THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED
We’re so excited to be doing our very first Babies & Kids Blog giveaway, and the timing couldn’t be better!
It’s still early, but, before we know it, we’ll be getting ready to send holiday greeting cards and party invitations to our family and friends. So, just in time for the holidays, we’re giving away $50 to Paper Culture, so you can send your holiday love and greetings in style! And because it will be the season of giving, as part of the giveaway, we’re also giving away another $50 to Paper Culture for you to give to a friend!
With every order of their 100% post-consumer recycled paper products, Paper Culture plants a tree in your honor — talk about giving back to the planet! And with a great selection of beautiful holiday cards, party invitations, birth announcements and stationery, you’re sure to find the perfect greeting cards for the upcoming holiday season.
So to celebrate the holidays, we’re giving away a $50 voucher to Paper Culture, plus another $50 voucher for one of your friends!**
Want it? Here’s how to enter:
1. Become a fan of Smarter on Facebook AND
2. Answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post: What’s your favorite way to plan for the holidays?
(Make sure that you do both)
Everyone who comments will be placed into a random drawing, and we will select one winner. The contest will end on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST. We will contact you by email to let you know whether you’ve won.
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Read the Rules Here:
*Participants must be at least 18 years of age
*To win, you must be a legal resident of the United States
*This offer is void in New York and Florida and wherever prohibited, and is subject to federal, state, and local laws
*One entry per person. Entries that appear to be duplicates will not be valid.
*No purchase necessary
*Visit official rules page for alternate means of entry
** Each $50 Paper Culture voucher expires November 15, 2011
Good luck, and have fun! Thanks for your entry.
Last Updated: 10/11/ 2011
About Belinda
I am a fan on facebook and my favorite way to plan for the holidays is to get together with my mom over good food at a cute local eatery and talk cookies, menus, gifts, crafts, and parties. It doesn’t seem so overwhelming when I’m with someone who is fun and who also enjoys planning like I do!
Hmm… I like planning for the holidays by shopping early!! It helps me plan because I can spend less time focusing on buying gifts as the holidays approach so I have more time to get things together for the season.
Wow!!! Such an amazing giveaway!!!!
My favorite way to plan for holiday is listing it all ideas on papers
I also followed Smarter on fb under Kaylie Nguyen
What’s your favorite way to plan for the holidays?
Spend time with family I dont see too often
I became a fan of Smarter on Facebook
What a fun and generous giveaway this is! My favorite way to plan for the holidays is actually in terms of what activities I can do with my little ones. They are 3, 3, and 1. The older two aren’t twins–they’re only 11 months apart! I love to think of holiday-themed art and baking projects for us. Today we made “ghosts” using their footprints, and tomorrow we are making Halloween cupcakes and decorating our house with paper cutouts. So fun to see them enjoy these things!
I am a fan on Facebook
I like to plan for the holidays all year round by collecting Christmas presents as I see them!
Liked on facebook and I like tend to unplan the holiday season. I don’t get to worried about details I just go with the flow and enjoy it as it comes and goes instead of stressing through it.
I just liked on Facebook! I would be lost without a list. I don’t do much planning/shopping before Thanksgiving, so after that, time flies by! If I didn’t have constant reminders of what I need to do by when tacked up somewhere staring me in the face each day, I wouldn’t be done until after New Year’s!
paper is the best
all the ladies in my family get together every year for a holiday cookie baking/candy making day!
I liked you on Facebook. My favorite way to plan for the holidays is to brainstorm gift ideas while decorating the house and tree. Then we shop online to avoid the crowds!
I am a fan on facebook. How I plan for the holidays is as another lady said I collect presents all year round as they come. So I don’t have to shop for everyone at the last minute.
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“like” on FB & making lists about a month ahead of time is key. I am a list maker, holidays get hecktic but not at my household. My mom also has great ideas for reducing stress
I love to start planning at least a month in advance. Themed parties are one of my favorite things to throw. For now I’m worried about Halloween.
Read lots of magazines/websites for pretty ideas and cute decorating, then do them with my kids!
I’m a fan on facebook and….
My favorite way to plan for the holidays is to start with candles
Pumpkin and Brown Sugar right now!
I am a fb fan of smarter (sara amos) and I like to get ready for the holidays by planning special surprises for each member of the family, and finding ways to spend time together
i start buying christmas presents in september!
Gorgeous stuff. That is all that can be said.
i am a fb fan of smarter and i like to get ready for the holidays by taking some time to reflect on past holidays. We like to take the things we enjoyed as kids and include them for our children to enjoy now…all the old school holiday specials, making cookies, making gifts, singing carols.
I’m a fan on the fb, and my favorite way to plan for the holidays is contacting friends and family in advance to make sure I get to spend time with all my loved ones!
Great giveaway! I’m a fan on facebook (Marguerite Hulett), and my favorite way to get ready for the holidays is making (whether they be baking, sewing, or knitting) my friends and family’s presents while listening to my favorite holiday music!
-Marguerite
margueritescoupons@gmail.com
I’m a facebook fan! I love decorating cookies with my girls and going over their Christmas lists. I LOVE the holidays, and it’s so important that my daughters enjoy it as much as I do!
I liked on facebook. My wife and I plan for Christmas by shopping early and watching for gifts that are meaningful and thoughtful. Our kids want everything so we try to take note of things that they would really want.
I like to start planning for the Holidays by cleaning my house top to bottom so before guests start arriving I don’t have to clean so much!
I am a facebook fan and my favorite way to plan is to plan ahead so I can relax during the holidays and not stress about whats not done yet.
I get ready by shopping SUPER early! My whole family starts Christmas shopping as soon as possible. If we find the perfect present the day after Christmas, we toss it in the closet for next year!
fb fan tony l smoaks
my favorite way to plan for the holidays is year round, i get started as soon as the holidays are over and then i don’t have to rush at all, everything can be done slowly and with a lot of thought but very little effort
Like on FB Heather Mahan
My favorite way to plan is just to decorate! I love seeing all the decorations come together!
FB fan of Smarter and my favorite way of preparing for the holidays is to shop all year long. I have a pretty great Christmas stash already this year and have very little left to buy!
definitely by shopping early!… this includes buying supplies the year before (when it goes on sale!)
I like to start early. I also like to shop for holiday-themed items AFTER the holiday at deep discounts and use for the following years.
the christmas card is the first thing to do when I start early-I love to shop the sales after the holidays.