The College Money Network is teaming up and trying to help you celebrate the holiday season a little more frugally – with a giveaway!
This week is the Frugal Holiday Giveaway!
Just because your 401k is down and the markets are haywire,
doesn’t mean you have to skimp this season, it just means you might have to get a little creative with you’re giving. If you have any frugal holiday ideas (gifts, party plans, etc) let us know and you can earn chances to win some pretty awesome prizes.
Later in the week, we’ll be posting our own frugal holiday ideas – to help you spread cheer without emptying your wallets.
Prizes
- 2 GB iPod Shuffle
- $50 Photofiddle.com Gift Certificate
- $25 Amazon.com Gift Certificate
- One-year magazine subscriptions
- A copy of The Millionaire Next Door
How to Enter
There are multiple ways to earn entries into the CMN Frugal Holiday giveaway. Complete as many as you can to increase your chances of winning a prize! You may enter each way once.
- Leave a comment on this post about your frugal holiday ideas. (1 entry)
- Write a post on your own blog about your frugal holiday ideas and email us to let us know. (2 entries)
- Subscribe to our feed and email us the code word contained in the feed (1 entry)
- Visit other College Money Network member sites and the main CMN site for opportunities to earn additional entries, e.g. subscribing to individual RSS feeds. *NOTE: Copying and pasting your comment on multiple blogs will NOT count. (Maximum of 6 extra entries)
How To Win
All valid entries will be assigned a unique number. We will use a random number generator to select the winning numbers. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received.All entries must be received by December 15, 2008 at 11:59 PM PST.
Winners will be notified the following day. After all the prizes have been claimed, we will release an official announcement listing the winners.
Rules and Restrictions
- All winners must be 18 years of age or older and live in the United States.
- No purchase is necessary to participate in this giveaway.
- We will choose the winners from the qualified participants. We are the sole judges of adding entries to the list. Plagiarized content, trackback from splogs, spam, and comments containing abusive or inappropriate languages will not be considered.
- To award the prizes, we must be able to contact you. Please leave a valid email address with your comment, or make sure we can contact you through your web site. Your contact information will not be shared with anyone else.
- For certain prizes, winners will be required to submit a physical address to ship the prize. Again, your contact information will never be shared with anyone.
- Prizes are provided as-is, and substitutions may be made at our discretion.
- Winners must reply within 1 week from the time we notify them to claim their prize. Otherwise, they forfeit their prize, and it will be awarded to an alternate.
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Coupons and rebates! I love ebates.com. Always nice to get a little bit back.
Frugal Idea #1 Synthetic tree
Frugal Idea #2: Starbucks Gift cards for a total of $100.00 at Costco for 79.99. That's saving 20% on coffee. They have gift cards to restaurants and movies too.
Lots of people are wanting to cut back this year. We talked with many people who we usually exchange with and just aren't doing it this year. We'll get together and visit, but without a gift swap.
I also have many things around the house that I'm hoping someone else will want to give as a gift (all in new or like-new condition) that I have or will be posting on craigslist.
I read this before the holidays and thought about how to succeed in it as I tend to overspend yearly for the sake of looking, if not just being, generous. My family normally categorizes me as some kind of great gifter, so there's alot of pressure. So, last night at the family get together, I literally gave away things I had been hording over the years (added bonus – cleaning out the clutter) and several people seemed genuinely pleased with the gifts.
I even waited until most of the other gifts were opened, using recently-discarded wrapping, so the only part that cost money was sandwich bags to hold the folded scarves.
Total cost of 7 presents (not counting the original purchase): 10 cents!