***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
And our lucky-slash-friendly winner this week is… Jennifer M (whose best friend is her husband. They met in college studying architecture together and now work together). Congrats!
If you saw that title above and thought “oh, like the Bestå media storage system from Ikea” instead of “typo alert!” then you may be just as into the fine purveyor of flat-packaged Swedish furniture as we are. And if you’re not the only Ikea lover in your circle of friends, then you’ll be happy to learn that this Saturday on March 9th Ikea is celebrating BYOF (Bring Your Own Friend) day as part of their ongoing Life Improvement Project. The day will feature freebies, special discounts, seminars, activities, and even gift card giveaways. Speaking of which… they’re giving one lucky reader three $100 gift cards right here this week (one for the winner and two for his or her friends) – which I’m pretty sure would solidify your status as BFFs for life.
- PRIZE: Three $100 gift cards to Ikea
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “BYOF ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … about your BFF. How did you meet? How long have you been besties. What’s the weirdest thing you love doing together? Do you have funny nicknames for each other – or a secret handshake that involves winking and doing the Macarena?
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: We always beg every vendor to ship internationally but some companies are not legally able to vend things beyond specific areas (more on that here). This giveaway is open to the United States.
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, March 6th at 8pm or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners 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 winners. Good luck…
- ***COMMENT ISSUES? If you’re trying to enter but keep getting a “duplicate comment” warning, click here to see how to solve it!
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 Ikea.
Kristen says
BYOF Me! My best friend is my identical twin sister so we’ve known each other for quite awhile! Our favorite thing to do together is thrifting or sneaking a Muppet quote or gesture into just about any conversation we have:)
Kim P. says
BYOF Me! My BFF and I met freshman year of college. We have been friends over 11 years now :) We try and cook dinner together a few times a month to make sure we always know what is going on with each other.
Kristen says
BYOF ME!
My best friend and I met in our high school freshman English class. She sat next to me and we were working on introductory paragraphs and I wrote (what I thought was) a hysterical opening line and wanted to test it on someone, and she happened to be my victim! We’ve been besties ever since.
Linda says
BYOF ME!
My best friend is so, so wonderful. We met in high school (we both played percussion in the marching band) and have been BFFs for 16 years. We love organizing things by color.
Kristen says
BYOF ME! My BFF is of course my hubby, but my next BFF is my cousin in law (our hubs are cousins). We met about 3 years ago at a family thanksgiving and have been through having kids together, buying (and decorating) our first houses and pouring over Pinterest and YHL discussing all our big dream plans. Love her!
Alisa says
BYOF ME! I’ll just say we have been friends since we were 14 and leave it at that. We refer to ourselves as Waldorf & Statler.
Genevieve says
BYOF ME!
my best friend and I are cousins and have been best friends for forever.
Jennifer L says
BYOF Me!
Beth says
BYOF ME! I’ll have to be cheesy and say my sis is my BFF. And we love trips to Ikea together!
Jayne says
BYOF ME
We met in kindergarten!
Valerie says
BYOF ME! I met my best friend playing volleyball about 8 years ago. Our favorite thing to do together is drink wine. Lots of wine. She even built a wine room in her beautiful house for this very purpose.
Amie says
BYOF me! My BFF and I met at a lock in for the youth group. We live with several states between us now, but it’s still awesome to chat whenever we get the chance.
Katie Ohning says
BYOF Me!
My BFF and I met at work, and she took me to Ikea for the first time a few months ago. I fell in luuuuuuuurve.
Betsy says
BYOF me!!!
My BFF is the Hubs. No one knows me, loves me and tolerates me like him. We met in high school but got together senior year of college. Wuv, twoo wuv.
Jia says
BYOF me!!!
my bestie and I went to the same school.. we meet like three times a year now but everytime we do,we can start the conversation where we just left it!
Loren says
BYOF ME! I’ve known my best friend since 9th grade – longer than I’ve NOT known her! Sh’e smart, intelligent, caring, and fun! Even though we live across the country from each other, we still connect and get each other adn support each other at every turn.
Sarah Hayes says
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Raquel says
BYOF ME!!!
Me and my bbf met in high school. Our babies will also be BFF. She is due any day and I’m due in August.
Elena says
BYOF ME!
My best friend is my husband (lame, I know … or sappy, I can’t figure out which!) We met online (geeks!) in August 2009 and have been besties ever since. We love to travel and go to new restaurants and museums. We totally get each other. He’s adorable. :)
Megan says
BYOF ME!
My bestie is my sister.
Elaine says
BYOF me!
My BFF and I have been friends since the 4th grade. We have a laundry list of crazy nicknames for each other, she even named her cat after one of my nicknames!
Meredith Martin says
BYOF ME
Met my BFF in high school! We love trying new food…mostly eating!
Katie F says
My BFF is my husband- we met 4 years ago and have been inseparable since!
Michelle says
BYOF me!
My BFF is my husband. We met freshman year of college and he is the best daddy to our 9 week old daughter! :)
Alyssa says
BYOF me!
My BFF is Erin and we met as 4th grade pen pals from different elementary schools. That was…gulp…about 25 years ago. Though we aren’t as geographically close as we would like…whenever we get together, it just like the “old” days!
Faith says
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Melissa says
BYOF me!! My best friend and I met when we were 4 years old at Saturday school.
Maureen says
BYOF Me!
Met my BFF in my condo and she introduced me to my husband! We love to chat about anything and everything, even though we are long distance friends now. Thank goodness for Facetime!
Beth says
BYOF Me! My bff and I have known each other since the first week of high school – so about 16 years… but she’s known my husband since kindergarten! Crazy!
Lindsey says
BYOF ME! We meet at the beginning of 9th grade and bonded over a shared fondness for boy bands!
Ang says
BYOF ME! My BFF (besides the hubster) and I met in college marching band and went on to become roommates. She was my maid of honor and I look forward to being her matron of honor someday. We call each other Love Bunny and share an unhealthy obsession with Ikea.
Dana says
“BYOF ME!” My best friend and I met at college and have been around the world together.
Erin S says
BYOF ME!
My BFF and I have nick names for each other {fooksies} and met in high school!
Kara says
BYOF ME! My best friend and I met in 9th grade. We love to shop together and just laugh and laugh.
BYOF ME! says
My bff and I used to spend time swooning over engagements on Youtube, planning our weddings via blogs, and decorating our houses via YHL. Now we have pinterest, so even though we are hundreds of miles apart, it seems like the old days. :)
Anita says
BYOF ME! We bonded when she was giving me a ride home one night and the car ran out of gas in the middle of the woods in Charlottesville. Luckily we survived and became BFFs!
Marsha Farnham says
BYOF Me!! MY BFF and I met a few years ago at church. We have so many things in common, it’s almost eerie.
Claire says
BYOF ME!
My BFF and I met in college! She has since moved to Chicago, but it’s actually fine by me because now I have an excuse to visit all the time! ;)
Jennifer says
BYOF me!!! My BFF is about to be my matron of honor less than a year after I was her maid of honor!!!! She is my fantastic sidekick in life!
Audrey says
BYOF Me!
I met one of my best friends my very first day of college. We were both doing an outdoor rec program.
Kim says
BYOF me!
College for me!
Carly says
BYOF ME! I met my bestie in college. We love going down to Vegas to eat ourselves sick at all-night buffets!
Jackie Bywater says
We were in the same kindergarten class…and then in each others’ weddings :)
Sarah says
BYOF me!
I met my BFF in college…14 years later we are happily married with 2 awesome kids.
Chelsea Wilson says
BYOF me! I met my BFF early in grade school but she didn’t become my BFF until high school when we bonded after the rest of our group moved away when their fathers (who were in the Navy) were all restationed in a different state within a few months of each other. We started out with 6 and then there were 2… and now we’re BF’s FOREVER!
Jesette says
BYOF ME! My hubby is my best friend (: We met on a European cruise and have all sorts of nicknames…loverbunny being one of them hehe
Jessica says
BYOF Me!
My best friend (other than my husband!) is someone I’ve known for about 7 years. The coolest thing about our friendship right now is that we’re expecting babies one day apart this summer! So, we’re bonding over nursery color schemes, cravings, and anything baby related!
Sandra T says
BYOF me! Hubby, met on a blind date (my uncle fixed us up!) in college.
anna j says
BYOF ME! My friend and I met when we worked together 6 years ago.
Jamie says
BYOF ME! My BFFs and I met in law school in 2005. We take candid, terrible pictures of each other and then send them out via group text messages when we aren’t together!