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"15 Monthly Subscriptions for Everyday Essentials\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Turntable Kitchen\n\n\nShips: Ingredients for dinner night\nIf you're looking to eat out less and spend more quality time at home with friends or family, Turntable Kitchen home deliveries may be just what you need. For $25 a month, you'll get a limited edition seven-inch vinyl single, curated digital mixtape, premium dried ingredients, original recipe cards and occasional bonus treats in a Pairings Box. All you'll have to do is pick up additional fresh ingredients and set aside time to cook.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Dollar Shave Club \n\nShips: Razors\nThe Dollar Shave Club offers winning $1 monthly razor deals to its customers. For $1 a month, plus shipping and handling, stubbly men will get five cartridges and a free handle. Men who love the feel of more blades running across their hairy chins can upgrade to four-blade razor or six-blade razor cartridges each month. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Craft Coffee\n\n\nShips: Coffee beans\nCoffee is an art. A great cup of coffee is dependent on the farmers who hand pick the cherries when they're perfectly ripe and the skilled roasters who heat the green coffee beans to a splendid brown.\nA monthly subscription will get you three bags of coffee from the best artisan roasters, custom tasting notes on each variety, details about the coffee's origin and brewing tips to make the perfect cup of joe. Craft Coffee's expert tasting panel makes its selection of just three kinds of beans to send to subscribers after blind tasting samples from more than 50 tiny startups and award-winning roasters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Elizabeth &amp; Clarke\n\n\nShips: Basic blouses and t-shirts\nSome of the hardest clothing items to buy are women's basics. Blouses and shirts must be comfortable, well-fitting and fairly cheap since they'll most likely be paired with cardigans or blazers. Elizabeth &amp; Clarke is a subscription service that sends curated pieces to subscriber's doors every three months. In each box, you'll find seasonal mixes of whimsical and romantic white, black, off-white and gray shirts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Bark Box\r\n\n\nShips: Dog treats and select products\nFor about $17 a month, BarkBox will send four doggy treats, toys or select items to your door. Prior boxes that have shipped have included biodegradable dog waste bags, all-natural organic biscuits, pet towelettes, rawhide bones and plenty of chew toys. Orders can be customized for small, medium and large dogs. \nImage courtesy of Facebook, BarkBox\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Kiwi Crate\n\n\nShips: Creative arts, crafts or science project supplies designed for 3-to-7-year-old children \nEach Kiwi Crate is designed by a team of creative parents and approved by an advisory board of education professionals and child psychologists. In previous months, Kiwi Crate has shipped supplies to homes for children to make colorful stained glass, mold dinosaur fossils out of clay and   even grow their own bean or squash gardens. Monthly subscriptions cost about $20 a month, while annual subscriptions are $220 yearly. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Fourth and Grand\n\n\nShips: Professional shirts and ties for men \nAfter taking a style quiz and talking to a web-based stylist, customers can sign up to receive carefully selected dress shirts, ties and polos in the mail. Customers will only have to pay for the items they like and can send back unwanted shirts and ties. Shipping is free both ways. Shirts cost $60 each and ties cost $25. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Blissmo\n\n\nShips: Personal care products and healthy snacks\nMembers get a curated box of organic, non-toxic and eco-friendly food and beauty products. Expert curators round up the best products from up-and-coming brands such as Art of Tea, Zhena's Gypsy Fair Trade Organic Tea, Kaia Foods, Method and Vaska. Blissmo box is a great way to sample the organic, gluten-free and non-toxic products and goods that come out regularly on the market.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. TOTA Press\n\n\nShips: Homemade letterpress cards \nTOTA Press is a handmade letterpress card-of-the-month subscription service. Every month, subscribers will receive two kinds of hand-printed cards for any occasion. It's handy for last-minute celebrations, birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, graduations and other sudden good news. A one-month subscription costs $10. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Umba Box\n\n\nShips: Handmade jewelry, accessories, home goods, bath products and stationary \nUmba Box (\"umba\" means \"to create\" in Swahili) finds items from the best homemade artisans and small-batch producers to send to subscribers every month. Each curated box features one large item or three smaller items, plus every artist's story. Memberships start at $23 each month. \nImage courtesy of Etsy, The Pink Ruffle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Dejamor\n\n\nShips: Ingredients for the perfect date night\nDejamor monthly subscription boxes are designed by romance experts and provide couples experiences that will enhance intimacy. Couples will receive separate \"his\" and \"her\" boxes in the mail. Individuals can surprise each other with specially designed experiences and gifts in each box. Subscriptions are $34.95 per month.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Gemlevo\n\n\nShips: Jewelry\nGemlevo subscribers can receive unique fair trade jewelry made by female artisans in underdeveloped nations with a $30 monthly subscription. Subscribers will receive unique necklaces, bracelets and earrings made with exotic materials. Jewelry sales help women in underdeveloped countries earn fair wages and safe livelihoods.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Manpacks\n\n\nShips: Men's underwear, socks, razors, toiletries and other essentials. \nManpack ships manly essentials you pick out discreetly to your door monthly. Men can pick and choose what kinds of underwear, undershirts, socks, soap, toothbrushes, thermal pants, multivitamins and other essentials end up in your box. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. Pique\n\n\nShips: Stockings, leggings, socks and tights for women\nBare legs aren't an option in the chilly months of autumn and winter. Pique is a hosiery subscription service that will send you one to two different pairs of stockings, leggings, socks and tights for about $38 month per month. There's no need to be extra gentle with the hosiery you have with automatic deliveries of these cold-weather essentials.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. Art in a Box\n\n\nShips: Art by local photographers, mixed media artists, sculptors and painters based in California. \nArt in a Box is a monthly art subscription service that delivers original works of art to your door for $50 a month, which includes shipping and handling. Get unique ceramic sculptures, paintings, screen prints or artful collages. Pick-up orders are available  in Oakland, California for $40 monthly. \nImage courtesy of Art in a Box\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn our fast-paced world, sometimes there just isn't enough time to pick up toothpaste, razors or soap between work, school and social events. \nHere's where snail mail can actually save you time and help you catch up with your growing to-do list. Online subscription services are available for you to order beauty products, toiletries, organic snacks and even premium dried cooking ingredients. Items you regularly use can be scheduled to arrive promptly at your door every month, just as your last batch of supplies run out. \nWe're no longer limited to food-or-drink-of-the-month club shipments of bacon, beer, cheese, wine and peanut butter. Don't get us wrong \u2014 food subscription services are still available and wide ranging from hand-selected teas, fancy chocolates, to glorious cuts of meat. \n\nSEE ALSO: 10 Kid-Friendly Subscription Boxes Parents Will Love\nThe new breed of subscription boxes looks more like Birchbox or GLOSSYBOX, shipping luxe beauty samples and travel-sized products to customers. Women can order monthly supplies of footwear and handbags on Shoedazzle, feminine hygiene products from Monthly Rescue and curated accessories from Jewel Mint. There are also a handful of services for men including hand-selected pocket squares from Put This On,  entire outfits from Truck Club and trial-sized male grooming products from Birchbox Man.\nThere's no shortage of subscription box services and something for everyone. Look at our roundup of essential subscription boxes you'll want to sign up for, to save time and money. \nWhich online subscription boxes will you sign up for, or are there any we missed? Tell us in the comments. \nThumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, wakingphotolife"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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