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MissionCute, who kindly sent me this box to review, is a monthly subscription box full of cute stuff, but with a mission. Each MissionCute box comes with at least 2 items made by small-but-mighty artisans and local businesses and each month they partner with a different nonprofit to help promote their mission. 50% of the net proceeds of each box are donated to the chosen monthly nonprofit (this month is EKUBO Ministries) and MissionCute also sponsors and works on a service project each month in their community.
Mission Cute
Cost: From $29/month
Ships To: United States.
Coupon Code: N/A
MissionCute ships via USPS and took just a few days to arrive to me. Mission Cute boxes ship on the 15th of the month. If you subscribe before the 10th of the month you will receive that month’s box. If you subscribe after the 10th of the month, your subscription will start the following month.
I couldn’t tell anything at all from the first look. As usual though everything was neatly packaged and looked very cute!
As I mentioned before, the August 2014 MissionCute partner is “EKUBO Ministries” and 50% this month’s proceeds will be donated to them. EKUBO Ministries’ goal is to serve the vulnerable children and developing strong and sustainable communities in Uganda. Here is what was included:
~CapaBunga Wine Cap ($4.50): Ohh, this is great! It’s a cap for your wine bottle. I do sometimes destroy or lose the cork and I don’t always love wine stoppers because they are always SO tall and don’t fit in my fridge. This is just a small cap and solves both of those problems.
~Ekubo Ministries Bracelet ($7): I love this bracelet. I love it! It’s handmade out of discarded paper which is then rolled into beads. It’s just so pretty and the colors are gorgeous. I cannot even believe this is only $7. Incredible.
~Sparrow Bird Key House ($6): I actually have received one of these in a box a while back and I am not totally sure what happened to that guy? WB saw this one though and wants it to be his “birdie” so I will get him some keys to hang up on it!
~Proper Milled Soap ($2.40): B actually received this in a Birchbox a while back and it smells amazing! I am planning to steal this one for myself. I didn’t realize it before, but Proper Soap is paired with iDE to improve access to clean water for those around the world.
~Headband ($12): I don’t know that I am stylish enough to wear this out of the house, but this headband is awesome to wear around the house. It’s nice and stretchy so it doesn’t give me a headache, but at the same time it’s thick enough to keep my hair pulled back and out of my face.
All totaled I came up with a value of $31.90 for the August 2014 MissionCute box! It should be more though because that bracelet (at least in my opinion) should be way more than $7! I need to know exactly how this is made and how long it takes. I am fascinated that it’s just paper, but is so gorgeous! Ahh, I love it!
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I have a few paper-bead items, and I adore them. As for my sparrow, she flew off to somewhere else in the house. Lol
Ha!!!!!
This is cute. The sparrow caught me by surprise. It looks a little “strange” on my screen.
I’d love to know what you thought it was!
Not something family friendly LOL.
My sister is visiting. I called her over to the screen and she thought it was a finger or something not family friendly . I’m sure it looks better out of the box.
Oh that wine cap is awesome. My mom has the same issue at her house and the wine is always leaning due to the stopper or she will break the stopper so that it will fit. Both solutions drive me crazy when I open her fridge. I need to get her some of these for christmas.
My fridge is tall, but it’s just so hard to have all that height for wine + a stopper!
For some reason the wine cap is the thing I really, really want. It makes so much sense, and I can think of several people to gift it to also!
What a great box you got this month! I love Ugandan paper bead jewelry. Btw, speaking of which, have you heard of 31bits? http://31bits.com/ Their stuff is beautiful (I don’t work for them or anything, but just thought you’d be interested).
Thanks for this awesome blog!
I haven’t heard of them but I will check them out!