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Young House Love » Giveaways » Fab Freebie: Sharing The Love

| By John Petersik | April 2, 2012 | 7,109 Comments

Fab Freebie: Sharing The Love

*** 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!

Joss Main Giveaway

  • 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.

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Comments

  1. Molly says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:26 am

    SHARE ME!
    Sharing a hotel room with my boss & his entire family on a trip to Vegas…too much!

    Reply
  2. Samantha says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:26 am

    SHARE ME! As the oldest of 8 kids, we did lots of sharing growing up. Sharing bedrooms, bathrooms, clothes, etc. My sister and I shared a room for years and we are still BFFs. And, I think it made doing to college less of an adjustment!

    Reply
  3. amy endler says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:33 am

    SHARE ME!
    How about sharing the womb! My twin sis and I get along so well I’ll even share this prize with her if I win!

    Reply
  4. Paulina J! says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:43 am

    SHARE ME! I shared a bed with my best friend at my first sleepover when I was 16. Yeah, I never slept at a freinds house until I was 16.

    Reply
  5. Brooke says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:43 am

    SHARE ME!
    The worst sharing story in the world is from my husband. Sharing a trundle bed with his brother when he was a little kid, one night he woke up feeling super sick, leaned over and threw up all over him! Not my kind of sharing for sure…

    Reply
  6. Kristi says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:46 am

    Share Me!!

    My toddler is learning how to share his parents with his new little brother. So far he mostly orders us to put the baby in the crib :)

    Reply
  7. Charlotte says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:48 am

    Share me!

    Reply
  8. Bridget M. says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:49 am

    Share me!

    Every night I have to share the blankets with my husband. We wage war against one another as to who will win all of the blankets before the other wakes up, realizes what’s going on, and grabs their half back. :)

    Reply
  9. Carmen says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:52 am

    Share Me!

    Reply
  10. Pamela says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:52 am

    “SHARE ME!” With both of my pregnancies I had a horrible condition called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG). Nightmare doesn’t even begin to explain. I came close to starving to death because I couldn’t keep food or water down for most of the 3 terms. Lost weight instead of gained. Couldn’t function, work, enjoy being pregnant. But I have two beautiful children and I am so glad we got through it all. May 15th is the first “HG Awareness Day” for this very misunderstood illness. Learn more at helpher.org.

    Reply
  11. Elizabeth says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:55 am

    ” Share me” :)

    Reply
  12. Marie Bean says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Share me! I’m the oldest of 4 and growing up we did a fair amount of sharing to say the least. For a while I shared a room with my brother and sister, then just my sister until I eventually got my own room. I always shared a bathroom, and through high school we all shared the same truck… we had it at different times but it’s a cool sharing experience we all think is pretty cool! Sharing is a great thing to learn at a young age. I now have the pleasure of sharing my life with my sweet husband… and our fur baby (boxer named Bruce).

    Reply
  13. Catalina says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:57 am

    SHARE ME!

    Reply
  14. Larissa says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:58 am

    SHARE ME! As newlyweds, my husband and I took a camping trip, which turned into an ill fated camping trip. Throwing meteorological reports to the curb, we assumed we knew better what the weather would be, including the over night low temperature. So, we packed one sleeping bag intending to unzip it and use it as a blanket for the warm night ahead. It was 40 degrees that night. Two people. One sleeping bag. We shared the bag and shared the joy of rotating throughout the night, so no one was stuck as the designated sleep-with-your-butt-cheeks- hanging-out-the-unzippable-zipper-side sleeper.

    Reply
  15. Lolita says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:58 am

    SHARE ME!

    When I was a kid I shared a car with my older brother. It was actually his car, but he wasn’t allowed to take it to college, so I drove it during my senior year of high school. I was soo happy to get use of it..but it was a jollipy for sure. Sometimes it would just stop for no reason and in order to get it started back up..I had to go under the hood and use this thing with a button to get it started back up! HAHA! But I had wheels! Good times! :) I hated to give it up when he would come home for the weekend…but it was all about sharing!

    Reply
  16. Carrie says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:58 am

    SHARE ME! Right now, I’m trying to accept sharing my new baby with her daddy and grandparents!

    Reply
  17. Amy B. says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:59 am

    Share me! We just had our second son, and our 2 1/2 y/o is very excited to share books and trucks with him. Here’s hoping that doesn’t mean driving on him and bopping him with books :).

    Reply
  18. Lisa Hansen says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:05 am

    SHARE ME! Last year, while their father was deployed to Afghanistan, all 3 of my children (10 year-old girl, 7 year-old boy and 4 year-old girl) shared a room when we took a strategic retreat to my parents house. And my wonderful parent opened my (small) childhood home to share with their 30-something daughter and 3 grandchildren. It wasn’t always easy, but it turned a year that could easily have been thought of exclusively as “The-Year-Daddy-Was-Gone” and made it into “The-Year-We-Got-To-Really-See-Where-Mommy-Gre-Up”.

    Reply
  19. Amber says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:05 am

    Share me!

    Growing up my little sister and I shared a room. We are pretty much opposites and fought A LOT, but I have the best memories of rainy Sunday afternoons when we pretended we were stranded on an island together, aka a big blanket on the floor.

    Reply
  20. Stacey says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:05 am

    SHARE ME!

    I’m blessed to have two close girlfriends that I can share anything with. We refer to one another as “the inner circle” and know that if we disclose something it’s “in the vault”, won’t be judged, and will NEVER be discussed outside of the circle.

    Reply
  21. Kate D says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:05 am

    SHARE ME!

    We’re in the midst of teaching our 2 year old son about sharing…He’s totally cool about other people sharing with him, just not grasping the other half of the equation!

    Reply
  22. Katie says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:07 am

    SHARE ME!

    I love sharing good blogs. This is one of my favorite to share. (Does that earn me any brownie points?) :)

    Reply
  23. Brooke says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Share me!

    I lived in my college sorority house. 16 women, 5 bedrooms, 6 closets, 2 bathrooms. ‘Nuff said.

    Reply
  24. Corie says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:09 am

    SHARE ME… My dad is an only child and to this day (I’m 33 now!) the man cannnnnot share. But? He thought everything of mine (or anyone’s really) was open for sharing. Funny how that worked, eh?

    Needless to say, sharing is something I expect from my two little boys. Which is hard, b/c, well, they’re little boys, but they’re learning! :)

    I don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for but it’s hard to handle non-sharers. You two are so nice to share this giveaway with your readers!

    Reply
  25. Jen Stacey says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:10 am

    SHARE ME

    My sister and I had to share our Pound Puppies’ puppy carrier when we were kids. You know, like a portable crate that you’d use to take our Pound Puppies’ puppies to the vet. I’m sure the velcro closure on that bad boy was very secure.

    Thanks for having something better to share!

    Reply
  26. laura says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:13 am

    Share me! my sister was 7 years older than i was and she used to “share” the backseat of the car with me by making me lay down on the floor boards and by putting pillows down to even it out and said it was cool- hey, it was the 80’s, car safety wasn’t the same then…

    Reply
  27. Jami says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:15 am

    Share me!

    My sharing story is that this past weekend, we had a girl’s sleep over (old college friends getting together). I shared a bed with my friend Megan…

    I learned that she talks in her sleep, fidgets with her hands a lot, and can sleep through her phone going off. :)

    Reply
  28. Alana says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:17 am

    Share me!

    My mom watches my daughter, 4, and her cousins, 2 and 5, every Thursday. One day on our way over my daughter says to me, “Levi’s not going to be very happy with me ’cause he has to share me with Nolan.” Levi isn’t the greatest sharer. :)

    Reply
  29. Teresa Badke says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:19 am

    SHARE ME!

    i tend to over share details about things that may not be gross to me, but apparently are to others! haha…im working on it :)

    Reply
  30. Meg @ Revamp Homegoods says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:21 am

    SHARE ME! I shared a room during the fun years (age 9) with my brother AND sister. We had a bunk bed that they shared and then a wall of dressers that I made into my own personal bed/reading area. I hung a poster of NKOTB above where I slept and just after lights out, I’d give my BF Jordan (duh!) a kiss goodnight.

    Reply
  31. Janie says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:22 am

    Share Me!

    I’m learning a whole new lesson in sharing with my husband with the arrival of our baby! This little one definitely Deserves and requires us to share – the love, the snuggles…..and diaper duty! What a sweet man I’ve got that shares in this so well – what a sweet thing to share in! :)

    Reply
  32. Nikki says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:26 am

    SHARE ME! Every time a storm comes through in the night, one of us has to get up, go downstairs and share some sort of sleeping arrangement with our two 40lb dogs who hate thunder and lightning. Otherwise we both have to fight the most persistent one all night for bed space. Last night was stormy and it was my turn, so today I am stiff and somewhat grumpy. A shopping extravaganza at Joss and Main would be a certain mood upgrade!

    Reply
  33. Hana says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:30 am

    SHARE ME!!!!!!!
    10 years ago I was staying with my boyfriend’s family for the night and I sleptwalked and crawled into bed with his parents. MORTIFYING to say the least but makes for a great story now.

    Reply
  34. Kara says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:30 am

    SHARE ME! Recent funny/embarrassing story was while out one night with my dog (we have nightly playtime with other neighborhood dogs), he ran closer to the street than normal and even though the street does not see much traffic, I yelled out this very bizarre, deep, drawn out shriek that somewhat resembled my dogs name. Our neighbors have been making fun of me since…

    Reply
  35. Nou says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Share Me! I grew up with 3 older sisters and 4 brothers so there was LOTS of sharing going on in our house. Now that we’re all grown and live in different states, I wish we could come together and share everything…our kids birthdays and playdates, laughs, coffee & ice cream runs, barbecues…and so on. I’m most glad though for being able to share my childhood with them!

    Reply
  36. Ashley C says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:33 am

    SHARE ME! I always wanted a sister to have girl time with, and now my sister-in-law and I are super close and share everything. I love it!

    Reply
  37. Sara Bell says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:36 am

    SHARE ME!
    I shared a room with my sister, who I used to torture by getting her to talk in her sleep. :)

    Reply
  38. JuliaT says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:36 am

    SHARE ME!

    Reply
  39. Teresa S. says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:36 am

    Share me!

    I am actually a terrible sharer. I cannot share things like food, drinks, or carmex (which my daughter loves to use — once she uses it, the carmex is hers. that’s probably her goal). If my hubby wants to share a drink, I drink out of it first, and then he gets the rest. I just can’t handle sharing! Maybe because I am the oldest of eight and want things to myself.

    Reply
  40. Sarah Anne Watkins says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:46 am

    SHARE ME!!

    Reply
  41. Jennifer G. says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:47 am

    Share Me!
    Don’t have a funny story, but maybe can create the space for one with new J&M swag!

    Reply
  42. Robyn R. says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:47 am

    SHARE ME! (please). Hmmm, not a fan of sharing generally; I blame my only child status!

    Reply
  43. Brittany says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:49 am

    SHARE ME!

    In high school I had a roommate who blew her nose in dirty socks!! And not only her socks, mine as well!! Yuck

    Reply
  44. Ashley says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Share Me….My whole family sharing one bathroom with two teenage girls growing up.

    Reply
  45. Melissa says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:50 am

    Share me! I remember having to share a bed with my sister every time we went on vacation. I would wake up each time clinging to the side of the bed (she’s a bed hogger).

    Reply
  46. Chase says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:51 am

    SHARE ME!

    Reply
  47. Melanie P says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:52 am

    Share me!

    Reply
  48. Weezie says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Share me! I shared a room with my younger sister from the time I was little until the night before I got married. We shared a full size bed (which my daughter just cannot fathom). I miss sleeping back to back on cold nights–my husband is a super warm sleeper and he can’t take more heat. Also, he’s not a big fan of talking til you fall asleep–I miss that as well!

    Reply
  49. Leslie says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:59 am

    SHARE ME!

    A long time ago, my cousins came to visit us. We were all little, and my aunt and my mom thought it would be a time saver if my cousin and I showered together. My cousin proceeded to get some Balsam such-and-such shampoo in her eyes, and kept yelling, “IT’S THE LEAVES! THE LEAVES ARE BURNING MY EYES!!” She was teased for years about “the leaves”.

    Reply
  50. Heather Cosgrove says

    April 4, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    SHARE ME!!!
    Me and my little sister shared a room most of our lives growing up! Some of the best and funnest times happened between us there. Although limited on space, looking back on it I am soooo happy we had those times together!

    Reply
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