*** 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.
Kerry says
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We are trying to teach our 16 month old daughter how to share, but so far she only shares her goldfish after they have already been in her mouth!
Michelle M says
SHARE ME! My husband learned from his Italian grandmother to always give a woman the last bite of dessert. I’m ever thankful for this lesson and applaud his ability to share the best part of every meal :)
Kristina says
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Stephanie says
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Ok, so I pretty much had to share everything with my twin sister growing up. But my first NYC apartment comes to mind as my most crazy sharing experience. It was 600 square feet shared between 3 adult roommates. Yikes!
Laura says
SHARE ME! Omgsh I have had to share a hotel room with my boss before. It was definitely a true TMI experience.
Meghan S says
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Becky says
Share me! As an only child, I confess that I’m not the best at sharing…I’m really grateful for all the wonderful roommates I’ve had over the years who put up with me! It’s delightful to have my own house now (and I suspect my old roommates are probably grateful, too–lolol).
Thanks for the chance to win!
Karen says
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In college I lived with twin sisters in a tiny apartment. The twins shared just about everything from their one car, their cell phone and even a bank account. Now that’s some great sharing! The one thing neither of them ever seemed to have was enough running socks. So one would kindly “borrow” socks from me and a few minutes later, the other girl was asking the same thing. They are still my best friends and even today, 6 years later – I’m still getting back some of the clothes I “shared.”
Katherine Hendricks says
SHARE ME when a admissions tour popped into my dorm room when I had left the door open to air out the smell of vomit from my roommate the night before!
Raquel says
SHARE ME! My harrowing story is about the time I chaperoned a group of high school students on an educational trip abroad, only to have a small electrical fire break out on the plane not long after takeoff. The pilot dropped the plane, landed it in minutes, and we were met by hazmat teams and fire trucks. We all evacuated the plane by chutes. Imagine my panic at trying to round up all these kids and try to explain to parents what had happened. Ay, ay, ay…
meghan says
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I am the youngest of 3 and before I got married (3 years ago), the girls in my family wanted to do something crazy and wild so we went…sky diving! Just my mom, my sister, and I! We had so much fun and loved watching the faces on our friends when we told them our stories. My mom was 54 at the time- everyone loved it! Now to convince my husband to go with me again…. :)
HeatherL says
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I will be happy when we can put up a fence so we don’t have to look into our neighbors back yard anymore. That’s too much sharing!
Lynnette Roberts says
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ahhh! I can’t think of anything to share…I’m so terrible at telling stories… but I still want to be put into the giveaway!! :)
Jason says
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Sara says
SHARE ME! My 16 month old nephew loves to share–he’ll take whatever’s handed to him, then run up and give it to you…even if it’s something he’s already (partially) eaten. :)
Lindsay B says
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Kathryn says
SHARE ME! I’ve had to share a cubicle. My co-worker’s phone calls were the worst.
Jeri says
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Carey says
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Son: Ow!
Me: What happened buddy?
Son: I just bumped my toe on daddy’s invisible laser gun that isn’t real.
Me:…..oh. Are you ok?
Son: Yeah, it didn’t hurt too much.
Ann Scott says
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I don’t really have a story about me and sharing….but one of my pet peeves is people (particularly strangers, like on a plane) who overshare very personal information!! I always want to say: TMI, TMI!
Stephanie Klemm says
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My husband will not share a towel with me. He’s definitely easily weirded out about sharing things.
Andrea Atkins says
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I always tell people sharing comes naturally to me; after all I shared my mom’s uterus with my twin sister! Not to mention then sharing a crib, and a bedroom, and a car, and a dorm room, and so on; so I’ve never really known any differently.
:)
Jennifer D. says
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I shared a room with my sister while growing up. I once asked my mother to get a hospital curtain so I could pull it across the room and separate us from each other.
Hill says
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a man shared a twenty dollar bill with my husband at the flower shop on Valentine’s Day a couple years ago when we were dating, and told my husband, “Buy her something nicer than you were going to.”
Jenna says
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meg says
SHARE ME! i accidentally shared mouth germs with my mom’s dog when i ate some peanut butter out of a jar, unbeknownst to the fact that it was the dog’s peanut butter jar, which my mom regularly double-dipped spoons into as duffy’s special treat.
Amanda B says
SHARE ME! On a trip to Florida in fourth grade my parents, my sister and I all shared a Chevrolet Cavalier for the ride. We also slept in this car on the way there to save money on a hotel and I had to share the back seat with my sister.
Kate says
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Oh, do I have a harrowing “Sharing” story for you! Back in 2010, my husband and I embarked upon an event known as the BABE Rally (Big Apple to Big Easy…)… a mobile scavenger hunt from New York to New Orleans in a car than can’t have cost you more than $500 to purchase. Now, not only was this my first ever such adventure (he had been twice before), but his father actually came with us. And is incredibly frugal. And we shared a hotel room with him for the entire week-long event. After he walked in on me in only a towel the first morning (way to start it off!) he decided to take his paper down to the lobby until he knew we were both up and out of the shower before returning to the room. So, there was the hotel room that we shared for the entire week as well as our (t)rusty 1976 Buick Skylark (Maroon, of course) with no AC driving through the deep south in June. We shared that car the entire time too. I don’t know if I’m properly conveying the horror I felt all week… I love my father-in-law! It’s just that we had only been married since January and hadn’t taken a honeymoon… and this was one heck of a “bonding with the in-laws” experience! (We had some good times too, though!)
Kate says
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Growing up sharing a room with my sisters was often harrowing but sure prepped me for life in the dorms during college!
donna c says
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When we were in high school, my sister and I shared a bedroom. She had to be at school an hour before me so she would get ready before I even got up. When I got up and got dressed, my nylons would mysteriously have disappeared. Time after time it would happen. You think I would have learned to hide them!
Ashley says
SHARE ME! I have lived on my own for 10 years now and still “share” a cell phone plan with my mother. We are all about saving money, and this is so much cheaper than having our own plans.
Amy @ Lovely Nest says
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My college roommates (there were 8 of us in a house) and I did a lot of closet shopping. I’m an only child, so it took some getting used to at first, but it was nice to suddenly have so many more closets to shop than just my own!
Torri Miller says
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Kristen L says
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Meghan S says
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Sharing an apt with my old roommate…OOF.
Kaitlyn O says
SHARE ME! When I was a kid, my best friend and I looked a lot alike… we could pass for sisters, even twins. One day we decided to play a prank on our parents. We swapped clothes and when my mom came to pick me up, my friend pretended she was me. My mom nearly took her home before they all realized we had pulled a “Parent Trap”-type swap! It’s still one of our favorite childhood memories!
April says
SHARE ME- I’m a flight attendant and once got snowed/iced in at the Atlanta airport, which ended up looking like us all sharing any chair we could find for a few hours a sleep! Not me favorite night but thankful we were inside!
Harper says
SHARE ME! The first thing that came to mind is sharing the responsibilities of dog ownership with my boyfriend. One instance where I’ll GLADLY share :)
Bridgette says
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Say that 5 times fast and it starts to sound like “Sherry”! ;)
Heather says
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JC says
Share me…..growing up, one of 5 girls, we had to share socks. No one had their own socks, we had a sock drawer and you had to get up early to get a matching pair. That happened about 2 times a week if you were lucky. The rest of the time you wore one decent and one stretched out, falling down anklet or Bobby sox. Needless to say, I have an adult sock fetish and own 50 or 60 pairs. I throw them away before their time and buy more. Love it!!!!!!!
Danielle e says
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My cousin’s 3 year old twins were very eye opening around 2. One of them would hit you with a golf club when he didn’t want to share. Needless to say that took a bit of work to get him passed that lol.
Meg says
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April Djibonon says
Share ME! I remember sharing a bedroom with my sister. We were so excited when for Christmas we got a 13 inch black and white tv to share in our room! lol
Rachel says
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I’m currently learning to share my body with a growing baby :)
KimberlyH says
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The only sharing experience that comes to mind right now is the fact that for my first job in the real-world we had a 2 week long training that we had a forced roommate with – I couldn’t get over the fact that we felt so much less like adults having “roomies” for 2 weeks, and so much more than college freshman! Not the best example to share with your kids when trying to get them to share though…hehe”
Samantha says
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Right now I’m sharing a bathroom with my sister that connects to her room. You can lock the door to the hallway, but not the one to her bedroom. Thus, we decided that whenever the bedroom/bathroom door was shut she would knock. Guess who keeps forgetting and walking in on me? Hopefully we’ll be able to laugh about it in a few years!
Anita says
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My little brother once tried to ‘share’ his ice cream cone with our dog (ie take a lick after the dog had just licked it). It was pretty gross.
Amanda R. says
SHARE ME! I don’t like sharing my bed with anyone, even my husband…hehe. Cuddling is overrated. :)
Sara says
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I like to share dinners with people at restaurants. Unfortunately the hubs usually wants his own.