***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
The lucky person this week, thanks to random.org, is… Lauren (who will be feeling really lucky when her house sells). Congrats!
Five hundred big ones is nothing to laugh at… especially when you’re spending it on items that are up to 70% off retail. And thanks to Joss & Main, one of you is gonna get quite the e-shopping spree this week – yeah, to the tune of $500! Joss & Main is a flash sale site stocked full of fresh discounts daily, all focused on home and decor but covering a wide range of styles. That way you’re more likely to stumble across the perfect piece at any moment – whether it’s furniture, rugs, accessories, or a certain white ceramic animal. Plus, anyone who signs up via this link can get $15 off orders over $50 until Aug 31st (not including shipping) with code YOUNGHOUSE.
- PRIZE: A $500 e-spree at Joss & Main
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “JOSS ME!” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: … since “joss” means good luck, why not tell us your luckiest home or home improvement moment. Did you find the house of your dreams the day it went on the market? Did you inherit the perfect piece of furniture (or find it free on the side of the road). Or did you suddenly score your long-lusted-after item during an awesome sale?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, July 27th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The lower 48 United States
- 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 morning for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We weren’t paid or perked for hosting this giveaway, we just take them on to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics from Joss & Main.
Casi a.k.a. @SFnoobs says
My luckiest home improvement moment was when I went to a furniture store to look for a new kitchen table and came across my favorite blanket of all time. Even though we did not find the table we wanted, we were lucky enough to find the softest blanket which my fiance and I cuddle under every night. JOSS ME!
Cate says
Joss me!
My roommate and I had just commented to each other that we desperately needed more bookshelves in our apartment when another friend emailed us, totally out of the blue, offering two IKEA Billy’s for free! We moved them in yesterday and they work BEAUTIFULLY in the space.
Jennifer says
JOSS ME!
I have attended two different parties at a local furniture distributors showroom (I’m a designer), and I won a Generation chair at the first one, and a pair of Risom chairs at the second one! My husband (an architect as well) just won a bio-glass table from another rep this morning. We joke that all our furniture will be freebies! Fine by me, it’s great stuff!
CK says
We are hoping to hit our luckiest house moment soon– closing on a short sale renovation DREAM. I’m itching to get started– joss me!
Kathy C. says
Joss me!
Brooke W. says
Joss Me…
Ashley says
Joss me (pretty please?)
My husband & I are relocating for the first time, thanks to the Navy – to an island off of Seattle from the Midwest. We were lucky enough to find a perfect rental home the hour it was posted on Craigslist – hooray! Now all we need is some fun decor from Joss & Main :)
Ashlie says
JOSS ME!
When I was engaged to my now husband, we were looking for a home while planning a wedding. We decided to build. After giving a decent sized deposit- the company never started and then went under. Additional lawyer fees later, we are out of our deposit AND too much $ in legal fees. Unfortunately. However, the luck comes in in that it probably wasn’t the best house for us. It would have gone under eventually and we would have been in bad shape- PLUS our current house has character, a big yard with an inground pool and is a lovely all brick ranch in a great neighborhood. WE ‘jossed’ out but it was still stressful while it was going on!
Jenny H says
JOSS ME!!
My luckiest home improvement moment so far would probably be when I found the corner cabinet in our kitchen out for the garbage! It was unfinished and ready for paint!
shannon says
JOSS ME!
please???
Rachel says
JOSS ME!
My luckiest house-moment was probably an 11th hour change on which house we were going to buy! We had an appointment to sign papers on a house we had decided on and the night before my husband said to “I’ve been thinking… what if we went with the OTHER house” (which was one I’d dismissed immediately for being too big). A few hours of discussion later and we changed our offer the next day without even looking at the houses again. Best decision ever. I love my house and I’m so glad he talked me into getting the bigger one. We’ll never grow out of it!
Kathryn J says
JOSS ME!
Laura says
Joss Me!! We have a peninsula three-way fireplace that partially divides our living and dining room. We also have a toddler. My luckiest moment was paying a friend $20 for her old $100+ baby play yard and having it perfectly wrap around the fireplace to babyproof it. Not sure what I would have been able to come up with if that hadn’t worked!
Loc Uyen Nguyen says
JOSS ME!
Unfortunately, I have no Joss moment in my home!!
Mary Elllen Husted says
JOSS ME!!!
I would have to say that my lucky moment was purchasing a faux bamboo dresser off ebay over a year ago. I sanded it and painted it black high gloss, and it is gorgeous. The real luck is that I discovered I love doing DIY. Don’t get me wrong – I totally stress about each and every project, but in the end, it is worth it. We don’t have the money for newbies, so redecorating the old has certainly helped!
Christina Marie says
Joss Me!
My luckiest home improvement moment was winning a $500 gift card to Home Depot two months before “the big move.” It seriously helped with projects!
Mary Kathryn says
JOSS ME
my luckiest find would definitely be our HOUSE. It was a foreclosure in the middle of our city- LOTS of square footage but at a foreclosure price tag. We definitely feel blessed every day to have snagged it!
Bree C. says
JOSS ME!
Nothing especially lucky pops out at me. Boo.
Nicole says
JOSS ME!!!
KellyA says
joss me :)
My most lucky house decorating moment was inheriting my grandma’s solid oak desk. it’s gorgeous and sturdy and we had to take it apart to get it into my office!
besides the great piece of furniture it is, this piece reminds me of grandma paying bills, writing birthday cards and loving her family for all of her 79 years.
Tiffany says
Joss MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Sally says
JOSS ME!!!
Erica says
My luckiest house moment has definitely been having a superhandy and tireless husband. We could not have purchased our Grandma of a house without his skills and dedication.
Gina Fiore says
JOSS ME!
Luckiest moment came when, paintbursh in hand, I decided against painting our fireplace blue. Looked cool in online samples, but never would have worked in our living room :)
Katie C. says
Joss me! I was lucky enough to score designer toss pillows at a great price.
Angie G. says
JOSS ME!
Ann Kleinsasser says
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Ashlie Mitchell says
JOSS ME!!!!!!!!!
The luckiest home improvement moment happened when I was searching craigslist for nothing in-particular and came across this beautiful yellow chair for $30. I get to the house and she is completely selling everything. I got a HUGE, AMAZING rug, an awesome chair, an old stereo and speakers, and an INCREDIBLE mini-bar for under $80.
I walked out of her house so excited and flabbergasted that I could barely drive home! THANK YOU WONDERFUL CRAIGSLIST LADY!!!!
Meredith says
Joss me!
Harper says
JOSS ME! :)
One of the more recent lucky moments was when my boyfriend and I self-installed a chandelier in the living room. We have never done anything electrical-related, so with the help of Youtube videos we wired it correctly, and voila! When I turned the power back on and turned the switch, it lit up!
Melissa says
JOSS ME!
Pick me, pick me! Lol. Love their selection. Would definitely help make my house extra homey.
Bindswa says
JOSS ME! So my husband and I actually got our dream house! It literally checked EVERY SINGLE box on our wish list. And it was well, well within our price range. I still shake my head two years later! And then I almost burnt it down the first week we owned it but that’s a story for another time…..
Stacy says
Joss me! Lucky moments have been having great friends and neighbors to help with projects around my new house. When I am blessed with a handy husband, then that may be my (but maybe not his!) luckiest moment :)
Azar says
JOSS ME!
My most recent awesome home improvement moment was making some pillow covers out of cloth napkins. No sewing involved!
Richard says
JOSS ME!
Luckiest house thing–The sideboard I bought at a yard sale for $100.00, used for ten years, and then sold on Craigslist for $200.00. Cha-CHING!
emily says
Joss me!
Luckiest home improvement moment: finding two gorgeous 100% wool 8×10 rugs for under $200 each, thank to multiple coupons and a floor model sale! Score!
Catherine says
Joss me!
My luckiest moment.. this may sound silly.. is when I found the most beautiful and unique piece of poplar wood with purple and green in the wood itself! It was the perfect thing for some “wood art” I was making!
Rachel D. says
JOSS ME!!
Courtney says
Joss me!
After giving up on finding a new home we decided to look at one more…and put in an offer on the first day it was on the market!
Amanda says
JOSS ME!
We found the perfect house on our first trip out but when we put in an offer the counter offers got too high for our price range. We walked away but luckily, a month later, the price of that house dropped $30,000 and we were able to scoop it up! Whoot!
Celia says
Joss me!
Randi says
JOSS ME!!!
Libby says
JOSS ME!
My luckiest moment was getting my current house. A friend’s husband mentioned a house he saw for sale in a neighborhood he’d been in that day for work, and it ended up being exactly what I wanted. I wasn’t looking for a house in that area of town (just b/c I didn’t know anything about it) and never would have known about it if it wasn’t for him!
The second part of the luck was when I gave my realtor the list of houses we were interested in and he crossed about half off the list b/c they were under contract. My favorite wasn’t crossed off the list b/c he couldn’t get a hold of the seller’s agent. We toured the house and I knew it was the one, and afterwards he finally heard back that the house was under contract. We knew how much we loved it so we held out hoping that we could get it anyway. The contract ended up falling through and we got the house (YEA!), but if he had been able to get a hold of the other real estate agent, he would have been told that it was under contract and we would have moved on.
All in all, it just felt like that house was meant to be ours! :)
Chyenne says
JOSS ME!!!!!!
My luckiest moment was marrying my hubby, that guy can fix, build, and design anything! <3
Shannon C. says
JOSS ME!
My luckiest home-improvement moment was having my parents and sister able to come help me install laminate floors. I would have hated to do that alone!
Karen says
JOSS ME!
Surprising things, yes. Lucky things – not so much!
Erin Gerlach says
JOSS ME!
nicole russell says
JOSS ME!
my luckiest house moment was picking great paint colors the first time i tried. they all worked out so well and we get compliments on them all the time. amazing!
Jenn says
JOSS ME!
my husband and i weren’t really looking to buy a house, but i occasionally checked redfin to see what was out there. i found a house online one day that had a wrap around porch and was right on the water near annapolis (we live in the DC area)…and it looked awesome. we drove by and the owner was outside so we chatted with him for a bit and eventually he invited us in. the next weekend we toured some comps, came back, and wrote an offer that afternoon. it’s been a lovely 11 months in our 71 year old cape cod on the water, even if it wasn’t planned- lucky us!
jessica hale says
My luckiest moment was finding $50 bill in an old jacket at the beginning of last winter.
JOSS ME.