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You may have noticed that there was no Wednesday email this week. I'm sorry! In my defense, this was a holiday-shortened week that made things especially frantic here at Boredwalk HQ.
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Airing grievances the old fashioned way. ✍🏽
🤔 Guess what it's a perfect day for?
How Can I Get Boredwalk Discount Codes or Coupon Codes?
We get a lot of messages from people asking us about discount codes and coupon codes. To start, I just want to make sure people know that we usually have some kind of discount going for orders above a certain dollar amount. We update our promo code page every time we run a new discount or coupon. We also announce flash sales and limited time promotions via email, SMS, and social media. The best way to find out about those discounts, coupon codes, and sales is to follow us on social media or sign up for email or SMS notifications.
We know our products aren't the cheapest, but we do aim to offer fantastic value for our price point. Here are a few factors that go into our pricing and limit our ability to offer deeper Boredwalk discounts:
1. Product Quality
We are very particular about product quality. Before your product ships it's been inspected by multiple team members for defects. While it is rare that a hard-to-find defect slips through (such as a sewing defect in a hard-to-spot location like the underarm of a shirt), we catch product defects in most instances and never knowingly ship subpar products out the door.
If we catch even the smallest defect in a product, it goes into our recycling bin and we've partnered with a local recycling company that recycles textiles into other functional goods. While it's not practical to walk around naked, clothing does have an environmental impact so we do what we can to minimize that impact. That means recycling where we can so unusable textiles can go into other functional goods like pillows, using water-based inks and production methods that produce minimal waste, and creating products that you can enjoy for years.
By wearing one item of clothing for 9 months longer a person can actually reduce their carbon footprint by 30 percent. It is a major priority for us to create apparel you can wear for several years. (Yes, buying used clothing is also a great way to reduce your impact, but if you do buy new from a brand like ours, selecting brands that make products that can last a long time is also another way you can reduce environmental impact.)
We only produce products we would want to have, which is why we print primarily on soft ringspun cotton shirts (along with some cotton/poly blends for our fleece and womens scoop neck tees). We hand print each item in-house to ensure that our prints not only look great but hold up for a long period of time. If you buy a shirt from us and follow the care instructions, you should have a great looking print that lasts for years.
We don't outsource our production because we know about every trick the other print shops use to cut corners and save time and money to reduce their costs. We know how those cost saving tricks impact product quality and print longevity, which is why we don't use them in our facility.
2. Customer Service
A lot of companies offering low prices save money with subpar customer service. This might mean not offering returns or exchanges, not offering support if a package is lost or stolen, or not offering thoughtful and timely responses to customer service inquiries.
At Boredwalk we answer the phone Monday-Friday from 10AM Pacific to 4PM Pacific. When you call our office you'll be speaking to a real person who works in our Los Angeles area facility and who can track down an order, check stock levels in real time, and provide thoughtful, helpful responses to your inquiry. If you call on a national holiday, evening, or weekend our customer service team responds the next business day. If you email us, our customer service team responds within one business day. If you have an issue with a lost package our customer service team will track it down or replace it. If you ordered a shirt that doesn't fit as expected you can return or exchange it. We even offer free exchanges on US orders and the option to request an off menu shirt style if the products we keep in stock don't have the right fit for you.
When you shop with Boredwalk you are shopping with a company staffed with people who genuinely care about you having an exceptional shopping experience. Our pricing affords us the budget to offer a level of service that deep discount brands don't have the margin to offer.
3. Being the Change
Boredwalk is an artist owned, founded, and operated brand. We design every product we sell and are as passionate about great design as we are about great products and service.
When we started this company we didn't just want to sell our original art on functional goods, we wanted to run a company the way we wish other companies would run. Both of Boredwalk's co-founders worked in corporate America for over a decade before starting this brand and took note of all the ways other companies run that we don't want to repeat.
At our company every employee gets health insurance benefits, paid time off, paid holidays, and retirement benefits. We prioritize fair wages and opportunities for career advancement for everyone who works here. Whether a team member works in an entry level role in the shipping department or senior management, everyone has full benefits and a clearly defined path to advancement within our organization. We also routinely donate funds to social justice organizations we believe in.
Being able to donate to organizations that make the world better and treat our staff the way we believe every worker should be treated has costs. The only way to fund these priorities is with a pricing model that affords it. When you shop with Boredwalk you're shopping with a brand that cares about its customers, team, and the world we live in. Living our values and offering rock bottom pricing aren't compatible goals, so we've chosen building a company we are proud of instead of being a company with the lowest prices.
Lastly, we know there are a lot of coupon sites out there advertising Boredwalk coupon codes or discounts that don't exist. We do our best to monitor for these fake offers and get them taken down. Those sites often make up discount codes or promote codes that are expired. The best source of current discount code information is our Boredwalk coupon code page.
You might also find instances of items that look like Boredwalk products but are being offered on other websites at substantially lower prices. These are almost always counterfeit products. Buying from those sites means the artists who created the work you love aren't being paid for their work; instead you're supporting people who steal from us. It's money our company doesn't earn that we use to support our staff and the values we've described above. It also means receiving a subpar product and no customer support. While their prices may appear to be cheaper, we are confident our products are a better value over time and that your cost per wear when you buy from us will far exceed what you'll get if you buy a counterfeit product.
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😍 Strike fast — these limited edition styles will be gone in a flash! ⚡
Happy National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day!
You know what's sweeter than a slice of chocolate pecan pie? One flash sale in August.
You know what's sweeter than one flash sale in August? TWO flash sales in August!
🔥 I like my meals like I like my marshmallows:
🙌 Ringing in the week with exciting news! 🎉
OUR VINTAGE-INSPIRED V-NECK RINGER FLASH SALE STARTS FRIDAY!
Sure, it may be National Rum Day, which is worthy of celebration, but this email has a higher calling — to announce that it's almost time for our next limited edition flash sale! This coming weekend we'll be selling these sweet vintage-style v-neck ringers for a whopping 25% off, so be sure to mark your calendar and keep your eyes peeled for Friday's email to get 'em before they're gone!
These hot little numbers are made of premium medium-weight 100% combed ringspun cotton for extra softness and comfort and are available up to a size 4X (comparable to a women's 26/28 dress size). Boredwalk co-founder Meredith rocks them all the time at the office and is super-excited to finally be able to offer them for a limited time!
You don't have to take MY word for it, though — our models Jo, Michelle, and Taffeta adore them, too!
Corey Haim gets it, and he was Lost Boy-adjacent, so he knew his stuff!
Today is also National Tell A Joke Day, so here you go:
Q: What do you call it when two houses have the same backyard decor?
A: Simpatio
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Before we delve into this week's community Q&A, let's celebrate some notable August 16th birthdays!
Happy birthday to poet, novelist, and short story writer Charles Bukowski, born this day in 1920! Over the course of his life Mr. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books.
A very jazzy birthday to legendary pianist Bill Evans, born this day in 1929! Mr. Evans recorded with some giants of jazz, including playing piano on arguably Miles Davis' greatest achievement, Kind of Blue, which remains the best selling jazz album of all time.
A very fabulous birthday to the original small screen Catwoman, actress Julie Newmar, born this day in 1933! Ms Newmar is still working in Hollywood today, most recently reprising her role as Catwoman in the 2017 animated feature-length film Batman vs. Two-Face.
Happy birthday to the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, born this day in 1958! Madonna is one of the most successful recording artists of all time and one of the most influential figures in popular culture. People haphazardly throw around the word "icon" a lot these days, but in Madonna's case, it applies.
Happy birthday to actress, director, producer, and activist Angela Bassett, also born this day in 1958! Ms Bassett has built her career playing strong Black women, including an Academy Award-nominated performance as Tina Turner, as well as Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, and more recently as Queen Ramonda in the MCU's Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame.
Finally, happy death day to The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Aaron Presley, who died this day in 1977. If nothing else, he finally got some well-deserved rest.
OK! Assuming I don't die before then, I'll be back in your inbox on Wednesday morning with links to fun distractions! Before that, though, scroll down and learn all about fellow Boredwalk fan Travis R.! As usual, if you'd like to be featured in an upcoming email, reply to this and let me know! Until next time...
Peace, love, and dad jokes,
Matt
Danielle & Travis looking stylish in the recording studio and ready to rip a cinematic book adaptation apart.
1. What's your day job and what's your dream job?
Actual Job: Transponster
Dream Job: I would love to do voice acting or read audio books
2. What keeps you up at night?
Usually a book I was supposed to have read for our book club (or editing an episode of our podcast).
3. What's a life pro tip the Boredwalk community needs to know?
Advice my dad gave me: keep working on your thing — your job, your hobby, your sport, whatever — not everyone will notice, but the right people will.
4. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?
I've always wanted to go to Japan — specifically, to visit a hot spring up in the mountains.
5. If you could have any super power what would it be and why?
The proportionate strength of a spider. In my younger days, I might've said web swinging, but I'm afraid I'd get motion sickness if I tried that now...
6. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?
Wherever they are, the WiFi signal is weak — but never gone. Always just strong enough for their phone to try to connect, but never strong enough to actually hit the internet.
7. Clear up a misconception (about your job, where you are from, some other topic you know a lot about).
Not everyone in Texas has a horse. I've lived here 16 years now and I only know, like, three people who do.
8. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?
You can join my lovely wife, my friends, and me for our book club / movie review podcast at www.RTFBpod.com. We usually focus on the more well-regarded book-to-movie adaptations, (your 2001: A Space Odysseys, your Fear and Loathing in Las Vegases) but we aren't averse to the occasional Hallmark movie...