Sign up for the MoneyCrashers' New Year Bash contest, if you haven't already! They're giving away tons of stuff, including cash, gift cards, and financial books and services. Contest ends on 1/31.
The Bibliophilic Book Blog is giving away an eReader of your choice! A Nook, a Kindle, a Sony Touch, or a Sony Pocket. Go here for details and instructions on how to enter.
She is also looking for romance book donations for her "Battle" collection. These books will be donated to romance readers fighting abroad. She is specifically looking for romance books, YA books, UF books, goodies, blank journals, ereaders, and cash to buy/ship books from booksellers and buy ereaders for soldiers. You can get 20 extra entries for doing this, and it's a good cause!
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IMPORTANT EDIT: the contest for the Signature Items has been EXTENDED for an extra week until February 6! So if you still want to donate/enter for those (including the J.K. Rowling signed Harry Potter series, the Neil Gaiman book, etc.), you still have a chance!
They've also raised over $66,000 so far, wow. :-)
I've been tweeting about this, but it just occurred to me that I never made a blog post about it. Whoops! Let me rectify that.
The HP Alliance (Harry Potter Alliance) is holding a fundraiser called "Helping Haiti Heal." They are taking donations/contest entries until January 30th February 6th (for signature items) at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard time.
Information here: http://thehpalliance.org/haiti/
Here's how it works: you go to this page and pick out a prize (or prizes) you'd like to win. For a chance to win that prize, you donate the amount indicated for Haiti via Paypal with the button below that prize. Each donation counts as one entry. YOU ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO WIN THAT PRIZE; the donation just gives you a CHANCE to win it.
So if you do this, do this mainly to help Haiti, and as a bonus you can win some cool stuff.
A lot of these prizes have been donated by the respective authors/publishing companies/creators/etc.
Currently up for a chance to win:
Because I feel like posting a happy vid after a hard day's work - Gemini.
sung by Kagamine Rin and Len (vocaloid), and drawn/animated by Glider. English lyrics by motokokusanagi2009 + lxw. Not entirely sure who wrote the song, but they're awesome, too. If you click through to the Youtube page, the poster has a downloadable version of the video in the sidebar.
This song also has a pretty darn good English version, sung by rockleetist. (No pretty animation for that one, though.)
More giveaways I've been entering! I'm going to do a flurry of quick links, with some pictures of what you can win.
Contests already blogged about separately won't be in this post; check my "contest" tag for those. I may add more contests to this post in the near future, so keep checking back!
| The Funky Monkey is giving away a Valentine's Basket of goodies by Deirdre Wood. Mmm! |  |
NetworkingWitches is giving away a surprise box of goodies from Illinois Nut & Candy. |  |
Win a YA book from Reversing the Monotony. A bunch of good books to choose from. |  |
A Kidorable giveaway from Sweeps4Bloggers.net OR from thatsITmommy - TWO CHANCES to win an cute kids' umbrella! |  |
| Win incredibly cute Ouchies bandages from Jaebaumfangirl. |  |
| Win a $25 GC for Build-A-Bear from The Mommy Reviews. |  |
| Win an EasyLuchbox System from Thrify Jinxy. |  |
| Win a SockGram for a special person from thatsITmommy |  |
Moneycrashers' is having a New Year Bash! They are giving away many, many financial books and services, as well as cash and gift certificates. | |
I've found four contests to win a SodaStream from SodaStream:
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Notes from the Homestead has an awesome contest going on right now. They're not only giving away some cute Valentine's Day stuff, but for everyone who enters, they will donate $1 to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for Haiti! So click on the picture below, and go enter! But quickly - they announce the winner tomorrow, so you don't have much time. :-)
I followed Kidorable on twitter as a result of this contest on Sweeps4Bloggers (go enter! you have until 1/30!) and they were nice enough to send me a direct message with a coupon for a free umbrella with a $20 purchase!
If you're thinking of buying items from there anyway (and they have some really cute stuff - check out the raincoats, and the umbrellas, and the gloves), this could something to try.
DISCLAIMER: I have no idea if they're doing this for everyone, or if it's just random. YMMV.
How to play:
Another last chance - head over to Sweeps4Bloggers for a chance to win a copy of Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. Ends today!
And for another last-minute contest entry - my favorite cold winter soup is French Onion soup with french bread in it and swiss and parmesan cheese melted over the top. I use Progresso soup for this; it's pretty easy to make and so good. :-) Here's the contest I'm entering, which ends today. (I'll win those Progresso mugs yet!)
Quick, run - you still have time to win a "Firefly" iPod boombox. Ends today!
This Katsudon recipe kit looks so tasty that I must blog about it.
I'm posting them here so I don't flake out. Super late, but I just created this blog a bit ago, so.
Quick contest entry! Your View Electronics is giving away a 42" LCD TV. To enter, they'd like people to tell them why they want the TV.
I'd love to get an LCD TV like that for my parents. They do already have a 30+ inch, but are unhappy with the quality of the TV they bought. (They bought a bargain which ended up not being so much of one.) So I'd love for them to be happy with their TV again.
(I don't watch much TV myself, so it'd go to them for sure.)
YouReviewElectronics.com LCD TV reviews
Here are two sites I've been visiting a lot for the last couple of months.
I thought this video was pretty amazing (though sad).
And something on a more cheerful note:
These are the coupons and deals sites that I visit/browse on a regular basis:
 | RetailMeNot.com is a very good coupon site. I check it first whenever I plan to make a purchase online, and some of the coupons have been invaluable. The only thing I don't like is that merchants have the ability to block submissions, so sometimes I end up doing an extra web search for coupons anyway. (Hint: merchants, blocking your submissions on RetailMeNot doesn't stop us bargain-seekers from finding coupons. It just takes a bit more effort.) |
 | Fatwallet is a pretty popular deal site, with a bustling Hot Deals forum. They also have a very, very useful cashback program, where you can get cash back from shopping on the web. Not much, but it adds up over time...I've gotten about $170 back since joining the site five years ago. They post contests in their Hot Deals forum from time to time, too. I actually won a $100 certificate to Sierra Trading Post that way once. |
 | Slickdeals.net is another well-known deal site. No cashback program, but the forums are equally busy and useful, and they're (IMHO) slightly better organized than Fatwallet. I check the main page quite often for the best deals, or to look for up-and-coming deals on the sidebar. |
 | Bing is ostensibly a search engine (IMHO, not as good a one as google), but I don't use it for that purpose. I use it for the awesome cashback program. Like Fatwallet.com, they give you a cashback rebate if you go through their links when purchasing an item online. Cons: coupons can and do void all cashback. Pros: their cashback percent is often much higher than Fatwallet's. Around holidays, they've often got cashback for popular stores like Walmart.com and BestBuy.com that are in the 20% range. For more info on how to best take advantage of their cashback program, please see this post on SlickDeals.net. |
 | Just found this site a few months ago, and it fills a gap not filled by the other sites to quite the same degree - it tackles grocery and drug store deals and coupons. Slickdeals.net also has a grocery forum, but it's difficult for me to make heads or tails of everything there. Money Saving Mom breaks everything down into easily digestible bits. They also post links to the best printable grocery coupons, which I find useful. |
 | I have two cute and furry cats, so this is my favorite click-to-donate site. Click on a daily basis to donate food. |
While you're at the Animal Rescue site, don't forget to click through the other sites. Fight world hunger and breast cancer, help with child literacy and health, and save the rainforests.     | |
  Answer trivia to donate kibble! Whether or not you get the answer correct, they'll still donate the kibble. And it's fun. :-) |
This is a pretty old secret, but if you're into manga, it's something that's good to know.
Bookcloseouts.com has a bunch of manga for $4 each. Well, some are a little more and some a little less, but mostly $4 each. They are mostly Tokyopop, but there's some Del Rey and Viz also mixed in there.
Please note: all of these are remainder books, and they usually have a black marker swish on the top and bottom.
Shipping costs vary by weight, but are pretty reasonable. They do tack on a $1 handling charge, though.
To help minimize the shipping costs, check out RetailMeNot's coupons for Bookcloseouts. They've almost always got a $5 off $35 purchase coupon.
Reposting this from my old blog, since I think it's important.
I've been a fan of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (the movie and the book) for a very long time. Recently, I stumbled across the info that Peter Beagle receives ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from any sales of the movie DVDs from anywhere other than the Conlan Press website. The companies involved pay Peter no royalties at all!
Quote from the site:
"In the meantime, back in February 2007 something VERY IMPORTANT happened — Lionsgate Entertainment released a special 25th Anniversary DVD of THE LAST UNICORN. This new edition is a huge improvement over the old one. It is digitally remastered so it looks great and has 5.1 audio, it is widescreen instead of fullscreen, it has much better packaging, and it comes with special features, including a video interview with Peter. Best of all, Lionsgate has agreed to let us sell copies of the DVD through Conlan Press, and more than half of each sale will go straight to Peter and his projects. If you plan on buying this DVD, please buy it here — because Peter will get nothing from copies sold through any other outlet."
Here's a direct link to where you can buy the DVD. You can even get it signed by the author for $10 extra.
There are also lots of other goodies on the Conlan Press site - they're selling copies of Peter's books (all of which you can also get signed), a new book (We Never Talk About My Brother - a collection of short stories), beautiful art prints, and a subscription to Peter's new 52/50 project. Peter himself gets a sizable portion of the profits from each sale.
I am not at all affiliated with Peter Beagle or the Conlan Press site; just a fan trying to spread the word.
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