For two years now, I’ve tried to complete a 90-Day No Shopping Challenge at the first of the year. I’ve failed both times. (I made it 8 and 9 weeks, though. Doesn’t that count for ANYTHING?)
The first thing I do when gearing up for the challenge is unsubscribe from every single retail/flash sale email distribution list possible. You’d be surprised how much less temptation you feel when you don’t wake up to 89,000 sale emails in your inbox every morning. It’s refreshing, quite actually.
But here’s the deal. There are a few stores that I want to keep around – you know, my tried and true favorites. Wouldn’t it be fab if you could learn about all of your favorite retailer promotions in one place (or email)?
Enter Hipiti. Hipiti is all about reducing retail clutter in your inbox, as well as making shopping for sales at your favorite retailers easier and faster. Hipiti is completely customizable, so you only get the offers you want, as frequently as you want them. In addition, Hipiti’s innovative technology makes searching for discounts (online or using your smartphone) simple and quick.
Take a look for yourself! Here’s my dashboard.
At the moment, I’m following 7 stores, and I can control exactly what kind of information I see from each one. Hipiti has awesome filtering capabilities on the email and dashboard – this way you will only get emails on the type of offer you’re most interested in. (For example, only offers that start today or end today; only offers with a promo code, etc.)
I am loving this website hard right now – one email in my inbox a day, and a great user dashboard. Because let’s face it, people. I’m never going to completely cut out clothing shopping. Nope, no can do. However! I can focus on the exact retailers I want, and cut out the rest of the fluff.
Soooo, Hipiti is in private beta right now, but you can start using it via this link. Try it out – I think you might like it. Also, because the co-founders Rama and Kristin rock the casbah, they are offering one lucky commenter a $50 gift certificate to your favorite shopping destination! Yep, wherever your heart desires. How cool is that? Just leave a comment on this post by Friday, July 13th (spooky) at 6pm PST, and you’ll be entered to win. Good luck!
Samantha
July 10, 2012 at 4:24 pmGreat website idea! It really does get annoying to receive so many shopping site emails a day, some of them multiple times.
Hope to win!
Darci
July 10, 2012 at 4:27 pmLove is idea…just what I need as I too do not like 89,000 emails
Sarah
July 10, 2012 at 5:01 pmCool link, thanks so much! I’m going to try it because my email inbox is out of control. It’s worse than my snail mailbox that is overflowing with catalogs.
Joy
July 10, 2012 at 5:23 pmThis sounds great! My inbox has gotten crazy lately and this sounds like the perfect solution.
Sara
July 10, 2012 at 5:40 pmSounds fantastic! I am so going to love this!!
Mea
July 10, 2012 at 6:14 pmI’ve been tempted to unsubscribe from so many retailer sites but stopped in the process, for fear I’d miss a great deal. This is brilliant and will save my already obese email inbox. Thank you!
Livivua
July 10, 2012 at 6:20 pmThis is a great tool!
Christina
July 10, 2012 at 6:38 pmI think I might love this! Thanks for sharing!
Amy
July 10, 2012 at 7:26 pmThis rocks, thanks for the heads up!
Vivian
July 10, 2012 at 7:59 pmSuperb idea! Perfect solution!
Stephanie
July 10, 2012 at 8:18 pmGreat giveaway! Loving this!
Arturo
July 10, 2012 at 9:18 pmThis is so useful! Thanks for sharing.
Alice
July 11, 2012 at 4:56 amThis is brilliant!
Julia
July 11, 2012 at 5:43 amThis is the best idea ever! Now I can unsubscribe from all those junk e-mails that tempt me! Thanks, Sarah!
Jenny
July 11, 2012 at 5:51 amBrilliant!