***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.
Eunice says
BYOF ME! I’ve known my bff foreeeever. Over 20 years now and we’re still in our 20s! We just grew up together.
Christine says
BYOF ME! I’ve been friends with my BFF since 2nd grade. We’ve started a new tradition of running 5ks together. We’re doing the Baltimore color race this spring!
mary says
BYOF Me!! I’d love a day of shopping with friends.
Lindsay Schmidt says
BYOF ME! My BFF and I met in high school and we haven’t lived in the same city since. She introduced me to your blog!
Meagan S says
BYOF Me!!
My best friend and I met when we lived on the same hall our freshman year of college. We have been friends for over 6 years now, and have been roommates now for almost 4 years! I don’t know where I would be without her.
Karen says
BYOF ME!
I met my BFF in science class in 8th grade! When we were in high school we liked to have boy bashing parties complete with bonfires where we burned notes in her driveway… it sounds scarier than it was! Haha!
Nikki says
BYOF ME! My best friend and I met the first day of 9th grade, and have been best friends ever since. We share the same dorky sense of humor that sends my husband into all sorts of confusion :)
Sarah says
BYOF ME. I met my BFF in college and we’ve been BFFs ever since.
Cheryl E says
BYOF ME!!
stephyn says
BYOF ME! My bff is my husband! We call each other Sir Tunklton and Lady Weffles. We dont have a secret handshake but we love spending time together fixing up our house and running around Portland!
Kirstin says
BYOF ME … and my best friend is probably my sister, so – we met when my parents brought her home from the hospital ;)
Haleigh says
Besta Friends! I was just planning a trip to Ikea! I would freak if I actually won. Thanks for hosting :)
Sarah says
BYOF Me! (I was seriously just looking at the Besta line earlier today!)
Sarah says
BYOF ME! One of my favorite memories was dancing in a thunderstorm with my BFF. We splashed through puddles, slid down the kiddy slide at a park, and spun in circles – forgetting we were mid 20’s career women.
Shannon says
BYOF ME! I have a great group of friends, not just one. We’ve been through grade school, high school college, marriage, and babies together.
jules says
BYOF ME! I met my best friend in 7th grade chorus, we would sing together on the phone. We were weird. Still are =)
Dani says
BYOF me! My best friend ended up becoming my husband. Something cool is while we were dating he lived in Uruguay for two years and we wrote letters the whole time. Now we are both teachers in Baltimore City, so we get to share crazy work stories every night on the drive home.
sarah says
BYOF ME!!!!!
My best friend and I have been best friends for almost 10 years. Our friendship is what some would call unique, since we are a guy and a girl, but I just call me lucky to have a great friend through thick and thin.
Jen says
I met my best friend when we were in the 6th grade and everyone thought we were twins because we were both short and gangly with long hair (she’s part Asian and I’m definitely not so our classmates were clearly crazy!). We love to go to Disney World. She calls me Nifer and I call her Lizabeth – an we both love Ikea!!
Lissa Miller says
BYOF ME!
I met my BFF at the renaissance faire. We have been friends for about 3 years now. Our “thing” is that we both play pirate captains at the festival. A lot of fun and a lot of trouble!
Lisa says
BYOF!
I have known my best friend for over 10 years. A love of Journey and being 5 doors apart pretty much sealed the deal. We have been friends ever since!
Tina says
BYOF me! I met my best friend in the first grade and we are still friends today despite living 5 hours away. We are now each married with 4 kids between us :)
Emily says
BYOF ME!!
I met one of my besties when both of our first babies were 5 months old…now they are 3 and we are all best buds!! We always have a blast together even though we now have to drive 5 hours to visit each other! She is moving in to a brand new house this month and I know she would love a gift card to Ikea to help decorate – we’re huge Ikea fans!!
Linda says
BYOF ME!
Brooke says
BYOF ME!
My best friend is actually my twin sister. Our personalities are completely different, and if we weren’t sisters, we probably wouldn’t have even become friends, but it works!
Ellen says
BYOF me!
My BFF is my husband. I met him on a football field in Crawford, Texas. We’ve been BFFs from basically the same time we were an item.
Kaitlyn says
BYOF ME!
My BFF and I met in 6th grade English class, and have been friends for 18 years since :)
Molly says
BYOF ME!
We met in college. :)
Christy G. says
BYOF ME!
My best friend is married to my husband’s best friend so we meet through our the boys :)
Adrien says
BYOF ME!
As Mindy Kaling’s character on the Mindy Project recently said, “best friend isn’t a person, it’s a tier.” So, I can’t openly play favorites.
Jen says
Adrien, can we please be best friends? Best. Comment. Ever.
Samantha says
BYOF ME!
Hmm I don’t really have one BFF, I have a few (I consider myself very lucky). Although, as cheesy as it is, my best friend that I love hanging out with the most is my husband!
lindsay says
BYOF ME!
My college roommate, and yes, we have nick names for each other, but I don’t think hers should be shared on this G rated website!
Laura Lockwood says
“BYOF ME!”
Met my BFF on Match.com he is currently my boyfriend and love him to pieces.
Amanda says
“BYOF ME!” At the risk of sounding uber cheesy. I would consider my husband to be my best friend. He understands me better than I understand myself.
I know. suuuuuuper cheesy.
Shellie says
BYOF Me!
My husband is my bestie :)
kc says
BYOF ME!
My best friend and I met in elementary school. We didn’t get along at first, but here we are 17 years later still going strong!
Whitney says
BYOF ME!
She is my sister. :)
Bridgit says
BYOF ME!
My BFF and I have known each other since high school. Her nickname is Teetee!
Lydia says
BYOF me!
My best friend? My hubby, of course.
Megan says
BYOF ME! My bestie and I have been friends for 22 years!! Wowza. She calls me moo-moo because one day, I tripped and spilled my strawberry shake that we just got. I was so sad about it that I said “my moo-moo, my yum-yum”. Devastating loss for a 13 year old.
Jayme says
BYOF ME!! My BFF is my sister! So… we met at her birth ;) We have the same, twisted sense of humor and love to laugh together and drive my husband crazy! I don’t know what I would do without her.
Katie F says
BYOF ME! I met my best friend Maggie at the end of our senior year of high school (went to different ones). We went to every single Harry Potter movies together on opening weekends – even when we lived 3 hours apart :)
Traci says
BYOF ME!
I have known my best friend for 30 years.
Lisa E says
BYOF me! My BFF growing up (we are now many miles apart) :( met each other at the ripe old age of 5 in kindergarten. I don’t remember any secret handshakes or anything like that, but we used to love riding our bikes, which happen to be very similar looking and received on the same Christmas! We have the same coloring so often people would ask us if we were sisters. We look nothing alike and we would look in the mirror and giggle trying to figure out how anybody thought we looked a like. Our families were close and even though we live far apart, when we see each other it’s like we never left. Sweet times…
Amanda says
BYOF ME!
My BFF is probably my sister and we do all of the above, have weird nicknames, secret handshakes, secret dances,and altogether strangeness. She is definitely my favorite person to go shopping with and craziness always ensues at our fave stores – TJ Maxx, Home Goods, Ikea and West Elm!
Katie Arnold says
BYOF ME! How fun, I was planning on going to ikea with my BFF anyways this weekend! Now it will be that much better.
Lisa J. says
BYOF ME!
My BFF and I met in college … she was a great friend when I needed one as I struggled at a new school. Although we graduated *cough* years ago and live in different states now, we still try to get together for a long weekend at least once a year, trading visits back and forth. Ironically, the last time she visited me, we made a visit to Ikea. ;)
Kim L. says
BYOF ME!
Liane says
BYOF me!
I met my best friend when I was around 14, through mutual friends. :) 13 years later we are still going strong!! Even though life is busy now and we don’t see each other as often as we’d like, we always pick right back up where we left off as if no time has past. We can always be honest with each other- like when I was helping her unpack in her new place last week and told her she owned ENTIRELY too much tupperware and needed to purge. ;)
Amy @ Croquet & Cocktails says
BYOF me…
My BFF Cyndi and I met 20 years ago when we were freshmen in high school. We decided to be codependent in college and room together. Everyone thought it would be a disaster, but it worked for us–for all four years. She’s in CA still and I’m across the country in VA, but she’s still my go-to for everything.
And nicknames? She’s a firm believer. Over the years my name has morphed from Amy Marie to Amy Jane Bean Melvyn Marie. Inside jokes all… :) gosh I miss her.