*** 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.
NutritionPhD says
SHARE ME! Around Christmas 2010 I was traveling solo to visit my boyfriend living abroad and found myself stranded for days, along with thousands of travelers, at JFK airport in NYC due to the horrible snowstorm. My plan was to sleep in the airport until I could get a flight out. But, after HOURS of lying on the floor and eating nothing my Dunkin Donuts (that was the only food around) I thought I should try and get a hotel room. There were only a few left, so out of desperation and lack of $$ I decided to shared a hotel room with a Parisian woman and young South African guy I met in line. After hours of waiting outside in the blizzard, hitchhiking to the hotel, pushing our ride after it got stuck in the snow, we finally arrived at the hotel exhausted. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and looking over at this Parisian woman I was sharing a bed with, whose name I still could not pronounce (typical American, I know), and thinking I shouldn’t tell my mom about this for at least a few years. ?
Liz says
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Kelly D. says
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We used to share hotel rooms to save costs on work travel. I once shared (and only once) with a coworker who got ill when she saw people brushing their teeth. I probably tend to brush my teeth a little more often than necessary, and generally there’s no harm in that, but it became a weird timing problem when we both had to be ready for the same meetings at the same time and I needed to brush in secret.
I also shared a hotel room with four coworkers on one trip; it was part of why so many of us had received approval for the travel — to cut costs way down. We had two queen beds and a rollaway crammed in and we had a ton of fun and laughs, but somehow word got out about how many of us were crammed into our hotel room and it became a point of weird conversation and reactions from others at the conference (all more spendy with other people’s money than we were, I guess).
Alex Young says
SHARE ME I studied abroad my junior year of college and shared a tiny bathroom with 20 other girls. That was an experience!! We put together schedules and made it work somehow. The kitchen was shared with 20 girls and 20 guys from the floor above. There was only one fridge. Weirdly, I would go back anytime I could. =)
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Rachael says
Share me! I had over 36 roommates during my college years (I lived in apartment style dorms with 6 girls to a flat, and generally got new roommates every semester). I got very good at explaining which of my things could be shared and which couldn’t. My DVDs could be watched at any time, so long as they didn’t leave the apartment. My cast iron pans were off limits at all times. Etc.
Jess H. says
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Harrowing (to my cooties-phobic grade school mind) was a good word to describe the experience of sharing a lollipop with a neighborhood boy, under duress. My mom wanted me to catch his chickenpox! Gross!
In retrospect, I’m glad she made sure I had the plague as a kid instead of more severely as a grownup, but that memory still gives me the yucks. :)
Lilly says
Share me! I believe in sharing … But not the night I give birth. After I had baby #4, I shaded a room with another mom. Apparently, it was a popular night to have a baby!
Chelsey says
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On the fourth of July when I was ten and my brother was 8, we were told we had to go clean our basement before we could go to the parade and take part in the other holiday festivities. For reasons I don’t remember, we started arguing over a plastic tube that was about a foot long (perfect for a pretend telescope). I was holding it up to my eye and running away from my brother. He grabbed onto it and tried pulling it away. We went back and forth until it came flying back at my face and scratched up my eye. We missed the parade due to our trip to the ER and I had to wear an eye patch to the fireworks display. My brother was grounded but it was decided that wearing an eye patch for fireworks was punishment enough for me. We learned the valuable lesson of sharing… until our youngest brother came around :)
Jennifer says
Share Me! Thanks for the chance to win!
Tamika says
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Lizz says
SHARE ME! I bought succulants at Home Depot this weekend, too! I was going to put them in a terracotta pot that I was planning on spray painting ballet pink, but I love your glass containers so much more!
Kai @ Hello, happy face :) says
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Worst sharing so far was having 6 adults and two infants using the same bathroom for a week this past Christmas. OH MAN. Of course having twin boys means we’ll have a lot of sharing ‘lessons’ still to come!
BreeK says
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Erika says
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I used to have to share my toys with my brother, but luckily we only had to play by my rules, that ment Barbie had to have a backstory about how she met GIJoe
Loey says
Share me! When I was pregnant with my 2nd daughter, we thought it would be a good idea to get our first (2-1/2) a baby doll for Christmas since she would soon have to share me with her sister. Well she was very excited when she opened her new dolly and then proceeded to sit on it! Guess she didn’t want that doll getting any ideas…..
Raeann Munoz says
I am a kindergarten teacher and teaching them to share can sometimes be diffcult. I mean let’s face it, sometimes sharing isn’t really what we want to do at that moment. I get cranky when I have to share my food! But when I see them sharing with each other without any reminders it melts my heart!
Raeann Munoz says
Ahhh, forgot to say “SHARE ME!” And I realized I spelled difficult wrong. That looks wonderful coming from a teacher. What a day!
Ashley T. says
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Your “share a room with your boss” story reminded me of a time I was brand-new at a job and a co-worker from another city and I ended up sharing a room on a business trip we were both on. In the middle of the night I had a crazy dream and woke up with a loud scream. It was completely silent in the room until she asked from the other bed…”Are you okay?” How do you explain that without sounding crazy (or 4 years old?). Thankfully, we ended up becoming good friends!
Thanks for this giveaway!
Amy says
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I had to share a hotel room with my boss one time…. I now know her life story. Lol
Missty says
Share me! My two girls “get it” finally after telling them over and over about sharing their clothes (almost same size). I wish I had learned this lesson early on. I was the one that stole my sister make-up and would not share a thing.
Yadi says
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My fiancé and I live in two different cities and we are getting married this spring and FINALLY living in the same city/house!
Sarah says
SHARE ME….For Real!!
Shelby L says
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Renee says
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It’s always an adventure teaching my boys (ages 2 and 4) how to share! The best things they share are hugs and kisses and their twin bed (one kid at each end!).
Kate says
SHARE ME! I’ll never forget the story of my 5 year old nephew coming out of the playroom in tears, muttering something about his sister taking his toy. Moments later, our niece, who had JUST started talking emerged from the playroom, toy in hand, looked at everyone and in her sweet little voice, all full of innocence said pointedly – “Share.” Can’t argue with that! My husband and I now say the same thing to one another in daily life – like when someone is hogging the popcorn at the movies.
Beth says
Share me! What is on my mind (harrowing) is the huge snapping turtle that charged at me when I opened our garage today. Never seen anything like it…creepy looking and mean! Strange story, but just really didn’t expect that to happen today!
Nicole says
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I once had to share a small hotel room with my whole family (there were 4 of us kids and only a queen size bed). It was craziness!
Elyse says
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My husband has a hard time sharing drinks… any time we have soda or juice in the house he devours it all that day, leaving none for the rest of us.
Christina S. says
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I accidentally used my husband’s toothbrush on a recent trip and he totally freaked out! Apparently he believes that toothbrush’s absolutely cannot be shared. (On a separate note, I once had a coworker who shared a toothbrush, hair brush and a BATH TOWEL with her husband… EWWWW)
Tangee says
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Natalie says
Share Me! With 3 little girls under the age of five, this is probably one of the top 5 words that come out of my mouth!
Erin McKenna says
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I recently moved from a rural house to an urban apartment and am having to relearn the art of sharing: walls, hallways, elevators! I just wish people were better caretakers of those things we share!
Ashley says
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I used to have to share with siblings. Now I have to share with my husband. I’m pretty good at it.
Danielle says
share me plz!!!!!
Jo says
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When I was younger and still living at home, my mother and I shared a bedroom for 6 months while we refinished mine. It was a newly bought house and she was a wild DIY-er, so we ripped my bedroom down the studs and redid. She reduced my closet and expanded the bathroom linen closet while she was at, since I shared a wall with the bathroom.
The whole project was impressive.
Elizabeth says
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My very first job (and job related trip) put me 800 miles from home sharing a room with my new boss (I had only worked there 2 months). The first night there we went out for dinner, and I got food poisoning! It was so awful, I was up all night, and the next day I was supposed to be hosting an inter-office meeting with about 30 other employees, yikes! Needless to say on the next business trip I had my own room, and I ordered everything well done.
Cheryl says
SHARE ME!! I’m still learning to share food with my husband. We are both food lovers and it gets tough to share our favorites. :)
Callie says
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We adopted a pair of cats that turned out to be somewhat feral. They don’t like me or my husband. We’ve had them for 2 years and are still skiddish and don’t like to be touched. But one of them is finally coming around and has just started sitting on the couch with us when we watch movies. Unfortunately, he sits where we like to put our feet up, so we can’t sit comfortably, but we don’t dare move him since his company is precious. So we’re learning to share with our little guy in hopes he’ll learn to love us.
Erin says
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My husband thinks he gets to share the walk-in master bedroom closet, but he doesn’t.
Stephanie O. says
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Nicole Cottrell says
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I grew up an only child, so sharing wasn’t a common practice for me beyond playdates and such.
That is until college, where I had to share an apartment with 2 strangers. Talk about learning to share quickly…and painfully.
thanks for the giveaway!
courtney says
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Wendy says
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My oldest son has Asperger’s Syndrome, so social skills like sharing are very difficult for him. He has an extremely hard time sharing his possessions, like books and toys, with his younger brother.
We had to switch him from private to public school after this school year had started. They immediately put him on a behavior plan and into a social skills weekly group. About two months in, his attitude towards his brother greatly improved! One night, I found that he had invited his little brother to sleep in his room with him. He said that he wanted that for the next night too. A weekend later we rebuilt the bunk beds we had in storage, and four months later, the two are still sharing a room! (Although toys are still a bit harder to share!)
Brynn says
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Brynn says
Moved back in with my parents & sister (with my husband and baby) to save money. Then my other sister moved back in after a break up. It is one full house. Did I mention 2 cats and dog?
Rebecca @ the lil house that could says
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Junior year of college I shared an apartment with 5 other girls. Enough said…
Emily says
SHARE ME! When Nintendo Game Boys first came out my parents bought one for my brother and I to share…major drama ensued. Within a few months we each had one of our own! The investment was well worth it for my parents – we could finally take peaceful road trips. :)
Kenzie says
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Sharing a condo with the in-laws!
AAAHHHHHH!
Amy W says
SHARE ME! When I was 13 we were selling our house and I was sharing a room with my 3 year old sister. In order to make the room seem less cramped, my parents took out my sister’s bed and we shared one bed for a few months. It was actually kind of fun :-)