Want Not

This contest post will stay at the top of the page from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Eastern on November 23rd, 2011. Read on to find out about today’s prize and enter to win! (more…)

Today was games day, with the entire assortment of award-winning McNeill games up for grabs for one lucky reader. The day has drawn to a close, and so has the contest. Let’s end the suspense, shall we?

Today’s winner is commenter 96, Virginia. Congratulations, Virginia—please check your email!

Big thanks to all who played, and special thanks to our pals over at McNeill for the very generous prize donation.

Didn’t win today? No worries; there’s another chance to win coming up tomorrow morning. It’s the most wonderful week of the year, after all.

This contest post will stay at the top of the page from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Eastern on November 22nd, 2011. Read on to find out about today’s prize and enter to win! (more…)

I think we kicked off the week in style, with over 300 of you showing up to take a crack at winning a T-Fal ActiFry today.

(Apparently I’m not the only person who hears “2.2 pounds of fries with just a tablespoon of oil” and responds, “Ooooooohhhhh!”)

It’s going to be a wild week, so I’m going to try my best to whip out each winner every night, to keep us on track. Today’s winner is commenter 138, Karate Mom. Congratulations, Lisa—please check your email!

Big thanks to all who played, and special thanks to T-Fal and their helper elves at 5W Public Relations for furnishing the prize.

We’ll have Day 2′s prize coming up tomorrow, so stick around for another chance to win something pretty.

This contest post will stay at the top of the page from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Eastern on November 21st, 2010. Read on to find out about today’s prize and enter to win! (more…)

Look at me, taking care of a winner post bright and early. (It’s because Big Prize Week starts in less than an hour, so hold on to your seats.)

Last week I offered you the chance to win a Cars Meon Animation Studio, and plenty of you were ready to give up plastic pegs for bendy neon wires, instead. Heh. I can only have one winner, though, and the random-number-generating powers have spoken: Our winner is commenter 153, Stacy. Congratulations, Stacy—please check your email!

As always, big thanks to all who played, and special thanks to Skyrocket Toys for the prize donation.

Didn’t win this one? You’re going to have five chances to win this week, with a new prize every single day. Sing it with me, folks: It’s the moooooost wonderful tiiiiiime, of the yeeeaaaaar….

Don’t forget—you only have until early tomorrow morning to enter to win a Meon Cars Interactive Studio set from me. It’s a pretty nifty toy, and I hear some kids are expecting some toys next month, or something. Ahem.

You can’t win if you don’t enter, so don’t forget to get your comment in!

As always, valid entries are comments left on the contest post. Comments left on this post shall be reserved for discussing the indignity of fancy events held on school nights. Because I have to put on mascara and Spanx and stuff, right now, and it just seems wrong.

Due to circumstances beyond my control (that’s polite-speak for “we had a minor family crisis”), I wasn’t able to get back here to post this week’s contest, yesterday. So please accept my apologies and I hope you still love me.

Meet Meon, the animation studio that never ends with you stepping on sharp little pegs that got lost in the carpet. Ahem. Plug in the wires, wind them around as directed by the templates, and soon you’ll have a glowing work of art. Not only that, there’s actually 10 different modes, with games to play and even a way to rig it up as a room alarm (what kid wouldn’t love that?)!

I have a Cars-themed Meon set to give away, just because you’re pretty.

Want to play? First go review the contest rules and regulations, then come on back here and leave a comment on this post by 8:00 a.m. Eastern (that’s 5:00 a.m. Pacific) on Friday, November 18th, 2011 for an entry. Winner to be determined by random number plug-in picker thingie and also how brightly they glow in the dark. But probably just that random number thing.

Ready? Go!

I’m having a little bit of trouble shaking off the weekend and getting back into the work frame of mind today (maybe you’ve noticed). Perhaps what I need to get my head back into things is a winner announcement. Yes, I think that might be it!

So last week, I offered y’all the chance to win a fabulous DIY cardboard robot, and clearly you were as excited about it as I was. Because, really, what’s not to like? That thing is fantastic.

My handy winner generator (did I ever tell you what I’m using now? It’s a plugin called And The Winner Is…, which just cracks me up every single time) has been called upon, and here we are: The winner is commenter 41, Jessica. Congratulations, Jessica—please check your email!

As always, thanks to all who played, and special thanks to our friends at Creative Toyshop for donating the prize, and also for this: If you didn’t win, they’d like to help you out—through December 15th, 2011, take 15% off anything at Creative Toyshop with coupon code WANTNOT. You can get your very own Calabot, or whatever else you’d like.

Of course I have another contest coming up for you in just a little bit, and next week is what we wait for all year—it was so much fun last year, I’ll be doing another Big Prize Week to count down to Black Friday with you. Wait until I see what I’ve lined up for you. (I’m such a tease!)

Don’t forget—you only have until early tomorrow morning to enter to win a fabulous DIY cardboard robot for your, er, I mean, your kids’ enjoyment.

You can’t win if you don’t enter, so get crackin’. Or entering. Because I don’t know what you would crack, and that probably wouldn’t count as an entry, anyway.

As always, please leave a comment on the contest post for a valid contest entry. Comments left on this post shall be limited to discussion of how anything you volunteer to do out of the goodness of your heart ends up taking at least ten times as much time and energy as you anticipate. Not that I’m bitter. Much.