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Young House Love » Giveaways » Fab Freebie: Things We Love

| By John Petersik | December 19, 2011 | 10,002 Comments

Fab Freebie: Things We Love

***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***

After an excitement and entry filled holiday giveaway we’ve crowned our big winner. Well, random.org has crowned a winner. And she is… Nina (who’s planning to soak up and celebrate the magic of the season with her toddler, babe, and hubs this week as well as do some gift wrapping, toy assembling, and cookie baking by the light of the tree). Congrats!

Oprah has Favorite Things. Martha has Good Things. We have Things We Love (okay, so maybe it’s not as catchy or scream-and-cry-on-national-TV-worthy, but we tried). The point is that we’ve rounded up five prizes that we heart, covering a whole range of topics that we love talking about ’round these parts – from art and tools to cleaning and ceramic animals. All in all, it’s nearly $750 worth of goodies for one lucky reader! So without further ado, here’s what one of your stockings will get stuffed with this week:

Thing We Love Giveaway

  1. An iRobot Scooba 230 – A compact floor washing robot from the makers of Roomba that’s small enough to get under cabinets and around commodes (worth $299!). Because less time spent scrubbing your floors means more time spent DIYing.
  2. An $150 gift certificate from 20×200 – One of our favorite spots for fresh original art, including the bicycle print that my sisters got me for my birthday last month. There are lots of ways to spend your $150, like splurging for a framed piece.
  3. Over $200 worth of Kreg Tools – The stuff that gives me the confidence to take on my woodworking projects (this set includes the Kreg Jig Master System and Multi-Mark as well as new stuff that I don’t even have: the Shelf Pin Jig and Square-Cut) – all worth $215!
  4. The ceramic pig speaker from West Elm – You already know that we love this often back-ordered guy, so we begged the folks at West Elm to put one aside for the winner.
  5. And A Very She & Him Christmas CD (or LP) and winter hat – You’ll need some music to listen to on your new pig speaker, right? And we’re loving these festive tracks from Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward.

So now that we’ve outlined the prize, here are the regular giveaway details:

  • PRIZE: See above
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” and tell us…
  • BONUS QUESTION: … what’s on your holiday agenda for the next week? Do you have lots of last minute shopping / cleaning / cooking to do? Are you traveling? Or are you just sitting back and waiting for a certain red-suited man to hop down your chimney (like Clara)?
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, December 21st at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
  • PRIZE SHIPS: The 50 United States (although we do try to wrangle as many international giveaways as possible)
  • DISCOUNT: Get 10% off on framed print orders placed at 20×200 through tomorrow December 20, 2011 with the code YHL10
  • 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 iRobot, Kreg Tools, 20×200, West Elm and Merge Records,

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Comments

  1. Caitlin P. says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    My Holiday Agenda next week is one I am looking forward to more than any other year. I’ll see all of my family for Christmas, it’s my first Christmas with my fiancé, and I took the week off because I haven’t had a vacation from work since January. It’s time for some family, fiancé, food and fun!!! Oh and sleep. Lots and lots of sleep.

    Reply
  2. Lauren says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLLIDAYS. My agenda is to try and get some R&R before coming back for another gruelling work week.

    Reply
  3. Denny says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Family, friends and Bacon Jam. That’s right BACON JAM.

    Reply
  4. Shannon C. says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    I’m getting ready to cook for Christmas dinner and am trying to finish sewing the beads on an art quilt that has to be delivered to a show on Thursday! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

    Reply
  5. Michelle says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays!
    We are traveling from Atlanta, GA to Lawton, OK to visit my Mom’s side of the family! Can’t Wait!! Roadtrip!!

    Reply
  6. Meadow says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays!
    Finishing a bunch of projects while my kid is staying with grandma.

    Reply
  7. Joy says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! I’m excited to spend the weekend with my new (almost 3 month old) nephew (and the rest of the family)!!

    Reply
  8. Katie says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

    I’ll be waiting patiently for my baby nephew to be born!!

    Reply
  9. Quiana says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Preparing for my family’s first trip to Africa. SO excited!

    Reply
  10. Andrea in KS says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays! I’m hoping to wrap presents!!

    Reply
  11. Lenore says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays! We’re traveling home for Christmas in week – but before that we have to do the dreaded “before you leave” clean.

    Reply
  12. Kelly says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
    I’m working this week but planning on a week full of DIY-ing next week. Woot-Woot!

    Reply
  13. Staci says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    Have a little last minute shopping to do and making a gingerbread house with my 3 1/2 year old little guy while the almost 4 months old little gal watches.

    Reply
  14. Bri says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I just flew home to Minnesota yesterday and I will be performing snow dances all week in hopes of a white Christmas!

    Reply
  15. Kathleen W says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays! We’re staying home, spending time with family and enjoying our week-long break from work!

    Reply
  16. KatieM says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
    Cooking, cleaning and then spending time with family!

    Reply
  17. Lorinda says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We’ll be spending four days of fun and festivity with various family. Only one more gift to buy and I’m done! Happy Holidays to all of you!

    Reply
  18. Betsy Hayes says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I still have a few more presents to buy and am making food to take to the in-laws’! Thank goodness I still have a few days. :)

    Reply
  19. LM says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    Sunday (Christmas) will be spent opening presents all day going from home to home; lots of family and relatives in a small town equals an all day gift opening extravaganza. Yippee! It’s always a lot of fun.

    Reply
  20. Erica says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    wrapping, wrapping and more wrapping on this week’s agenda!

    Reply
  21. Cindy says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
    I’m packing cookies now, still waiting for a few Amazon presents to arrive and then on to wrapping central! Oh- and cleaning the house like crazy before the in-laws arrive!

    Reply
  22. Kacey says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    My husband and I are traveling home on Friday to Montana to spend Christmas with both our families. Super excited! But first, I have a bunch of candy to make, and we will exchange gifts with my father and his fiance who live in the same area as we do now.

    Three Christmases!

    Reply
  23. Lucy H. says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays!

    Spending lots of time with my hubby and our 6 month old baby girl!

    Reply
  24. Michelle says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We’ll be traveling and eating way too much this week.

    Reply
  25. Steph B says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    We will be spending the week working (bummer), with a weekend Christmas with my parents. We are looking forward to our niece’s first Christmas!

    Reply
  26. Susan says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Travelling to New Orleans to see our first grandchild just born!

    Reply
  27. Sheena says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! My family will be going to my Aunts house on Christmas Day! So Excited Can’t wait! I have family comming from out of state, I have not seen them for such a long time! :) Merry Christmas Everone!

    Reply
  28. Aimee says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

    I can’t wait to fly to Colorado on Christmas Eve to see my family and meet up with my husband who is away on business! Until then, it’s time to enjoy the cold weather with lots of hot chocolate and all the Christmas lights! Shopping is all done, packages are all sent, so there’s nothing to do but relax.

    Reply
  29. Kate says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays! I’ve got a lot of shopping, wrapping, baking, and traveling ahead of me, and I couldn’t be happier!

    Reply
  30. Linda says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    This week will be made of: Monkey Bread-making, Chinese food-eating, present-wrapping, office party-having, full house-cleaning, all-of-the-laundry-doing, and hopefully, some eating-until-I’m-ready-to-burst…ing. (Enough hypens for you?)

    Reply
  31. Kerianne says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Happy Holidays!

    We have a big family so Christams is a super busy time. We had Christams with our friends yesterday. Friday is Christmas with my boyfriend’s family, Saturday with his Mom’s side, Christmas day with my family, Monday with his dad’s side!

    Reply
  32. Shasta L. says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    I still need to de-fur my home so that my family can come over on Christmas Day and leave without being covered in cat hairs. It shall be a joyous holiday season filled with gifts, turkey, and a lot of chocolate-type cookies.

    Reply
  33. Karen says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We’re having two Christmas celebrations…we’ll celebrate early with one side of the family, and then travel to see the other side.

    Reply
  34. Laura O says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays! Our plans are to play tag between 6 sides of our families! I feel like it is important to try and see everyone at Christmas and we have so many to see. It may not be for long but it will be special!

    Reply
  35. Beckie says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays!!

    Relaxing with family, playing games, and enjoying a winter break. Next up: Planning a road trip and re-organizing our closets!

    Reply
  36. Heather says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I’ll be flying to snowy Colorado to visit my older sister, and we’ll hopefully have a low-key Christmas with lots of sister time and lots of baking (and I’ll hopefully get an opportunity to sneak off and buy her a last-minute present..eep!)

    Reply
  37. erin says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
    Last minute gifts for my baby boy

    Reply
  38. Kasey March says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    “HAPPY HOLIDAYS!”

    My agenda includes doing some really fantastic wrapping (which is so NOT my specialty) on the handmade presents I made for my family this year. I’m so proud of myself because I committed to giving only handmade and stuck to it!

    Hope everyone is having a great holiday!

    Reply
  39. Melissa Breau says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays! The boyfriend and I are hauling it from SC to VA on Tuesday, then the rest of the way to NY on Thursday where we’ll be staying until just after the new year. Then it’s back to SC. Oh, did i mention we’re driving?

    Reply
  40. Katie says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays! I will be cooking a lot of food and then taking it all over! Best giveaway ever!

    Reply
  41. Ginny says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays! I’m hoping to organize my sons’ bedroom after Christmas.

    Reply
  42. Katie Fuller says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays! My hubby and I made a goal to be done with all our shopping by the third, so we’re spending the week enjoying family and friends and NOT stressing. Since both of our birthdays are this week, we’re also eating cake. Good times!

    Reply
  43. Ashley says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
    My three boys and I will be spending most the week in the kitchen. Cookies and crafts are on our agenda!

    Reply
  44. Sarah says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    Heading up to the log cabin looking forward to playing board games with the family!

    Reply
  45. Kelly says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! This week I plan to work! Then I get to go home ans see my momma.

    Reply
  46. Courtney says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays!! I am doing about a thousand things including fixing up and attempting to rent a home I just purchased (I learned to powerwash yesterday!), writing business school applications, and doing the Christmas shopping I have neglected. Probably NOT sleeping, sadly. Thanks!

    Reply
  47. rachel raper says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
    I hope to be stress free and waiting for Santa. All the shopping is DONE!

    Reply
  48. Caroline says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    I am looking forward to leaving cookies, milk, and chewable TUMS out for Santa! Oh, and carrots for the reindeer. Yes, I am grown-up. Yes, I still do this.

    Reply
  49. Anna says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Happy Holidays!

    My husband is coming home for 11 days on leave from the Airforce. It is going to be a great Christmas this year!!

    Reply
  50. Jennifer H says

    December 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

    Next week i’ll be working and decorating for our new years party.

    Reply
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