*** 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.
Lauren says
SHARE ME!!
Kim H. says
SHARE ME ….. My sister (who is 13 months older) and I shared a room until we left home the same year. Good times!
Erin P says
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Katherine says
Share me! My little sister always seems to have my clothes and jewelry on when we go home for the weekend. She always laughs when I point it out and smiles her sweet smile and I can’t bare to make her give it back. We have been “sharing”/stealing from each other for 22 years :) yet still so thankful to have the gift of a sister.
Angela Wilson says
SHARE ME!!! My family of 6 shared a bathroom in a Philadelphian row-home. My dad could touch all four walls if he stood in the middle and turned in a circle. We survived ;)
caseyj610 says
SHARE ME!
When I was a wee 15 years old, a couple girlfriends and I decided to keep statistics for our high school’s boys basketball team. We thought it would be a great way to meet guys. We made some great friends and formed a few crushes along the way. We’d usually stop on the bus ride home to eat dinner somewhere. While in some small town, eating at a Dairy Queen, one of those friends I’d made decided to share his fried mushroom order with me. Before long, we grew closer, and come spring baseball season, he’d asked me to “go out”. 13 years later we are married (6 years) and waiting for baby #1 to arrive in May. Who’d a thunk sharing fried foods could lead me down this path!
Margaret says
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My BFF and I tried to “share” a Beatles poster that we pooled our money for in middle school. Having to share a poster MWF and alternating weekends was interesting (and it quickly devolved into me completely stealing it, forever – I still have it).
Kristen says
SHARE ME! With 3 younger siblings I feel like I was always “sharing” what was in my closet. I remember lot of times, sneaking on a covert operation into their bedrooms just to find most of my clothing crumpled up in a ball on the floor. womp womp…
Ms. Adams says
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There was never any sharing in my house. I grew up with two brothers ;)
Jaymi says
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Jenny G. says
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I get way too much sharing at work from my boss. I’m not much of a pet person due to allergies, but she constantly shares info about her dogs, including all of their, ahem, digestive issues. Not the kind of sharing to start your day off with!
Morgan says
SHARE ME! I am one of six, so I grew up sharing everything! To this day my sisters and I still trade/ share fun accessories and clothes and I love it!
Kim says
SHARE ME!!! My brother and I shared a two bedroom apt. in our twenties. We grew so much closer than we had been and still are to this day – so glad we did that!
Brooke says
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My little sister used to turn everything in our shared bathroom into a contest — without telling me. She always won!
Kayte says
SHARE ME!! I am an only child, so I never had to share growing up…it made the first year of college (and the first year of marriage!) very interesting!
Ashley says
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My worst sharing experience was when I had to share a hotel room with my Dad for one night in Hawaii at a family wedding…and I ended up carrying all of the bedding into the bathroom to sleep on the floor because his snoring was unbearable!
elif says
SHARE ME – we just went on vacation with friends and after a day of playing in the snow, the 4 kids all shared a bath. The bathroom floor has never so clean.
Shawna O. says
Share me! Share makes me think of my preschooler for whom sharing is a constant theme, even when it comes to my iPhone (you should share it, mommy)!
Michelle says
SHARE ME! My favorite form of sharing nowadays is when my girls (both grown and living far far away) share what is going on in their lives via Facebook and texting! I may not be the hippest grandma on the planet when it comes to technology, but I check for posts a couple of times a day!
Tracy L. says
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Meg says
SHARE ME!
I must share that I was coveting the Ottoman you have picture this morning!
Thank you for being such good share-ers!!
renee says
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I have three older brothers, so wasn’t required to share much – was great having my own room :)
Tara R says
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Anna says
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About seventy-five percent of my growing up years were spent in a forty foot fifth wheel trailer with my family of six! I shared a “room” with floor space of about 3’x 6′ with my sister. It’s a long story…but we all survived!
sarah says
share moi!
Cher says
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My baby sister pronounced my name “Cherrow” when we were young and to this day the nickname resurfaces in the oddest places…. most recently when I my birthday present was delivered to me at work. It was a brand-new iPad, engraved on the back with “Happy Birthday Cherrow” The gift in itself was awesome, but the engraving is what really made my day.
Lia says
Share me!! Growing up with 2 sisters (all within 3 years of eachother) really taught me how to share. High school might have been a time of terror but now that we’re older, it’s so wonderful always being able to count on them :)
Elizabeth says
SHARE ME- This falls under harrowing story. I was on the subway in DC and trying to help a lady with a very cranky little one. The baby would calm down for a minute once Mom put in her pacifier. It was the only thing that stopped blood curdling screams. The baby of course threw it on the floor of the disgusting subway. And as moms do, the lady picked it up, gulped and put it in her mouth to try and get rid of the nasty germs/scary particles/etc. That’s love!
Sarah B says
SHARE ME!my boss and i both had to drive down to LA (from SF) and she decided it’d be a great idea to carpool down there. and then i was selected to have her anxious dog on my lap the whole ride down…
Melissa Peterson says
SHARE ME!
As the youngest of four kids (youngest by 13 years) I grew up hearing about the road trips that my siblings had to endure- when my dad exclaimed, “$80 a night?! We just want to rent the room! Not buy the thing!” and then the other three had to situate themselves (un)comfortably in the backseat of the car for sleep that night- My sister in the back window, my eldest brother across the backseat & my younger brother sleeping on the floor of the backseat!
Kat says
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beth says
SHARE ME! Today I share one of the best days of my life! My 1st granddaughter was born! Early this morning our sweet baby girl came into the world and I am so honored because she was named after my paternal grandmother whom I was very close to AND her mother and me! She is the 3rd generation with that name. God is so good, I am very blessed.
YM says
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CourtneyD says
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Our sweet sibling sharing moment of the day: For my daughter’s half-birthday we made a batch of scones to share with friends at the park. When my son, who was pouting a bit, and explained that he wanted a scone too, his sister jumped right in to point out that little brothers can be counted as friends too- thus scones for all! It was a sweet (if not RARE) moment of sisterly sharing!
Melanie says
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Hmm… my grandmother always made me share a bed w/ her when I stayed over, which sucked because she snored like nobody’s business.
Kayla says
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Katrina says
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I’m 38 weeks pregnant, and our 3YO daughter also thinks she’s pregnant. So, strangers often get a show of her pulling up her shirt and announcing that she’s expecting. We’ve had some hilarious reactions to this.
(BTW – where do you come up with these ideas for what to ask us to share???)
Abby says
Share me! In college, I shared my coffee maker with three other girls in my suite. While three of us used it to make coffee, one girl used it everyday to make Ramen noodles.
Emily says
SHARE ME! I have two older sisters so I lucked out in that I never really had to share with them but I got access to all of their goods. The only time it changed was when I started my first job and my CD collection became the most coveted thing in the house…then I had to start sharing. :p
Have a great day!
Emily
Steph N says
SHARE ME!
I work in a job where you have to show up no matter how bad the weather is. The nice thing is that the company pays for a hotel room nearby if you can’t get home. I was in my room, settling in for the night when one of my coworkers came in (like, she had a door key to my room)! Scrambling to understand what the heck was going on, I jumped to the conclusion that we were supposed to share a room and they’d forgotten to tell me. One very awkward conversation later, we figured out that the desk clerk at the hotel had goofed and forgotten that she had already given someone that one of the block of rooms our company had reserved.
Ivy S says
Share Me- The year my husband and I got married we opened our one bedroom with a loft space apartment up to my husbands brother and his three year old son. That was a year ago and we just got our tiny space back but will be adding to our own family in November and I am really looking forward to decorating our home. This would really help get us going.
Cyan B says
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Jess C says
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A few months ago, my bf and I were driving home from LA. We were singing along to the songs on our iPod when a song came on that I thought I totally knew… but no I was singing the wrong lyrics on the top of my lungs! It was embarrassing, but we had fun and laughed it off. :)
Juli D. says
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Callie says
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My husband and I just had our first child a few weeks ago! It’s tough for me to share the little babe when company comes to visit!
Dreda says
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jinsy says
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April D. says
SHARE ME!! Growing up me and my 4 sisters all shared 1 bathroom. There were plenty of arguments for sure. We were also close in age so we “shared” clothes as well. Those arguments were even worse than the bathroom arguments. My poor parents!
Susan says
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Marie says
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While sharing a room growing up as a young child I was afraid to sleep in the dark. So my older brother armed with a night light, extension cord and duct tape fashioned me a nite-lite all my own. Not as fancy as the sconces and great things available these days, but I was lucky to have such a caring brother.