***This giveaway has reached our cap of 10,000 entries and is now closed. See who won below!***
It took you guys just a little under 6 hours to push this blogiversary giveaway to its 10,000 entry cap, so we’re here with an earlier-than-usual update on our randomly selected winner. That lucky person is… Britta (who’s currently living in baby/preschooler world so she hopes in five years she won’t “have to deal with someone else’s poop on a daily basis and to be able to sleep through the night!”). Congrats Britta!
For every blogiversary we try to do something special for that week’s giveaway. And this year we ran with the five theme and snagged five different $500 prizes for one lucky winner from a few of our favorite places: FLOR, HomeGoods, Joss & Main, Shades of Light and Z Gallerie. Which means someone’s gonna get a grant total of $2,500 to spend in celebration of our big five year blogiversary.
The five generous folks who are each giving away $500 aren’t just places we love, but also places that hold a special place in the our blog’s history (and future). In addition to being one of our first and most longstanding sponsors, Z Gallerie has dished out prizes for a blogiversary before – and was our first ever giveaway to break the 1,000 entry mark.
Richmond-based Shades of Light (also a long-time sponsor) has found their way into our home on several occasions (their local outlet makes us crazy). Plus we’ve got an exciting announcement about them that we’ll be sharing soon (secrets, secrets, are no fun).
Joss & Main is a newer favorite of ours, and they’ve invited us twice to curate sale collections on their site…. so we’ll always be grateful to them for making us feel like real designers – even if only for a brief time. Haha.
While HomeGoods seems to find their way onto our blog pretty often (like a $500 giveaway for you guys last week), one of our favorite instances was when they helped us makeover a local family’s living areas for them a while back.
And last but not least is FLOR, whose catalogs is one of our favorites to get in the mail. But more importantly, they’re gonna play an important role in our upcoming book tour. More details on that next week!
- PRIZE: $500 gift cards to FLOR, HomeGoods, Joss & Main, Shades of Light and Z Gallerie (totaling $2,500!)
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “FIFTH ME” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … where you see yourself in five years. We always say we have no clue where we’ll be down the road but it’s always fun to imagine, right? How might your family be different or have grown? Will you be in a new home or a new city? Will you have the same job?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, Sept 26th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States (although we do try to wrangle as many international giveaways as possible)
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of FLOR, HomeGoods, Joss & Main, Shades of Light and Z Gallerie.
Divah says
FIFTH ME! Hard to say where I’ll be in five years: maybe we’ll have squirreled away enough to put down on a house.
Kathy says
Fifth me!!
Cere S says
FIFTH ME!!!
I am a single mom in my mid-30s pursuing my bachelor’s degree, and I’m in my senior year, so I certainly hope that in five years I will be in a dramatically different place than I am now – in almost every aspect! I hope to find a fantastic position in a non-profit organization that offers a voice to socially oppressed groups such as victims of domestic violence, the homeless, and those in the LGBT community. I hope that I will be in the position to start pursuing home-ownership so that I can find a space that offers my son a much-deserved back yard so he can have the dog he so fervently desires. And not the least of all, I hope to achieve my life-long goal of finding a hairstyle that doesn’t look terrible and shaggy on me as it grows out :)
Catherine says
FIFTH ME! Congratulations on your blogoversary! In five years’ time, I hope my fiance and I will be celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary (we get married in June next year!), good health, and toasting to five years in the home we puchased in May 2012.
Carrie M says
FIFTH ME!
I hope to be married, own my house, and possibly thinking of having kids at that time!
Marie Burdine says
FIFTH ME!! In five years, I hope our family of four is a family of five and we are finally settled in one city in a has we will grow old in!!
Katie says
FIFTH ME!
Five years is too many to know!
Christine says
FIFTH ME!
Loving seeing how far you guys have come. Here’s to another 5 years!
Beth B says
FIFTH Me!!
In 5 years I’ll hopefully be in job I love, married or happily dating someone long term and a homeowner (who DIYs the heck out of that home :)). Congrats on five years of creating a truly entertaining and welcoming corner of the Internet!
Kale says
Fifth Me!!!
It may seem like a little off but I’m just starting my own race shop. I’d love to decorate it differently than grease wall to wall! Then again, I like original so: Fifth me! :-)
Linden says
FIFTH ME! I think we will be in a new house and our family of three will have grown to a family of four!!
Marissa says
FIFTH ME!
In 5 years, I would love to have a couple of rental properties that we have purchased and fixed up … like our current property. (And maybe we’ll move out to the country and have some land!)
Sarah C. says
Fifth Me!
I hope to have 1 job instead of 3 in five years. More spare time would be great!
Jo @ Let's Face the Music says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years I hope the major part of our renovation is complete and I’m a grandmother. Oh, that would be sublime. Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
Lindsey says
What a spectacular giveaway. Please FIFTH ME! With one baby on the way maybe we’ll have 2 kids 5 years from now. If that is the case we will likely be looking to move to a larger house, and maybe a new city.
Happy blogiversary!
Brad says
FIFTH ME! Seriously! In five years, I hope to own my second home and I’ll be sending my daughter to school (she’ll be six then). Wow! I almost cried/laughed when typing that, because I can’t believe it. Career-wise, I hope to have moved up in my current job or have caught a dream I’ve been chasing. No one knows what the future holds, but I do believe that everything happens for a reason – your blog, for example, clearly happened to inspire us all. Thanks!
Rach says
FIFTH ME! In five years, I’m hoping we’ll be moving into a larger house (to fit a, hopefully, growing family). :)
Hilary @ My So-Called Home says
Fifth Me! In 5 years I hope to have at least 2 kids and maybe be thinking about moving out of our starter home.
tamara says
FIFTH ME!!! i hope my hubby and I are finally living abroad, with lots more traveling & adventures both under our belt and on our horizon. :) and congrats to you both for all that you’ve accomplished with YHL!
Averi says
FIFTH ME! I see my husband and I will at least one little kiddo and transforming our “new” home into a place of love and comfort. Two weeks ago we purchased our second home that will hopefully be our house forever! I can’t handle another move in the next five years…we LOVE Raleigh!
Jenna says
FIFTH ME! In five years, I hope to be married to the guy I’m dating and I hope by then we’re homeowners!
Justina says
FIFTH ME!
Maybe move from our starter home to something closer to the “city” or build up…hopefully have a couple more kids.
Missy says
Fifth Me!! Please!! In 5 years I am looking forward to a whopping 10 years (!!) of marriage, and hopefully a little one or two :)
Liz says
FIFTH ME!
In five years, I hope that we have one more kiddo and are slowly remodeling our forever house. And that maybe I’ll have figured out what I want to be when I grow up by then? Maybe.
kristen says
FIFTH ME! In five years, I’m hoping I’ll have this whole career thing figured out and settled into a job that actually makes me happy!
Lindsay T says
FIFTH ME!!
Jayme says
FIFTH ME!
In 5 years, I will be finished with grad school, moved to a new city with a new job! But my one constant will hopefully still be with me, my 5 year old 6 lb puppy dog, Roxie Belle!
Crystal says
FIFTH ME
In 5 years I hope to be a stay at home mom with a 2yr old and a bun in the oven!! I think we’ll be in our same house but not for much longer!
Such an awesome giveaway! Thanks John & Sherry!!
ErinE says
Fifth Me! I’m hoping that in five years I’ll be living in a place I love, with a job I enjoy doing. And maybe, just maybe my husband will get his wish, and we’ll have a baby by then!
Kelly says
FIFTH ME!
I hope in 5 years I own my own house so that I can decorate it to my heart’s desire!
Lauren says
FIFTH ME
In five years I will have completed my MBA degree, be married to my current boyfriend, and still be living in Richmond which is where I grew up. We just bought an old house (’41) and are currently in the process of fixing it up. Kitchen remodel is almost completed, laundry room/mud room almost completed, floors refinished, and lots of painting complete. In five years I hope we have renovated at least one bathroom and have a healthy edible garden growing.
Love your blog, it has been super helpful during our remodel process so far!
KP says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully still in RVA, and with any luck, a bigger house and bigger family to match!
Meaghan S. says
FIFTH ME
I hope that in five years, we’ll have updated our currently brand new condo with wood floors and paint (yes, it will probably take that long…) and we’ll have traveled abroad at least three times!
Elizabeth says
FIFTH ME!!
In five years, I hope to have one (maybe 2) more kiddos running around in addition to our little girl now. And I hope to be in the same job and same house – no moving! (for awhile at least!)
Laurann says
FIFTH ME! hopefully I will have a fully renovated kitchen, garage, laundry room, and master bath in the next 5 years
Nicole says
FIFTH ME!!
I’m out looking for my first home as we speak, so I hope in five years it’s not only a house to be proud of but I’ll be itching for the next one :)
Abigail says
FIFTH ME!
I see us settling in to a new college-town. Hopefully with a 3 or 4 year old in tow.
IWannaBeKate says
FIFTH ME!!
I hope to FINALLY own a home (so sick of NYC rents!), start calling the BF the DH, and have a baby bean or ten :-)
Livin’ the dream!
Jessie says
Fifth me! In 5 years i hope to have a couple kids (one on the way right now), be able to work less to be home with my little growing family, and grow the mini letterpress business i have with my husband a bit.
Morgan says
Fifth me! Hope to have two more kids by then!
Rachel says
FIFTH ME!! In five years I hope to own a house with my husband, and maybe even have a little one! I can’t wait to have a place of my own to decorate!
Ruth P. says
FIFTH ME! 5 years… no idea! I’ll be out of my 20s by then, I know that much!
Ashley G. says
FIFTH ME! I hope to be happily married and am excited to see what else the future holds. It most definitely will include sprucing up the place I live, wherever that might be :)
Valette says
FIFTH ME
In 5 years I see myself with and empty nest as my step children will have all graduated and moved at least to the dorms. I will still be in the same house but I will have tinkered away at little projects here and there and will love every inch of it.
Hope says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years we will hopefully be onto our second owned home, and happy overall with our lives in our little corner of the world.
Natalie says
FIFTH ME!! In 5 years I hope that my family is just as happy and healthy as they are today. Perhaps in a new place as by that point my son will be in college… ya think he’ll mind if we follow him?? :)
Natalie-in-OKlahoma
LauraBC says
FIFTH ME {pretty please with a ceramic cherry on top}
We’re an Army family so we can guess where we’ll be/what we’ll be doing in 5 months, much less 5 years- I do know we’ll have a 4th grader and a 2nd grader and that blows my mind!
Eric Saupe says
FIFTH ME!
In five years I will have graduated college and have some kids with my amazing wife.
Anna says
FIFTH ME! Five years from now, I will be married, I will have adopted my 2 current foster children, be a step-mom to one, and (hopefully!) have two biological children. I hope to be working from home in a new, larger house to accommodate my quickly growing family. Oh, and I will have just reached 30 years old. I could do without the last part.
Cathy says
FIFTH ME! I hope to enjoy every day of my next five years as I have the last five. I am a blessed lady.