The College Money Network is helping you celebrate the holiday season with a giveaway! With the economy in a recession, many of us are cutting back on our holiday spending this year, but we still want to have just as much fun. Share your frugal holiday ideas (frugal gifts, frugal party plans, etc.) and earn chances to win one of the awesome prizes we’re giving away just in time for the holidays. Later in the week, we’ll be posting a series of valuable articles, sharing our own frugal holiday ideas, to help you spread cheer without emptying your wallets this holiday season.
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 with 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)
- Mention the CMN network and include a link to this post on one of your favorite sites (e.g. comment on a blog, post in a forum, etc.). Email us with a link to where you mentioned it, so we can confirm the entry. (2 entries)
- Subscribe to the College Money Network group feed. (1 entry)
- Visit individual College Money Network member sites for opportunities to earn additional entries, e.g. subscribing to individual RSS feeds. 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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mbhunter 12.08.08 at 10:24 pm
My wife made cinnamon dough ornaments this year. She found some recipes over at Hand Made Country (link), tried a few of them, and found that Recipe #2 worked pretty well. All that’s needed is one cup of cinnamon, one cup of applesauce, and one tablespoon of white glue.
FFB 12.10.08 at 7:01 pm
A great idea is to take some photos and build a montage and frame from scratch. It’s relativle inexpensive and it shows personalization to the person you’re giving it to!
Eric 12.10.08 at 9:51 pm
Instead of spending money on a gift, offer to do some kind of favor you’ll know they’ll enjoy. That way it shows some thought and doesn’t have to break the budget.
ryan 12.11.08 at 8:45 am
instead of gifts, my girl and i are exchanging favors. each gets to request the other does something around the house or whatnot that they really dont want to do themselves, we keep everything even.
then i get things done because i owe it to her, and things get done i dont want to do. it works out good.