This is a sponsored post by Sears but the thoughts within are mine and mine alone.
As a blogger, you have the potential to reach a tremendous audience. As an individual, perhaps a company or an entrepreneur who is looking to spread the word about a new product launch, you have the potential to keep marketing costs down by reaching out to bloggers and having them talk about your product. One of the best ways to achieve this goal is through blogger outreach, which typically includes more than just sending out your press release: give the blogger the opportunity to try your product. Send them your book. Or your beanbag chair. Or give them full download rights to your new software product without restrictions.
You can do something else entirely. As part of the Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish campaign by the Sears department store, I had the opportunity to participate in a shopping spree to help me or someone else realize our dreams. The idea behind this initiative was that I was given a $500 Sears gift card to “Grant a Wish” for myself, a loved one, or charity. At the same time, I was to photograph my experience in the store.
At first, I had no idea what to do. I was recently moved by “The Secret Millionaire” and wanted to realize the dreams of someone who may not be able to buy anything at all — so I decided to make sure my own purchases included gifts for young children.? After walking up and down the halls of the whole department store, my husband and I finally settled on gathering a shopping cart full of toys that we will end up donating to cancer-stricken children just in time for the holidays.
I also found myself being fascinated by the number of tools available for the DIY (do-it yourself) enthusiast.? I ended up buying a much needed tool that will hopefully allow me to remove stripped screws so that I can free up a trapped IDE hard drive in an external case.? Seriously — Sears has aisles upon aisles of drills, drill bits, and other thingamajigs that I wouldn’t even know how to use.
Still, though, I’m happy that I was able to use this experience to give to those less fortunate.? It’s such a perfect time to consider gift giving (and wish-wishing) for those who you may not know.? I’m sure it will put a smile on someone else’s face.
Giving Back, Contest Style
Do you want to make a wish for a special someone in your family or perhaps a few people at once? With IZEA’s help, you can also help realize the dream of someone you love or care about. Check out three possible three gift packages that I’ve crafted to make that happen:
The Family Fun Package
- Casio 8.1MP Digital Camera EX-Z80 (link)
- SanDisk 4GB SDHC™ Memory Card (link)
- Casio Leather Pouch Case for Exilim S and Z Series Digital Cameras (link)
- Emerson CDG Karaoke System – iPod Compatible (link)
- Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio (link)
- Harvard Electronic Single Shootout Basketball (link)
- HoMedics Bubble Spa Footbath (link)
- One For All 8-Device Learning Upgradeable Universal Remote (link)
The Camping Package
- Kenmore 596 square inch 3 Burner Gas Grill with Side Burner (link)
- Craftsman 4 pc. Barbecue Gift Set with Bottle Opener (link)
- (2) Coleman Hibernation Sleeping Bag (link)
- Craftsman Toolbox Cooler (link)
- (2) On The Edge Marketing Folding Chair (Flame) (link)
- Northwest Territory Dome Tent (link)
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
- Conair Double Sided Lighted Mirror (link)
- Conair Foot Vibes™ Massaging Slippers for Women (link)
- HoMedics Therapist Select Shiatsu Message (link)
- Rosetti Handbag Ring Tote (link)
- Relic Flap Checkbook Clutch Wallet (link)
- Metaphor Beaded Satin Clutch (link)
- Colorworks Fantastic Beauty Fan (link)
- Royce Leather Travel & Grooming Kit (link)
- 1/2 ct t.w. Diamond Composite Stud Earrings, 10K white gold (link)
- Seiko Ladies Calendar Day Date Watch with White Dial and Two-Tone Link Band (link)
There are three ways to win one of the above packages:
- Leave a comment on this blog. Let me know the name of the package you are most interested in.
- Use Twitter! Simply tweet out the following message: “RT @tamar please grant my wish to win the #Sears (package name) – tweet to win your own wish http://urlbrief.com/5ead6c”
- If you’re a blogger, write a post about the contest and link back to this post.? If you proceed down this route, make sure to leave a comment here letting me know that you did.? Include the URL to your post.
You can enter up to three times (each Tweet, comment, or blog post counts as a single entry). The winner will be chosen at random and will receive the package s/he selected.? The contest ends on December 23rd, so be sure to get your entries in ASAP. Please be sure to read the official rules for more information about the contest.
Good luck!
{ 26 trackbacks }
{ 1123 comments }
Interesting that Sears is into SMO… I just noticed they released an iPhone app at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=295864001&mt=8
Or maybe it wasn’t them who released it… I am not sure.
Family Fun package for me, please!
Twittered – CorrinRenee
Hey Tamar! Great idea. Thanks for sharing the love. I would love the camping package!
I would like to win The Family Fun Package and give it to the Chai Lifeline Toy Drive http://www.chailifeline.org/programdetail.php?program=27
Great idea. Thanks for running the contest.
The Family Fun Package is what I’m hoping to win!
I love that you chose toys for kids. So many charities are not recieving enough this year. I’d love to win the Pamper Herself Spa package for my overworked mother!
Awesome contest! I would really love to win hte Family Fun package!
Pamper Herself package. Tweeted. Blog post: http://lisascontests.com/2008/12/15/monday-contest-roundup-11/
Would love that family fun package.
Hi Tamar! I’d love to win the camping kit. Aside from loving the great outdoors and attempting to work to protect it, I don’t really get to go outside as much as I’d like. This is a wonderful contest and I wish you the best of luck!
Hurray! I’m all about the family fun package. Now to get a twitter account…
Well since my wife rules the house, she’d love the pamper herself package :.)
That family fun package sounds awesome!! Thanks!
I would love to win the pamper herself spa package for my daughter. She has been so stressed out between work and school that it would be great to be able to treat her to a surprise such as this!
The Family Fun Package would be amazing to win!
This happy camper would love the Camping Package!
The “Family Fun Package” would be perfect for us. Thank you for giving us a chance to win.
Family Fun Pack sounds great!
Tamar, you’re my bestest friend. Seriously. Would love the family fun package.
Would love to win the family fun pack…awsome give-a-way!
Hi, I’d like to win The Family Fun Package
Tamar, Great idea…you are always on top of things… I’ll pass it around some.
The Family Fun Package – i’d give that to my sister and her hubby for their new FAMILY as my nephew was born july 5th…
KRONiS.us
What a great prize!! I’d be so happy and thankful to win!
I forgot to add I’d like the Pamper Herself Relaxation Package.
Thank you for a great contest. Please enter me.
Great Prize
very nice contest – tanx a ton
Great contest prizes. Thanks for a chance to win. Please enter me.
I would love the Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation package.
Feeling down and selfish today.
Yes lvtrance, but if you want to win, you need to actually choose one of the three prize packages
Grant a Wish – nice to think of others besides ourselves!
I’m interested in the Family Fun Package – spending more time with my family.
This is a awesome idea tamar, there needs to be more people like you in this world =)
ummmmm camping package….
Awesome set of prizes! Please enter me for the Family Fun prize pack. Thank you.
I am on unemployment and this prize would help me to give nice gifts for my family. The “family Fun” package would cover just about everyone on my Christmas list. My fingers are crossed for this awesome win!!
Great giveaway. I’m interested in The Family Fun Package.
I’d love to win the Family Fun Package. Great prize for the whole family!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I want the camping package Oh So Badly! I’ve never been and I want to purchase all the stuff, but it gets pricey.
Twittered it
http://twitter.com/sydneysmommy/status/1058933994
Oh forgot to mention that i would pick the family fun package
My mom and godmother more than deserve the “Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package” for all of the work they do for our family and those beyond (both involved in charity work).
Either way, wonderful contest, lovely idea, and hope you are yours have an amazing holiday.
Would love the Panper Herself package.
Family Fun Package would be great win.
The Family Fun package sounds awesome!
family fun package…hope you get the number you need..good luck!
I know my wife would love the pamper herself spa relaxation package.
My husband would really enjoy the “The Family Fun Package”, he’s still a kid a heart!
I would love to win The Family Fun Package. Thanks!
A great idea and this is the first time in a long time that I can’t do my usual volunteer work and help make the wishes of others come true. It really doesn’t matter which package to me, but any of them could help someone this holiday season.
http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/2008/12/wish-to-pay-it-forward.html
My girls would love the family fun package!
Great packages. I would love to win the family fun package.
I would like to win The Family Fun Package
The Family Fun Package—It has something for everyone
Family Fun… and no retweets!
i never win anything, so here is my chance! family fun it is!
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package sounds great.
1/2 carat diamond earrings are my choice. Who wouldn’t love them.
Thanks for this great contest. I’d like the Family Fun package.
The Family Fun package!! Have a great week everyone
!
i’d take the camping package; but the closest i get to camping is grilling steak on my fire escape; one family fun package please; hold the family; mine is enough trouble.
I’d love the The Family Fun Package. It sounds great!! Happy Holidays everyone!
orchestratenoise0726[at]yahoo[dot]com
I love the pampering package. What great prizes
I’d like to enter to win the Family Fun package. It has something for everyone, and then some! My nephews would love the basketball game and the arts and craft studio.
I’d love the Family Fun package!
Wonderful idea Tamar. I’d have to go with the Family Fun package though. Also, great work on the Social Media Etiquette post. I have been passing it along to many people in need of its suggestions.
Regards,
Nick
this would be nice
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/crackersmacker/status/1059098749
What a great prize!! Any of these packages especially the camping and family fun back would be a dream come true in this awful economy. thanks!
I really like The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package.
I’d love the Family Fun Package-it has a little something for everyone in the family!
i’ll choose the spa package
I love camping and would be happy, if i could win
“The Camping Package”
Damn I need a new Sleeping Bag and when I think about the ‘Kenmore 596 square inch 3 Burner Gas Grill with Side Burner’ I am getting hungry.
This is like asking me to choose between eternal happiness and world peace… I just…. I just can’t decide!!!!!
Family Fun Package, please!
Thanks for the giveaway
The Family Fun Package would be great — I would give it to my son and his new bride. My son is in the military and doesn’t make a lot of money.
Relic Flap Checkbook Clutch Wallet is very nice.
I would love to win the Family Fun package!
I would like to win the Family Fun Package for my family. There is something for everyone!
Oh what a great giveaway! There are great items in each package…it was hard to choose!
I will go with the The Family Fun Package!
I figure it is something for my whole family to share.
Thanks!
Hey Tamar
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package for Dorna, please
Steve
Ahhhh..the spa relaxation package..I can feel it now….
Thats the one that I want!
I tweeted (MyDarlin)
Here’s my blog link:
http://schoenick.blogspot.com/2008/12/ok-its-christmas-time-and-there-are.html
The family fun package would be wonderful to win!
Any of these packages would be great
I would love to win this for my family – thanks for the opportunity
Family fun sounds like lots of fun! In the holiday spirit if I win I’ll donate it to charity.
I’d love to win one of these packages-I think the camping one sounds great!
Hi Tamar,
What a really nice thing you’re doing and (with Sears) sponsoring. It absolutely defines the meaning of the holidays.
In that spirit, I’ll opt for the “Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package” on the improbable chance I win, most of it to follow your example and be donated.
the pamper herself becuae I could give alot to my mom and family still
family fun, some for family and some to be donated
Wow, what a great thing your doing! I would love to win the family fun package, would make a lot of people happy this Christmas!
The camping package because we love to camp and could really use all this stuff!
Wonderful idea! The Family Fun package sounds great!
I choose the Spa Relaxation Prize. This sounds just great!
Pamper Herself ~thanks for the chance
I will donate the Spa package!
The camping package sounds good
I would like to win the camping package. We love to go camping and lost most of our camping equipment to Hurricane katrina. This would be a dream come true. Good luck everyone!
The Family Fun Package
very nice i must say! thanx
i would love the spa relaxation package thanks for the contest
The family fun package would be great.
The pamper spa package would be perfect! I live away from home, but meand my mom could really have some catch up time with this stuff! plus i’m in law school and i’m sure I can share this stuff with other kids in my class to help us relax from all that studying!
The family fun package is attractive to me. Thanks for the giveaway!
Great stuff!! Thanx
What a great idea..I’d like to win the dome tent…but if I won a 500$ gift card, I’d buy books and games for a low income preschool program.
I love the The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package, cause a woman needs a little herself time and to be pampered.
I would love The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. It would be such a lovely treat
The Family Fun Package! Lots of fun things for everyone!
What a wonderful giveaway! I would love the family fun pack. What great prizes! Thanks for offering this giveaway.
I would love to introduce my baby to camping. The camping package would be perfect to get kids out the house:
)
The prizes are great! Would love any of them!
Fabulous giveaway!! I would love the pamper me package..
Sure could use it after this holiday season!! Thanks for offering such wonderful prizes!
The pampering one would do great for me… I do need it…
Love that you’re including charity. It’s like IZEA meets SocialVibe. Also enjoying that so many “legit” bloggers are participating with IZEA, makes the whole mob mentality issue with Brogan a non starter. Kudos for sticking your head out for something you believe in!
Oh yeah, and if I win, I want the Famiy Fun Pacakge. So much stuff I didn’t know I wanted until I saw it on your list!
I would love the Family Fun Package. Thanks!
I twittered your post. My username is sonyasparks.
Would love to win a $500.00 gift card.
I’d go for the camping package!
Thanks for the contest
I would love to win a $500 gift card from Sears!
The Family Fun Package would be my choice!
That would make my 2008 year!
The family fun package looks great!
I’ve been good this year, Santa please visit my house with these lovely prize!
The “family package” would be a nice present from Santa.
The Family Fun Package ,,great prizes!
The Family Fun Package would be fun for the family
Great post and great fun Tamar! I think The Family Fun Package is the best here. A great bundle to bestow upon a family who needs to make new memories. So many people have lost their homes in recent disasters, and their memories along with them – this gift package might be a good boost for them.
i’d like to win the family fun pack. i’d split it up and use it as gifts for the family. my nieces and nephew would love the karaoke machine. my mom the camera, my hubby the remote and the spa foot bath for myself! lol!!
i also tweeted.
http://twitter.com/doozercries/status/1059626031
The Family Fun Package
I’ve been good this year, Santa please visit my house with these lovely prizes!
The camping package looks wonderful.
The Spa Relaxation Package for me please!!!
I would love to win the camping package
The Pamper Herself relaxation package would be a wonderful win for me!
Hey Tamar! This is fantastic! you are so sweet! I’m most interested in the “pamper herself” package. that would help lots of my girl friends this year!
I would love to win the pamper yourself spa package for my daughters to share. They are such great hard working woman. I would love to surprise them with this.
thank you for having this! have a good week
The Family Fun Package is what I’m hoping to win!
The Family Fun Package for sure!
Generous giveaway! I would like The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package! Thanks!
family fun package because the holidays are all about giving — starting with your family
Love the family package.
Happy Holidays>>>>>
I’d love to be entered for the Family Fun package. That would be a great addition to our holiday! Thank you!
Would love the family fun package!
thanks for the great prizes
@Tamar
What was that tool you got that lets you remove stripped screws?
Great concept, great contest!I have three daughters so the pamper herself package would be a great gift to our particular family.
The family fun package would be my choice
It would be great to win! Thanks!
The family fun package
The Family Fun Package would be such a fabu gift for any family-some really fun stuff there!
The family fun package looks fantastic!!
Andrew, it’s the Craftsman Screw-Out Damaged Screw Removers.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package please ! awesome giveaway thanks for the opp
happy holidays
I would love to win the Family Fun Package, too! Thanks!
All the package sound great, but at this time of the year the pamper herself package is the one I would love to win.
I like The Pampered Herself Spa Relaxtion Package
Family Fun Package would be such a great win for my family. I am in desperate need of a camera to capture fun new memories this next year. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win the Family Fun package for my hubby.
I had a present for him in lay away but the expenses related to our move have left me unable to pay it out and now there is nothing for either of us for Christmas.
I have more than enough in life and I don’t need anything but my heart is breaking not being able to give him anything. He says it’s okay but it still bothers me.
Thanks!
family fun
for a family that is deserving. (not my own)
The family fun package looks…well…fun. Pay it forward. But I would keep the foot bath for myself.
FAMILY FUN
THANK YOU
The Camping Package looks nice.
The family fun package would be a great gift! Thanks for the contest!
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package!!
Teh Sux is moved by Teh Contest. Tamar FTW!
The family fun package would be great
I would be thrilled to win the Family Fun package—amazing items! What a nice gesture by Sears!
Thanks! foxsquirrelrabbit at gmail dot com
I am interested in the Camping package.
I’d love the family fun package, wow what an awesome prize pack that is.
Definatey the Camping Package! My family just discovered camping last year and we really need a good set of gear to do it right, and i have already reserved 2 campsites for next summer!
Even though it’s winter and there is snow on the ground here, I dream of camping this summer so I would like the camping prize package please
Tamar, i would love to win the Family Fun Package, which I would like to send to my friend Devyl (shhhh! don’t tell her!) who got laid off today, and is facing the holidays with no way to do anything for her tween.
as for me, I’m fine thanks
The Family Fun package is what I would love. Our daughter needs a digital camera, one granddaughter loves Karaoke, another loves to draw, one grandson loves basketball and is on a team through school, our son is a techy guy and would love the remote and I would love the foot bath and hubby would be so happy he would save some money on Christmas gifts.
I tweeted on Tweet
jeanilynne[at]gmail[dot]com
Post is up at my blog
http://bloggyfinds.blogspot.com/
jeanilynne[at]gmail[dot]com
Would love to win the Family Fun package. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d love the The Camping Package.
Family fun is great!
I would love to win the The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package!! I would love to share this with my mom.
I’d love the Pamper yourself package! I rarely spend money on items like the ones in that package.
The camping package would be awesome.
Techipedia Tamar Weinberg -Contest: Make a Wish for Someone Else this Holiday Season (and the Power of Blogger Outreach)
I know the perfect family for the The Family Fun Package, it’s been a strained year for all, and anything that could put a smile on someone’s face I’m all for! Happy ‘holly’ days everyone
What an awesome story of kindness. Thank you so much for sharing.
I would love to enter for the Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. Most of these items would go to my mom. At 78 years old, there isn’t much of her social security to buy extras.
WOW, this is a big giveaway! Thank you techipedia, and sears.
What a nice assortment of prizes. I’d like to enter for the Family Fun Package.
Thank you.
Family Fun Package
It’s the Family Fun package for us.
It would be a dream come true winning any of these packages. My personal favorite is the The Family Fun Package.
Thank you
Any of them would be nice, but if I had to choose it would be The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. Boy could I use this! m04taes(at)verizon(dot)net
I would like The Family Fun Package, Thank you very much for this chance to win.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. This one is for the family. I know they would love for me not to be stressed out.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
I would be delighted to be considered to win the family fun package! Great promo! Have a great day, and a merry christmas!
I really need the pampering package to share with my sister. this would be great
The Family Fun package sounds great. Thanks for the contest!
Would certainly love the pampering herself package.
Please put me in the running. If I win, I would love the family fun package
The family package,but I would love any of them,thanks
I’m actually entering this for a friend. Her last 2 paychecks bounced and she was laid off yesterday. Suck suck suck. Family Fun Package for her PLEEEEASE!!!! God knows, they could use a lil family fun.
Nice packages.
I have both twittered and posted
I’d like to win the Family Fun package.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Tough choice, but I’d have to go with the Camping Package. Thanks for the giveaway!
The Pamper Herself Relaxation package sounds great
The Pamper Herself Spa package would be perfect for me, it has been a rough year for me as for many others and I would share it with a friend.
What a fabulous contest. It would be fun to pay this forward to a family I know who has very little for Christmas this year.
I’m entering for the exact same person that NotAMeanGirl is entering for… The Family Fun package sounds perfect for her! Please?
I am interested in The Family Fun Package.
I like The Family Fun Package
Shows what a dichotomy I am when I can’t decide between camping and beauty. But camping wins!
Oh, this is wonderful. i would LOVE to win this. Count me in.
The Family Fun Package would be great
I love the family fun package.
The family package for my daughter, who is recovering from an accident and has not been able to work for the past two months
I’d be interested in the camping package for our scout troop.
I am entering for the same person as @NotAMeanGirl!! I know The Family Fun Package would be wonderful for her!
WOW shopping spree what a wonderful gift in these troubled times
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
I could divvy this up between my mom, sister, niece and myself. All gifts are appropriate for at least one of us. Blog gods hear my plea and let this package be a win for me!
Hope!Hope!
http://twitter.com/katmagick
The family fun package looks great. It has something in it for everyone in the family.
The Pamper herself Relaxation package has so many things which I would love for myself and to share with friends and family.
Family Fun Package please–great contest!
What a great contest, I have a single mom with 2 young children in mind, I know that the family fun pack will be welcome and greatly appreciated.
What great prizes! I especially love the family fun package!
I would like to win the family fun package , I would donate it to a needy family.
I would love the pamper herself spa relaxation package for myself-I need to relax.
I am most interested in the Family Fun Package as there is something in there that each member of my family would enjoy.
The Family Fun package is great! I hope I win!
I would love to win the camping package. thank you have a great week
i would love the pamper herself package!
The Family Fun Package would be my choice! My family really enjoys karaoke! I see several things that would be put to great use! Thanks for sharing!
Great contest, would love the family package!!
I would love to win the Family Fun Package. I would give it to my daughter and her family.
Definitely the Family Fun Paqckage. Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway.
GREAT CONTEST!
I would love to win.
I want to take my family camping, so I choose the camping package. I blogged about it..http://yourethebossbrandice.com/2008/12/i-entered-them-all/
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package or the The Family one
I know a couple of people who would love to receive part of the Family Fun Package! Great giveaway!
I have tweeted and blogged it as well
Good Luck to everyone who has entered!
I think all the giveaways are awesome but if I have to choose I would pick “The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package”
Wowwweeeeee! Generous giveaway!
I’d love the Sears Family Fun Package.
Thanks!
Tweeted you here:
http://twitter.com/nape9393/status/1061041993
Ack, I forgot my link. Forgive me – http://suburbangypsy.blogspot.com/2008/12/making-wish-for-several-people.html and if you want my Twitter link it is here -
http://twitter.com/SuburbanGypsy/status/1061033340
I would love to win the Family Fun package. Thank you so much for the great giveaway and Happy Holidays to you!
I’d like to win the family fun package. Thanks!
The camping package looks like a lot of fun
this is wonderful, thanks so much! I like the The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. these seem like great products.
Would love The Pamper Herself Relaxation Package.
Would love to win the camping package. Thanks.
Love the The Camping Package!
the camping package looks excellent! thanks for the inspiration!
Difficult to choose (they’re all nice) but I would love to win the Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be great – I could give so many gifts with that.
#1 Family Fun package for me, please!
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/auntiethesis/status/1061136869
the family fun pkg
I love the camping package for my family. THank you
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
I would like the camping package. We love to camp as a family and would put everything to good use!
Would love to win Family Fun Package and donate it to our humane society. Would be great for the volunteers’ children to play while volunteer parents tend to the animals.
The family fun package. Thanks for putting this together. You rock.
all great package but the Family Package sounds just wonderful and we all can use it HAPPY HOLIDAYS
I would like the The Family Fun Package if I win thank you
I’d love the Family Fun Plan.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be my wish! Thanks
camping package but everything sounds fantastic
I would choose The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
I would give the package to Ms Wheelchair Massachusetts 2009 when we crown her in March. Every titleholder deserves to be pampered.
Winning the Camping Package would be a gift to my whole family! Thanks for offering this!
I am interested in winning The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package, some thing I can really use.
great contest something the whole family would enjoy
I like the Family Fun package.
Great packages. I’ll take the family fun one!!!
Wonderful stuff! The family fun package looks great!!
I have 5 nieces, from the early teens to early twenties. They are all divas. My best bet is to choose The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package.
As a Mom with young kids I am interested in the Family Fun Package, thanks
The family fun package not only would be wonderful for our family, but my friend Sarah’s family would benefit from many of the items too!
I would love to win the Family Fun Package. Sorry I fogot to add that in my 1st post. Thanks.
The Camping package would benefit the most people in my family!
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package sounds dreamy! Would love it!
I like the Family Fun Package, because I have siblings who have lost their jobs and I could break up this package and share with them and their families. There is something for everyone. Thanks for the opportunity!
i like the The Family Fun Package that way everyone benefits. thank you for the opportunity to win one of these fab packages
I would love the camping package. We live in beautiful Idaho and love to get out and see it.
Sign me up for the Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. Watches and diamond earrings appeal to me.
What a great giveaway. I’d love to have the Camping package & I also tweeted
The $500 dollar gift card would be great right now!! Thanks
I would most like the Family Fun Package!
The Family Fun Package!!
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be my choice.
Would love the family fun package!
WOW I would love to win The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package there are so many fantastic prizes in that package I was blown away, thanks for sponsoring such a super giveaway and allowing me to enter,GLTA And Merry Christmas to All
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package for me
Any of the packages would be great, but my choice is the The Family Fun Package. Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
I would like the family fun package…it sounds like one I would get a lot of use out of with my family.
Thank you for the contest!
I would love the family fun package! It would be put to good use when all of my nieces and nephews come to visit or just to capture memories when I am visiting them.
Great contest I like the family fun package
the family fun package please!
I like the Family Package
The family fun package looks great!
thanx for the contest.
I’d love to win the “Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package” because I would love to be pampered! Thanks.
I would love the #3 Spa Package for my daughter. She is a nurse working for 2 hospitals and has 2 small children. She really needs some pampering! Thanks
The family fun package!!
cjnedrow@gmail.com
I could use a little stress relief so I would like to win the pamper herself spa package.
Sears is the place to be for the holidays.
I’d like to win The Family Fun Package
i would love the Family Fun Package, thanks for the chance to win
just noticed you can enter three times, this is entry number two, for the Family Fun Package for my friend ‘Devyl’, a single mom who got laid off yesterday, and is facing rough holidays for her and her ‘tween’.
What a tough choice!
But, I would choose the camping package.
Happy Holidays!
oh the spa pack would be awesome ! I would share that with some friends that so need that! thnx for the opp!!!
love to win the family fun pack, this would really brighten up out holidays
Camping package for sure!
I could use the family fun package, the whole family would just love this, were going to all get together for Christmas so it could be great! Thanks for the giveaway and Merry Christmas!
I would love to win the Family Fun Package, the kids are getting older and this will help make family night so much funner !
Thanks for the contest !
I like Package #1 – The Family Fun Package!
The Family Fun Package would be best for me.
You Rock Tamar, i would love to win the Family Fun Package
All three are fantastic packages. Took me 15 mins to decide which I would most like. The Family package .. no wait lem think. ahh ok. The family package.
Oh wow, it is hard to choose! I’d probably opt for the Family Fun package so I could please more than just myself.
I like the The Family Fun Package.
Thank you!
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
We’d love the Family Fun package.
would love the camping package.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be my pick, thanks!
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
I would choose family fun, we are adding a new little baby to our family any day now so family fun is something we will need a lot of in the future
I’d love the pamper her package – very nice. Thanks!
My wife works very hard and always does for others
I would love to surprise her with the
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
The Family Fun Package would truly benefit a local family who has very little this year for Christmas.
Camping Package looks like it will come in handy next summer after the snow melts.
My family would flip out over the Camping Package, how cool is all that stuff!
I’d take the camping package. Our family loves to camp and it’s a great way to get the kids away from video games and TV!
We would love the Family Fun package! Thanks so much!!
Wow!! Cool gifts. I hope Santa grants wishes for all. As far as I am concerned I would like to have The Family Fun Package. Is Santa listening to me??
RT’d for the Family fun pack! Thanks!
The camping package sounds fun!
Yeah! I would LOVE the camping package!!
They all look great!
I think I’d pick the family fun=)
What a wonderful thing you did with your shopping trip! Good for you!!
the Family Fun Package sounds AMAZING! Thank you so much!!
You know I have been reading all of the posts from the bloggers who were chosen to do this Sears make a wish thing.I must say most of you are so generous to give away toys to kids.I think it is an awesome thing to do.
I like the Family Fun Package taking pictures has become my new thing since I have started blogging and the camera I have now is not so good.
Wow! I’d love the spa relaxation package. I’d even share it with my friends.
I’d definitely choose the Family Fun package!
I like the Family Fun Package. Thanks!
I would love to win the Family Fun Package.
Thanks for the chance to win.
The Family Fun package would be awesome!! Thanks to you and Sears!
I am most interested in the Family Fun package.
I would love the The Family Fun Package. Unfortunately there is going to be no Christmas for us this year. With bills, mortgage, and me out of work, we can’t afford afford Christmas.
Twittered
http://twitter.com/Pinkadot/status/1063521576
Family fun package
The Family Fun Package is the one I’m eying!!!!
I’m putting my name in for the Camping Package. My husband and I always agree to give more at Christmas and only do small things for each other. He would adore this package and I could give him a special Christmas, which he certainly deserves.
We’d sure love the “Family Fun Package!” With a family of 6 and my hubby out of work due to a layoff in September, this would be a wonderful Santa surprise for our family. Thanks!
Susan
The Family Fun Package would be great for us. Thanks for posting this grand contest!
I would LOVE to give “The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package” to my loving mother who needs it. She has been in the US for a little over 20 years and has not gotten any type of pampering, whether it’d be just get a mani/pedi or a massage. She works 6 days a week for about 18 hours a day and surely needs it! She owns and takes care of an elderly home care! She really deserves something like this!
I will post a blog about this soon~
I would love to win the Camping package!
I would love the family fun package, includes everything i cannot get right now
Here is the link to my post about this contest: http://shootingasterisk.net/blog/?p=39
OR
http://shootingasterisk.net/blog
thanks
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation package would be awesome!
I LOVE SEARS. THEY KNOW HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT, I THINK
THE PACKAGES ARE GREAT . I THINK YOU ALL ARE SO KIND DONATING THAT STUFF. WAY TO GO!! MY WIFES SISTER AND FAMILY ARE REALLY HAVING A TIME OF IT NOW AND COULD USE SOME UPLIFTING NEWS. i WOULD GIVE THEM WHATEVER I WON.
THANKS
Chris
I am interested in the Pamper Herself Relaxation Package.
I’d love the Family Fun Package!
My family and I would LOVE the family fun package, it is filled with great things for everyone!
tuesdayef (at) aol dot com
I tweeted: TuesdayGirl
The Family Fun Package sounds like… well, sounds like fun!
I wouldn’t mind the camping package
Happy Holidays! Thanks for the opportunity to win great packages! The Pamper Herself Relaxation Package sounds wonderful!
The family fun package. This is the loveliest and softest side of Sears yet.
Thanks for the wonderful opp, and happy holidays.
I have two kids, and would enjoy getting them into camping. Would be interesting to get that camping package.
Wow, this sounds so cool, would love the family fun package, sounds awesome!
Wow this is really cool. I would love to win the Pamper Herself package for my girlfriend. She really deserves it because she uses every minute of her time productively. She’s keeping up a 3.87 GPA at Rutgers business school. Does a full day Friday interning at Merrill Lynch. Is an officer of 2 clubs that raise money for breast cancer (Bead the Cure and Bake the Cure). Studies hard every day. Calls her parents and grandparents daily. Interns at multiple companies all summer long. Is a very supportive daughter, granddaughter, friend, classmate, and especially girlfriend.
I do the best that I can every single day to show her that I appreciate her, but being a student myself I can’t splurge on totally awesome stuff like the Pamper Herself Spa package. I can’t think of a person who deserves this more than her and my wish is that she gets it.
Thanks, hope this contest goes well Tamar!
The Pamper Herself Relaxation Package for the wifey
The family fun package sounds like a good bet. Hope this contest works out well Tamar!
I don’t care what I win. Anything will be great.
If it was for myself or family use, I’d of course go with the family fun package. But it would also be great to get the Pamper Herself package for the wife!
Camping package FTW!
The family-fun package is super duper! If I am selected, I promise to put it to good use.
enter me for the family fun package thank you
Pamper package (…not for me personally…I’m too manly)
I tweeted from @revnyou – in case you miss it…
I’d like the digital camera please!
er- the family package I mean… but really I am focused on the camera!! Sorry about that…
I would love the camping package! Used to go camping all the time with my family when I was a child . . . but not anymore because I don’t have any camping gear
I’d love to win the camping package!! My husband would flip his lid if we won that. He’s been complaining because we don’t have any camping gear and he wants to camp with our daughters!
I love this blog!
Just tweeted about this giveaway
Pretty awesome – I’d love to win the camping package
The Family Fun Package would be great!
I would love the camping package
May not be the best thing in the winter to do but would be an awesome family thing do do year round. Cookouts n Kids is always a win win for me 
[must admit being outside is scary though 
]
Great post and idea Tamar, I will be sure to spread the news. It’s a joy to help spread the joy even if we dont win. Good works are there own reward and your reward will sure make someone feel good
Peace
Mich D aka @MichDdot
Please enter me for the pamper herself package.
This is wonderful! I love the Family Fun Package!
I love this idea! I make a wish for the winner
Echoing what others have said, the family fun package seems to have something for everyone. Good stuff, Tamar.
Pamper herself spa relaxation package. It can be shared with my daughter. Great contest. Thanks
i’d love the pamper herself relaxation package!
Love The Family Fun Package!
I like them all but you asked for my choice and that would be the The Camping Package
http://twitter.com/miriama59 I tweeted the giveaway
I would love to win the Pamper Herself Relaxation Spa Package for my mother. She is always doing something for other people and not taking enough time for herself. This would be a great gift for her this Christmas! I also tweeted.
whoohoo
camping package and pamper package. thanks
Cool! I’d like to win the family fun pack. Some great gifts that I could give away for the holidays!
Cool contest.
TWEET:
http://twitter.com/Elkaye/status/1064044394
I’d love the pamper package. thanks tamar
The Camping Package
oh snap! that family fun package looks awesome!
+1
The Family Fun Package, please.
I now have a family and it would be cool to upgrade the camera.
nice choices, and for a good cause. family fun pack for me…wooooo
It would be nice to receive a gift for whatever they are willing to give. They all sound great. A nice gesture to give to someone you love. Maybe we can get the $500 gift certificate from Sears, as our TV is broken.
The Camping Package
Since it’s just about time to replace our gear (because we’ve all grown), I’d love to surprise my family with the items found in the camping package.
Hi Tamar! Nice to hear from you. I like the Pamper Herself package
I like the family fun package
I LOVE SEARS. THEY KNOW HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT, I THINK
THE PACKAGES ARE GREAT . I THINK YOU ALL ARE SO KIND DONATING THAT STUFF. WAY TO GO!! MY WIFES SISTER AND FAMILY ARE REALLY HAVING A TIME OF IT NOW AND COULD USE SOME UPLIFTING NEWS. i WOULD GIVE THEM WHATEVER I WON.
THANKS
I think they would like the family fun pack thanks
Chris
camping package please
Family fun package. More like, Jordan fun package.
Just tweeted my submission: http://twitter.com/0boy/status/1064213945
Please grant my wish to win the Sears Family Fun Package. I have a family. I love fun. I shop at Sears. It seems to me to be a perfect fit.
I really liked the Camping Package. Make 1000 entires Tamar. Cheers!
Family Fun Package is what I would choose, it was a hard decision, though! Happy Holidays and thanks for the contest!
Terrific idea – if applicable, the family fun package would be great.
I would love the camping package.
Awesome – I Love the Family Fun Package!
The The Family Fun Package – It would be a great gift to a family at a shelter or in need that otherwise would have nothing under the tree.
Cooooooool. The family fun package sounds…fun!
sounds awesome!!
I would love to win the Camping Package
Thanks for telling me about this!
family fun package all the way!
Camping Package.
Okay then the Spa one.
family fun
That Family Fun Package is awesome! But, the man inside me says if I don’t choose the Pamper Her Package for the wife, I’ll be sleeping on the couch. DECISIONS!!!
Because I always look to take care of my beautiful girlfriend first, I must go with the Pamper Her Package for the Princess in my life. Hopefully I will win and I can tell her that I spent weeks putting this great package together!
MJ
The Family Fun Package would be great! My family could really use this!! Merry Christmas!!
Great idea Tamar, and great of Sears to put this together with you! Happy holidays to you and everyone else!
My vote is for the Family package.
- Urgo / FirstDigg
Tweeted you
and its fam fun all the way, best gadgets for everyone http://twitter.com/PsyCode/status/1064128063
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be an awesome thing to win, I’d have a great mother-daughter day sharing the goodies with my little girl!
The Family Fun Package would be awesome!
This is a really nice story, all the packages are great, but I’d go with A.
The Family Fun Package would be great. What a great cause!
I would like to win the family fun package because I need a new digital camera
The family fun package for me please!
Thanks for entering me! Great Site!
Janna Johnson
jannajanna@hotmail.com
I would love the Family Fun Package, Tamar. Sounds awesome… and with my pack of kids here it would totally go to good use.
I tweeted it as well.
would love the Family Fun Package
The Family Fun package looks fantastic
My wife is basically the queen of karaoke. Her specialty is Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” and she truly does make the bar come alive. Not in the annoying way that most good singers would, but just in a subtle way, and then she goes and downs her Coors Light. I want to set up the Family Fun Package so badly I can taste it!
Great post Tamar. I would chose the family fun package. Please enter me to win.
This would be given out to a charity or family in need. I was just sent this and still need time to check where and who we would send it to. More than likely we would personally deliver the package to a family that we chose through an organization, or we would donate different items to different families in need in the name of Sears, and the others involved. Either way, it will all be donated of course.
Thank you for the opportunity. And good luck to everyone!!
Also, I will be posting this on my SU page with a link to this post.
The family fun package for me please.
The family fun package really does sound like it would be fun.
Woah! You have a lot of comments. Tamar, does this count as a comment?
I’d love the Family Fun package.
The family would have great fun with the family fun package. I hope I win it!
I am interested in the Camping Package
uprightpost.blogspot.com
I like the Family Fun Package
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package sounds exactly like what I need.
Merry Xmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Please, send my gift in CASH.
Thank you very much.
Hi Tamar!
Very nice contest! The family fun package please…if the random number is destined for me.
Have a great holiday!
BTW I’ve re-twittered too
Gera .:. sweetsfoods
You know, I’ve never taken my daughter camping. She deserves to suffer like my parents made me suffer
So I’ll throw my hat in for the camping package
Wow! Way to use your Social Media SuperHero powers for good!! i will take 1 Family Fun package please
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be PERFECT for my girlfriend…
Camping pack!!!
Tamar, you are such an inspiration!
Thank you for being you!!!!
Merry christmas!
Love,
The Whyte family
Family Fun! Family Fun! Family Fun!
I am going to tweet, but fist want to say I am for Casio 8.1MP Digital Camera EX-Z80
I need to win the spa package!
Merry Christmas!
I tweeted, I’d like the Camping Package!
i could use the spa relaxation…ahhh
The Family Fun Package looks awesome! This is great Tamar!
the family fun package works for me
Great idea Tamar! I’m glad you got such a great response, and it’s really in the spirit of the holidays.
Hopefully, I get that Family Fun Package !
Great idea Tamar! Ohhhhh … I like the family fun package!
Wow, excellent gifts Tamar. I love Sears and would love to win the Family Fun Package.
I love your blog and can’t wait to do some shopping
I’d enjoy winning the Family Fun Package. It has something for everyone and would be a great gift to bring the family together.
wow, almost 500 comments, i’m impressed! if i win, the family package sounds nice – however i will leave it up to you to decide which charity to donate it to. nice job!
nice work tamar, almost 500 comments, impressive. if i win – ill take the family fun package, but will leave it up to you to decide what charity to donate it to. great post.
I’m here to let you know that Silent Jay really wants the Pamper Herself package. He’s just too afraid to admit it publicly
As for me, I like the Family Fun Package. Sounds awesome.
Great contest, Tamar! My fav out of all the ones out there. The Family Fun Package sounds good.
Great Contest!!
I’d love the Family Fun Package!!!
I would love to win the Family Fun package, there’s something in there that every one in my family could enjoy and have fun with.
What an outstanding contest! I’d love to win any of those packages AND have it donated to United Way, or Salvation Army or any woman’s shelter. As long as it goes to somewhere that can be put to good use by someone who otherwise wouldn’t be able to have these things.
I think this is an awesome idea and I’m glad that you were able to be involved in this Tamar, that being said I think many where i am at would value the The Family Fun Package over the other two, so thats what ill choose.
Camping package for me, please:)
The Craftsman Toolbox Cooler looks inticing.
The Family Fun Package
i would give this to my family due to all the lay offs and hardship we are currently experiencing. Would take our minds off the every day hubbub!
The Family Fun Package for me and a large order of fries.
Thanks.
The Family Fun Package
Looks very cool! Thanks for putting this together!
Awesome idea Tamar. Always fun to give, especially in hard times. I’m interested in the “The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package”.
My bad, didn’t realize I had to pick a package. I’d pick the The Camping Package because it has the Craftsman Toolbox Cooler.
love the pamer package. Great prize!
Hey Tamar great job in selecting toys and donating them to charity. As much as we like to receive during this holiday it feels even greater giving.
If I am chosen I would select The Family Fun Package.
Best of Luck!
So since you can enter up to 3 times, here’s entry #2
Still pushing for the Camping package though
This is a really great idea and an awesome example of how one can leverage a community’s power together for a great cause!
Sign me up for the family fun package plz
I would love the camping package. This is such a thoughtful idea. Thanks for putting this together Tamar and IZEA!!
Great idea Tamar,
I would like the family fun package. We’re sponsoring a woman’s shelter this holiday season. If my name is drawn, I’ll give it to them.
I would love to win the Camping Package.
Hey Tamar! It’s KC, Brian’s coworker.
What a fab idea! I would take the pampering package (although it took me forever to decide that).
PS – Congrats!
Wow. Great idea. Thanks for running this contest.
The Family Fun Package seems cool!
Family Fun Package
I would go with the family fun package because i really need a digital camera. The stuff i couldn’t use i would give away.
we would love the family fun package. thanks and merry christmas. miketra@sbcglobal.net
The The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package looks good. Although, it will cause many an argument in my house over who gets what, I’d still like to win it. Thanks.
Heidi
sweet_soul_sistermi@yahoo.com
I like the family fun package
I’m going to stick with what seems to be the majority and go with the Family Fun Package.
Cheers!
I would like to win the Family Fun Pack.
THE FAMILY FUN PACKAGE would be a great one to win!
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package would be a very nice gift to myserlf. Thanks.
I think this is such a great idea! At my job we helped a coworker recently sponsor a needy family. It was a single mom and her 14 year old daughter. For the daughter I bought paint brushes, a sketch journal and a bunch of crafting supplies that were on her wish list. It felt great to fulfill someone’s holiday wish who was more needy than I. Keep up the good work!
Spa Relaxation Package
I would be happy with any of them. camping packing looks fun also the pamper me package.
how about the family fun package.
I am a nurse and would love to come home to “The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package”!
I also sent a tweet out! This is a great post Tamar! I’ll speak up about a spa package to help me wind down from the chaos of Holiday time.
Pamper herself spa relaxation package for a friend who is acting brave but i know is having a very hard time coping with loss.
Hi Tamar – Cool contest! I sure would love that family fun package! I hope you make it to 1000! YAY Sears! Happy Hanukkah!
These are all great prizes, I would choose the family fun package.
Yes please – Family Fun Package.
The Family Fun Package would be sick!!
Love it – Thanks Tamar!!
Hey Tamar! How awesome!!
I would LOVE the Family Fun Package!!
Since we’ll be adding a member to our family in the coming months, how perfect!
Rich
Hi, I would like a chance at the The Family Fun Package. Happy Holidays!!
Way to go Tamar!
Excellent idea and wonderful cause.
The Camping Package would rock!
Good luck to all, and best wishes!
I think it’s great that you put those who are less fortunate ahead of yourself this holiday season! The picture’s great, too!
This is such a wonderful giveaway. My friend’s family would enjoy the Family Fun Package so much. Times are tough here in Michigan, and her husband just got laid off from the steel mill. Christmas is definitely going to be hard on them this year.
Fantastic idea! The family fun package is great.
Gotta have that camper package.
Hey Tamar – this is a really cool idea, good on sears for going after it. I’m in for the family fun pack
The Camping Package sounds perfect!
my 12-year-old daughter work on finding ways to bond around what we both love to do – camping is one of our shared interests. would love to win the camping package and share the love with my budding teenage girl! peace, and thank you for the opportunity. dgirlp
Put me down for an entry for the Family Fun Package. Great idea Tamar!
I’d love to win the camping package. Our family does a fair amount of camping with my son’s cub scout pack, and our little 3-person dome tent is proving to be a bit small for two adults and a rapidly-growing boy. The extra space would be great!
This is such a great idea and the gift packages are killer! I’m in for the family fun pack!
I tweeted your giveaway! http://twitter.com/delora
I would like the family fun package. I could use everything on it along with my kids. Thanks so much.
Tamar! I’m finally commenting! If it were up to me, I’d go for the Pamper Herself pack
What a great idea. Love the Sears Hardware Dept and the so adequately named “thingamajigs”. The Family Fun Package for me! If I win it will go to charity!
Hello Tamar’ The Family Fun Package looks great.
Splendid! Thanks for running the contest.
WHAT A WONDERFUL IDEA!
Man, I can’t choose! Can I have both the Family Fun AND the Camping Package? I’ll even re-gift some of it for charity on my end!
Nice! I would take the Family fun package as maybe my daughter will learn how to shoot hoops. Yay!
I have six kids so I could really use the relaxation package. But with 6 kids the Family Fun package makes more sense.
Camping Package sounds really good!
I would love to donate the family fun package!!
I’d like to try for The Family Fun Package
I have a lot of people in my family that would love these gifts. My Mom would really appreciat the foot bath, I accidently broke hers a long time ago and she’d appreciate this one, which is much nicer than her old one was.
The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package
the family fun package, very nice
the fun family package for my family
I would buy a new vacuum cleaner and probably some clothes for my son.
If I won the $500 gift card (I would want this the most)
Tamar, this is awesome! Wow, so many replies.
Well for me, I’d like to win the Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package for my girlfriend (not for me, don’t worry).
Family fun package. Thanks!
The family fun package sounds awesome!!
Pick me, please. I’d luv to win anything!
Family Fun package would be great.
The Family Fun Package. Great giveaway!
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/vanessasue
I’d love to win the The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package. It looks great! Many thx.
We love Spa’s
I would really like the “The Pamper Herself” package. I have a mother and a sister who would like these items =).
Thanks, and good luck!
My son is 6 and my husband is ready to try camping. That package would get us off to a great start!
I sent out a Tweet
http://twitter.com/ADramaticMommy/status/1065959976
I really, really like The Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package! Thanks for offering such great prizes.
the camping package
Family Fun
I would love the camping package for my family. We have 5 boys and 1 girl, they would love that.
These packages sound great. I wouldn’t take one if I won, but I think it’s cool. Excellent job, Tamar!
Camping package…
Ohhh. The family fun package looks awesome!
Yeah, I’d have to go with the Family Fun package. Whee!
I heart camping!
I’m ready to get pampered!
Thanks for the op!