Happy Birthday BargainBabe.com! Credit: soapylovedeb/Flickr
Don’t forget to enter the contest to celebrate BargainBabe.com’s third anniversary!!! We’re giving away a bunch of cool prizes.
- 1 GRAND PRIZE: $100 Amazon gift card
- 10 BIG WINNERS: $25 Restaurant.com gift card
- 25 WINNERS: “I brake for bargains” bumper sticker
There are six ways to enter to win. Do as many as you like!
- Comment on this post with your favorite way to save money
- “Like” BargainBabe.com on Facebook
- Share the contest on Facebook with a link to http://bit.ly/yRdRXn
- Follow BargainBabe.com on Twitter
- Tweet about the contest: “I want to win one of 36 giveaways to celebrate the third anniversary of @bargainbabe http://bit.ly/yRdRXn“
- Join our freebie and deal email
Leave a comment for each entry so we can keep track. The contest ends Monday, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Are you the winner?
I’m really excited for the winner of this giveaway! The winner is taking home a copy of You Need A Budget’s budgeting software, an hour of one-on-one coaching, the YNAB book, and audio book. This prize pack is sure to help you tame your finances – now that’s a great way to start the new year! Find out if you’re the lucky winner below.
YNAB teaches you how to get out of debt, save money, and stop living paycheck to paycheck. It can easily be downloaded to your computer – it runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux! Unlike other financial software, there are no forced upgrades or annual fees.
The winner is…
We had more than 300 entries for this giveaway! Below you’ll find the name of the lucky person who is taking home the $150 Discover prepaid debit card. Thanks to everyone who participated and don’t forget to check out this week’s giveaway.
We partnered with DebitSavvy.org to bring you this giveaway. DebitSavvy.org is a consumer-focused site designed to provide fast and accurate information about debit cards.
The winner is…
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Step2 giveaway! The lucky winner is taking home a play kitchen prize pack that includes a Little Helper’s Grocery Cart, a LifeStyle Kitchen Table & Chairs Set, and a Play Food Assortment. The Step2 Company is the largest American manufacturer of preschool and toddler toys.
And the winner is… Sharon Scott
First runner up is… Betty Baez
Second runner up is… Jamie Brigham
Third runner up is… colleen
The winner has 48 hours to claim her prize or the prize pack goes to the first runner up, and so on.
If you didn’t win, no worries, we have more WinGiveaways coming!
Winner and runners up announced below!
It’s nice to know I’m not alone in having so many pending projects around the house! Almost 100 readers chimed in with a DIY project they’ve been putting off for a chance to win Billee Sharp’s “Fix it, Make it, Grow it, Bake it.” Runners up will receive a $25 Restaurant.com gift card. Thanks to everyone who entered! I’m newly motivated to complete my own DIY projects, including:
- digging up weeds in the side yard and replacing with wood chips, which I’ve already bought
- cutting, painting and installing molding in the kitchen
- finding matching grey vinyl siding and attaching to two small exterior patches currently covered in tar paper
- painting front porch (after removing peeling paint)
Of all your projects, I had special sympathy for
This is a post by BargainBabe.com writer Yazmin Cruz.
I asked you to share what wealth meant to you for a chance to win “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in its Place” by New York Times best selling author and CSI: NY actor Hill Harper and the vast majority of readers agreed that wealth is not about living an opulent life. It’s about the richness you find in your faith, family and friends.
With this in mind, Harper wrote his non-traditional finance book that teaches readers how to take control of their money. After reading all your comments, I declared reader
Book winner announced below!
I wish I had 10 copies of “First Comes Love, Then Comes Money: A Couple’s Guide to Financial Communication” to give out! Reading your comments, I’m reminded just how hard it is to talk about money and find a system that works for both people in a relationship. I’m also grateful that my husband is open and willing to talk about money. We don’t agree on everything, but being able to talk about money without anyone taking it personally is a gift.
And the winner and runners up are…
Lindsey won a $100 Quiznos gift card!
More than 200 BargainBabe.com Facebook fans commented for a chance to win a $100 Quiznos gift card, donated by the sandwich chain. The winner is…Lindsey Matthews, who commented that she wants to taste Quiznos’chicken cordon bleu sandwich. Yum yum!
Lindsey has 48 hours to respond to claim her prize, or the prize goes to runners up (in order) Debra Olson, Cherl Porritt, or Lora Lopez. Thanks to everyone who joined the BargainBabe.com Facebook page for this contest! We now have 2,657 Facebook fans!
Illustration by OConnorCartoons.com
The contest to win a $100 Target gift card sponsored by StoreCrowd.com received 148 entries. Thanks to everyone who participated in this contest!
I used the site RandomNumberGenerator.com to pick a winner and three runner ups. The winner has 48 hours to respond to my notification email to claim the prize, otherwise it goes to the first runner up and so on.
And the winner is ros.writing@, who reviewed Walmart, followed @StoreCrowd on Twitter and became a Facebook fan of the review site.
The first runner up is marivel924@, who reviewed Aeropostale.
The second runner up is elgrandemich@, who had nine entries including blogging about the contest.
The third runner up is jmatek@, who submited eight entries.
Illustration by OConnorCartoons.com
Hundreds of new readers signed up to win a shopping challenge to buy gifts for their entire family with one $600 Sears gift card. Everything the winner buys is theirs to keep!
I used Random.org to pick a winner and 15 runner ups. These lucky readers come from CA, AZ, FL, VT, TX, NJ, GA, IL, MA, and NH. Some have been reading BargainBabe.com since I launched the site in Jan. 2009 and others joined as recently as last week.
The $600 Sears gift card must be spent between Nov. 29-Dec 5, 2010 at a Sears in MA, CT, RI, or New York City. I will be on hand to share shopping tips and catch the event on flip camera. The gift card and camera were donated by Sears. For folks who cannot fulfill the prize, I have fabulous consolation prizes. (more…)
Illustration by OConnorCartoons.com
I have so many new ideas to improve BargainBabe.com it’s ridiculous. Thank you to the 219 readers who commented with a suggestion, thereby entering themselves to win the 10-pound swag bag I lugged home from BlogHer (winner named below). I am taking each idea to heart and have already implemented many of your suggestions.
You wanted custom subject lines in your daily email - you got it! Yesterday I found a way to modify the subject line.
You wanted more coupons and deals – you got it! I am going to post drugstore deals (CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid) on Monday and grocery deals (Ralphs and Safeway) on Wednesday. If you want to see links to additional stores, let me know by commenting on this post.
You wanted a better site design and navigation tabs – it’s in the works! I’ve contacted a web designer/tech geek about making the site easier to use and easier to look at. Realistically, a major change to the site will take at least (more…)
Illustration by OConnorCartoons.com
There were so many wonderful, informative comments left as part of my latest reader giveaway contest that I had a hard time picking one winner.
I envy Brenda A.’s meticulous organization.
We love camping and do it several times a yr since our kids love it. I have all my cooking pans in plastic bins labeled, cooking stuff (pantry items)in another bin and so on. The most important thing to me is making a menu for each meal and day we are going to be camping, that way I dont buy thing I dont need and stay on top of the items I do need. After every trip we do an inventory list of the items that need to be replaced.
We keep all our camping/outdoor gear ready to go inside our emergency kit (water, food, etc.). It saves time getting out the door for a weekend getaway and keeps us prepared in case of a major disaster.
Fonedoc gets his/her kids excited for the trip by including them in the decision-making process.
I like to get the kids excited by telling them some options of what we can do and have them decide on some activities, so that its their decision in helping us plan our trip. They usual cant wait and talk about the trip for days before and even after. I like hearing them tell their friends all about our trips together.
Michael Ayson Muson starts by calling his friends to borrow gear – very savvy!
I prepare for my camping trips by calling all of my friends to borrow their gear! Please hook me up with my own gear both for my and my friends sake!
Hilary takes a stress-free approach.
I start by taking a nice long showerbecause it will be a few days before I get another one! In the shower I start making my mental list of everything I need to pack/take with meanything left behindwell, we dont need it!
Scaredekat’s comment made me laugh. Get ready, set, go!
i check to see if the camp grounds are available. then i check weather and i start on my list! from supplies/gear to food to toiletries, and not to forget my dog supplies for Max!
My most favorite thing to do is to time how fast i can pitch the tent!
And the winner is…Michael Ayson Muson. I hope these camping supplies, generously donated by Kmart, help you go camping more often. If Michael does not email me within 48 hours to claim his prize, the runner up is Fonedoc. Thanks to everyone who joined the contest!
The $25 Amazon gift card is edging out the $50 Sephora e-gift card in the final days of our poll to see which prize onelucky person should win for reading BargainBabe.com. If you haven’t voted yet, there are just a few days left!
As a bonus, I will also be giving away a $25 Marshalls card and a $25 TJ Maxx card, above, which were donated by the retailers.
Vote by May 2 to determine which prize to win! Your choices are below. Prizes that are e-cards are only redeemable online, fyi.
[poll id="61"]
Fletcher Prince/Flickr
Check your email inbox because the winner of the $100 CVS gift card giveaway has been notified! The winner has 48 hours to respond. I emailed two runner ups as well in case the winner does not get back to me.
Everyone who signed up for my daily email list by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 4, 2010 was eligible to win.
Thanks again to Friendgiftr for sponsoring this awesome prize! Next time you are in the market for a gift card, check them out.
We have a winner, folks! More than 650 readers entered the GoBankingRates contest on BargainBabe.com for a chance to win $500 worth of groceries. The randomly selected winner is…April from Dayton OH. Congrats!
Oh my gosh! I’m replying!
What all do you need from me? I’m so excited! Thanks so much!April
Thank you to everyone who participated! There will be another giveaway in a few weeks.
