaging filters and ban certain numbers from contacting their children, which helps prevent the risk of cyberbullying.

The Vodafone Guardian App also allows parents to block certain features at certain times, such as banning the use of games when it's homework time. The app offers enough flexibility so that parents can tailor-fit how the app protects their children based on their unique parenting styles. 

To celebrate the launch of the Smart Family Ties plan, Smart launched their online promo: #SmartFamilyTies and a TVC just this Wednesday, inviting supermoms Janice Villanueva of Mommy Mundo and SoMoms and PR practitioner Ana Ongpin to talk about how technology helps in keeping families stay closer.

Host Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan, multi-tasking moms Janice Villanueva & Ana Ongpin, Smart Postpaid Marketing Head Kathy Carag and Smart Postpaid Brand Manager Guia Laurel

And now, more on the promo. Smart wants you to post your family photos on Instagram, with a possibility of your family to be featured in their online ads.

There will be different themes in the next few months. For every theme, winners get a chance to win smartphones, restaurant GCs and other cool prizes. The grand prize at the end of the campaign is an overnight stay in Sofitel for the entire amily.

See below for the complete mechanics or visit http://smrt.ph/familytiespromo for more details!

To kick-off, this week's  theme is Graduation! Entries are accepted until March 21, 2014 and the winning photo will be featured in Smart ads from March 28 to April 5, 2014. Join na!

WeChat Valentine’s Day Promo

Want to win an iPad Air for that person you love the most?

This February 10-16, simply post a photo with your “Valentine” – it could be your significant other, family, friend or pet! - on your Facebook wall, write a witty caption using the hashtag #WeLove and tag @WeChatPH. 

The Most Popular Photo, with the most number of “Shares” and “Likes” will get to take home an iPad Air.

The Most Creative Photo, the Sweetest Photo, and the most Touching Photo will garner 1,000 diamonds on Gunz Dash. It ain’t real diamonds, but they’re still diamonds of some value!

For more on WeChat, please visit www.wechat.com

Webpage: http://www.wechat.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/WeChatPH 
Twitter: @WeChatPH

Help MANGO Build Classrooms + Gift With Your Purchase

When you shop at any MANGO store here in the Philippines this month of November, a percentage of the amount you spend will be going to the ABS-CBN Sagip Kapamilya Foundation. The proceeds will be used towards rebuilding classrooms in the most affected regions of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. This, on top of the donation MANGO has already sent to ABS-CBN last November 14, 2013. 

There's something for you too when you shop at MANGO.

This cute 20" polka dot hard case carry-on luggage, which you can get for free, for a minimum spend of Php10,000.

As for you guys, when you reach the Php10,000 minimum spend at H.E. by MANGO, you get this limited edition 4GB USB flash drive which is shaped like a Zippo lighter.

If you have a MANGO RCBC Bankard, you only need a minimum spend of P8,000. Both promos are ongoing until December 8, 2013 only. 

Follow MANGO! 
Facebook: http://facebook.com/mango.com 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Mango
YouTube: http://youtube.com/mangofashion
Instagram: @Mango
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/mangofashion

Sofia + Security Bank Cash Rewards

I have been meaning to get my hands on this issue of Vogue Australia, because of Sofia Coppola on the cover: 

So it was with much happiness that I saw the magazine stall in Podium selling it, woohoo!

As with most mall magazine stands,"Cash Only", pare. Well, so what. My August 2013 issue of Vogue Australia was just one of the many things I can buy with my Security Bank Cash Rewards, so OK lang. Heehee.

Have you joined the Security Bank Cash Rewards Photo Contest on Facebook? There will be 13 winners of P5,000 every week from July 25 to October 22, 2013. My friend Kris almost won Php5,000 by just by submitting a photo of how she would spend her Cash Reward. Luckily for us, the T&C's made her not eligible to win because she owned the agency, heehee.

Simply post photos of unique and hard-to-find items that you would like to use Cash Rewards for.

The more unique and interesting the item, the greater the chance of being chosen! Criteria for judging the photos:

• Creativity/Originality Uniqueness of item/experience 50% 
• Technical Excellence Clarity and Quality of image 15%
• Caption/Description Story 15% 
• Online Votes No. of photo likes on FB app 20%

Php5,000 is given away weekly until October 22, 2013. Join, join, join!

Disclaimer: All the images submitted must be the work of individual submitting them. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. You are providing information to Security Bank and not to Facebook. All images submitted by the participants may be used for merchandising later on.

Security Bank Cash Rewards + Photo Contest on Facebook

Don't you just abhor "Cash Only" stores and restos?

Cash Only? Thanks, but no thanks!

Or maybe that's just me. And Karrots. Because we hardly bring cash. Maybe enough for parking and such lang. 

When we are out, and the SA or waiter tells us, "Cash only po", we look at each other with panic. Sorry na lang, but no deal happening if there's no ATM in sight.

Maybe Security Bank has folks like us in mind. Because they want to reward their bank account holders with cash. Yes, cold. hard. cash. 

Add fresh funds, apply for & use a VISA/MC card, or enroll for online banking or bills payment and you automatically get rewarded with cash to spend any way you like. No expiry dates to keep track of or gift certificates that might get lost involved.

Spend your cash any way you like, anywhere. They will definitely come in handy when like me, you would want to:

- shop for kids clothes at bazaars, like at the recent Mom Pop Up! at Kensington Place in Fort Bonifacio.

- hoard gorgeous home accents at the Greenhills tiangge.

- or buy a quirky cocktail ring from a store that just opened and hasn't installed their credit card terminal yet.

No credit card? No checks? No GC? No problem!

Speaking of which, go and join the Security Bank Cash Rewards Photo Contest on Facebook, where you can win Php5,000 just by submitting a photo of how you will spend your Cash Reward.

Simply post photos of unique and hard-to-find items that you would like to use Cash Rewards for.

The more unique and interesting the item, the greater the chance of being chosen! Php5,000 is given away weekly. Join, join, join!

The Itsie-Bitsie Shopping Spree + Fall Collection

When you shop at Itsie-Bitsie beginning August 17 up until September 16, you get a chance to win a shopping spree worth Php20,000 at this thoughtfully curated boutique! Every Php5,000 purchase entitles clients to a raffle stub. More details on the promotion here:

While at it, might as well browse through their Fall arrivals. Because guess what! Itsie-Bitsie will be bringing in K. Jacques (one of my favorite shoe brands, super chic and a guaranteed classic!)...

...as well as pieces from gypset fave Antik Batik and the casual cool label Elizabeth & James! I have three words for you - Must.Drop.By.

Itsie-Bitsie
RS 114 & 119 Joya Lofts & Towers
Joya Drive, Rockwell Center Makati
Mon-Sun, 10am-8pm

Refresh & Renew with Fashion Forum & The Spa

When you refresh your wardrobe with the new Spring and Summer arrivals at Fashion Forum Megamall, Makati, Mall of Asia and North EDSA, and spend a minimum of Php8,000 in a single receipt, you get to refresh your spirit too with a FREE 60 minute Deluxe Massage gift certificate from The Spa.

Offer started Easter Sunday, April 8 and will go on until April 30, or when supplies last.

Participating The Spa branches include: Acropolis, The Fort, Trinoma, Alabang and Greenbelt.

ShopSpotting

My friend Kat has this official but fun gig of spotting and featuring online stores who accept SMART Money as a form of payment.

So if you own an online store and you accept SMART Money, you may want to say hello and comment on her blog, Kat Dy Finds, so she gets to "spotcheck" all your interesting products. Who knows, it could be "spotted"!

For online sellers who haven't signed up for the service, SMART is inviting online sellers to sign up and join the ShopSpotting Promo.

According to Kat, judges will choose their favorite online store to win the grand prize of P50,000 to be credited to their SMART Money account. Sounds like a great deal. That's enough to buy more stocks, or work on your website.

The Itsie-Bitsie Shopping Spree Promo!

Here's how:

Win a Prada on AVA!

Here's your chance to win a gorgeous gold saffiano wallet from Prada, worth $495!

How? Sign up for an AVA account, and invite 5 friends to join as well! The more friends you invite, the greater your chances of winning! Eeeeeee! So exciting! 

Here's a tip to get more friends to sign-up. Once you join, post a link of your personal invite in your blog or on Facebook so you can really spread the word!

If you haven't joined yet, sign up -->  HERE! Promo ends on March 31, 2011.

AVA.ph is the first homegrown invitation only shopping site in the Philippines, where you can get the hottest labels at up to 70% off.

VMV's Fantastic Five Days of Facebook

Join VMV Hypoallergenics' "Fantastic Five Days of Facebook"!

Just "like" VMV Hypoallergenics Facebook page and participate in their 5 day activity to get a chance to win VMV goodies such as a VMVanity Kit & lipsticks. This is your chance to score discounts as well! 

Once a fan of VMV Hypoallergenics Facebook page, you  get alerts on their latest product launches, get to be in on the latest skin secrets, take part in skinteractions with fellow VMV lovers and of course, get direct access to the folks at VMV!

"Fantastic Five Days of Facebook" will run from March 14 - 18, 2011. "Like" the VMV Hypoallergenics Facebook page now!

Tory Burch Key Fob Promo

Have you started on your Christmas shopping yet? Now's the time, especially when there's a "free gift with purchase" thing going on at shops. Because who doesn't get a kick out of freebies! Take for instance Tory Burch's key fob promo:

As a pre-holiday treat, Tory Burch Greenbelt 5 will be giving away this free Tory Burch Reva key fob for every single receipt purchase of P15,000 on regular price handbags and small leather goods.

Promo runs from October 16 to November 19 only.