Motrin Moms

Homemakers everywhere will want to know about these happenings, from new features to expensive prizes to coupon codes for holiday shopping!  Plus, get the the scoop on the MotrinMomsGate scandal from the weekend.  Stay tuned for freebies and free samples, just around the corner.

Announcing contributor Dr. Hubbard from My Family Doctor magazine!

We have an exciting announcement to make today:  Homemaker Barbi has a new contributing writer who will be writing for our Health Corner column- Dr. James Hubbard of My Family Doctor Magazine!  We’re so excited to have a medical doctor providing timely health information that homemakers, moms, dads and household managers need to know.  Look for the first Health Corner column to appear Tuesday, November 18th.  Feel free to e-mail ideas/suggestions you’d like to see in our Health Corner column to Health@HomemakerBarbi.com. 

Motrin Angers Moms – Have You Heard?

Motrin released an online commercial over the weekend that has moms across the world in an uproar.  I like to call the scandal MotrinMomsGate (hey-it’s an election year!  Can’t I make up my own ‘gate?!).  Watch the scandalous Motrin commercial here.

The focus of the commercial is babywearing moms who carry their little ones in slings and characters.  Seems like a nice commercial, right?  Well, the voiceover, narration and condescending wording have caused such a disturbance in the mom community that Operation Twitterstorm was launched!  Motrin’s commercial says moms look “crazy and tired”… oh boy.  Moms everywhere voiced their disapproval on Twitter, forcing Motrin to figure out where they went wrong.  What do you think about the MotrinMoms scandal?  Leave us a comment!

Expensive Prizes for You!

As we get closer to the holidays, watch for the values of the Saturday Giveaways prizes to increase dramatically!  If you didn’t enter to win the iPod shuffle, $100 shopping spree, Bosch blender, ZUNE media player ($230), or $50 Visa gift card, go to Saturday Giveaways to sign up.  And as always, if you are having a giveaway on your blog feel free to link your giveaway.

Holiday sales and coupon codes

Retailers are starting to offer free shipping and great specials to pump up holiday sales.  Following are the offers that showed up in our email today:

Kmart.com is doing free shipping on the online orders over $49.00 (excludes TVs, furniture, and computers).  They also have 40% off all women’s sleepwear and robes.  Expires 11/22/O8.

Organize.com is offering 20% off select china storage and 8% off purchases of $35 or more.

Roamans.com (women’s clothing) is offering 35% off your highest priced item using coupon code RD16660 (expires 11/24/08).

Chadwicks.com (women’s clothing) is offering $50 off $150 purchase or $25 off $75 purchase with coupon code CHGIVE (expires 11/23/08).

Amazon’s holiday toy list is out, and rumor has it that they have planned some awesome doorbuster sales for Black Friday shopping (day after Thanksgiving).

Dr. Hubbard’s photo courtesy of my family Dr. Magazine.