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  Things That Must Go: $20 Donated to NieNie in your name

  09.12.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I’m sure you’ve heard of Stephanie and Christian Nielson’s accident and the blogging community’s efforts on their behalf. I confess I feel stupid talking about someone I don’t know. Even if she is Mormon, and a blogger, and probably (hopefully) hopped up on enough good drugs that even if she heard I was trying to [...]

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  TTMG: iTunes giveaway and a novel winner

  08.09.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  So, I was right: people want underwear more than books. Though some mothers don’t have time to read, not one person said they didn’t need new underwear because their kids keep them too busy to shower. I’m not sure what this means besides grooming being a bigger priority than reading, but I do think John [...]

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  Things That Must Go: Nora Roberts/Joan Wickersham Giveaway

  08.02.08 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  Hey! Glad to see you back here for Things That Must Go. Somehow I think nothing will ever compare to the great underwear giveaway of 2008, but that’s okay. I have a couple of things I need to get off my chest (no, not those things, though frankly I didn’t like them even before they [...]

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  Things That Must Go: In Support of Democracy and Progress, and the Land of the Free Giveaway!

  07.31.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Wow. Remind me not to hook up to the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival next quarter. Unless a few more of you fine giveaway hoppers actually subscribe to my feed (or by email), and agree to bear a fourth child for me. Because there were 661 entries, I decided to do a poll and let you pick [...]

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  In which we will never use any baking powder except Rollings Reliable: a GIVEAWAY

  06.20.08 | Permalink | 23 Comments

  I got excited when a certain diaper company asked if I wanted to do a giveaway of a “pack of Luvs diapers featuring Bear Hug Stretch and a DVD of Anita Renfroe – a $30 value,” even after I read that the (obviously jaded) Mom-101 wasn’t over-impressed by the pitch. What can I say? I [...]