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Fab Freebie: IKEA, IKEA, IKEA!

*** This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – scroll down to see who won!***

Perhaps you’ve heard of a little store called Ikea? And perhaps you’ll be interested in a $350 gift card from them for this week’s giveaway? Yeah we couldn’t believe it either when they emailed us. Hooray is right, Ikea catalog. Well said.

Ikea Catalog

And not only are they generously offering up this week’s sweet prize, Ikea’s also presenting “The Life Improvement Project” where they’ll award one philanthropic individual $100,000 to take a one year sabbatical to help others (start a non-profit, volunteer for a year, etc). Plus they’re hosting free seminars in their stores about improving your life through your living space.

Ikea Life Improvement Proje

But back to how you can get your mitts on that $350 gift card:

  • PRIZE: A $350 gift card to Ikea!
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “IKEA Me!” and…
  • BONUS QUESTION: … tell us what you’d do if you could spend one year helping others. Would you open an after school program? Volunteer at a homeless shelter? Rescue animals?
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, October 27th at 8pm EST
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
  • PRIZE SHIPS: The United States
  • 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 Thursday morning for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…

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You guys are quite impressive with your nearly 11,000 entries. So impressive in fact that Ikea decided to change their plans and give away not just one, not just two, but THREE $350 gift cards. That’s over $1000 in gift cards! Thanks Ikea!

So let’s see who the lucky three winners are according to random.org:

  • Alyssa Allen (who’s Life Improvement Project would include moving her fam somewhere in the world to help the poverty crisis)
  • NEPD (who’d give her wedding florist services away free of charge)
  • Jill (who’d give a year working with the Wildlife Conservation Society)

Note: We weren’t paid or perk’d for hosting this giveaway, we just take them on to reward our lovely readers! See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics from Ikea.

Comments

  1. Sarah M. says

    OMG OMG OMG, IKEA ME!!!! Just LAST NIGHT my husband and I decided that all we will ask for this year for Christmas is gift cards so we can get our home in order (byebye builder beige!) And guess who was the top choice on both of our lists… IKEA!! They have everything.
    If I could, I would teach kids about recycling and living a green lifestyle! Too many kids are growing up wasteful, and I think kids would really love learning about recycling. Plus, then we could plant a community garden and trees around town! How fun would that be??

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  3. Kayt says

    OMG, IKEA ME! please!

    I would love to spend a year volunteering at my mom’s school in rural Montana. Their school district is dirt poor, with a majority of their students being disadvantaged children. Having an extra set of hands on site for free would be beyond amazing for them.

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  4. Mae says

    Ikea me!

    I just started reading the blog recently, by way of Apartment Therapy, and I love it! If I had a year, I’d work with a non-profit in my town which helps people in small apartments and homes set up container and roof gardens.

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  6. anna pryor says

    Ikea Me! I would spend a year working alongside a new non-profit in Orlando that gives prostitutes a safe place to hang out, sleep and learn new skills for learning how to get a job in the community.

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  7. Tera says

    IKEA ME! I’d work with the Nature Conservancy to protect the land and waters our wild plants and animals need to survive.

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  8. Kady says

    IKEA ME!

    i would spend my year volunteering my time @ the local animal shelter that i adopted my angel puppy, chesa from 8 yrs ago. :-)

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  9. josie says

    IKEA ME! wow. . . a whole year for do-goodin’. i can’t necessarily take a year off from being a stay at home mom, but if my husband didn’t have to work for a year i’d have a lot more time to donate time to our local crisis pregnancy center, so i’d probably do that.

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  11. Sara Hughes says

    Please please IKEA ME! If had another year off i would return to India and serve the leprosy affected of Tamil Nadu, India. I spent 6 months conducing my international social work internship working with these amazing individuals and i miss them so much. I would go back and serve them in a heart beat.

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  15. Cordia says

    “Ikea Me”.
    Hmmm- a year helping others. What to choose. Maybe helping homeless families, helping battered women, helping improve the lives of poor families in other countries…

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  20. Jen says

    IKEA ME!

    I would love to rescue animals- but I would definitely worry that I wouldn’t want to ever give them back. :)

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  21. Melissa says

    IKEA ME!!!!!!

    There are so many amazing organizations out there….that might take a bit of research to decide!

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  22. Meghan says

    ooh I forgot to say in my previous IKEA ME comment- what I would dofor a year… I think I would spend a year trying to improve kids school lunches. My mom works with underpriv kids and she says that most of them end up with empty bellys because the lunch provided at school is so disgusting- who can learn on an empty stomach!?

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  25. stacey says

    IKEA ME!!

    If would volunteer my time teaching art at an adult daycare because I feel the elderly and the mentally ill are the two groups of individuals our society neglects the most.

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  33. Michelle says

    IKEA ME!! I would spend a year volunteering for Kiva in Africa (or wherever they needed me) helping women start their own businesses using money from microloans.

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  34. Steph H. says

    IKEA ME!

    If I could spend the year helping others, I would help our four-legged friends. Helping a local Boston Terrier or Boxer rescue would top my list or spending lots of time volunteering at local animal shelters.

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  36. Susan says

    IKEA ME!! Oh my gosh I LOVE LOVE LOVE this store!! Can’t believe someone is going to win free money to IKEA – WAHOO :)

    If I could spend one year helping others, I would travel with Habitat for Humanity and build homes for others less fortunate and/or I would volunteer with kids to help with their development skills, their learning skills. I would be able to see my ‘stamp’ on either of these projects and know I helped to make a difference in the community.

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  39. JeniDMP says

    IKEA Me! And I’d do something good for South Africa where my hubs is from…or with Women for Women International.

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  40. Stephanie N says

    IKEA ME!

    I would spend a year working with the Make a Wish Foundation! Back when my husband was first diagnosed with his liver disease when he was 12, the Make a Wish Foundation granted him a wish. I’d love to give back!

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  41. Shannon P Albrecht says

    “IKEA ME”
    I would love to spend a year helping substain and/or re-launch one of the fabulous existing ministries that we currently have; which could be done with additional resources.

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  44. Steph says

    IKEA Me! and with a year, I would love to volunteer at a nursing home. I did it in high school, and if I had the free time I’d love to do it again

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  47. Page says

    IKEA me! If I had a year off, I would make school days better for less-than-fortunate kids. There’s no reason they shouldn’t have good clothes, new school supplies and healthy lunches.

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