Giveaway Rules
Last updated: 12/11/09
If you want to enter one of my giveaways, follow the instructions on the individual post. Anything I say on an individual post supersedes the rules stated on this page.
Anybody can enter my contests and giveaways. Doesn’t matter if you know me, are related to me, or just admire me as a blogging goddess. I owe this blog’s success to people who know me and are spreading the word, so it doesn’t make sense to cut them out of the good stuff. You’ll just have to trust me that I’m being honest about how I pick the winners.
Winners chosen at random are chosen by random.org’s sequence generator. (Or winning numbers, if I’ve got a lot of stuff to give away.) The first number in the sequence is the winner. If the first number chosen doesn’t qualify (the commenter didn’t follow the rules, the comment is a response from me, etc.) I will move on to the next number until I find a winner.
Please make sure that you’ve signed in to the comments section with a valid email address, so that I can contact you if you win. Better yet, register for SelfishMom.com and then you won’t be lying awake at night wondering if you typed your email in correctly.
If a contest post specifies that you may enter once per day, that means once per calendar day, not 24-hour period. In other words, you can enter at 11:59pm Saturday and then again at 12:01am Sunday, and then not again until Monday.
If a post’s entry guidelines refer to one entry per “household” that means you can’t enter a bunch of times under different names and email addresses, and you can’t have your spouse or child enter for you, and you can’t enter once from your home computer and once from your work computer. While there’s no foolproof way for me to police this, I do check IP addresses and whatever else I can check. So don’t try to cheat, or you’ll be banned from all future contests.
Needlessly vulgar or offensive entries will be removed and the commenter will not be entered in the contest or giveaway.
You have exactly one week from the time that I contact you to get back to me with delivery instructions. After that time I will give your prize to someone else, and you will regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life. So if you’re going away and not checking your email for a week, well, I admire you, because I’m an email addict. But you should make sure to check if you’ve entered one of my contests.
Selfish Mom is not responsible for anything that goes wrong after you receive your prize, although I’m happy to take credit for the things that go right.
Comments made about a product may be quoted by me or by anyone I give permission to, including but not limited to the companies providing prizes to use in their advertisements.
These rules can change at any time.
Good luck!
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To post a link to your tweet, you first have to get to the individual twitter page for that tweet. Do this by clicking on the words under your tweet that give the date and time of the tweet, something like “Fri Dec 10 17:29″ or “5:29 PM Dec 1oth”. That should take you to your tweet’s individual page.
Copy and paste the URL for that page into a new comment; the URL should look something like this: “http://twitter.com/SelfishMom/status/6545866895“.
That’s it!
