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In honor of my 101st post I'm doing a giveaway!

I spent some time trying to think of the perfect thing to give away. Something that figuratively said "Life in the Carpool Lane" but was useful, wanted, needed.

Somedays I considered giving the boys away (but that's probably not legal) and they don't really qualify as useful.

Then, I combed through my past 100 posts and thought I could offer products that I mentioned. Maybe:
a set of orange ice cube trays
a Dan Zanes CD
The Goonies
a book from my spring reading list
a Matchbox car
V8 V*Fusion

Instead I decided to give something away that people would really use and want.
A gift certificate!
A gift certificate to Target!
That way you could buy some of the above things if you actually wanted them.

I thought $50 would do the trick!

{Cute kid not included.}
{Logan was also to be in the pic but was uncooperative and refused to wear anything on his lower half!}

I can hear you thinking, "But Carey, the economy is bad. Times are tough. How can you justify spending $50 on a gift certificate for a lucky reader?"

See, that's actually the easy part. I looked around my house and found $50 worth of merchandise that I could return to Target. Yes, I have a spending problem (but only at Target). I really had that much merchandise stashed away with tags attached and receipts saved that I had purchased in the last 90 days. (Kind of ridiculous when you think about it... So, I'm trying to not think about it.) The really sad part is that quite a few items came from the dollar bins. I should have apologized to the poor people behind me in the return line.

So I returned it all and bought you, one lucky reader, a $50 gift card.

If you've actually read this far then you must really want it.
So here are the rules:

To enter, leave one general comment on this post. (Feel free to tell me how wonderful you think I am.)

For extra entries, leave a separate comment for each additional chance:

• Follow my blog (or current followers let me know you already do so)
  
• Add my button to your blog
  
• Write a post on your blog about my giveaway and in your comment here leave a link to your post
  

When all is said and done, you could have left me as many as 4 comments meaning you have as many as 4 entries in the drawing.

If your email address is not visible in your profile, you'll need to supply it in your comments. Otherwise, if you are the lucky winner, I'll have no way to get in touch with you.

I'll stop accepting comments/entries as of Friday, April 17, 2009 at midnight PST and draw a winner at random (using random.org) shortly thereafter. Giveaway is only open to US or Canadian residents. Giveaway is not open to my husband, Scott. (Don't even think about it, honey!)

Good luck!

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No more entries are being accepted. The winner will be announced shortly.

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