Oh, I know what you’re thinking. “That Mir,” you’re thinking. “She keeps talking about her amazing new swimsuit from Lands’ End, but what does she know? She’s probably skinny. And not very picky.” Well, I want to tell you a few important pieces of background information to explain my love for my new Carmela Slendersuit:
1) I am incredibly picky about almost everything, but particularly so about clothing. If it doesn’t fit right, I’m not interested.
2) I used to be skinny. Then I had a couple of kids. And, um, some gravity. Ahem. Now I am average-sized but still missing my skinnier/more toned body of yore.
And then I got this swimsuit. And it’s comfortable. And it looks nice. And it holds in where I need holding in and… well… holds up where I need holding up. I can actually swim laps in it (comfortably) and sit around the pool without the urge to wrap myself head to toe in a towel. I do, indeed, love my swimsuit. And I want to share the love.
Lands’ End was kind enough to send me my swimsuit for testing (and it took me days to decide which one to choose, but I’m very happy with my choice!), and now that I’m giving it a big ol’ thumbs up, they want one lucky Want Not reader to have the same opportunity. They’re offering a $100 gift card to the winner of this contest! No, you don’t have to spend it on a swimsuit, but if you did, I swear you wouldn’t regret it.
Anyway. Want to win the gift card? First go read the contest rules and regulations, then come back here and leave a comment on this post by 11:59 p.m. Eastern (8:59 Pacific) on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 to be entered. I’ll use my handy dandy random number generator to select a winner, and then I can share the Slendersuit love more fully.
Ready? Go!
Oooh! Comment comment comment! That swimsuit is beautiful looking – I still don’t think it could make my ass go back to where it’s supposed to be, or my stomach, but then again I do believe in unicorns, so maybe…
Please Please……..I would love this swimsuits….
This may be my only hope for getting into a suit this year.
AHHHH! Pick me! I’m tired of the river kayaking outfit I usually wear as a swimsuit!
Need new suit! And I’m a dedicated, rabid fan of Land’s End!
Pick me!
I LOVE these swimsuits and need a new one! (Land’s End takes care of us long-torsoed women!)
I need a nice to to suck all the leftover baby fat! Thanks for the nice contest!
I so need a GOOD suit!
I’m all for holding it in and holding it up! and I could really use a new swimsuit – it’s been awhile.
I can’t pass this one up– sign me up!
After baby #2, I need all the help I can get…pick me number generator!!!
Just had baby #1 and could really use this!
Fingers crossed again! They’re going to get stuck this way, I swear.
There are so many reasons why I need a suit like this! Please pick me!
Sounds great to me! Count me in for the contest. Thanks!
omg, I could soooo use a new swimsuit! Thanks, Mir!!
That’s awesome! I saved your last post about it, because I need a swimsuit…but haven’t made the time to shop for it. I haven’t gotten a new one in…wait……I’m old.
would love to get a new swimsuit to hold me in after this baby is born!
Count me in!
Oh this will be lovely… please random number generator, pick me!
hope you pick me!
So, if I get this swimsuit am I absolved from losing the last 10 pounds of baby-now-toddler fat? Puhleeeze?
I miss my old body…er young body. Count me in.
Me me me! I would use it to buy stuff for me and NOT MY KID, which almost never happens.
I need a suit that goes to me knees! I love Lands End!!
I need a good swimsuit sooo bad! Hope I win!
Great give-a-way!
Ohh – I just wore a suit I that is 2 sizes too big on vacation because it’s what I had and I didn’t have the $$ for a new one. This would come in handy for the summer!
Pick me pick me!!!
Its getting hot here and I neeeeeeed new suits!
Please!
oh man, I totally need a new swim suit. pick me please!
I need a new swim suit!
Wow – I’m a huge Land’s End fan, and that would be fantastic!
Cool! Thanks, Mir!
Thanks for such a great contest. I hope it’s me.
LOVE THIS SUIT!!
Mama needs a new swimsuit!!!!
Oh lovely Slendersuit, come to me!
i definitely need one of those!
Me!
All in on this one!! Thanks Mir.
Oh, how I need a new swimsuit. Also, hello from another GA girl!
-Lyndsey
oh! so much love for the lands’ end suits!!!
I haven’t bought a new swim suit since I’ve had kids – maybe this will motivate me to try one on! Thanks for the chance!
I totally need a new swimsuit top! Would love to win
Trip to the beach + 16 days of swim lessons + 2 suits I bought last year at Walmart and have pretty much had it = I WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS CONTEST!
Haven’t been in a swimsuit for years and I’m only 34!!!!
GREAT giveaway!!! I would love a new suit!
This would be puuuuuuuuurfect for me.
Free swimsuit? The chance to get one without the humbling/humiliating experience of trying it on at a store? Sign me up!
Lands’ End suits are the only ones I buy. They are fantastic and I could really use a new one.
yee-haw! thanks for a great contest!
Oooohh. I need a nice new suit, and some shorts, and few shirts too. Perhaps I need a little more than $100 would buy, but it would be a nice start!
I haven’t had a new swimsuit in years!! And I soooooo need something to hold in and lift. I would love to win this one.
pick me! *Fingers crossed*
Could always use another swim suit and Lands’ End are my faves!!!!!!!!…just like you, Mir!
I love your rave review! Sign me up, pretty please!
I pink puffy heart lands end…and you Mir!
I NEEEEEED new summer swim wear!
Pretty PRETTY please!?
Pick me please!!!
oh I do love my Lands End suits! time for a new one this year . . .!!!
You are so pretty! And I love Land’s End!
Thanks again!
whoo-hoo! thanks!
A great contest to go with the great weather!! Pick me…would love a new suit (and desperately need a new one!)
I’ve always wanted an excuse to shop at Land’s End and maybe an opportunity to wear a swimsuit that doesn’t have a skirt on it, lol
I am so in, thank you
omg, omg, omg…pick me!
Yay! I love Lands End!
oh, oh!!! Pick me, pick me!
It would be great to have a new suit that would help hide what three c-sections have done. I might actually be able to get rid of the baggy t-shirt used as a cover-up. Thanks!
Oh, Slenderize me, Mir!
I REALLY need a suit that fits! Pretty Please!!!!
I’m having my third baby Thursday and would love a new suit for summer!!!
I really hope I will this one.
Ooh, I have one slendersuit, but another wouldn’t be resented…
This would be perfect for summer vacation to the beach!
oh man, do I ever need a suit that holds in and up!
I could really use this. Pick me!
They are just about to open our pool for the season so this really would come in handy now for a new swimsuit!
After baby number 2, I could definitely use this!
Wow could I use a swimsuit to keep everything in place!
I keep browsing at Land’s End for a new suit. With a gift card, I’d quit browsing and actually PURCHASE!!
This would great to win. I need a new bathing suit for my trip to San Diego.
Oh, I’ve never had a swimsuit that I’ve loved. Maybe this will be my lucky day!
I desperately need a new suit! Please…..
We are heading to Florida next week, and although this wouldn’t be in time for that, it would be great once pool season starts here at home!
Sign me up! Thanks Mir!
Oh this would be nice! Please sign me up!
I heart land’s end! Pick me, oh random number generator!
I currently have two (2 piece) swim suits for swimming laps. On one the top is so big it gaps open. On the other, the bottom is so big it almost shows my hysterectomy scar. I would love a new one that fits right!
Oh sign me up! Just had a baby six months ago and though I’ve lost all of the weight, it’s not in the same place…
PLEASE!!!!!
Hoo boy, this is a good one!
Since I have gained back most of the weight I lost, I could use a new one this summer while I try to whittle it back off.
Please pick me! please. really. please.
Can I pick a new body along with it? Or just the one I had ten years ago?
Oh, wow. A comfortable, flattering swimsuit – I’m not sure I could possibly believe it’s true! But I’m more than willing to try
okay, i think jess, who bragged that she’s lost all her weight from her 6-month-old, should be automatically disqualified. anyway, throw MY name in the hat. i have 5 children and still 10 lbs extra from each
I could use a good swimsuit! I’m discovering the unfortunate reality that even though I’m back to my pre-baby weight, things just aren’t the same…
would love something I would be comfortable swimming in, too much tugging in my pool days.
woo hoo!
ooh me
I just bought a slendersuit from Land’s End, with the last discounts you posted. I LOVE IT. (Sorry about the shouting.) Swimming lessons with the kids are going to be so much less painful than last year, with my 12-year-old swimsuit (also from Land’s End, though!) and all.
But I wouldn’t say no to a $100 gift card, you know…
Thank you! I really need a new bathing suit!
Yes, please!
I was just looking at the catalog today, thinking how nice it would be to have a new suit for our upcoming beach vacation (first one post twins). But then I balked at the price tag. This would be amazing!
I would love to win a new lying-around suit! (I don’t swim therefore cannot technically say I need a new swimsuit, but a lying-around suit???) Yes, please!
Yeah, baby. $100 from Landsend is always wonderful.
Yeah!! I could USE this!
Pick me, please!
Me me!! Please!
Totally crossing my fingers.
This is a great giveaway! I already know what I will buy
I never win, please pick me!
Ooh, love Lands End! Pick me!
Please please
what a great contest! I’m excited and soooo ready to win this one!!
I would loooovvvvveeee this!!! Thanks!!
holding in and lifting aren’t all I need – do they have a knee-length suit? I’d still love to win.
Please random number generator pick me
I love Land’s End. Please count me in.
Haven’t been in a swimsuit in years…. This could be the ticket!
Hey, look! My comment number is my goal weight! Must be a good omen…
Ok, there’s not much a magical swimsuit can do for my thighs, but my saggy butt and tummy would be much improved by such a thing. Pick me!
I soooo need a swim suite! Pick me!
This is the best prize ever… now if you just pick me to WIN!!
We love Lands End! And would love this gift card!!
Hooray for Land’s End!!!!
I would love to win the gift card!
this would be my only hope at a new swimsuit this year!
Love Lands End and I really need a new suit but it’s not in the budget.
I hope, with every bone in my body, that I’m a winner this time
Oh, I would LOVE To win this gift card. I didn’t even USED to be skinny, and I don’t like myself in any swimsuit, but it might be less painful in a Land’s End suit.
I’ll give it a shot, but am not too hopeful!
I’ll try!
I’d love a new suit!
I went crazy on swimsuits when Figleaves had their 90% off sale, and I swear, I feel sexier just knowing I’m wearing a $100 bikini that cost me $10. But I’d love to get some cash for Land’s End to blow on swim shirts and new shoes for the boy.
Would love to have a new Lands End suit after having 3 children!!
don’t know that i’d get a swimsuit, but ya never know! Be kind random number generator.
These look awesome! I would love one.
I could REALLY use a new swimsuit. Please oh please pretty random number generator – pick me!!
My wardrobe could use all the help it can get.
Just bought my daughter a couple suits from Land’s End. Would be nice to have one of my own.
ooh, please.
After 3 kids I REALLY need a new swimsuit!
Ooh! Sign me up–I love Land’s End, and already own three of their swimsuits, but none of the slenderizing ones. That might be a nice addition….!
pick me please!
This is definitely something I can use.
Please pick me- I have a vacation coming up in 20 days and I need new swim clothes Now
Ooooo a new bathing suit would be just fine!
I am so glad you try it before we buy it…..
I really need something to hold it all together – please pick me!
Awesome! I would so get another Lands End suit I love the one I have.
hope I get lucky!
This would make a happpy me!!
I haven’t had a new swimsuit in years…I would love one!
oooooooooh, yes please! Pick me, pick me!
I would LOVE a new swimsuit. my pool is green with frogs swimming in it, and a new suit would give me the motivation to clean the pool!!! Ok, not really, but i would motivate my husband to clean the pool.
Oh, I would love a new suit, especially a nice one from Land’s End!
Why, oh why, are swimsuits so expensive? I’d love a chance for a new one!
Really need a good swimsuit. Not that anyone will see me in it!
I would love to get a new swimsuit since I just had baby #2 3 weeks ago and I think my body needs some support this summer.
Count me in!
I need a new swimsuit this year. I was dreading it, but I’m going to have to check out this slendersuit…
Oh, pick me!
I need a new suit!
Please please please! That is all I have to say wonderful Mir!
I just ordered one of their tankinis, using that clever little “traits you hate” (my words, not theirs) calculator and it is awesome. No seriously awesome. Would love to win and get another suit b/c I actually feel good in my suit now! woo-hoo.
OOooohhh!!! Pick me!
Random number generator: pick me please!
please pick me!
I sooooo need a new swimsuit!
isn’t having a baby fun? me too
Oh. My. Goodness. An answer to the annual swimsuit agonizer. I need holding in, holding up, you name it.
I need a nice looking suit…I too miss my much skinnier & more-toned days!
Me pretty please!
Damn kids, always screwing up my figure.
Does this gift card come with a cabana boy?
Me please! I NEED that suit
I love Land End’s swimsuits – one of the only companies that makes suits in my cup size that aren’t – ugly or an XXXXL!
This is so weird because i have been looking at swimsuits at Lands End soooo pick me!!!!
I need that suit!!
Yes please! Lands End swimsuits are the best!
I desperately need a good bathing suit!
pick me! please!
I’m working toward a bikini body, but this would do wonders for my confidence in the meantime.
I just got invited to a pool party. I need a suit that I will feel great in. Thanks!
With summer right around the corner, who doesnt need a new bathing suit??? count me in
Pick me! Pick me! If I can’t get my fat sucked out, do you think Lands End could help me suck it in???
I am always up for a new swimsuit!!!!!
Thanks!
I really really need a new suit, pick me random number generator!
Always up for a shopping spree! thanks!
Please, please, please pick me, O Great Randomizer!
I could DEFINITELY use a swimsuit that would suck some things in…. ok alot of things in….
I could SO use this!
Love Lands End bathing suits!
yay! Me!!
My best friend told me she won’t go to the beach with me anymore because I embarrass her by sitting there in my street clothes. Sheesh.
This suit would have to do more than work miracles, but I’m willing to give it a try!
oh please, please let me win. Never have I needed this more than I do right now.
my husband thanks you!
I have a Lands’End swimsuit that I bought last year. And I lurrve it. The problem? I’ve lost two sizes since then and alas,it is no longer the wonderful-fitting suit that it used to be. Our pool opens in just a few weeks (scary!) and it would be great to have a new suit to wear. I mean, I’ll wear *something* obviously, but it would be oh so fab if that number generator hit on my number!
This morning I was looking at Lands End fleece jackets and now this afternoon I’m looking at their bathing suits. A lot can change in a few hours!
I dont think I have bought a new swimsuit in 20+ years. This just may motivate me (just maybe)….
I seriously just lost 25 lbs, I need a new one!!
Ooooh! This would be perfect timing for our beach trip! Fingers crossed……
pick me, pick me!
Thanks for the contest!
I believe in miracles …
Wow what a great prize! Nice suit too….
I need a new suit. Thanks
I could use some lifting and sucking!
Commenting!!!
I’m a commentin’! I need all the swimsuit help I can get!
Well, since I’m still wearing the swimsuit I bought in a panic for a last-minute beach trip when my daughter was a baby (she’s 5 now!)…I’d love to try a new one from Land’s End. Do they come with a bust measurement of “36 long,” I wonder???
Mir, if you didn’t try it, I am VERY FOND of the “Women’s Regular All-over Control Solid Grecian V-neck Slender Swimsuit” as I, too, have had a couple kids, hate gravity and I’m also quite busty. If you have a chance to try this suit, I highly recommend it! And if I see it on sale, I’ll be getting ANOTHER one to go with my first two. Yeah to Land’s End for offering up the gift card!!
I’m going to the beach and all I need is a swim suit! I love Lands End!
A new bathing suit would be awesome! I never find a way to justify spending the money on one.
lands end is my favORite.
well I’d sure could put that to good use
I am not comfortable in my bathing suit at all and really need a new one as my kids love the pool at the Y. Just once I’d like to get in the pool without making that mad dash down the steps with my stomach held in!
Ooh, that would be really cool! Me, please
Holy Cow! What a great contest! I would love one of their swimsuits!!
Love me some Lands End!
Count me in – I would love a new swimsuit (that’s what I would use it for, promise!)
Love a new swimsuit! One that makes me look good please!
Who couldn’t use a new suit!
Ooo thanks! I love Lands End.
I pink puffy heart Land’s End – especially their swimsuits!!
Please please please! I’ve lost 60 pounds in the last two years, and desperately need something that fits!!!
Oh yes! I want this suit!
um… YEAH!
Gravity is not my friend. Lands End is.
I still have some after-baby fat left on my butt. I need something to disguise it with.
Woo-hoo! Pick me!
Pick me! Even though the push up swimsuit doesn’t do a thing for me.
oooohhhh I do love me some Land’s End
I have to gasp wear a swimming suit to work, help please!
ooh, ooh, Mrs. Otto, pick me, pick me.
After 5 babies, I need LOTS of holding up and tucking in.
I may have to buy one even if I don’t win.
Pretty, pretty please!!!
Dude. I’m sick of looking like that girl who used to be hot. I need a new suit!
Great! I have one Land’s End swim suit that I got off their overstocks that I love, but have not wanted to pay for another… Would be nice to win!
Count me in!
The cure for aging and childbirth! Sign me up!
Oh please oh please! I have a $14 Target suit that is too loose/too tight in all the wrong places. Not a nice sight.
I want it!
Count me in, please please please!
I could definitely use a new swimsuit! This is my first summer in 3 years that I’m not pregnant or had just had a baby, so I definitely need a little help covering up what children and gravity have left me with
Pretty please with sprinkles on top!
New swimsuit? Sign me up!
What can I say? I’ve been jealous ever since you wrote about it. Count me in.
Let’s just say I need a bit more…holding in than I did the last time I purchased a swimsuit. I’ve had my eye on those more forgiving suits at Land’s end….
Oh, please pick me!
my postnatal twin belly could really use this!!!!
thanks for the chance to win a new swimsuit!
I haven’t had the courage to step out in public in a swimsuit in over 5 years…this might make me do it! Pick me!!!
Pick ME!!
Oooh, random number generator, pick me! I just signed my 1yr old up for Mommy and Me swim class…ugh.
me! me!
Wow! I would love to win this!!!
I really would love to try this suit, but just am afraid to commit to one at this price point…this would be a great way to try one.
Oh, I would love this! Great contest, Mir!
I could really use this right now!
I didn’t know Land’s End had such a great selection of suits! If I have a smokin’ suit, maybe we just will make it on a vacation this year!
I HATE shopping for swimming suits. Mostly b/c all the suits in stores are for itty bitty models who want to show the world their every nook and cranny! *stepping off the soapbox*
Pick me, number thing-a-ma-jig!
These suits look awesome. And my daughter has been begging to go swimming for MONTHS already. I don’t think she’ll understand if I tell her she can’t b/c Mommy hates wearing swimming suits and showing the world her white, cellulite-y legs!
*ever hopeful* Since I didn’t win Bonefish to pig out, might as well try for a swimsuit!
I need to replace my ancient suit!!!
3 kids later… I could use a cute suit!
Would love a new swimsuit!!
Thank you, Mir!!!
Something free would be great!
I would really like to win!
Please, please!!!! I live in Florida and have two young kids…need all the help I can get in the swimsuit department.
I would love a new swimsuit to hold my “bore 3 children in 3 years body” in.
I am ridiculously hard to fit for a suit (large chested but average size waist) and Lands End is the only place that I have found that has swimsuits that fit me! Sign me up!
oooo pick me pick me!! I want to be pretty by the lake too!!
I would really love a cute swimsuit that holds things in and up….
Thanks for the heads up on the swim suit. Definitely worth checking out (it would be even better if I won a gift card to buy it!).
Oh, mememe!!
oh please oh please!!
I’d love a cutie cute suit!
Oh Mir!
I too, have that “after-kidlets” anti-gravity problem.
Please…pick me!
Lovely. Count me in!
Many rounds of fertility treatments netted me two beautiful children and a terrible body. I could really use a swimsuit that I’m not embarrassed to be seen in!
Oh, I love Land’s End! What a great giveaway!
I now understand the phrase “junk in my trunk”
This is such an awesome contest! And I could use a new one-piece for swimming this summer! *happy dance with crossed fingers*
Land’s End swimsuits are the best!!
I would LOVE this gift card!! Thanks!!
sounds good to me!
Oh, please pick me! I have been dying to try a Land’s End suit since you put up their sale, but I just can’t justify the cost.
Please pick me!!! Great contest.
I would love to win a Land’s End giftcard. Hope I get picked…….
My one & only swimsuit was ruined by too much chlorine in a hotel swimming pool. I don’t want to win this contest, I NEED to! Oh pretty Mir, pick me, please?!
i would love to have a suit that could make me look as pretty as you!
i would love to have a suit that could make me look as pretty as you!
I haven’t owned a swimsuit for years, maybe it’s time to try again? With a little help from pretty Mir
I would love a suit from Lands end.
not sure what happened please delete one of my comments. thank you.
AWESOME PRIZE!!! Pick me!
Me please….
Ohhh!!! I need a new suit!!!
How nice of you to run this contest! I’m feeling lucky!!! (Come on swimsuit…)
Sweet Mir,
My body sounds just like yours….except 50 pounds bigger and 20 years older. But in hopes that the suit will perform miracles for me, here’s my bid.
I would love a new swimsuit!
Do they come in ‘ginormous’? Then I’m in.
Fantastic contest!! Would love to win this one! I can’t believe swimsuit season is upon us, and I gave up that diet.
Please enter me!
I would love to try one of these suits!
I love Lands’ End.
I need a swimsuit that will hold me in
Pick me!
Oh, random number generator, please pick me!
no one wants to see me W/O a suit like this!!! (thanks mir!)
I *swear* I will buy a new swimsuit, if I do not win this, that is!
AZ+SUMMER= I need a swimsuit.
Wow! Great contest.
I pink puffy heart Lands End. I hope I win!
i could use a new swimsuit!
Baby # 3 has done my body no favors. I could really use a new, slenderizing suit
I just bought my first suit since junior high school (seriously, and I’m almost 30) from Lands’ End, but I would love to have a second one (or even just another top or two) since I live near a beach on Lake Superior. I’ll have to keep my fingers crossed!
Thanks, Mir!
jess
I NEED this!!
Would LOVE to have a new suit…need it!
Me! What a neat thing!
Please pick me. I am 8 1/2 months prego and would LOVE to have something to work towards here soon.
THANKS!!!
I’m going on a cruise and would loooooove this!
I would rave about the Land’s End swimsuits myself. I’ve never had one I loved before I bought my one from there. I’m never turning back.
WantIS! I’m in and thank you for the opp.
After 6 kids I need something to hold it in & up…actually to put it back where God intended it would be nice..
Oooh! I’m sure I could find something!
I really need a new bathing suit!!
Oh there’s hope for me in a bathing suit! Please, I ask, that you pick this swimming-loving grandma.
Wow is that nice of Lands End! I’m becoming a total Lands End convert. (The free shipping they had most of winter really helped!)
I’m about to have another baby and need all the help I can get after she arrives!
Please please please – after two babies (one less than a week ago) I could use a slendersuit!
I’d probably go swimming more if I had a great swimsuit.
I’d love to try one of those swimsuits…
oh please, please, please, please, please????
ooh! i SO need a new suit. and to be held UP and IN!
“Slendersuit” is also fun to say. Oh, Mir, how fun it would be to win!
Please, please?
I really NEEEEEEED this. We are going on our first ever vacation to Myrtle Beach next month and I can’t find a suit I like. They are expensive nowadays to. I haven’t had a swimsuit since high school. Please random number generator pick me. I too could use a slendersuit after having kids.
Lands End rocks!
Even before I read this was a contest I was going to chime in to say that Lands’ End suits are THE BEST. And you’d better pick one you like, because they hold up forever!
After last summer I decided I’d treat myself to a new suit this summer. This is a maternity suit summer for me, so I could get a clearance LE suit in the fall for next summer! Woot!
Oh my goodness – this sounds fantastic. I hope you pick me!
If ever someone needed a giftcard…it is me! Momma needs a new swimsuit…please!
love Lands’ End!
So cool! And I love that blackberry purple.
I love Land’s End…and could use a new swimsuit!
I have wanted one of these but have been skeptical as to how great they REALLY are…but now with a glowing endorsement from Mir, I gotta have one! A FREE one is even better!
pick me please! i really need a new swimsuit!
I’ve been “making do” for years, and was HORRIFIED to find that my black suit had lost a lot of it’s coverability in some key spots. It sure would be nice to have a new one!
A swim suit for the weekend at the outerbanks….that’s just what I need.
Please….
and thank you
I’d love this to hide the baby weight (if you can call it baby weight when your “baby” is 2 years old)