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Fab Freebie: Office Space

UPDATE: We’ve selected a winner below (Congrats Bridget!) but we also wanted to share that Kacy has another prize for everyone – a $5 coupon code (5OFFYHL)to use towards a purchase of The Inspired Office Poster. Enjoy!

Moving is just about the antithesis of feeling organized. Which is why we’ve lined up this giveaway from Kacy at The Inspired Office. She’s a professional organizer who specializes in turning your space into a functional, productive, and (dare we say it) pretty place as part of her virtual video consultation called The Blueprint. And speaking of pretty, she has taken nuggets of organizing wisdom from over 12 years of doing this and put them on a stylin’ silkscreen poster. And to get you even closer to Organizing Champ status, along with winning the poster and her organizing services, she’s also throwing in a $50 gift card to The Container Store, for a total prize value of over $350!

The Inspired Office

We’re doing a little re-organization ourselves this week too, so we’re taking the popular giveaway site Rafflecopter for a spin since we’ve heard so many great things about it (it’ll hopefully free up some time to spend on house/family stuff while being pretty simple for you guys to use as well). So instead of commenting like usual, just use the widget below to login (using Facebook or your email, which is only used to contact the randomly selected winner – so you won’t get spammed or anything). A couple of clicks later you’ll be entered. Please only use the comment form if you have questions or trouble entering (entries there won’t be counted, sorry!). Oh, and this giveaway is open to the whole wide world!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Comments

  3. julie says

    Awww man, I can’t enter from work because the filter says it’s a game site and it’s blocked. I will try to remember when I get home.

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  5. Nicole Y. says

    I’ll just create an entry question for the sake of it:

    CONTAIN ME!!
    The thing I want to organize the most in my home office are all those darn office supplies! They’re everywhere. It would be nice to buy a few acrylic drawer organizers to wrangle all those things together and then have scrapbook paper underneath for some added prettiness.

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    • Meredith says

      I was just thinking, I love that rafflecopter helps y’all out in terms of time, but reading the bonus questions is one of my favorite parts of the site.

      I’ll bite on the question, I would love to organize all the extra paper/journals we seem to accumulate in my house. It seems like my husband likes to collect journals to capture all of his “important ideas.”

      And I also used the rafflecopter.

  9. Cara Jeanne says

    Love the rafflecopter tool! I always get anxious trying to craft the perfect witty response to your giveaway questions just in case I win :)

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  11. Stephanie B. says

    Love the new entry system! So simple!
    However, I will miss all the fun answers to the questions you posted! Glad to see though that you are being as minimalistic as possible in order to focus on self, family and NEW HOUSE!

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  13. Katharine says

    It’s so nice to see a blog using Rafflecopter where there’s only ONE entry allowed! I hate going to blog contests only to see a Rafflecopter widget with a dozen ways to earn an entry and then feeling compelled to do them all because OMG, I HAVE TO WIN THIS VERY AWESOME THING!

    Thanks for keepin’ it simple, YHL!

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    • Anastasia says

      I agree! “Liking” pages on Facebook and “Following” people on Twitter is nice and all.. but that doesn’t mean we have to use them all just for a giveaway!
      K.I.S.S. lol ;)

    • Beth says

      OMG yes! I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’m totally on board with how Rafflecopter is used here, (thank you, Sherry and John!) but I loathe having to like something on Facebook or following something new to enter. I work really hard to keep my digital life as organized as I can and I don’t want to disorganize it just so I have a chance at a giveaway.

  15. Sarah B says

    I love when other bloggers use this, cause they usually add a few different entry options, like, “what is your favorite ice cream?” or something weird.

    Regardless, our house needs some SERIOUS ORGANIZING. But I also need a babysitter to arrive as well for our 4 and 2 year olds so they don’t immediately tear it down. :)

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  16. Lauren says

    Am I the only one who dislikes raffle copter?? Maybe because I’m on my phone a lot. But I can never get my entries to work.

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  18. Rosemary says

    Am I the only nerd who liked seeing everyone else’s responses to giveaways? However, I’m all for streamlining and saving you guys some time, so Rafflecopter it is! That makes more time for the good stuff. Thanks!

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    • Nicole says

      No, I liked them too! YHL readers are so witty and fun, and I can always appreciate the optimism & positivity in my workday. :)

  20. Jamie P-M says

    Super handy new entry!
    I’m moving next weekend and living in chaos makes me totally scatterbrained… I can’t wait to get moved into the new place and get everything ORGANIZED!

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  22. Emily says

    Rafflecopter for the win! I dig it, and the living room layout from earlier. It reminded me alot of your first den too!

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  24. Jenny says

    I appreciate that you had one simple entry on rafflecopter. Answering one question is good, too…but I don’t like the entries where you are required to sign up for this and like that and pin this and tweet that. I pass on those! I’ve always liked the simplicity of your posts! Have fun getting settled in your new home!

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  26. Courtney says

    Will the number of entries be limited to 10,000 as they have been in the past? Or was that only tied to your comment limit per post?

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      There’s no limit as far as we know with Rafflecopter! Wahoo! The 10,000 thing was just because our blog started to crash/load slowly when we had more than that on a few occasions.

      xo
      s

  28. Blanca says

    You guys know I don’t usually comment, but sometimes I do… ;)

    Worldwide! Yay!!!! Living in Spain, 99% of the time I can’t participate, so I am trhilled this one’s open internationally!

    And soo easy. Even with Rafflecopter (btw, I also wondered why you didn’t use it hahah) normally there’s multiple entries, have to follow blogs, etc. but with you was as easy as press enter.

    Yay!

    Thanks so much for all the wonderful giveaways you organize and your blog!

    I saw the other post earlier already! :)

    xo,

    B.

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  32. Kasha says

    The Container Store is FABULOUS!!! Not to worry about the stress…while the projects will be there for a while, organization will come sooner than later!

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  35. Amanda says

    Rafflecopter was easy to use, even on my smart phone, which is nice. I agree with the other commenters, though, that the questions and answers are fun. Perhaps you can continue posting questions along with the giveaways just for the fun of it?

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      The only thing about that is that then it wouldn’t save us any time like using an automated system like Rafflecopter does (we’d still be manually approving all of those comments, which isn’t a big deal when there are 100-300 like normal posts, but for 5,000-10,000 giveaway comments it was a lot to approve every week). So we thought we’d give this a try and see how it went. Hope that makes sense! We also have YHL forums and Facebook for anyone who’d like to chat – maybe someone can toss up a question of the week on Forums? That would be fun!

      xo
      s

    • Heather says

      Yeah, but I bet you wouldn’t get the 5,000+ comments even if you included the question as just a discussion topic, because I bet a lot of those folks only commented to get an entry. I mean, you post questions all the time and don’t seem to get THAT many comments!

    • YoungHouseLove says

      It’s true! I guess we were just hoping to keep it clean and do entries with Rafflecopter. A few folks have mentioned using our forums for chatting about an extra question there and we think that’s awesome. You’re right that it’s not everyone who wants those questions, so if some folks miss them, those are nice options for them. Maybe next week we can post the bonus question on FB or Forums ourselves and see how it goes :)

      xo
      s

  36. HK says

    Question about the last post… does the sofa placment block your AC vents? I am studying your layout for ideas and just wondered. Thank you!

    PS will have to enter when I get home. =D Another reason to get online when I get home! W00T!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      The console is really leggy and open (and not pressed right against the wall without ventilation behind it because the windowsill is there) so it seems to work :)

      xo
      s

  44. Carly says

    I just read your about you section again. Love of zombies. If that means “the Walking Dead” they just bought some fence materials from where I work while filming in the Atlanta area. I don’t watch but think it’s awesome!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Other than losing just about everything for an hour or so before we finally dig it out, all is going well so far. Don’t want to jinx ourselves though!

      xo
      s

  47. Cindy says

    With as busy as you guys are I’ve often wondered why you hadn’t gone with Rafflecopter. So much easier for both you and us. I love how easy it is to pick and contact a winner with it. Although now you will probably be even MORE productive. Seriously would you just take a break? You’re making the rest of us look lazy!

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  48. Samantha says

    Just a thought, but for all those saying they missed the user comments from the prior giveaways. Perhaps you guys could still pose a question with giveaways but encourage people to start a thread on the forum with the answers?

    That way you don’t have to moderate all the comments but people can still share on the topic :)

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  50. Angela says

    Yay, a give-away that’s open to non-US residents – and such a lovely price too! :) oh, and I like the new system.
    However, I can hardly believe that my entry was nr 2500 already… This entry system must be a huge help for you!!

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