*** 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.
Brandy says
SHARE ME!
Michelle says
SHARE ME! Share? Really? I have a 4 and 2 year old…..enough said….. ;)
Megan S. says
SHARE ME!! As a little sister, I tried to help my sister learn the benefits of sharing her wardrobe with me as teenagers, but she wasn’t that enthusiastic about it. Now, we both love to swap clothes and go shopping together so it paid off in the end :).
Mindy M. says
SHARE ME!
I shared a room with my much younger sister for the first fourteen years of my life (while my brother got his own room). I finally convinced my parents to let me move into the tiny loft (that didn’t have heat or air ducts – but was open to the room below) just so I could have my own room. I wish I had been better about sharing a room with her.
Mary says
SHARE ME! I once got seated at a table alone in a Benihana, on business travel.
KD says
SHARE ME, PLEASE!
As an only child, sharing doesn’t always come naturally to me..haha! Not that my parents didn’t teach me, but there was really no application of it at home when I was a child. I still have to remind myself, thirty something years later, that my husband’s and my possessions are “ours” and not just “mine”. Always working on that one!
emily says
Share Me! I have three sisters… we shared EVERYTHING. Luckily, I was 2 out of 4, so the hand-me-downs weren’t so terrible… by the time they got to my (#4) sister Mary, on the other hand… :)
Michelle R. says
“SHARE ME!!!!” My brother is 5 years younger than me – so sharing was SO easy – as long as he listened to me and let me have my way!! HAHA!
Lona says
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Cheryl says
Share me!!
Whit says
Share me!! Growing up, my sister and I constantly fought over the ideal spot on the sofa for tv watching, called The Space. There were some bloody battles until we finally realized that we could both have The Space if we shared it on alternating days. And then we never fought again (well, at least about that).
Jenni Rigdon says
share me!!!
Alison says
SHARE ME!
I will definitely be sharing this prize (if I am lucky enough to win) with my best friend who just bought her first house!
Joy says
Share me! Sharing a 1BR apartment with two other people right out of college was crazy. We ended up becoming really good friends, but it could have been disastrous!
Jennifer I. says
SHARE ME! I’m always sharing my food with my husband (not always willingly!)….sometimes I have to guard it like a bear! I definitely wouldn’t share this credit with him…haha!
Stephanie M. says
SHARE ME!!!
Michelle Morris says
SHARE ME! I am having a hard time teaching my (almost) 7 year old to share with her (almost) 2 year old little sister. She had 5 years of having everything to herself so it’s QUITE an adjustment!
Natalie A. says
SHARE ME!
Poor little midwestern girl ended up in the Broward County Jail one evening (it was definitely a “dear God, make me a bird, make me fly far, far away moment”). Long story short, I was a very green & young bartender working the busiest shift of my life in a popular restaurant. I ended up getting set up by an ATF sting & served an underage girl & got hauled away in handcuffs, bawling my eyes out wondering how this happened. If you knew me, you would not believe this happened to me (a very young-looking, 23 y/o social work student)! The story all ended well in the end but mama will have a story for her babies one day. Sharing a cell with a prostitute & a crack user was eye-opening, that is for sure. :-/
Sarah P says
SHARE ME! My big sister (almost 2 yrs difference) and I still share clothes. We live 3 hours apart. Each season we do a trade; if I wore a dress way too much last summer, she gets it this summer.
Nichole says
SHARE ME! I spilled nearly an entire bottle of red wine on a couple’s anniversary dinner my first night at this swanky restaurant… They were very gracious but it was not one of my best nights of life. Don’t cry over spilled wine, right? Easier said than done, haha!
Brittany says
SHARE ME.
Currently sharing our 2 bedroom home with a beautiful couple and their sweet, happy 5 month old boy. Sharing space, sharing dinners, sharing life. Like a party every night.
Kate W. says
share me!!!
Lori says
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Alyssa says
Share me!:)
My family insiste on taking road trips (wasn’t a fan). This meant cramming 5 people in our 5 seater hatch back Sentra, and stuffing every free space with bags, food, and all road trip perphanelia. I think we usually made it to the freeway before me and my two brothers started fighting over who was touching whom, whose appendage was “over the line”, in classic form. All these fond memories created a firm hatred of road trips in all of us!:)
Karyl says
Share me!
I used to do field work in Africa at a field station as part of my dissertation. We used to come upon random ostrich eggs that weren’t laid in a nest every once in awhile. It just so happens that on the night some other friends from grad school who were visiting on their honeymoon, one of the researchers found one of these eggs and brought it home thinking that we could all share the wealth (ostrich eggs are the equivalent of about 2dozen eggs and we never had enough food, so this was a great gift). Anyway after all 10 of us had had our weekly shower and put on fresh clothes for the big omelet fest in honor of our friends, we gathered round the egg in the tiny kitchen. I was holding the egg and when I lightly tapped the egg to break it apart, I heard a tremendous BOOM–once I was able to clear my eyes from the rotten egg goo that had flown out and covered everyone in the room, I could see egg froth just bubbling up on everything it hit. Then the smell hit. Nothing says “share” like 10 grad students running for the only door, stripping off their clothes in the middle of the Serengeti, and retching.
Suzanne says
SHARE ME! We drove to Wy (yes DROVE) one summer, both my parents, a friend and the DOG! in the car for 4 days straight and 7 on the way hom! The good thing is though I’ve seen the Bad Lands, the Grand Titons, Yellow Stone Ntl park including Old Faithful! definitely a cramped car but totally worth it!
Cassi says
SHARE ME!!
Sharing a bathroom with my FOUR daughters…
Julie says
Share Me! I used to share a bedroom in my first apartment with my best friend. We had some great talks in that bedroom!!
Emily says
SHARE ME!
I was the only daughter, so I never really had to share anything…. I had my own bathroom, bedroom, clothes. And then I got married! Sharing a room and bathroom have been adjustments during this first year of marriage :).
Cassi says
SHARE ME!
Sharing a bathroom with my FOUR daughters… yikes!
Laura H. says
SHARE ME! One of my favorite memories of childhood was sharing my strawberry shortcake room with my sisters and having late night whispering chatting sessions and then pretending to be asleep when parents checked on us :)
Rachel says
SHARE ME!! I am one of four girls, so growing up we all “shared” our clothes….but in reality the sharing was really hand-me-downs in elementary school, or stealing clothes in high school!
marissa says
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Lauren says
Share me, please!
I’m teaching a toddler to share, and she spends four days a week with her great-grandparents and one day a week with her granny. Talk about a struggle!!! Sheesh.
Jenny says
Share me! My twin sis and I shared all our clothes and shoes while growing up (mom was a believer in buying one item and telling us to share it instead of buying two). I still remember the epic fights we’d have over who got to wear which pair of black shoes (cute platform oxfords vs. ugly flats. What? It was 1998) for junior high band concerts. Haha :)
Sonja says
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Elisha says
SHARE ME!
I’m a big sleep talker (and occasional walker) so when I had to share a hotel room at Disney World with my younger brother and two uncles I warned them before we all fell asleep. I usually just mumble a few words here and there but this time I went all out for the audience. Apparently (I have no memory of this), I sat up in the middle of the night flailing my arms around my head yelling “There’s a bird on my head!” I was 21 years old..Needless to say, I still havent lived that one down…
Candy says
SHARE ME!
Sharing a bathroom with my older brother growing up, no fun!
Heather says
SHARE ME!!!
When I was in kindergarten I had to color a picture of a mouse with the girl next to me… She started coloring the entire mouse PINK- even the teeth! I told her that mice are not pink and teeth are definately not pink. She told the teacher and I had to apologige, I guess I have no imagination!
MBG says
SHARE ME!! What a great giveaway.
We have four kids, so I could waste your day with share stories. Here’s a recent one:
At soccer this past weekend, the eldest was playing in a co-ed scrimmage. Her little sis and I were doing the usual family-cheering-on-from-the-sidelines routine, and from my mouth sprang the words: “Don’t let those boys take your ball! THAT’S YOUR BALL! Get it, girl!” Then my littler girl looks up at me and says in a troubled voice, “But what about SHARING, Mama?!” Whoops. Parenting fail.
Alycia says
SHARE ME! Well, not only did I end up sharing a hotel room with my boss during a conference, we ended up having to share a king size bed because we forgot to make reservations before we got there. Thankfully it was a big bed and i was able to move some pillows in the middle (and my boss was a lady!). The real kicker was that as we were going to check out we bumped into one of our co-workers who informed us that he had had a room with two double beds to himself for the whole conference! My boss also happened to be my professor for a grad program that I was in and my classmates still tease me about “sleeping with the professor” to get an A.
Michelle Kersey says
Share Me!
I shared a room with my sister for about 13 years… and I loved it. I eventually got my own room, but one thing I will always remember about growing up… My sister and I shared a dream! Yes, we both dreamt the same thing… it included a tiger coming into our room, and us trying to escape to our parents room upstairs, where they had a door… with no way out (no balcony or stairs to anywhere… my dad is a bit of a DIYer himself ;) Built his house… took him a while to get that balcony outside of that door though! LOL) Anywho, we tied bedsheets together to climb out of the door and get to safety away from the tiger. Odd dream… but so funny that my sister and I shared it :)
jina says
Share Me! My recent sharing story is really a blessing. We just adopted a baby boy, and when I think of his birth mom, I think her sacrifice of giving him a better life is the most beautiful “share” of all time. :)
Nicole says
SHARE ME! I was always the only girl in the family so I had my own room…but I had to share the second bathroom in our house every morning with FOUR boys! Ugh, I have earned my own master bath as a grown up :) and with four sons of my own, I’m thankful for my own space!
Skeeter says
SHARE ME! about two years ago my husband and I decided to move to new zealand, buy a van to live in while we backpacked across the country. Everyone said we were crazy and that in no time at all we’d get tired of each other and go crazy… I’m happy to say that we didn’t and it turned out to be one of the best things we’ve ever done.
morgan says
SHARE me your credits!! I once shared a car with complete strangers when a flight got cancelled and my lovely boyfriend announced in the terminal, “hey everyone we will be making the 5 hour drive through a horrific snow storm if anyone wants to jump in a rented car with us!” he shouldve included, “and my girlfriend will sit in the middle, in the backseat, between 2 men (one whom didnt speak a lick of english). If thats not sharing, i dont know what is! PICK ME!!
Andrea says
SHARE ME!!!
Craig says
SHARE ME! I shared a bathroom with my sister growing up. And now one with my wife!
Jessie says
SHARE ME! I lived in a sorority house .. so 1 house + 26 girls = crazy fun times. :)
Katie says
SHARE ME! I shared a room with my sister for most of childhood. It was actually great and we’re still best friends despite years of being annoyed when she would “borrow” my favorite clothes and return them in less than perfect condition