***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
Wow. You guys are a lot more opinionated about the periodic table than I had assumed. Anyways, random.org selected the winner of this giveaway as… Andi W. (who likes Sodium for all of the salty snacks it provides, but admitted “My inner nerd wants to vote adamantium.”) Congrats Andi!
Hold onto your seats, chemistry nerds. We’re giving away some magnesium this week. It’s coming in the form of Oreck’s latest and lightest-weight upright vacuum ever – the Magnesium. In fact, at less than 8lbs it weighs in at about half the poundage of an ordinary upright. Not to mention its skinny but strong frame slides naturally under furniture and other hard-to-reach dust bunny havens. Oreck’s also throwing in the Ultimate Handheld Vac to round out your cleaning repertoire – and to boost the prize value to nearly $600!
- PRIZE: An Oreck Magnesium upright vacuum and the Oreck Ultimate Handheld Vac (a $599 value).
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “Mg ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … (you ready for this?) what’s your favorite element on the periodic table? Are you a big fan of Oxygen because of the whole breathing thing? Or Sodium because you’re a salty food addict? Or perhaps good ol’ Au & Ag (aka Gold and Silver)?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, June 27th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- DISCOUNT: 15% off any Oreck product with code YOUNGHOUSELOVE (valid through July 9, excludes sale or refurbished items)
- PRIZE SHIPS: The 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 Oreck.
Melissa says
Mg ME!
Can’t live without Oxygen so I better go with that!
Katie V says
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Gold because my middle school science teacher always told us the most lame joke to help us remember…”A U, give me back my gold!”
Courtney H says
Mg Me! I like Hydrogen, just because it’s an integral part of water, my favorite drink.
Ciara says
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I think mine is lead – PB. When I was learning the table back in middle school, my mom helped me come up with little anecdotes to help me remember each one. For lead, she told me that if you eat too much peanut butter (pb), it could feel like lead in your stomach!
Beth says
“Mg ME!”
Neon is cool.
Lindsay says
Mg me! My favorite is carbon. It’s amazing that it can go from being coal to diamonds!
keegan says
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oxygen? i guess? never really thought about it!
Mary says
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I have to go with potassium, because when we were kids my brother had a super hero cape with a “K” on it for Kevin. When he found out it was potassium on the periodic table, he started calling himself “super potassium.” We still call him that 20 years later!
susan says
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My favorite is Ag – Silver.
Pat Quigley says
MgME!
Tara says
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My favorite element is Tantalum (TA) because it sounds sort of like Tarantula, WHICH is what my brothers used to tell me I was named after.
Julie says
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Oxygen. As you said “for the whole breathing thing”
izzy miller says
MG Me!! I’ll have to go with Nitrogen, because he was an american gladiator? LoL I don’t know I just want a new vacuum!!
Kari says
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I love Cu. I once saw where they used a sheet of copper for a kitchen counter and it’s now my dream kitchen counter. It’s so pretty once polished.
Alexandra says
MG me! My favorite element is platinum…
Kassie says
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My favorite is potassium because my name starts with K.
Mary Jane says
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My favorite element is lead (PB). Always the easiest for me to remember for some reason!
Kellie Hancock says
Mg ME!! My favorite is Potassium since everyone in my family has a name starting with K :)
Sara says
MG ME! My favorite element would be gold, at least until they finally give glitter the proper respect it deserves.
Cody says
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Jeni in San Antonio says
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Oxygen~
Michelle says
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I’ll take some Au too please!
bex says
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NERDS! :) I’ll go with good ‘ol CU – copper. Because it’s pretty.
Mitch says
Mg ME! As a materials scientist I’m tempted to get way too into this, so I’ll go with any of the alkali metals, which make some impressive explosions on contact with air and/or water :P
Sara says
MG me, I’ve always loved H20, any thing water is fun!
Amanda says
Mg ME!
I’d say Fe (iron) – with both pregnancies I was anemic so I’ve developed a love of foods with iron!
Nicole says
Mg ME! I’ve always liked Hydrogen — it’s just so attachable.
Blythe says
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Definitely oxygen for it’s human sustaining abilities!
Amber Ludwinek says
MG ME.
Co-Cobalt because of the color of course.
Natalie F. says
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Can I do a compound? NaOH–Sodium Hydroxide–is my favorite and that’s only because it’s needed to make handmade soap… and I LOVE making handmade soap :)
Dana B says
Mg ME! Good ol’ lead (Pb). When learning the elements in school I had made some association of lead to a PB&J sandwich. Apparently it worked as I still remember :)
Silvia says
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My favorite element would have to be K (potassium) because my favorite fruit is banana which has a lot of it!
Jennie S. says
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Calcium – I love milk!
Devon @ Green House, Good Life says
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I can’t say I have a favorite element, but in elementary school (element-ary, haha) I had to write a report on an element, and I chose nickel, so I’ll go with that.
Lindsay Schatz says
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Jennifer A says
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I love everyones answers… but I am sorry to say I don’t have a fav element. It took me 2 attempts to pass Chem. and I don’t plan to go back and relive that terror!
Shanta Whitaker says
Mg Me!!! Being the science nerd that I am, I have always loved Tungsten. When I first learned about the element I couldn’t understand why it had a “W” instead of a T for the longest…lol #slowshanta
Courtney says
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Don’t ask me why, but Iron (Fe) is always the element that first comes to mind.
Jen P. says
Mg Me! I’ll go with good ole #8 O2
chuma says
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Vika says
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I’m going to pick AU – Gold because, well, we can all use a little gold in our lives.
Mackenzie says
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Hmm.. I’d be hard pressed to pick something other than Mg since those are my initials, so I guess we’ll go with that!
Shubha says
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Carbon – how else would a girl have any diamonds??!!
bree says
MG ME!…i like AU baby…because all that glitters is gold;)
Crystal @ 29 Rue House says
Mg ME!! Please, with four long-haired cats we need it!
I love Neon colors so I’ll go with Ne. But I also like Ruthenium (Ru) and Argon (Ar) which are the first two letters of my kiddos names – Ruby and Archer.
Hillary says
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NEON
Erin Weber says
Mg ME! I’m going to go with Aluminum since my favorite number is 13.
Sarah says
Mg Me! Sn . . . tin!
Jenny says
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Palladium: Pd – because its a beautiful metal and what my wedding ring is made of.
KiTx says
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I don’t remember the periodic table, because I’m terrible at chemistry. But I’m married to a chemical engineer, and he told me this joke:
Did you hear that Oxygen and Magnesium hooked up last night? OMG. haha=)