Score Luxe – Luxury With A Sweet Price

Chanel, Nordstrom, Crate and Barrel, Neiman Marcus, Amazon. All businesses I love to frequent, or at least dream about.

What if I told you, you could purchase luxury items from these businesses and others for a fraction of the price?

And what if I told you, it was guaranteed 100% authentic and purchased from the original stores and high-end retailers?

Score Luxe makes this all possible with its luxury penny auction site created by a team of financial professionals in August 2010 with more than 60 years experience in online marketing. Based in New Jersey, their mission is simple and customer focused:

To provide our users a fun and dynamic auction experience giving them unprecedented access to luxury items up to 95%+ off retail.

Here’s how it works. Each customer purchases bids for as little as $0.99. There are many packages so that you are able to buy multiple bids at one time. Once you find an item you are interested in, make a bid, and just as you would at an auction house, watch your item, bidding only when someone has out bid you, and if there is time still left.

For example, you can begin bidding on a $100 Amazon gift card and potentially only have to pay $10 if you are the highest bidder, plus the price of the bids you had to make. And keep in mind, each bid only increases the price of the item by $0.01, while only a minimum of 30 seconds is added to the auction timer with each bid made.

Some may ask, How does this work and still allow the company to make a profit? It’s simple, “If a product sells for $1.00, we will generate $99 in bid purchase revenue plus the $1.00 auction sales price.  This would enable [Score Luxe] to break even on a $1,000 product if it was to sell for approximately $10.00.”

And not only are you receiving a luxury item at a great reduction, shipping costs will also be handled by Score Luxe. Rest assured, if for whatever reason you are not happy with the item you have purchased, you can return it for a full refund (except the price of your bids to purchase the item).

When I was introduced to this site recently, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of it and taken advantage of it sooner. While I state very clearly that I only place sponsors on The Simply Luxurious Life that I myself would use or recommend to my family and friends, I have to say, without reservations, this is a perfect fit for simple luxury. Not only are you able to purchase items that you truly want, but you’re able to pay a discounted price, and you only have to pay exactly what you’re comfortable with. Having control of your purchasing power is something that is welcomed indeed.

 

More Powder!

Luxury is something that you should experience in your day to day routine.  Luxury can be found in the simplest tasks, the once thought to be mundane routines and that is why a woman’s bathroom should exude a beautiful personal aesthetic. 

Recently I have been engrossed with Debra Ollivier’s Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl, and found her commentary on the powder room to be quite true.  The beauty you share with the world is ultimately the first face someone sees, so it is imperative that it express the confidence of the beautiful woman you believe yourself to be.  Your bathroom is a sacred place and should be decorated with care.  Whether it be changing the wall color, hanging wallpaper, positioning a gorgeous mirror or placing antique perfume bottles on a shelf, the decor you choose should actively propel you to linger, to take a bit more care each time you step in to enhance your natural beauty.  Below are a handful of bathrooms I wouldn’t mind lingering in.  Which would like to spend time in? I’d love to hear.  Have a wonderful Tuesday.

 

 

Images: (1) This Is Glamorous (2) Elle Decor (3) House Beautiful (4) House Beautiful (5) House Beautiful (6) House Beautiful (7) House Beautiful (8) Manolo Home

Rooms of Inspiration – Shelves of Comfort

As a kid I always had my nose in a book.  Charlotte’s Web was my first official novel, and I was thrilled and felt quite accomplished to have read it by myself in 2nd grade, or was that 3rd?  Who remembers, 2nd sounds good though, doesn’t?  Anyway, Nancy Drew was next.  I absolutely loved her character – strong, independent, beautiful and intelligent.  Who wouldn’t have wanted to be cracking crimes left and right?  Maybe that’s why I’m also a fan of Murder, She Wrote?  Anyways, I’m digressing terribly.

As I recall the importance books have played in my life, I begin to realize why having them around me is so tremendously comforting.  It is in a book you can escape to when you are in a position where you’re waiting for something to happen – a hair appointment, the train to arrive or someone special to step off of the plane.   It is a book you can turn to when your mind is exhausted from the day’s events.  It is a book you can depend on when you can’t quite find the answer to the question just yet. A habit I try to keep is to always have a book in my purse just in case an opportunity presents itself.  After all, you never know.

I’ve always felt that the best gift in the world, for me at least, would be to have an unlimited gift card to Amazon or a local bookstore.   To be able to purchase books like candy and add them to my collection, what a luxury that would be.

Looking around my decor each time I have moved, the books I have collected reveal the past I have just completed.   It makes me smile, but also reveals how much I’ve grown, how diversified my tastes have become, and it thrills me as I become curious of what books lie in my future.

With that said, below are a gathering of rooms filled with books and magazines in their own unique way.  Each one would be a pleasure to spend time in whether it be to peruse through the collection or to simply read just one book and then drift sleepily off into a nap. 

Out of curiosity, what role do books play in your life?  And which room calls to your taste?  Here’s to finding the next book that you can’t put down until you’ve finished. May you find it in the near future, or even better, maybe it’s already on your nightstand waiting for you this evening. Enjoy the escape.

 

Images: (1) Oliveaux (2) Elle Decor (3) Point and Click Home (4) Elle Decor – Badgley Mischka’s home (5) So Haute (6)Traditional Home (7) Elle Decor (8) Traditions Journal (9) Elle Decor (10)Traditions Journal (11)   Elle Decor (12) House Beautiful (13)Traditions Journal (14)The City Sage (15)Ticklish From A Distance (16)Elle Decor (17)La Dolce Vita