Arianna Huffington Quarterly Box Review – #ARI04

I just received my box and it did not contain a gift card ($25) from Thrive. I emailed them and was told the boxes only contain the membership code, but no gift card. Had I known that, I may have thought twice about starting this subscription. How did some subscribers get them???

I just activated my Thrive membership. I was annoyed because it looked like I had to choose between the 15% off for the new order or applying the free membership but when I removed the 15% off coupon and added the membership they still took the 15% off! So far so good. The selection isn’t quite what I would hope but if the shipping ends up being quick this might be a nice way to shop and if the service is popular I imagine they will expand their selection.

It seems as though Mala beads are very popular in subscription boxes right now! I don’t know that I’d ever really heard much of them before a month or two ago. I am neither spiritual nor into yoga, and wouldn’t know what to do with them other than give them away or wear them as jewelry, which I’ve seen other commenters say is not the point. Other than that, I don’t think I would really use anything in this box.

Liz is this box sold out?

I love this box! I got mine early last week and have used every item. My Thrive membership code didn’t work when I tried to use it on Friday but by Saturday customer service had gotten back to me with a new code that worked like a charm. Some of my pantry staples are much less through Thrive than Amazon Prime, yes shipping is slow but I don’t mind since I pre-plan meals for 2-3 weeks and order staples before I am out of them.

The bath salts are delightful.

The beads are new to me but I’ve been using them when I get stressed and they help me to focus.

I have always had trouble falling asleep at night and the rest well beverage seems to be helping; the real test will be this week when I go back to work. I’ve also been using the journal as a “blessing counter”. I regularly journal my day but that includes good and bad things. I’ve found by keeping a running tally of just the good right before bed, I’m in a much better frame of mind.

I got this box and really love it. The Rest Well is very relaxing. I’ve been wearing the Mala daily. I bought it for the thrive membership. My code did not work either, but they were able to issue me a new code very quickly. I already utilized the $25 gift card, it was very easy and no strings attached. the bath salts are gorgeous, and a large size. This will go into my gift pile because it is so lovely. This was my first ariana box, and I am super pleased with it.

I posted this in the spoiler thread but I’m posting it here too in case anyone is curious to hear my experience with thrive so far.

I am doing the 30-day free membership to thrive and have had some issues. they offered me a free eye cream with my order but I didn’t get one (later said it was because they ran out). They sent me perishables without a cold pack. They said I could return them at my expense and the implication was that they’d resell them. After I complained about all of this they offered me 10% off my next order and said they were looking into using cold packs in the future. I haven’t had the best first impression but they’re new and maybe they’re still working out the kinks. Oh yeah, it was over two weeks from the time I ordered until the time the box arrived.

Most of the prices were very good though!

I loved this box! I have already activated my membership and used the gift card. I did a price comparison of Thrive Market and Amazon Prime and Thrive was cheaper on 8 out of 10 items. I am also going to start taking digestive bitters and urban moonshiners bitters were 40% less on Thrive. I also loved the bath salts and Malaysia but haven’t tried the rest well yet. For me, Arianna had one less than ideal box but I have loved all her others.

So, the Thrive website is down. I was gonna have a look at the things they offer (since the only thrive I’ve heard about is the stored/freeze dried, etc foods).

The box in a whole looks nice though.

This is a nice box, but I am a little put off by quarterly after seeing a few of the past boxes. I subscribe to the Nina Garcia, Pharrell Williams, and YA BookRiot. I liked the recent Nina Garcia but another subscriber mentioned that a few of the brands were owned by a parent company and that maybe Nina didn’t really hand pick all the products. And in my Pharrell box I recieved a bracelet that was from the same company as this boxes necklace. It just makes me wonder how much input these celebs really have on these boxes. Some things definately seem stragetically placed.