***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!
- 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.
Steph says
Mg me! PLEASE! We need a new vacuum… badly. :)
My favorite element is K+ …. I love potassium :)
Amie says
Mg ME! Californium (Cf)….we used to live there and miss it!
Rachel says
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Chlorine, because I would rather be lounging in a pool than at work right now!
Lisa Cheney says
Mg ME!! I’m gonna have to go with Sodium. I am 34 weeks pregnant and craving anything salty…or sugary for that matter ;)
[email protected] says
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Iron. I love me some steak…
Jodi says
Mg Me! Ick, I hate chemistry! Love the vacuum though!
Jess King says
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Y or Yttrium. Cause it is different from what others would say!
Sooze says
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I love me some He! Who doesn’t love helium balloons, plus it is a noble gas!
J says
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I’m going with good ole’ K (potassium). I still remember having it as my element for an 8th grade science project!
jackie says
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My favorite is Fe – Iron. I’m anemic and need iron badly, so I’m hoping if I say I like it, it will decide to stick around.
;)
Debbie says
Mg ME! Argon walks into a bar. Bar man says, “We don’t serve noble gases.” Argon doesn’t react. Love that joke and love Argon because of it. :-P
Abby says
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Chemistry was never my thing :-)
Heather Gentili says
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OXYGEN!!
Bricia says
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I think Hg is SO cool! It reminds me of the old thermometers with the real stuff in there that we used to break off and bounce around in our hands when little… little daredevil Nerds that is!
jen says
Mg me! This is a different one:) I’ll have to go with mercury because I remember in the good old days seeing the silvery blobs rolling around!
engem says
Mg ME! Is kryptonite an element? Love
Helene says
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Curium. Smart chicks? Yes please.
Jenni says
Mg me! I’m a big fan of He… make’s you talk funny!
Sarah says
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Kendra S says
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I always remembered that iron is Fe because I thought of Ferris Wheels being made out of iron.
Drake says
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i love all the noble gasses. the noble-er the better
Debbie says
Mg ME! Sodium!
Tanya says
Mg ME! Carbon. It’s useful.
HK says
Mg ME! And I loooove Au!!!
Cara says
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Oxygen!
Lenore says
Mg Me! I guess my favorite would have to be Hydrogen, because it’s the fuel for stars, and without it there’d be no light!
MissPinkKate says
Mg ME! I like Neon :D
Kathryn says
Mg ME! I don’t like any of those things ever since having to memorize the whole table in high school!
Maura says
MG me! I love oxygen – it helps me breath!
Shannon says
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Hg, Mercury! It just has a lot of fun properties. That’s what made the Mad Hatter so crazy!
I have a degree in Chemistry, so I LOVE this question!
Bri Pygin says
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My favorite element is Molybdenum because, not only is the name awesome, the flame it produces is green! I love that :D
Tiffany says
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SALT….LOVE IT!!
Justin says
Mg me! My favorite element is neon.
kismet says
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Ilike neon. is that an element?
~K!
Courtney says
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My favorite is sodium, because it allows me to tell the story about how I almost blew up the high school chem lab. Ok, maybe I’m a bit melodramatic.
Madeline Kronfeld says
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My favorite is Au…GOLD! I used to be firmly against gold jewelry, gold accents, gold everything but now I think it’s classy and gorgeous!
Sara says
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Neon. Noble gas and pretty colors, what’s not to love?
Jeanne says
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I like Pt!
Lisa says
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Keisha says
Mg ME! I like Hg (Mercury) b/c it brings me back to childhood & watching the magic silver go up and down on the thermometer.
Kristin says
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How bout a combination- H2O…because that’s what I need after lugging around our vacuum.
Mattie says
MG Me! Gold – my husband buys me lots of gold!
Heather says
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I don’t really have a fav element…I just remember in my high school Chemistry class a smart aleck kid kept asking the teacher what element “FU” was. She had no clue the kid was messing with her and kept insisting “FU is not an element” and “FU wasn’t on the chart” etc etc. Good times ;-)
RD says
Mg ME!! Hm….. favorite element – maybe Fe so I can be strong?
Amanda says
Mg ME! I’m going to be practical and say Oxygen as well…
Heather C says
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Of course who doesn’t LOVE Oxygen!
Noka says
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I like H! cuz I love how it makes a Micky Mouse shape when combined with 2Os :)
Ashley says
Mg ME!! Fe because my husband’s favorite skillet is an old wrought iron one passed down 2 genersations that makes any food delicious!
Beth says
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I love aluminum because it’s just so much fun to write in cursive.
Kristen says
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I have to go with Krypton because I can use it, along with a few more elements, to spell out my first name. Clearly I wasn’t always paying very close attention in science class.