People go to great lengths to achieve a slender appearance—wearing constrictive corsets, sitting in saunas, and outfitting homes with lengthening fun-house mirrors. Explore less carnivalistic methods with today's Groupon: for $45, you get a slimming body wrap at Esther’s Secrets in Windsor (a $100 value).

An experienced master aesthetician with 10 years of skin-spiffing experience, Mary Farmer aids clients in reducing their circumferences with slimming body-wrap services. The natural inch-decreasing treatment ensconces clients' arms, legs, necks, torsos, and prehensile tails in a number of elastic cloths, tucked snuggly around the skin to create a thermal blanket around the body and lull pesky pounds into a deep slumber. As heat builds, the body begins to sweat, shedding excess fluids, toxins, and unnecessary interstitial fluid residing between small spaces in body tissue. Within 60 minutes, customers emerge from their fibrous shell with exfoliated skin, a more slender appearance, and greater empathy for Egyptian mummies.