*** 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.
Sarah says
SHARE ME!!!
I still have problems sharing the bed with my hubby! I usually take up 3/4 of the bed, leaving him with next to nothing. I’m am trying!!
Ashley N. says
SHARE ME!
Unfortunately, my apartment shares a wall with horrible neighbors. They do their laundry at 1am every single night! Their washer rocks up against our bedroom wall at all hours. I hate sharing! :)
Shelley H says
SHARE ME! Had to share a bathroom with 3 brothers growing up!
Amy Awesome says
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Over the course of the night, I bring our baby in bed with us and fall asleep breastfeeding, and our daughter will crawl into bed around 6:30 and so I wake up most mornings with my husband, our 4 year old, and our four month old all smooshed up against me. It’s fortunate I like them all enough to put up with that.
Lisa says
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I’m a twin, so I had to share everything for the first 18 years of my life (no hard feelings) but the day came when we moved away to college…separating those clothes was crazytown!
KatieV says
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Ashley says
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My 1-year old loves sharing his food… with me, my husband, and even the dog. He gets a kick out of feeding us bites.
Betsy says
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Janna says
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When I lived in China as a kid, we would see thousands “sharing” the wooden scoop to drink some water from a bucket, while visiting national touristy places…uck.
Cindy says
Share me! How fun!
tiffany says
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Thankfully I don’t have any horror stores! The closest thing I can come up with a former coworker who constantly felt the need to overshare all kinds of personal details. I’ll spare you by not sharing again… ick.
Kelly says
SHARE ME! My 21 month old is just learning to share. He offered shared his cars with a 10 month old over the weekend. He was not so interested in sharing his books.
harmony says
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Tif says
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I used to share my drinks with my three year old daughter. Then one day I realised how many things were floating in it after her turn. I don’t share any more.
Leslie R. says
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Fifteen years ago a friend and I loaded up her Suburban with our combined 7 kids and headed to Florida for 20 days. The trip gave new meaning to the phrase, “shared space.”
Laura says
SHARE ME! My 2yo daughter had her first playdate at our house this past weekend. I wasn’t sure if she’d understand, but I tried anyway to prep her beforehand by saying Kaden will want to play with her toys so she needs to share them and they can play with them together. She immediately started frantically pointing to random things in the room and claiming them – “MY blocks!! MY kitchen!!” Clearly she understood what I was saying, and was not happy about it!
Joanna says
Share Me!! Sharing a bedroom with my sister growing up proved to be interesting!
Ruthie says
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Sasha Nygaard says
SHARE ME! I’m the oldest child and I just plain don’t share well with others….and karma has come back to bite me in the form of my 4 year old. Sharing to him is that I get to play with all the Legos he doesn’t like or offering the bite of candy that fell on the floor. ;)
Andrea says
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My mother and aunt shared a beedroom growing up and oftentimes, they’d invite their cousin to sleepover (I refer to her as my aunt as well but clearly she is a cousin once removed). My “real” aunt would sleep in the middle of the pushed together beds since she was youngest and in the middle of the night my mom and my “aunt” would pull the beds apart, making her fall through!!! Talk about harrowing. And it took her a few sleepovers before she learned the lesson…
Amanda says
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My boss likes to ‘share’ lunches and constantly double dips or eats off my plate! I have a real phobia about germs from other people’s eatting utensils…………and she keeps missing my polite ‘hints’ about how I hate it!
Lindsay T. says
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I am currently living in a house with my husband and we are SHARING one bathroom. It will be a “must have” in our next house to have two. I’ll leave it at that :)
Jessica says
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So it turns out I wasn’t very good at sharing when I was little. My aunt often tells this story of my brother sitting quietly playing with a toy. I went up to him and told him I wanted that toy. So, he gave it to me (as any good big brother would). Then he started playing with a new toy, and I again went up to him and told him I wanted the toy he was playing with. This went on until I had the entire toybox contents surrounding me and he was playing with the last toy. I was such a brat! Thankfully, I’ve learned to share since then.
Kelly says
SHARE ME! I had to teach my son NOT to share food – he has severe food allergies!
Hayley M. says
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How about the many times my sister and I rode to Wyoming with my parents from Tennessee? Straight through. Only stopping for bathroom breaks. SO. FUN.
Megan W. says
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Dina says
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Growing up, the house had one TV. All of my friends didn’t understand it, and my brother and I often tried to get more TVs in the house, but our parents wouldn’t allow it.
A bunch of years later I’m so glad they had this rule! It forced a lot more family time and if anybody wanted time to themselves it included a book!
Colleen McWatters says
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In college all the girls I hung with went in on 1 pair of Lucky Jeans because we couldn’t afford them on our own. We used to rotate who got to wear them to the bar. One night, our friend Matt (a roommate of one of the girls) had on a really sexy pair of jeans and after we all complemented him on how great his butt looked in them we realized that he was wearing our jeans and looked better in them then any of us did.
Irene says
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Josha says
SHARE ME! I’ve had to share my bathroom with my sister with my whole life but recently I’ve had to get used to sharing my bathroom with my new husband.
holly says
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i did have to share a hotel room with my boss once while on a business trip. she snored so loud. it was the worst thing ever. EVER.
Jill says
SHARE ME! Thanks for being so generous!
Melissa S says
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Kim P says
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Melissa says
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Right now we are struggling with our youngest son (almost 2 years old) who does not want to share. But our oldest, is doing an amazing job of sharing with him or at least giving him what he wants so he will stop bothering him.
Stacey H says
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Maybe I share a little of all my meals with my dog. Just don’t tell my husband. (of course I’ll leave out the not-good-for-dogs stuff)
Trude says
SHARE ME! I shared a bathroom with my two younger (but much larger) brothers through almost the end of college. ‘Nuff said, right? ;) Oh, the horror!
Ashley says
SHARE ME! An ongoing sharing experience for me is when my husband and I go out to eat and I know we’ll have leftovers for the next day, I try to pick and entree that I know he’ll like because he usually eats my leftovers anyway…
Chelsea says
SHARE ME! Growing up I shared a room with my sister. The one good thing to come out of that is now I can sleep with the lights on. We used to fight over who would get up from bed after reading to turn it off and we were both so stubborn we’d stick it out until we fell asleep with it on!
Carol S says
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I can’t think of a sharing story off the top of my head, but I have been known to create awkward moments with my tendency to be a chronic over-sharer. Sherry, I know you feel my pain!
Thanks for the giveaway,
Carol S
Ray says
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Vea says
“SHARE ME” – I shared a bedroom and bed with my sister until she got married. Not that we didn’t have space, we both had separate bedrooms, but we just loved spending time together, sharing stories, giggling at night and just being sisters. I think what contributed to this is that we grew up in a very difficult environment with almost nothing, and we got appreciate time spending with each other and not taking things for granted.
Casey says
SHARE ME! I’m not quickly recalling a funny story, so I’ll just say that I love sharing my life with my wonderful, funny and loving husband! It’s just the best. :)
Lindsay says
SHARE ME! i shared my bed w/ my dog during a thunderstorm!
Jaime Barks says
SHARE ME! I slipped in fell in the lobby on my first day at a new high school. Yeah, it was pretty awful : )
Martha says
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Katee says
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My children do a pretty good job at sharing their reese’s peanut butter cups because they know they are a favorite of mine. Every so often I have one handed to me that was squished in a pocket for most of the school day so they could share it with me.
MamaJ {The Scientist's Wife} says
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Teresa C says
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kos says
Share me! My husband and I went to visit my brother in California for vacation a few years ago. To save on hotels, he let us stay at his studio apartment for a majority of the time and even insisted we sleep in his bed while he took the couch. It was very sweet of him to share what little space he had with us to save money. We had a wonderful time.