We're starting up a newsletter for what we're calling the ZRecs Network, which will offer a recap of the best content of the month on all ZRecs sites, offers and discounts from ZRecs advertisers, and news about what we're up to. Every month we'll also be giving away a pretty awesome prize to a U.S.-based subscriber over the age of 18, drawn at random from our subscription list.
This month's prize is a Britax Frontier car seat and booster, which we reviewed (and loved) a little over a month ago. See the Z Recommends review of the Frontier to learn why we're so fond of this seat and of what Britax is doing generally in advancing car seat safety.
On September 1 we'll draw a winner at random and contact them via the email they signed up with. You can sign up for the ZRecs Network newsletter here. You'll be able to unsubscribe easily at any time, and will receive one email from us each month. And if you live in the U.S. and are 18 or older, you'll have a chance to win a great prize every month without lifting a finger!
If you are a ZRecs advertiser or have a product that has been reviewed on one of our blogs and would like to be a part of our newsletter, contact us at editors@zrecs.com.
Stay tuned for more exciting news about the ZRecs Network in the days to come!
Deadline: August 31, 2008, with monthly giveaways thereafter. You'll be entered into every giveaway as long as you're on the subscriber list.
Showing posts with label PRIZEY giveaways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PRIZEY giveaways. Show all posts
Introducing the ZRecs Network Newsletter, and big monthly prizes on tap
PRIZEY Mother's Day Mother-Child Giveaway
To celebrate Mother's Day, we're giving away a suite of products to celebrate both a mother and her infant child.
Here's the package:
- A full set of three Adiri Natural Nurser bottles (0-3 mo., 3-6 mo., and 6+ mo. stages) for convenient, state-of-the-art, BPA-free bottle-feeding or breastfeeding supplementation. ($38)
- A pair of Isabooties of the winner's choice of style and size for your toddler to toddle in. ($29)
- Two handmade recycled-paper notebooks for Mom to record special moments or random thoughts, in the winner's choices of available styles at the "standard" size, by Subu ($12)
- A cute "Bake Cupcakes Not War" canvas tote from the uber-hip kids' boutique The Silly Wagon ($25 [but on sale for $20!])
- Total value of the prize package: $104.
We'll draw one winner and three alternates and post them using PRIZEY.Fetch (which feeds announcements into the righthand column of PRIZEY) to notify the candidates, as well as via email if you wish to publish it here for all eternity. If the winner doesn't email us their mailing address by May 15, the prize will go to the first alternate who has done so, and to keep things fair we will not email alternates, just post them to Fetch!
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CST May 10, 2008
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Mini Mart note card set by m.writes
Prize: Mini Mart note card set by m. writes. Retail value: $10.
Site: Petit Elefant
Hoop: Comment on post with favorites from sponsor site.
Deadline: Midnight May 11, 2008
Link: Visit this giveaway.
A baker's dozen cookies by Divvies, shipped to your door
Divvies, a great source for allergy-safe and gourmet foods, has a great Mother's Day promotion going on now. All orders for anything at Divvies placed by May 11 come with a free package of a dozen + 1 delectable cookies, free of charge! To help spread the word about this steal of a deal, they have a giveaway on PRIZEY:
Prize: A baker's dozen cookies shipped to your door from Divvies (they'll surprise you with a flavor). Retail value: $10.
Hoop: Comment on this post with favorite item from the Divvies shop. (Moms, telling your partner you entered is not a bad way to drop a Mother's Day hint!) Include your email if you'd like to be notified, or check the sidebar on PRIZEY May 8 for a winner listing.
Deadline: 5:00 p.m. CST May 7, 2008
Rules: One entry per person. No purchase necessary to win. Continental U.S. residents only. The winner and three alternates will be posted; if the winner doesn't claim the prize by sending us their mailing address by May 11, the yumminess will be awarded to the first alternate who sent in their mailing address.
Want to promote your store or service on PRIZEY? Contact us at prizeyblog (at) gmail (dot) com.
Pucca 'Kung Fu Kisses' pop-anime DVD
Prize: Pucca Kung Fu Kisses DVD. Retail value: $13.
Site: Z Recommends
Hoop: Comment on post with your favorite way of stealing kisses from someone you love.
Deadline: 5 p.m. CST May 2, 2008
Link: Visit this giveaway
PRIZEY Giveway: ThinkBaby/ThinkSport BPA-Free Family Pack
PRIZEY's sponsors this week are ThinkBaby and ThinkSport, a pair of companies dedicated to providing safer, BPA-free drinkware for babies, kids, and adults.
ThinkBaby makes 5 oz. and 9 oz. plastic bottles and a 9 oz. trainer cup, with top portions that are interchangable between the same bottles to help parents save money and go easy on the environment. ThinkBaby received a Top Pick rating in the Z Report on BPA, and a positive review from our guest reviewer in ZRecs' BPA-free bottle showdown.
ThinkSport offers dual-walled, vacuum-sealed stainless-steel sports bottles - a 12 oz. silver bottle that is great for kids and 750 ml bottles in black or silver for adults.
ThinkBaby and ThinkSport are giving one lucky PRIZEY reader a family pack of four products from their complete line; if you win, you'll get to choose four elements from the following options:
- small (12 oz.) stainless steel sports bottle (valued at $18)
- large (750 ml) stainless steel sports bottle ($22)
- sippy cup ($9)
- 9 oz. or 5 oz. bottle (sold in pairs for $16.50 or $17, respectively)
To enter for a chance to win this prize and set your family up with BPA-free drinkware, just tell us who gets what: Comment on this post with which combination of products you'd select, and the age and first name or nickname of each family member you'd be getting them for. If you'd rather not have your email address sitting on this page until the end of time, just leave a unique nickname for yourself and check PRIZEY after the giveaway is over; we and a whole bunch of blogs we cover list all of our giveaway winners on PRIZEYWinners, which feeds announcements straight in to a list in the upper righthand side of PRIZEY, and where you can even check for your own name using a handy search box. If you do want us to contact you, leave your email address in your comment, because we won't follow links to user profiles or blogs to find one.
The deadline for entering this giveaway is 5 p.m. CST Apr. 29, 2008.
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PRIZEY Giveaway: "Howtoons" kids' DIY book
Prize: Howtoons book of DIY toys, science/tech projects, and other cool stuff for kids. Great for kids age 6-12 or so but also for parents looking for cool stuff to do with kids who are even younger. Ten winners. Reviewed on ZRecs. Retail value: $16.
The book's PR matter gives a good description:
Readers meet Tucker and Celine, a lovable brother and sister pair. Sick of watching TV and playing video games, Tucker and Celine decide to conquer every kid's nightmare: the dreaded summer o' boredom. Armed with countless ideas for fun projects, they set out to reclaim the sheer joy of playing. Fifteen practical, build-it-yourself projects are weaved into the Tucker and Celine storyline. With the narrators' help and clear step-by-step instructions, young readers will learn how to set up a workshop, create a marshmallow shooting gun, make ice cream without a freezer, play songs on a turkey baster flute, explore a homemade terrarium, launch a pressure - powered rocket, and more!Hoop: Visit the Howtoons site and comment on this post with a project you'd love to make.
Deadline: 5 p.m. PST Apr. 24, 2008
More rules:
- No purchase necessary.
- One entry per per person.
- U.S. entries only.
- Include your email address if you don't mind it remaining on this post indefinitely. We'll post the ten winners' name to PRIZEYWinners on April 25, along with the names of ten alternates, and contact the winner via email if they included an email address. All twenty of you should email us at the provided address with their mailing address as soon as they see the announcement. To win as an alternate, make sure you check PRIZEYWinners - we won't be emailing alternates.
- If any winners don't send us their mailing address by 5 p.m. CST Wednesday, April 30, their prize will be awarded to the first alternate in line that provided this information. If an alternate wins, the next "no-show" will go to the next alternate in line, and so on.
PRIZEY Sponsor & Giveaway: Green to Grow BPA-Free Baby Bottles
Green to Grow is an infant care products startup that produces BPA-free bottles that showcase environmentally-responsible packaging, award-worthy graphic design, and sound labor practices at their manufacturing facilities. The company received an "Excellent" rating in the Z Report on BPA, the highest category rating in ZRecs' scale, received one of the highest scores in a showdown of five BPA-free bottles in a ZRecs "Showdown" review by Naomi Shapiro, and even spearheaded an initiative to help consumers donate used bottles to mothers in need of assistance.
The company also sells delicious gift sets, and we're thrilled to be giving one of them away on their behalf. Feast your eyes on their gorgeous, all-inclusive Just Right package for the new mom in your life - maybe you!
The Just Right gift set features:
- Two 5 oz. and two 10-oz. bottles (regular neck or wide neck)
- Three packages of nipples, one each of beginner (slow flow, 0-3 months), intermediate (medium flow, 3-6 months), and expert (fast flow, 6+ months) stages
- One re-useful tote in choice of red or yellow
To enter to win Green to Grow's Just Right gift set, comment on this post with the name of an organization in your area that might appreciate these super-safe, super-cute bottles when you're done using them. If there's something special you have to share about this organization, feel free to do it in your comment, but all we need is an organization name for your entry to be valid.
That's all you need to do for a chance to win. Include your email if you want us to contact you directly if you win and don't mind that address being posted here until the end of time, or just check PRIZEYWinners after the giveaway ends to see if you've won.
If you'd like to take it a step further, get in touch with the organization you name here and see if they'd like to be added to Green to Grow's directory, so that other parents in your area can find them. If they confirm interest in receiving gently used bottles, head here to find out how to submit their contact info to Green to Grow's directory, and you've done a major good deed in your community.
Deadline: 5 p.m. CST Apr. 16, 2008
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PRIZEY's Great Isabooties Giveaway
Isabooties, makers of the machine-washable, non-leather, completely gorgeous soft-soled shoes for infants and toddlers, announced three completely new styles of shoes this week, and to celebrate they're sponsoring PRIZEY for a week and giving away ten pairs of Isabooties to PRIZEY readers. There are two ways to enter to win, and one of them comes with a killer bonus:
- Visit the Isabooties website and comment on this post with your favorite Isabooties style and/or series. Check PRIZEYWinners at the end of the giveaway to see if you've won, or leave an email address in your comment if you don't mind broadcasting it here in perpetuity.
- Fill out a one-minute survey about Isabooties for a second chance to win! Your email address will get you notified privately of your win by PRIZEY, but if you sign up for Isabooties' mailing list in the survey they will send you a coupon code for 20% off a purchase of their delectable shoes. At $29 a pair, that brings the price down to just over $23!
Deadline: Midnight CST Mar. 31, 2008
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Related:
- Learn how Isabooties did in a toe-to-toe washability test with Robeez on Z Recommends.
- Find out how your company can sponsor PRIZEY for maximum impact!
PRIZEY Giveaway: Bristol Cuckoo Clock
Prize: Bristol Cuckoo Clock from Moderndose.com in winner's choice of color. Retail value: $30.
To enter for a chance to win, comment on this post with your favorite time of day and why, and name one other item you'd love to have from the Moderndose shop. Both elements must be present to be eligible to win this prize!
Deadline: 5 p.m. CST Mar. 14, 2008
The winner will be posted to PRIZEYWinners; if you prefer email notification, leave an email address in your comment (we won't follow links to look for one).
PRIZEY Giveaway: Divvies "Smorg O'Sweets" Gift Basket
Prize: "Smorg O'Sweets" by Divvies, the gourmet peanut-free, tree nut-free, milk-free and egg-free bakery (as recently featured on The Martha Stewart Show), is a sweet sampling of ten cookies, two bags of Divvies flavored popcorns, blue rock candy and gourmet jelly beans. Five winners. Retail value: $38.
Hoop: Visit the Divvies website and comment on this post up to once per day with a different item from their store you'd love to give or receive.
Deadline: Midnight CST Feb. 27, 2008
Winners will be announced using PRIZEY.Fetch; just type your name into the "Did I Win?" search box at the top of PRIZEY the day after the giveaway closes to see if you've won this or any other recently entered PRIZEY.Fetch participating giveaways! If you prefer being contacted via email, just leave your email address with your comment (we don't follow comment links to look them up).
Two PRIZEY Giveaways: 5 Senses, 26 Letters
For our two pack of PRIZEY giveaways, comment once for each you'd like to enter. Winners will be announced on PRIZEYWinners; if you prefer to leave an email address, feel free, but it will be on this post until the end of time!
Prize: Taste My World and See My World Braincandy DVDs and a Bruce Brain Hand Puppet. Retail value: $43.
Site: PRIZEY
Hoop: Comment on this post with your favorite sense.
Deadline: 5:00 p.m. CST, Feb. 24, 2008
Prize: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Scholastic Video and Rock 'n Learn Alphabet DVDs. Retail value: $30.
Site: PRIZEY
Hoop: Comment on post with your favorite letter.
Deadline: 5:00 p.m. CST, Feb. 24, 2008
Later today: Two PRIZEY Giveaways
We know, we know, last week we were like, "10 giveaways!" and you were like, "Awesome!" and then we were like, "1" and "2" and "3" and "4" and "5" and "6" and "7" and you were like "Haikus!" and then yesterday we were like, silent, and now you're like, "Hey!"
We're polishing up the third edition of our Z Report on BPA in baby products, and it has kept us very busy. Expect that on ZRecs, and two PRIZEY Giveaways here, later today.
Three "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast" DVDs
Say hello to three "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast" DVDs: Rain Showers and Spring Flowers, Recipes for Trouble, and Somewhere In Nowhere Land. To enter for a chance to win this prize, comment on this post with a description of your child's imaginary friend, or one you had as a child. We'll accept entries until 5 p.m. CST Feb. 22, 2008. No need to leave an email address - just check PRIZEYWinners for your name next week, where you can find out if you won other PRIZEY.Fetch contributing blog giveaways as well!
One entry per person, U.S. entries only, please.
PRIZEY Imagekind Haiku Contest!
Today we're launching a giveaway for a $100 gift certificate to Imagekind, online purveyors of fine art prints and custom-framed photographs who just lauched their new StoryFrame service - multi-photo custom framing where you upload your own pics (or port them over from Flickr), edit, crop and compose your own sequence in a wide array of layouts and image counts, and get the end result framed up in style.
Your $100 gift certificate would get you the three-photo set shown here, complete with your choice from over a dozen frame options and mat colors, with plenty to spare for other photo goodies. The site also has a lot of art prints that would look great in your kid's room!
How to Enter: To enter for a chance to win this $100 gift certificate, comment on this post with a haiku about the person or people you'd love to feature in a StoryFrame - your family, your friends, your cat, famous people you will never meet. No need to dust off that poetry dictionary, all you need to remember for the haiku format is that the poem should be three lines long, with 5 syllables on the first line, 7 on the second, and 5 on the third. (We're ignoring the general dictum that haikus deal with nature and such.)
Here's an example:
You've seen that fat cat
Falling off the table, right?
My cat's funnier.
Falling off the table, right?
My cat's funnier.
Or how about this:
That eye roll you do
When I talk about my blog
Three pics, minimum.
When I talk about my blog
Three pics, minimum.
Got it? Good! You have until 5 p.m. CST Feb. 22, 2008 to submit up to three haikus on different topics. You can post them all in one comment or split them up. Just keep it clean or your poem might get deleted!
PRIZEY HQ will narrow the field to up to seventeen of our favorites, and a panel of judges drawn from our PRIZEY.Fetch partners will narrow that down to five finalists.
The five finalists' entries will be featured on PRIZEYWinners from February 25-29, where PRIZEY readers can vote for their favorite. The polls will close that Friday at 5 p.m. CST and will be announced on PRIZEYWinners.
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"Sam & Max: Freelance Police" DVD set
To round out Week 1 of ten PRIZEY giveaways, we're offering up a copy of the new Sam & Max: Freelance Police complete animated series on DVD. Based on Steve Purcell's popular underground comic, this three-DVD set includes all 24 episodes originally broadcast on FOX Kids and a ton of bonus features. The series isn't available for sale until March 11, with Amazon.com taking pre-orders and offering their price-drop guarantee.
Enter for a chance to win by commenting on this post and telling us how your weekend's going. No need to leave an email address - just check for your name next week in the "Did I Win?" search box at the top of the page and let PRIZEY.Fetch do the rest. We'll accept entries for this giveaway through 5 p.m. CST Feb. 17, 2008.
Stay tuned next week for five more PRIZEY giveaways, including:
- a Sansa Clip MP3 Player
- a $100 gift certificate to Imagekind for custom framing
- five Divvies gift baskets with ten cookies, flavored popcorns, blue rock candy and gourmet jelly beans
- and more!
PRIZEY Giveaway: Sleep Tight!
PRIZEY's ten days of giveaways continue with a fittingly late start this evening. Tonight we offer readers a three-step program for exhausted parents to help the kids crash early:
- Let child watch Peggy Rathmann's classic Goodnight, Gorilla on DVD while you fall asleep in your chair.
- Use the internet code on your new brown Russ Shining Stars bear to pair child's name with a star using the International Star Registry. Tell child what a cool parent you are while child hugs on bear.
- Drop Mae Robertson's amazing lullaby album Dream in the CD player to lull child to sleep.
PRIZEY Giveaway: Three Putumayo Kids' "Playground" CDs
Putumayo Kids, the youth culture arm of the amazing world music record label Putumayo, has an amazing series of kids' music CDs that have created, and then broken, the mold of world music for kids. We reviewed a few of their releases last year on Z Recommends, and their Animal Playground album made ZRecs' 2007 Gift Guide, but you could pretty much pick up any of them and thoroughly enjoy the music along with any children who were around. Many of them also come with great informational booklets or have free downloadable learning guides.
Putumayo Kids just released another album in this extremely popular series, this one called Hawaiian Playground, and we're giving it away, along with two other albums of your choice from the series, for today's PRIZEY giveaway.
To enter, visit the Putumayo Kids website and decide which two albums you'd like if you win this giveaway. Choose wisely, because those are the CDs you'll get, along with the new Hawaiian Playground CD!
When you've made your selection, comment on this post with the two you have picked, and tell us why you picked those particular CDs. You can submit an email address if you'd like, but there's no need - just check for your name sometime next week in the "Did I Win?" search box at the top of the page, where you'll find results from any concluded giveaways by blogs participating in the new PRIZEY.Fetch program. (As with any blog giveaway, you should use a unique name so we don't have duplicates.)
We'll accept entries through 5 p.m. CST Feb. 17, 2008.
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PRIZEY Giveaway: Little Capers Super Force!
Ever noticed how lone superheroes, or those with single, subservient sidekicks, are so popular with angst-ridden teenagers, while super folks designed for kid consumption always travel in groups? Okay, it's a loose generalization, don't start citing counter-examples at us! What we're trying to say is that kids who can have fun pretending to be superheroes can have even MORE fun pretending to be superheroes with their siblings, friends, or some random neighborhood kids they'll be friends with after you win a set of up to four Little Capers shirt-and-cape combos or infant onesies for super kids in your life!
That's right - you, the mild-mannered parental figure, can play a small role in the formation of a mighty Super Force! that can patrol your backyard or play group, wielding yet-unspecified and probably frequently changing superpowers in their constant struggle against something you will never quite get a handle on. Here's how to enter the sweepstakes:
- Jot down a rough list of possible inductees into your fledgling but mighty Super Force! Kids can be yours or not yours - get them for your kids' friends
- Visit the Little Capers website and select up to four outfits and likely sizes, pairing each with one of your potential Super Force! members
- Email that list (children's first names only, please) to us at prizeyblog (at) gmail (dot) com with "Little Capers Super Force!" in the subject line; include your full name, the list of members, the styles and sizes you'd pick for each of them (you'll have a chance to check or confirm sizes if you win), and an explanation of why you picked the styles you did for each child and/or the group
- Your Super Force! must have more than one member, but fewer than five. Do the super math!
- Your entry will only be valid if you provide a brief explanation of why you think each Super Force! member would be best suited up in the style you selected for them.
- U.S. addresses only, super peeps!
Blogger Bonus: An additional Little Capers shirt-and-cape or infant onesie will be given away to a blogger who posts about our Little Capers Super Force! Sweepstakes and links to both this post and to Little Capers. The post can discuss whatever you like surrounding the concept of "super" pretend play. You could post about:
- Your kid's imagined or real super power
- What trait you'd love to see your child possess in "super" quantities as they grow
- Your favorite superhero as a kid
- Whatever else you like! Just mention our giveaway to your readers and link to this giveaway post and to the sweepstakes' sponsor, Little Capers.
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