*** 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.
Dymphi says
SHARE ME !
melody says
SHARE ME. My elementary school wardrobe comes to mind…but whose doesn’t?
Debbie says
Share Me!
Oh boy, I’ve had so many awkward moments while sharing stories to large groups, I get really shy and nervous. I’ve gotten better now, but I still totally prefer sharing stuff one on one!
Nichole says
SHARE ME! I shared everything with my younger siblings growing up…including the chicken pox! ;-)
Dani says
SHARE ME. I grew up with a family of 7 in a little house. There was MUCH sharing. The first time I in my life I didn’t have to share a bedroom was as a sophomore in college…but my new room in the basement was the size of Harry’s cupboard under the stairs. My friends sent cards addressed to my cupboard. Moral of the story: I have cool friends.
Maggie says
SHARE ME!
My 2 year old likes to share her toys with our cat. Today she shoved her stuffed hippo in the cat’s face, and said “Hippo, kitty cat!”. The cat does not like to share with the baby. Oh well. :)
Morgan says
SHARE ME! You guys are so generous! My most recent favorite sharing story is teaching my 14 month old how to share – and in an effort to be a sport about showing her how nice it is to share, accepting half eaten food or pre-chewed crackers graciously with a smile. Yum.
ruthy says
SHARE ME! I’m the worst story teller!
Bethany says
SHARE ME! I never had my Dad in my life growing up. I had no clue I had a little sister, either. I met them both when I was 15 and my sister was 14. She is now my best friend ever and my Dad and I have a great relationship :)
Bianca C. says
SHARE ME! :) My grandmother is an amazing singer, when she was young she was becoming famous, at one point she was Elvis’ backup, some of my most favorite memories are the ones where she tells me about him, he was very sweet and of course handsome, when they would film him singing, they would only film it on his torso an up, because his hips where too sexy, all those dance moves! She had a contract to tour the world, but she couldn’t accept, she already had a family and wanted more, so that’s exactly what she did, and without that, I wouldn’t be here, everytime I see her we play the piano together and she sings, she has cancer and it’s hard for her to control her voice as her body shakes, but she sings for me.
Bianca C. says
Although my story wasn’t technically a sharing story it was the only thig I could think of, hey we shared the piano together and played beautiful songs :)
Karlie says
SHARE ME!
Marisa says
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Amanda says
SHARE ME!
I’m watching my kids try to “share” a bowl of popcorn. I use the term loosely.
Jamie M says
SHARE ME!!!!
Please share me!
Mackenzie says
SHARE ME!!
My husband and I have been sharing a studio hotel room for the past 2 months while we’ve been living and house hunting in a new city. It’s been a great bonding expierence but I am so ready to move into a bigger place!
Hillary says
SHARE ME!! TMI Alert: A friend and I were both pumping at work at the same time and occasionally shared an office space to do it. It’s hard to find a place to do it, so that’s how it worked out. It will be nice to stay at home this time so I don’t have to do that anymore. The office was dubbed “The Milking Station!”
Andi says
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Michelle says
SHARE ME! :D
Anne says
SHARE ME! My parents raised us 5 kids under the “we share everything” philosophy — nothing was ever just MINE, which drove me nuts. My older sister would come in my room in the morning after I left for school and take clothes from my closet (and never wash or return them). I hooked a tape player up to an outlet connected to the light switch so it would turn on when the light switch was turned on. When my sister came in my room one morning to raid the closet, she flipped on the light switch and heard my voice, recorded on a cassette tape, screaming, “Get out of here! Put those clothes back!” My disembodied voice scared the heck out of her!!!
Amber says
SHARE ME! Teaching my kiddos to share has been one of the hardeat things to do. Sometimes it just isn’t fair, but its the lesson of it.
Claire says
SHARE ME! Sharing a hotel room with my boyfriend’s mom… wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I was pretty terrified for a few weeks!
domestiCate says
Share me please!
Virginia says
SHARE ME! I had no siblings to share with growing up, but I think I’m ok at it regardless!
Wendi says
Share Me!!! Sharing our bed with 3 children, who like to play musical beds!!!
michelle@decorandthedog says
Share me!
Sharing the bed with the dog is rough. :)
Melinda says
SHARE ME! We are teaching our two year old to share and today when my husband was eating some coookies, our daughter said…. “Papa you need to share.”
Caroline says
SHARE ME SHARE ME SHARE ME
Teaching my sweet puppy dog how to SHARE his toys with my mom’s dog….not always pretty!
Kelli Staggs says
“SHARE ME!!!”. Why the quotations?? With a four and two-year-old at home, everything I own seems to scream that (including anything chocolate) :)
Ashlee says
SHARE ME!!!!! I had to share a hotel room for work with a complete and total stranger because the hotel was overbooked and we didn’t have other options!
Caitlin says
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August Rhodes says
“SHARE ME”
I had to share the same haircut and perm with my 2 cousins growning up. None of us had our own style until we hit middle school. Thanks grandma.
Stephanie says
SHARE ME!
I had to share a lot with my brothers growing up. From food (never ate my own leftovers, they were eaten before I even woke up the next morning) to first car when we were teens (I would get dressed and be ready to go out when I would step outside….to see the car gone).
Very glad I am no longer living with those hooligans, though I still love them.
Dana L. says
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Mary says
Share me! Last summer we traveled with a two year old and a three month old and being cheap we only got one room. So after the girls went to bed, my husband and I sat in the bathroom with the door closed eating cold pizza, whispering to each other, and reading our books. It was sooo romantic. Bonus points: I got to sit on the throne.
Jo says
SHARE ME!
Tonight my family of five is sharing our 3 bedroom 1 bath house with 2 strangers. The guys are traveling across the country documenting life. My husband found their blog, saw they were traveling near our area, and invited to visit our community and stay at our house. Our guests always stay in my 10 year old daughter’s bedroom where she has covered the walls in her own drawings. I guess she’s learning to share too.
Kalyn Mace-Guilloux says
SHARE ME!
For a long time, I worried about our oldest (4) sharing with his new baby brother… after 4 years of being an only child, he didn’t share well with his cousin :( But when our little guy came, he was MORE than happy to share his *appropriately sized* toys and loves it! So sweet to see him in his new role!
Carrie E says
SHARE ME
I have fun memories of the shared bathroom in college at the sorority house. I was once bombarded by my roomie’s extensive rubber duck collection as I showered. Another friend thought it would be hilarious to throw them in on me one by one!
Lauren says
SHARE ME! Please!
Aron says
Share Me! I had two older sisters and the family of five shared one bathroom! We all also had hair long enough to sit on so washing it took some time!
Jennifer Lentz says
Share me – My younger sister would come in my bedroom before school and ask to borrow my clothes. I talk in my sleep and would agree to let her wear something and then when I saw her wearing it after I woke up I would tell her to go change.
Ang says
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jamie McDermott says
Share Me! Today my son and his best bud broke into tears as they were learning how to share, and their pin wheel broke in half. :)
Terresa says
Share Me!!! I’m NOT a good sharer of food. I hate it when I stop to get some food at a drive-thru, and i call my husband to see if he wants something, and he says no thanks. Then I get home and he just wants a “few bites” of mine!!!!! ggrrrr :/
Nicole says
share me! I have a twin so I shared a WOMB :)
Julie says
Share me!
I shared an apartment with a friend after many years of living alone. I did not realize how set in my ways I was and how this would be a bad idea!
Molly says
SHARE ME! My husband tells me that I’m not very good at sharing the “covers”….so I would love to pick up some new cozy blankets, sheets or other fun bedding, all of which I promise to share of course!
Jenny Patterson says
SHARE ME!!!
Lauren says
Share me!
I grew up with 2 sisters so I have a love/hate relationship with sharing, but if I won this I might (might!) share some of the goods with them.
Brianne Serdar says
Share Me! I grew up in a one bathroom farm house….it was quite an ordeal at times with a sister in high school. Now I’m adamant that our house have at least two full baths!
Jerri says
SHARE ME! My husband and I sometimes share a drinking cup if one of us runs out of water before the other. However, when I drink from his, I often taste whatever he ate earlier that day. Sometimes it’s a peanut butter flavor, sometimes spaghetti sauce…either way, GROSS!