*** 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.
Anna says
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My freshman year in college, I was living in a suite where four girls shared a bathroom. While I was taking a shower, my roommate left and locked the door to our room behind her… leaving me naked and locked out! I had to knock on our neighbors’ door, ask to borrow some clothes (at least I had a towel!), and then run across campus to the security office to ask for a spare key. Talk about embarrassing! Ever since then, I always took my room key to the shower.
Katied says
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in college i tried to “share” (aka steal) my boyfriend’s bagel at breakfast – mind you, this is an all you can eat dining hall buffet. I didn’t realize he had a no sharing food policy, so he stole my shoes. i’m not sure why – we were freshman and our friends thought it was funny.
meryl rose says
SHARE ME! My older brothers and I were never good at sharing, especially in the bathroom: I’ve found out now that we’re older that they peed in my hairspray and put my toothbrush in the toilet. Evil evil older brothers, grrr
Kelli says
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Katie D says
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So this one time there was this blog that was really nice about sharing with their readers… Thanks, guys!
Amanda says
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When I was pregnant with my first daughter,my eating habits went from healthy to extremely bad for you. There was a place that had THE BEST chili-cheese fries. You could see the grease floating on the top and they were DELICIOUS! My dad had the nerve to attempt to put his fork into my fries so I stabbed him in the hand with my fork. No one was going to take my fries! I’m much better at sharing when I am not pregnant!
Somer says
Share me! Growing up my older sister and I not only shared a room, but we shared a bed as well. One night while I was sleeping I woke up screaming only to find my sister holding toe nail clippers and laughing. She took it upon herself to clip my nails that she thought were too long only to clip my skin instead. I was bawling, she was laughing and we both got yelled at.
Katie says
SHARE ME! Maybe not the kids yet, but I have spent the past week trying to teach my sweet dog to share her toys….she has spoiled rotten only child syndrome.
Ashley says
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Kristin says
Share me! My sister always wants to share clothes and I’m not so good at it!
hyzen says
Share me! In college, I accidentally took my mom to see a play with full frontal nudity (both sexes). Kind of harrowing, mostly because it took us both by surprise. Funny in retrospect, though!
Melissa S. says
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Molly says
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My brother and I are only a year apart in school and shared a car throughout high school and college (we both went to the same university). It was always a harrowing experience deciding who would get the car when.
sarah says
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Sharing a bathroom in my college dorm was an absolutely awful experience. Once, a girl on the floor decided to dye her hair red…in the shower. Walking in afterwards, it looked like a murder scene!
Sarah says
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My husband and I have a very hard time sharing our sink! I really hope some day we can have a bathroom with two!
Josie says
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lisa says
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HannahJo says
SHARE ME! I used to share a bed with my little sister when were were small. I hated when her butt touched mine. GAH! I would kick her really hard in the tush and send her flying across the bed.
gaby says
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Finding out I was going to be a mom was soo scary to me…..Now I wonder what I was so afraid of :) I cant imagine my life any other way…My son will be 2 in August, and he is the light of my life!! :)
Katie says
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We didn’t go out to eat a lot growing up, so restaurant leftovers were always really exciting to have to look forward to. As one of 4 kids, my personal leftovers were often stolen before I could get to them. My family devised a 24-hour rule, where if you hadn’t eaten your own leftovers in 24 hours, they were fair game. To this day, I still scribble my name in white styrofoam take-out containers for fear that someone might try to take them!
So I guess I’m not much for sharing food…
Tiffany says
SHARE ME! My family had a particularly harrowing vacation one summer, when we each traded a nasty virus for the entire week when we were supposed to be enjoying the sights of San Diego. Instead, we each spent days laying on the bathroom floor, and cleaning up each other’s projectile vomit. Gross!
Tara says
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Natasha says
SHARE ME! My younger sister and I shared a room when we were little, and since I was the oldest I always got the top bunk :)
Randi Marie says
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Kim says
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Growing up, we only had 1 bathroom for 4 people, so it was definitely a situation of sharing / timing / hoping there was enough hot water for a shower / just wanting a few minutes to yourself :)
Jessica R. says
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I love eating out with my mom because we have an unspoken agreement to always share dessert :-)
Carrie says
Share me, please! I share my birthday with my brother, so between the ages of 5 and about 17 birthdays were a trial. Shared cake, shared party…talk about a fight.
Alana says
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I will never forget road trips with my family of 5 as a child. We all shared one hotel room, which usually meant two double beds. As the youngest and only female child, I was left to push two chairs together and make a “crib” for myself. I actually loved it!
Christine says
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I shared a room with my sister growing up. I hated it then, but looking back it taught me a lot. So, I recently put my 6 and 4 year old into the same room. They may hate me now, but they will appreciate it when they get older!
Cheryl says
SHARE ME! I learned to share when my husband and I got married and I inherited two stepsons from his first marriage — not the easiest thing in the world but VERY rewarding!
Mel says
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I do not share left over Thai food.
Nichole says
SHARE ME! I once accidentally sent an email to a co-worker who SHARES my husband’s first name telling him I loved him and asking what he wanted for dinner that night. He must have found it amusing since he replied “Love you too!” Ha!
christa says
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I taught my boyfriends Niece that “Sharing is Caring” but she thinks its only for when someone should share with her. lol. Guess I’ll have to revisit that once she is older. haha.
Jessi says
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I am not good at sharing the kitchen… I barely let my sweet husband inside. Oh well… at least we eat well!
jackie says
share me, I can’t think of any funny stories though!
Tara says
SHARE ME! I had to share a room with my little brother until I was a junior in high school, that was on the harrowing side of sharing!
katie v says
Share me! As selfish as it sounds, I hate sharing gum with others. I knew I had found a great friend when I met someone in grad school who was just as stingy with her gum as me!
Jyotsna says
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Sarah says
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Growing up I shared a bedroom with my older sister, and since there was a considerable age gap it was a seriously terrible arrangement. Both of us were incredibly messy and argued all the time. It was like a hurricane hit that bedroom at all times. Somehow in spite of that we are very close now. I think down the road that will make me avoid having more than one kid per room at all costs.
Katie says
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Melissa says
Share me! My sister still ‘shares’ my clothes, handbags, and shoes if she ever comes to visit. We are still the same size after all these years!
Jen says
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5 of us (mom, dad, brother, grandma, and me) shared a minivan for a 3 week cross country adventure, visiting family, national parks, Las Vegas, etc.
It was intense – thank goodness the Playstation (as in the first one) had just come out… and we had a TV to connect it to (as in 15″ big black box with built in VCR).. and an inverter to run it off the car battery as we went. I swear that is the only thing that kept us all sane. Also, I’m glad things are smaller for when we decide to have kids.. that was pretty makeshift!
Gina Wells says
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When my brother went to college, it was a family road trip, complete with my and my sister’s boyfriends (we were in our early 20’s at the time). My parents rented ajoining hotel rooms, and while my sister and I shared a bed in my parents’ room, the boyfriends and my brother were fighting over the two full beds next door. Since it was my brother’s big weekend, the boyfriends gave him one bed and claimed the far edges of the other bed for themselves. In the middle of the night, my boyfriend got up to go to the bathroom and returned to find my sister’s boyfriend sprawled across the whole bed, refusing to budge. He spent the rest of the night on the floor. The things we do for love! My sister and I ended up married to these boyfriends, so now it’s an old family joke.
Lindsayd says
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Emily Z says
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Sometimes I use the “decline” button on my phone a bit too much for incoming calls.
Jenn McCormick says
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rick says
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Anna Boomer says
SHARE ME! – The first day one of our employees started was Halloween, both her and us were surprised when she showed up in full costume to work…and no one else dressed up FAIL!
Jillian says
Share me! I had to share a room with my sister. one night i woke up to my sister pushing me a wake and telling me in a frantic voice to switch beds with her. I was half awake so I moved over to her bed. not even a minute after i was under the covers and my mother comes in to the room and starts to spank me (over the sheets). i pull my head over the sheets, my mom looks at me with a very confused face and leaves the room. My sister never getting in trouble.
Denise Mattsen says
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My mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and I went to a gay bar to dance and sing some karaoke. I had not been then in a few years, so when my sister-in-law told me the bathroom was unisex I thought nothing of it. Well, we met an older gentleman with quite the beard, and my sister-in-law invited him to sit with us. The MIL and I went to the bathroom, and laughed about how my toilet seat was up so clearly this was a unisex bathroom (there were even urinals in there too!). Well, later I had to go the bathroom solo, and when I entered, I noticed our newly made gentlemen friend was at the urinal. I thought nothing of it, and did my business in the stall. As I was washing my hands, he noticed me and asked me if I was in the right place. I was a bit confused, but said, “uhhhh yeah….?” He then told me I should probably be in the ladies restroom next door. I turned beet red, and cursed my SIL. We all had a good laugh and it was definitely memorable, but I was thoroughly embarrassed!