*** This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below! ***
Good news – the prize pot is now up to over $500! Even better news (at least for one lucky person) random.org has selected our winner as… Karina (who notes that both teaching and learning to share is hard, just ask her kiddos). Congrats Karina!
As we mentioned last week along with our curator collection, Joss & Main offers small referral fees in the form of store credit to anyone who refers someone who makes a purchase, but we wanted to pay those forward. So instead of accepting the referral fees, we saved all of those credits up in a separate “gift account” so we could dish ‘em out in a big fat giveaway for one lucky reader this week. Oh and Joss & Main kindly donated $100 to get things rolling (and to ensure that we didn’t have nada to give away if no one signed up, haha). But guess what? It earned over $300 worth of referral credits! So if you add in the $100 from Joss & Main, the prize pot is up to over $400 for one lucky winner to spend on whatever they’d like!
- PRIZE: Ownership of the special Joss & Main referral account that we’ve set up, which has an account credit of $430!
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “SHARE ME” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … a funny / touching / harrowing sharing story. Maybe about the time you had to share a hotel room with your boss on a business trip? Or the challenges of teaching your kids to share? Or a memory of when you and your siblings shared a bathroom / car / wardrobe growing up?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, April 4th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The lower 48 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 Joss & Main.
Amy Knisely says
SHARE ME! Sharing my house with my husband’s best friend. He moved in three weeks after we got married and 6 weeks after we bought the house. He was moving in from out of state and we paid for his moving expenses along with not charging rent. He just found his own place and moved out last weekend. As much as we love the boy dearly, it’s nice to have our house all to ourselves again.
Miranda says
SHARE ME
The night before I ended up in the hospital to have my son (pre-eclampsia), I had to teach my husband how to put a baby in the car carrier. Using various stuffed animals that we’d gotten at the baby shower, and taking many pictures, my husband learned the correct way to put a baby into the car carrier (I left the learning how to change a diaper to the nurses in the NICU).
gabrielle says
SHARE ME! One of my favorite memories is taking my children son on the bus to get ice cream. We never ride the bus and he wanted to so bad. It was the highlight of his year. Simple pleasures.
Marilyn says
SHARE ME ……I remember our first trip as a married couple with another couple and I will never forget us all staying together as they lost their wallet, and we finished the trip on just our budget alone for all four of us. You can make do and have alot of fun when your options are limited.
Steph says
SHARE ME! Back in the day when cassette tapes were all the rage, my younger sister and I would share them. As I was looking through our box of tapes for something to listen to, I saw one that looked like a blank tape, so I put it in my tape player and it was my sister singing all of these songs she had made up. Obviously she never meant to put the tape into that box … and of course I had to razz her a little about it ;) I still laugh when I think about it. I was really cute!
Monica says
Share me! My former boss wanted to share some thoughts with me and asked me to follow her into the restroom while she proceeded to go number 2 (a noisy number 2!). I was stunned and absolutely disgusted. What was she thinking?!!!
Carrie Z. says
Share me
I’m a teacher. Teaching to share is a daily part of the job!
Kristin says
Share Me! I think my best sharing experience was sharing a dorm room in college and a bathroom with about 30 other girls! :-) Luckily it turned out to be a wonderful 2 years!
Stephanie Marsh says
SHARE ME! I actually was horrible at sharing…specifically food when growing up and was forced to eat everything on my plate if I refused to share! I’m surprised I don’t have food issues…haha!
Emily D. says
Share me!
Cheryl B says
SHARE ME! I used to have to share the back seat of a station wagon with 3 sisters on 8 hour drives to PA. What fun, especially the time we had the beagle as well and he threw up in the back of the station wagon.
Lee says
SHARE ME! When I was a child, my family of six lived in an 8×35 foot trailer for a few years. Two people could squeeze into the bathroom at once, but only if one of them stood in the shower!
Lauren says
SHARE ME!
A few years ago, my husband and I took a weekend trip down to San Antonio with our best friends. We stayed on the Air Force Base to save some money. As we checked into our rooms, my friend quickly realized that the rooms have a common bathroom between them, and we were NOT in adjoining rooms. Needless to say, she didn’t want to SHARE a bathroom with a stranger, so we trucked it back to the office and requested adjoining rooms.
We still talk about it to this day, because after the drive (3 hours) and the room situation getting settled, it took us a total of 9 hours to make it to the Riverwalk!!
Christine says
SHARE ME
At my last job we had new music Tuesday, where we would all share our favorite new music. It was great, because I discovered bands I would have never found on my own.
Kasumawati says
SHARE ME…
Laura says
SHARE ME! My fiance and I still share a bathroom!!!! We just bought our first house a little downtown bungalow and we’re fixing it up!!! We just learned a week ago that we have a baby on the way, so there will be more sharing to come!
Laura says
“SHARE ME” I love the time my youngest decided to share his candy with our large chow mix dog. Not once but several times before I noticed. LOL! I guess a dog really is ‘boys’ best friend!
Jenalee Latham says
SHARE ME!
My favorite memory of sharing is when my girlfriends and I all bought ONE hotel room in Ocean City, MD, for all 8 of us. Only 2 beds, one bathroom, and one mirror. So needless to say, getting ready to go out for the night was a challenge with all of us but it made for some really great memories :)
Lesli says
SHARE ME…For some reason, people share too much with me. I hear stories that should really be saved for closest friends’ ears only from perfect strangers!
Angela N says
SHARE ME!
I have 2 girls and sharing seems to be a daily issue at our house. And not in a good way. ;-) I hope that they can grow to share with each other. I couldn’t live without my sister. I share everything with her.
Greg says
SHARE ME! Lately I’ve been sharing a lot of adventures with my oldest child, and I can’t wait until our younger one is able to join us as well.
Jennifer says
SHARE ME!!!!! I dont have a cute or funny story to share. Maybe because its still way to early and Im no thtinking straight yet. I still hope you like to share that awesome account with me!!!
Denise Pedersen says
SHARE ME! My husband and I share our bed with our two large Labs and the occasional cat….it can be cozy!
Megan says
SHARE ME!
Sweetest moment for me is when when my son decides to share his Cheerios by poking them in my mouth or dropping them in my shirt..I’ll save that for later ;)
Michelle says
SHARE ME! Right now, my husband and I are sharing a car while we save up to buy a new one. I’ve had my own car since I turned 16, so it’s odd to be 31 and needing to check to see if my husband needs the car before I make plans with friends!
Maggie says
SHARE ME! Lately my husband and I have been sharing the responsibility of feeding our cat by hand, literally letting him lick the nasty cat food off our fingers, because he’s on some kind of hunger strike and won’t eat out of a bowl, plate, off the floor, or any other reasonable means of ingesting. Only at our house….
MeganM says
Share Me! When I was little my mother would always have my sister and I take a bath together. One time we were a water spitting contest, I choked and threw-up my chocolate and vanilla twist ice-cream on her. Needless to say, it was our last bath together.
Megan says
SHARE ME!
When I was in 7th grade my parents had a surprise 3rd child. So my teenager years I had to share a bedroom with a baby/toddler. Not fun at all.
Julia says
Share Me!!
Right after I graduated from college, I lived for about a year in a 4 bedroom townhouse with 4 other roomates that I met on craigslist. When we all had our respective significant others spending the night on weekends, there were updwards of 10 people (plus 4 dogs, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs, and a bunny named Bob) all under one 1600 sq ft roof!
It was a total adventure and many a crazy shenanigan occured in that house!
Kelly says
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ashley b says
share me! when i was growing up i had to share a room with my brother (we were twins). once i got older, my sister and i ended up sharing rooms (i was younger than she was). there were times in between where my brother & i would share rooms again, but eventually siblings grew up and we all parted ways. i would love to be a kid again and share my room with my brother or sister. we had so much fun!
Anngela says
SHARE ME :)
Oh the glorious days of ‘sharing’ clothes with my younger sister…I knew I wouldn’t get any of the pieces back in the same condition, or at all for the most part. :)
Thanks for the opportunity to win!! I love browsing through Joss & Main and I can’t wait to make my first purchase!
Becca says
SHARE ME!
Whenever we go out to eat, my husband and I each order something we’ll both like. Then after eating half of our meals, we’ll switch plates.
Mary Gross says
SHARE ME!
Sharing an apartment in college with a psycho roommate followed by a (secretly) pregnant roommate! Yikes!
Katie says
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Charlie says
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Cristina C says
SHARE ME some Joss and Main Love!!!!
Becky P says
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Anna says
SHARE ME!
Funny story… on v-day this year, my husband and i left for work while it was still dark out. we live in a townhome and i park right in front of our house, while my husband parks in a small lot to the side of our house. as i was getting into my car, i saw him walking back over from the small lot with a bunch of balloons and other v-day paraphernalia. i said, out loud, “you are so silly! what am i going to do with balloons?” and started to walk over to him. then as the individual walked under the street light i noticed it wasn’t my husband… it was my next door neighbor and he was putting the balloons in his wife’s car (parked right next to me) as a surprise! i’m 100% certain he heard me but i tried to play it off and told him that my husband had made me a cup of tea and left if for me in my car (that was the best response i could come up with). i think i blushed all the way to work and called my husband to share in my humiliation! :)
Gina S. says
SHARE ME! To do this day, I still think the sweetest thing my brother ever did for me was share his ice cream after the scoops fell off my cone onto the street. We had both saved our money for about a month to buy those ice creams. I was 5 years old, he was 8.
Suzanne says
SHARE ME!!! Share me so Joss & Main!!!
ash says
SHARE ME
My brother and I hated sharing and each other growing up. Then we grew up and moved away where we saw each other once a year, and life should have been great.
But that did not work for us. So I moved closer and now we are moving into an apartment together. I could use this prize to do up this apartment.
I love your blog. Keep it up!
Sue J. says
SHARE ME — After 30 years of marriage, my husband will share his fries with me. It’s the perfect diet plan.
Tookie says
SHARE ME! My 4 year old daughter asked me the other day “mommy, why are your nipples so big? will mine get that big?” OMG. Thank god we were at home and not out in public.
Tookie says
Oh…I meant to say: that is what I get for sharing a bathroom with her! Yikes.
Blaire says
Share Me.
I had to share a bed with a coworker I’d never met before. Who got drunk and was followed home by the NYPD for a public intoxication issue. And then she passed out in the hall.
Cheryl says
“SHARE ME” Growing up I had to share a bedroom with two sisters… and believe me it was a nightmare!
Meg W says
Share me! I think about how my brother and I shared a bedroom when we were little, and how that property with 15 acres that we love would be a-ok with just two bedrooms until we add on…. If we have two kids before then, they can share too!
CherylM. says
“SHARE ME” Trying to teach kids to share anything is almost impossible!!
Virginia says
Share me! I shared a bedroom with my twin sister, and we were always fighting over the shower! Sometimes I would wake up extra early, turn the shower on, and fall asleep on the bathroom mat just to insure I would be first!
Jane says
SHARE ME! My younger brother and I shared a camry station wagon when we were at UVA and I thought I had the only set of keys. I walked out to the lot behind the dorm one day and thought my car had been towed or worse stolen. Turns out he had gotten another key made. It definitely taught us to communicate.