[Update: This giveaway took place around Earth Day, 2008. The giveaway is now over – thanks to everyone who entered! If you missed the giveaway, you should try subscribing to this site by RSS or email so that you will be alerted to other great offers!]
Roll that phrase over your tongue a few times, because it sounds good: Earth Day Giveaway! (Don’t you love it when things rhyme?)
I have a $50 gift card for SmartyPig.com. What’s SmartyPig? It’s basically just a high yield savings account, but with some great features. SmartyPig allows you to set a savings goal, and receive help in reaching it. Friends and family can contribute to your SmartyPig account to help you reach your goal. There are no fees to open an account or withdraw your money. And SmartyPig is paying an interest rate of 4.30% currently – a really competitive rate!
So, I have this gift card. And you can have it. I’d use it for myself, but… it’s Earth Day. And I feel like giving something good to my readers, since you guys have helped propel me in my quest to live a frugal, financially savvy lifestyle. I’m sorry that I only have one of these to give away, but if this goes well, I’ll consider finding more things to give away!
All you have to do to enter to win the gift card is leave a comment on this post, joining the discussion about what you did on Earth Day. You can leave as many comments as you like (so feel free to have whole conversations in the comments!), but each person is limited to one entry. Please be sure to use a valid email address when you leave a comment, because that’s how I’ll contact the winner.
I’ll assign each commenter a number, and then use Randomizer.org to pick the winning number. To give some time for the conversation to brew, you have between now and 11:59:59 PM, April 30th 2008, to join the discussion.
I know that people get a little hyped up about environmental issues (from both sides of the debate!), so please keep things civil and don’t mock anyone else’s viewpoint. If a comment is out of line, I’ll delete it or mark it as spam, and the commenter will be disqualified. This and all other aspects of the giveaway are left to my discretion.
I’ll kick things off by telling you guys what I did on Earth Day: I strapped on some latex gloves and I dug through trash! Today I helped out with my campus’ “waste audit” – where we took all the trash from one day from one floor of a building, and went through all of the things that could have been recycled, but weren’t. It was a dirty job, but it was fun, and I got to talk with some pretty awesome people while doing it. (They also gave me some free ice cream!)
Left to right: Bottles and cans that we pulled out, paper that we pulled out, the rest of the trash
What did you do for Earth Day?