Huggable Hangers Winner: You’re #1! You’re #1!
Jul 31, 2008 Product Giveaway
If you look at the first few comments on the Huggable Hanger contest post, you’ll see why I think the winner is kind of funny. And I had to take a picture of the Random.org sequence generator, since I was afraid nobody would believe me.
Our winner is Adventures in Babywearing. Congratulations!
Thanks to everyone who entered. I have a feeling we’ll be giving away more of these hangers in the future. I got a bunch of emails from people saying that they already had them so they didn’t want to enter the contest, but that they thought that these hangers were really great. Feel free to post comments even if you don’t want to enter – just mention that in the comment. I won’t assign you a number.
And BTW, before anyone emails asking why the timestamp on Random.org was 3 minutes before the hour, I have no idea. By the time I printed out the comments, verified that nobody had entered twice in one day, numbered the eligible comments, answered the phone, got a breadstick from the fridge leftover from last night’s dinner at Olive Garden, and answered the door (my package is here!), it was probably at least 12:15 before I got around to getting the winner.
So a big thank you to Joy Mangano for the hangers, and remember to watch her tonight on the Home Shopping Network, at 9pm and 11pm.
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
Tags: Home Shopping Network, HSN, Huggable Hangers, Joy Mangano
Win Fifty Huggable Hangers!
Jul 28, 2008 Product Giveaway
A little while back I received a couple of Huggable Hangers to try out. I had seen these on TV, but for some reason, the commercials had not convinced me to pick up the phone. I thought that either they really were as good as they said, and would be too expensive, or they were cheap and wouldn’t last. So I was glad that Home Shopping Network and Joy Mangano (the creator of Huggable Hangers) put a couple in my hands to try, because I might not have tried them otherwise. And that would have been bad, because I love these hangers!
I’ve been using mine for a few weeks now, and here are five reasons why I think they’re way better than any other hanger out there:
- They’re really thin. I hate wasting space in my closet, and my clunky plastic hangers take up way too much space for what they have on them.
- They’re coated in velvet, which grips whatever you hang on them without having to use clothespins, which leave ugly marks.
- They have a very gentle slope in the shoulder, so that even the thinnest, most delicate of fabrics doesn’t get an ugly “hanger hump.”
- The hook part of the hanger can be turned, in case you want to hang something on a door or some kind of rack.
- You can buy a whole closet full without breaking the bank. HSN is even shipping some of the Huggable Hanger packs for free right now, so you can get them for right around $1 per hangar.
In honor or HSN’s 31st anniversary, Joy Mangano will be on HSN this coming Thursday, July 31st from 9-10pm and 11pm-1am. And to help celebrate, she’s giving away 50 Huggable Hangers (25 adult, 25 child) to a lucky Selfish Mom reader! To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post between now and noon on July 31st. The winner will be chosen at random, but to make it fun, please tell us in your comment what the last thing was that you bought online. Only one entry per person per day please!
Update: Forgot to mention, these can only be sent to U.S. addresses!
To read my general rules on giveaways, go here. Good luck!
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
Tags: Home Shopping Network, HSN, Huggable Hangers, Joy Mangano
Stainless Steel Card Holder Winners!
Jul 28, 2008 Product Giveaway
OK, I have the winners of the gorgeous Woven Stainless Steel Card Holders from Stewart/Stand. The random winner is bonggamom, and the winner that I chose was Leticia, AKA Tech Savvy Mama. Leticia’s suggestion was a stainless steel sunglasses holder, and perhaps I was swayed because I spent two weeks shopping for a sunglasses holder after buying mid-priced sunglasses that didn’t come with a case, but I really like the idea! Stuart/Stand, are you listening?
Tags: Stewart/Stand
Videos That Tickle Me
Jul 25, 2008 What's Going On
There are some videos that I can watch over and over (and no, not all of them are a-ha videos).
This one has been going around for a while, but my step-mom just emailed it to me and reminded me of its existence. It’s comedienne Anita Renfroe, condensing everything moms say to their kids in the course of a day into a three-minute section of the William Tell Overture. It’s hilarious.
If you want to see her interviewed on CBS, go here.
Even funnier, I think, is her response to “Momsense” called, of course, “Dadsense.”
Moving on to politics, where there’s always material, the funny folks at JibJab recently released their latest video, about the Obama and McCain campaigns.
But as funny as that is, it doesn’t hold a candle to the first JibJab video I ever saw, from the Kerry/Bush campaign. I’ve probably seen this 50 times, and it makes me laugh out loud every single time.
Sublime.
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
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Tags: Anita Renfroe, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, JibJab, John Kerry, John McCain, Parody, William Tell Overture
What Did Happen When I Got Back?
Jul 25, 2008 What's Going On
On my way back from San Francisco I wrote a post for the NYC Moms Blog about leaving my kids home with my husband for an extended amount of time, when he would have to deal with the kids during their normal routine, carpooling and packing lunches and all that other fun stuff. As I revealed in the post, my biggest fear wasn’t that things would go badly. My biggest fear was that it would go so well that The Ass would wonder what I do all day. That he would see my life as easy and carefree and devoid of all of the angst that he encounters at work every day.
Being a stay-at-home mom is what you make it, to a certain extent. You can be a domestic goddess, the super-mom making bread and sewing costumes. You can spend all day taking your child to do interesting things and being the cool mom who is always on her way somewhere. When my kids were little, before each started preschool, staying at home with them meant taking a lot of naps (I used to take giant ones whenever they did), hanging out in the playground, and making an effort to keep the house organized and somewhat clean. Being at home with them kept me in a kind of forced routine. But now that they’re both in school (or summer camp) full time, I’m a stay-at-home mom who just isn’t home much. Housework and organization have taken a backseat for the past year or so. I’ve been trying to fit chores in between other projects: volunteering at my kids’ schools, keeping up with Filming In Brooklyn, and some other projects that I just couldn’t manage to get to when I had a kid with me all day.
But The Ass didn’t have any of that other stuff going on. All he would have to do is take care of the kids and himself. He would be on vacation from work, not trying to fit his work in around the kids’ schedules. Even though he would be playing my role for a few days, he would only be playing half of it. The other responsibilities went with me to San Francisco.
So what did happen while I was gone? Everything went fine. There were a few minor snafus, nothing worse than I would have done if I had been home. Some things were cleaner. He put away a ton of laundry. He didn’t run to me when I got home wailing “Don’t ever leave again!” But he did say something that made me feel better, made me feel like he didn’t see my time as wasted. He said that he thinks he tends to overestimate how much I’m able to get done each day during the five hours when the kids are gone. That’s all I needed.
