*** 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.
Kim @ Wonderings says
SHARE ME!! The first overnight trup that I took with my now husband and parents required all 4 of us to stay in the same room!! Talk about getting to know your inlaws!
Megan says
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My baby girl (18 mo.) loves to share her cheerios with everyone. She will walk right up to anyone she knows and try to stick a cheerio right in their mouth. It’s the cutest. I just hope we can take that spirit of sharing into toys with other kids!
Bethany J. says
SHARE ME! In grad school I rented a house with two other girls that only had one bathroom…mornings were rough – especially when we all had to be at class at the same time!
Meg says
SHARE ME! My sister and I were in a travelling swim team growing up and every weekend our family of 4 would share a two double bed hotel room at the cheapest hotel in the town we were in. My sister grinded her teeth so my parents and I would have to wear ear plugs all night so we could sleep. When times got really desperate we would try to wedge pencils in her mouth to stop the grinding. The hotels were cheap enough that team mates knew to request a room away from our room! Thankfully I didn’t share a room with her at home… only every weekend in a cheap hotel!
Wendy Tomblin says
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I had the pleasure of sharing a room at the Paris Hotel in Vegas with a female colleague for a national conference. We didn’t really know each other at the beginning of the week but by the end of the week when I had listened to numerous, shall we say intimate phone conversations and seen several very grown up lingerie displays, I felt we had grown much closer.
I am not a shy person but I was more than ready for that trip to end. A few weeks later I dropped off the roll of film from the conference and wondered why the kid at photo counter was giving me the eye at check out time.
When I opened the pics it contained the assorted “Lets try to look like we are having fun at uber expensive work fest” photos but there was also several of my former roommate wearing nothing but lens flare.
Guess it’s true what they say about Vegas…
Christie DeSilva says
SHARE ME! :) Hmm…right now our family is in the process of sharing sicky germs. ;) The only harrowing part of the story is if I get it too! Come on natural immune system booster remedies – save me from the sharing!
Alicia M says
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My younger sister and I shared a 2nd story room (and a bed) for a number of years when we were young. In our room there was a small (3ft) door that accessed the attic in another peak of the house. So that she wouldn’t hog the bed or the covers…I told her that I knew the trolls that lived in the tiny door and that I would send them after her if she didn’t listen. What a nice big sister I was!! Eep!
Bridget says
SHARE ME! Our 10 month old son has just started to share… usually his already licked/half eaten food at dinner time. gross but cute!
Gabrielle says
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ange says
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Ok, sharing a hotel room with my sis and her tiny kids. It wasn’t fun!
Jenn says
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Rachel says
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Kiley says
SHARE ME!!! My brother (who is 3 years older than me) and I used to share a bathroom when we were kids. We used to make our parents personalized colognes and perfumes with whatever we had in our bathroom. We would mix toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo, you name it, all into spray bottles and give them to our Mom and Dad. What great parents though, they used to pretend to love them!
Patti says
SHARE ME! My sister and I were very big on equitable sharing as kids. One of my funniest memories is that when my mom would feed us spaghetti-o’s, if it was the kind with meatballs we would make my mom count to make sure we got the same number of meatballs in our bowls, even if it meant cutting one of those tiny things in half!
Stacey says
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I’ll be honest….I’m a bit spoiled in that fact that for over half of my growing-up life, I rarely had to share a bathroom with my brother. And even in college, I always had my own bathroom in my aparments. SO, when I grew up and got married, sharing a bathroom with my new husband was NOT very easy for me!
Megan says
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I’m an only child but strangely enough I’ve never had trouble sharing.
Dorothy says
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This weekend my girlfriends and I kicked it old school style and four of us slept on a makeshift sofa fort bed!
Melissa says
It’s more fun to share…
sarah auer says
Share Me! I have to share a cube (practically) with one of my BFs at work…Which means we talk a lot, chat about silly things and generally have a good time all day long :) No complaints here! I hope I win :)
Wendy says
SHARE ME! I can’t think of any sharing stories right now – please don’t hold that against me :)
Andrea says
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My sister and I shared a room for around 14 years when we were growing up. It was hard! But I think it made us both better roommates in college, better wives when we got married, and probably better people in general.
Morgan says
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I’m an only child so sharing isn’t in my DNA – but since getting married last summer, I’m learning that sharing is caring and that there’s not a lot of room in a marriage for being selfish!! :)
Lizzie says
share me!
i’m not god at sharing the sidewalk with people who have no regard for people around them. i’m a generally calm person but this gets me every time!
Leah K says
SHARE ME! I had to share a room with a co-worker on a work trip a few years ago. Pretty sure I mooned her while I was grabbing my clothes to get ready…
Oh well.
truly says
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I have 3 sisters, everything and anything of ours (unless hidden VERY well) was fair game.
Julie says
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I’ve got a co-worker that I can’t take ANYWHERE. She is SO rude to servers and to other people…it’s a huge problem. I want to hide my face whenever we’re in public together.
Karen F says
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Once, on a business trip, my boss got into a “discussion” with the rental car agent about how, if we bring the car back without filling up the gas tank, and then they charge us to fill the tank when we get there, they are charging for the same tank of gas 2x (because the next customer who rents the car will also pay for the gas). I can’t say I completely understood what he was arguing about (not to mention the fact that our company was paying for the car, so it wasn’t even his money) but I kind of wandered away from the rental car desk to make sure people didn’t think we were married or something – I was so embarrassed!
Hannah says
SHARE ME! Speaking of sharing… I had to share an office at my past job…which was fine, until my office-mate got a boyfriend and I had to listen to her babytalk to him over the phone everyday at lunch. Ugh.
Crissy says
Share me! I shared a bedroom with my younger sister as a kid. . . but worse than that I was a big whimp. So every time I had a nightmare, I ended up sharing her bed with her as well. I was a big chicken. .. and our clown themed room didn’t help after those “it” movie commercials.
Natalia says
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My boyfriend and I went to his cousin’s wedding which was about a 7 hour drive away from where we live. His aunt got a hotel room for us, which was nice, only problem…she got ONE two bed room for me, him and…his mom! Needless to say, I was not very happy when I found out. He even looked into getting a separate room, but they were all booked. In the end it wasn’t THAT bad. But, I’d prefer not to ever have to do that again :)
Cassie says
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My sister and I shared a bed when we were little. While I probably complained back then, it is not a memory I cherish :)
Allie ~Theinspiredmomma says
SHARE ME! Ok my sharing story happened a couple weeks ago. We had got food to go from mcalisters deli. I got a brownie for me. And my three year old twin boys asked for a bite. So I told them after they ate their food I would save them a bite. Well I kept eating and talking to my husband and I accidentally ate the whole brownie myself!! I felt like such a bad mom when they asked me where theirs was lol
But I did get them some cookies to make up for it. That helps a little right? Lol
Holly says
Share me! Please! Pretty please! I need a rug, lamps, pillows and funny little statues of things in bright colors. Pick me! Me!
Addie Klein says
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Sabrina says
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Sharing dessert with my husband is not fun, he eats so fast that it’s all gone by my second bite. I guess its dieting?
Megan S. says
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I laugh at the old pictures of my brother and myself with boy/girl matching outfits on. What were my parents thinking?!
Jackie E. says
“SHARE ME” Growing up, my family of four plus my grandfather had one bathroom that we had to share. It didn’t seem to be much of an issue then, but my teenage daughters sure struggle to share a bathroom now.
Stephanie B. says
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I DID have to share a hotel room with my boss–it was horrendous! She got up a 5am everyday to go to the gym, while I had just got in at 2am that morning from sightseeing and bar hopping. We had different priorities. Guess who had the lower BMI?? Ha!
Randee J. says
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I once shared a twin sized waterbed with my younger sister. Not our favorite sharing experience =)
Dani M. says
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My older sister and I shared a bedroom the summer before my senior year of high school. The only things I remember clearly are that we woke up to Norah Jones every morning and she convinced me to blow dry my hair everyday. : )
Alyssa says
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Cair says
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Just recently I chaperoned a HS group traveling to another city. The smart thing to do with HS kids in a hotel is to not give them time to cause problems. So it was 11 or 11:30 pm lock-in the rooms, with 6 am wake-up calls. Chaperones met after the kids were locked in, so we weren’t hitting our beds until after midnight – not so great for a sleep loving fool like me. Anyway, I shared a room with another chaperone, who is shall I say, just a little quirky. She declined to meet with the other adults after the kids were in their rooms I think so she could arise extra early in the morning. Yup, each day at 5 AM her alarm went off to Stars and Stripes Forever. She would quickly shower and dress, then sit on her be staring at me until I got out of bed. Even though I tried to go back to sleep until the still insane hour of 6 am, it wasn’t that easy. Really an odd “sharing” experience.
Kristi says
“SHARE ME” My sister is 5 years younger than me and used to “share” my clothes from my closet…or that’s what she called it back then. Really she just took them without me knowing, only to deny it when I found my clothes in her room!! =) Thankfully we are now friends so all is well between us =)
Emily says
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I had to share a bedroom with my sister growing up, and she was really messy. When I was in 8th grade my parents let me move into the 8x10ft guest bedroom.
Crystal says
Share me! Countless stories of sharing a bathroom with a teenage boy growing up!
Traci says
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My father has a scar above his lip where a girl hit him with a license plate when he was little. When I asked why he said he was trying to teach her to share her tricycle. Actually, he got on her tricycle and rode away.
Misty says
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We just had my son’s first birthday party this past weekend, and my father-in-law made him a custom, handmade cedar chest. It meant so much to my husband, and I know it’s a gift Noah will treasure his whole life.
It meant a lot to me, too. My dad passed away two weeks after Noah was born and never got a chance to meet him. I’m glad he is getting to spend time with his other grandpa and that he will always have this to remember him by.
Lori H says
SHARE ME! Travelling in Europe after college graduation (on a teeny budget). my college friend and I were taking an overnight train to Switzerland from France. Our car was full of drunk Moroccans who, after finding out that we were Americans, insisted on imitating John Wayne..for hours, and not well. They also kept proposing. Not fun. But funny!
Erin says
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Elizabeth says
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I am terrible about sharing the blankets