Busy Mom Reviews

Ragu has a "Good Sport Mom" contest going on where you can recommend an outstanding mom who:

-Has a winning attitude
-Balances her kid's sports schedule, homework assignments and community activities with life's obligations
-Cheers for her home team and her special player(s)
-Is a resourceful meal planner and problem solver who finds shortcuts that make everything work out great for her family

Nominate a Good Sport Mom between now and March 19, 2007, for a chance at winning $1000 and a trip for four to Los Angeles for a soccer shoot-out in April, or one of nine $250 Ragu gift baskets.

Fruity Cheerios, and, Modern Mom have teamed to present the Fruity Cheerios Family Fun Contest where you can have the chance to win some fabulous prizes just for showing us how Fruity Cheerios contributes to fun in your family!

The Fruity Cheerios "Family Fun" Contest encourages families to capture how Fruity Cheerios contributes to family fun by creating a picture or video inspired by Fruity Cheerios and featuring family members.

Between now and May 18th, 2007, we'll be gathering Fruity Cheerios-inspired photo and video entries. Five finalists will be selected, and the final decision will be made by Modern Mom readers.

Modern Mom visitors will vote for their favorite entry in each category June 8th through June 16th, and the Grand Prize winner in each will win a case of Fruity Cheerios (YUM!) and $500 in cash!

Bounty Select-a-Size paper towels are the same quicker picker upper" towels you know, and love, but, now they're perforated into smaller sizes so you can get just the size you need for smaller messes.

Bounty is also sponsoring the One Sheet Challenge, where you can win a $30,000 kitchen makeover by:

* Step 1: Put one sheet of new best-ever Bounty to the test on a tough household mess.

* Step 2: Share the dirty details—the more descriptive, the better. Then, tell us how one sheet cleaned up when put through the wringer.

* Step 3: Be one of the first 50,000 to submit a story, and you'll receive a $1-off coupon for new and improved Bounty.

See official rules, and, hurry, entries must be received by 12:00 PM (noon) (EST) on 6/30/07.

BenzaClin, a topical gel indicated for the treatment of acne, wants to give teens the chance to shine as the new Clear Skin Star by entering for a chance to be the BenzaClin model in the BenzaClin Clear Star ad.

They want to hear from confident teens on how having clear skin has helped build their self-confidence to overcome a particular challenge in their life; whether it was trying out for a high school sports team, going on a first date or interviewing for a summer job.

Teens ages 13 – 18 can enter by submitting their story, in 300 words or less, to the site mentioned above.

Hurry! Contest ends on July 31, 2007.

Introducing "The Craziest Thing I've Ever Shopped For Online" Contest.

Have you ever shopped for something unusual online?

Got a craving for a Krystal, but, you live too far away? Go ahead, admit you looked to see if you could order them online.

Bought earrings online for your dog? Tell us about it, we can keep a secret.

Tell us the oddest thing you've shopped for or bought online and get a chance to win one of 5 iPod Nanos!

During this busy holiday season, online shopping can save your sanity when you don't have to fight the crowds and the traffic in the malls.

Did you know if you do your online shopping at the American Airlines AAdvantage eShoppping^SM Mall you can earn miles for every dollar spent for your purchases?

Also, the American Airlines AAdvantage® program and MasterCard® have teamed up to offer online shoppers double AAdvantage® miles this holiday season for purchases made at any of the 25 featured retailers such as CircuitCity.com, Staples.com, and macys.com at the AAdvantage eShopping^SM mall site through Dec. 31, 2007.

To get you started (or finished) on your holiday eShopping, along with the AAdvantage eShopping^SM Mall, I'm giving you a chance to win one of 5 iPod Nanos!!

Leave a comment, or write on your blog and leave a comment with a link to your entry telling us the most unusual thing you've shopped for online, and, if your story is judged one of the 5 craziest/most unusual, you win!

The deadline for entries is 11pm (CST) Monday, December 10th, 2007

Rules:

1. One entry per household/name/e-mail.
2. All submissions/comments must be received by 11pm (CST) on Monday, December 10th, 2007.
3. Five winners will be chosen among qualified entries by my select panel of judges.
4. Tell all your friends, and, a link back to this entry is appreciated on your blog, or, in your e-mails.
5. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, December 12, 2007.

OK, write about your e-shopping and win with me and American Airlines AAdvantage eShoppping^SM Mall

(Disclosure: I get nuthin' for this entry but the opportunity to give you fine people the chance to win an iPod nano)

The Match & Win Dreamhouse Game sponsored by Goya, Tyson and Reynolds Wrap offers you the chance to win a $500, 000 dream home and more than 3, 000 other fabulous prizes.

Find official game pieces on participating products from Goya, Tyson and/or Reynolds. Game pieces on participating products show either the left or right half of a prize. If you collect both halves of a prize, you win.

Official rules here and the contest runs through October 1st, 2008.

Good luck!

Wow.

You guys are hilarious, and, you've got some crazy online shopping stories, and, seems that you've got a thing for retail animal parts, too.

Anyway, thank you, everyone, for participating in the Win an iPod Nano with AAdvantage eShoppingSM and Busy Mom contest.

I hope you've enjoyed the entries as much as I have, they were apparently VERY hard to narrow down to five.

Without further adieu, the esteemed judges: my friend outside the computer, NewsKathy (real live writer, sometime reader and no-time commenter), Busy Dad (real husband, no time reader until this contest) and Brittney G (blogger extraordinaire, and, blogs for a living, too) have selected the following entries to win an iPod Nano from AAdvantage eShoppingSM:

1. Remote Control Squirrel - Holy Schmidt!

2. Wolf urine - mazdalena

3. Bull Scrotum (hello, Googlers, how are ya?) purse - reeva

4. 5 pounds of Limberger cheese story - Mamacita G.

5. Replacement baby tooth - Bebemiqui

If your name is above, please send me your mailing address (busymomATgmail.com), so we can get your prizes on the road to you!

Congratulations, and, a huge THANK YOU to everyone for playing.

Play the Prilosec OTC Winning Play Giveaway & Instant Win Game.

From now until January 15, 2008, you could win tickets to Super Bowl XLII (where the Titans won't be as of tonight) on February 3, 2008!

Every time you play the Instant Win game, you’ll get a chance at instant win prizes, plus, you'll get another sweepstakes entry for a chance at one of four (4) Super Bowl grand prize packages – including tickets, hotel and $1,000 cash. We like those odds.

You could win one of these great prizes instantly:

* Autographed Brett Favre Mini Helmet
* $25 Visa® Gift Cards
* Prilosec OTC Mini Helmets
* NFL Season of a Lifetime T-shirts
* NFL Season of a Lifetime Hats

Once a day, you can enter for the chance to win, beginning on December 15, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. ET through January 15, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. ET. After playing, you can download the official “Prilosec OTC Winning Play Giveaway” widget to remind you to play daily.

Swiffer and Warner Music are hosting a contest called the “Swiffer Break-up Music Video Contest.” The Grand Prize for the contest is $15,000.

Submit a short video to YouTube that demonstrates how you “broke up” with your old cleaning products and now use Swiffer for all your cleaning needs.

If you enter, you receive 10 downloads of “break-up” songs to use in the video (that’s one of the requirements). The top 10 videos will be posted to YouTube for the general public to cast a vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes wins $15,000.

You can find a complete list of rules, prizes and approved “break-up” songs at the Swiffer brand channel at http://youtube.com/SwifferBreakup.

Did you know there's a Bunco World Championship? I didn't.

On March 7-9th, 2008 Prilosec OTC is sponsoring the third annual Bunco Championship at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

Naomi Judd, along with over 2,000 Bunco loving women, will be on-site to crown the next Prilosec OTC Bunco Champion.

Prilosec OTC has also teamed up with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to raise money for breast cancer through a Charity Challenge.

Players can register online at Buncocentral.com and the group that raises the most cash will win a trip to Vegas to compete in the Prilosec OTC Bunco Championship and meet with country singer Naomi Judd.

Do you know a teacher who has made a difference in the life of a student, a school or a community?

Lands' End announces the Teachers Light the Way Awards.

d.com/teacNominate your favorite teacher by filling out the entry form below and writing an essay (no more than 500 words) describing how your teacher is a bright light in education.

45 teachers will receive the coveted Lands' End Lighthouse Award -- representing the company's 45-year history -- as well as the chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 for the winning teacher and $5,000 for the nominated teacher's school.

During Teacher Appreciation Week, May 5-9, Lands' End will recognize and award the winning 45 teachers with a Lighthouse award.

Three outstanding teachers will receive grand prize status: First Grand Prize Winner receives $5,000 for the winning teacher and a $5,000 school award; Second Grand Prize Winner receives $3,000 for the winning teacher and a $3,000 school award; and Third Grand Prize Winner receives $2,000 for the winning teacher and a $2,000 school award.

The nominators of the three Grand Prize Winners will receive a $250 Lands' End gift card.

The remaining 42 teachers will each receive a $100 Lands' End gift card and those that nominated them will each receive a $25 gift card.

Entries will be accepted through midnight CDT, April 17th, 2008.

More information, the official contest rules and the entry form can be found at www.landsend.com/teacheraward

Prilosec OTC is sponsoring the Winner's Circle Sweepstakes.

The grand prize is a weekend trip to the final NASCAR Chase for the Championship race in Miami, Florida the weekend of November 14, 2008.

More than 100 instant winners will receive other great prizes, including an authentic NASCAR firesuit with driver autograph, NASCAR SuperStore.com gift cards and a race tire signed by No. 31 Prilosec OTC driver Jeff Burton and the No. 31 team.

After playing, you can download the official “Winner’s Circle” widget to keep track of how the race is going.

You can enter once a day and it ends on September 1, 2008.

It's that time of year.

For many of us, bathing suit season is right around the corner.

Like many of you, I hate to buy bathing suits and tend to sticks with the same one for years and years.

Wait, now I realize why my mother had one bathing suit the entire time I was growing up.

Anyway, when I buy bathing suits, I tend to get them from Lands' End because they last so long, and there's a variety of styles for different body types.

I think the expiration is up on my current bathing suits (cannot get one more year out of them), so when Lands' End offered to send me a bathing suit to try out, I jumped at the chance.

I selected this one because it professes to be a "slender suit" that makes you look one size smaller, and I'll take what I can get.

When it arrived, I was a little skeptical since it appeared to have elastic contraptions everywhere and seemed a little heavy, but my fears were gone when I put it on.

Boy, it is solid and it looks great, I love it. I have no idea if I look one size smaller or not, but as far as me in a bathing suit goes, I'm very pleased.

Don't believe me?

Here's a chance to try one out for yourself, Land's End is offering a chance for you, dear reader to win a $100 gift card to Lands' End to get your own suit.

Just leave me a comment before 11:59 pm CST on Friday, May 9, 2008 and I'll choose a winner on Saturday, May 10th, 2008.

In the meantime, check out Land's End's swimwear and pick out your favorite suit!