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Fab Freebie: Magnesium

***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***

Wow. You guys are a lot more opinionated about the periodic table than I had assumed. Anyways, random.org selected the winner of this giveaway as… Andi W. (who likes Sodium for all of the salty snacks it provides, but admitted “My inner nerd wants to vote adamantium.”) Congrats Andi!

Hold onto your seats, chemistry nerds. We’re giving away some magnesium this week. It’s coming in the form of Oreck’s latest and lightest-weight upright vacuum ever – the Magnesium. In fact, at less than 8lbs it weighs in at about half the poundage of an ordinary upright. Not to mention its skinny but strong frame slides naturally under furniture and other hard-to-reach dust bunny havens. Oreck’s also throwing in the Ultimate Handheld Vac to round out your cleaning repertoire – and to boost the prize value to nearly $600!

Oreck Magnesium Giveaway

  • PRIZE: An Oreck Magnesium upright vacuum and the Oreck Ultimate Handheld Vac (a $599 value).
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “Mg ME!” and tell us…
  • BONUS QUESTION: … (you ready for this?) what’s your favorite element on the periodic table? Are you a big fan of Oxygen because of the whole breathing thing? Or Sodium because you’re a salty food addict? Or perhaps good ol’ Au & Ag (aka Gold and Silver)?
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, June 27th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
  • DISCOUNT: 15% off any Oreck product with code YOUNGHOUSELOVE (valid through July 9, excludes sale or refurbished items)
  • 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 Oreck.

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  2. Avery says

    MG ME!

    Im gonna say its a tie between Cu (because of all the lovely copper accessories out there these days!) and sodium. Love me some salty snacks!

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  6. Emily says

    Mg me! I don’t know if I’d say it’s my *favorite*, but for some reason I always remembered the symbol for Tungsten was W. I was terrible at chemistry in HS, but random things have stuck with me, like that symbol (because its other name is Wolfram), and the concept of entropy, because I totally *get* the movement toward disorder. This is why I need these vacuums, ha ha!

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  7. Chrissann says

    Mg ME!

    I stunk at chemistry, so I’m picking Helium since H is the first letter of my son’s name.

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  8. Caity says

    Mg ME! I’m going with potassium, aka K, since it never made sense to me that K was used to identify potassium and because of that I never forgot it when taking tests.

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  9. Ashley says

    Mg me! I’m going to go with Ti – Titanium – strong and light weight, plus my husband’s wedding band is made out of it so it now reminds me of him.

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  14. Andrea A says

    Mg ME!
    I’m going to have to vote for some good ole Oxygen… yeah, for that whole needing to survive thingy. :-)

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  18. Beth says

    MG Me!
    I’m reading a fascinating book right now called The Disappearing Spoon and it’s all about the Periodic Table. I haven’t finished it so I don’t have a favorite element yet!

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  25. AngelaB says

    Mg ME!
    In high school my favorite was Americium for no other reason than it’s abbreviation was my initials.

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  36. Maria says

    “Mg ME!”

    I would have to say potassium (K) because it was always easiest to remember when memorizing the periodic table in chem!

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  38. Missy in NoVa says

    Mg me! I’ll have to go with zinc, for summers spent at the pool with a white nose coated with zinc oxide :)

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  40. Bree says

    MG ME!

    What an awesome give-away! We’ve only ever had hand-me-down vacuums when our parents upgrade to newer ones, and that’s happened like, oh, twice. So ours is a beast that could put dents in the stairs if you try dragging it up them.

    My favorite element is Unobtainium. Oh, wait, that’s not real. :) I think Beryllium is pretty sweet.

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  48. Katie says

    Mg ME!
    I am a big fan of Al – Aluminum, I like airplanes. I thnk its funny when the brits say Alu’mini’um

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