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Archive for November, 2008

Christmas Giveaway Roundup!!!

Nov-30-2008 By Monica

Do you still have some gifts that you need to get? Is there someone in your family that’s just hard to buy for? Well, we’ve got you covered! Mommy Brain Reports is holding our Last Minute Shopper Giveaway!

Below are links to each item that we are giving away! 

1. Win A Flip Ultra Digital Camcorder! (One Winner)

2. Win Screen Life Games’ Disney DVD Bingo! (Five Winners)

3. Win Innovention Lab’s Internet Password Organizer (One Winner)

4. Win Jakks Pacific Night Vision Goggles sponsored by PlusSizeMommy (One Winner)

5. Win Two Handmade Cards from Crazy 4 Cards (One Winner)

6. Build A Bear $25 Gift Card (One Winner)

7. Dirt Devil KWIK. One a day from Dec 1-12 (TWELVE WINNERS)

8. $500 Walmart Gift Card (One Winner)

9. $100 Walmart Gift Card (One Winner) 

10. $50 Gift Certificate to Photofiddle.com (One Winner)

11. Card Cubby Organizer (One Winner)

12. $100 Dell Gift Card (One Winner)

Please feel free to enter each giveaway! Check out the rules for each giveaway! 

 

If you’re doing a giveaway at this time, please join the Roundup by adding your link to Mr Linky below! Guidelines can be found here.

** ATTENTION** IF Mr Linky is not working, please leave a comment with a direct link to your giveaway! Same Guidelines apply.. Thanks!


Holiday Giveaway Roundup

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Review: Melissa & Doug Memory Game

Nov-28-2008 By Monica

Leaps and Bounds sent us the Melissa and Doug Flip to Win Wooden Travel Games to try out, and my girls were all over them! Grandma and Grandpa came over one evening, and while Daddy and I were cooking dinner, they started playing the Memory Game. It was so hard to get them to put it down to eat dinner!

These games are awesome for travel for a few reasons.

1. There aren’t a bunch of little pieces to lose! The tiles are tethered to the board with bungee cords!

2. They’re easy for my girls to pass back and forth between each other in the car to take turns. No fighting!

3. They’re easy to keep clean! Just wipe them down with a damp cloth!

4. They’re super affordable, and super durable! Only $12.95 each and they’ll last a long time!

Although the recommendation is ages 5+ for the memory game, my girls were playing it at age 3… the Hangman, they just need to know how to spell. (We’re working on that)

Check out the video I took of them playing the Memory game! Then go to Leaps and Bounds and check out the Flip to WinGames!

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I recently wrote a review about Small World Toys is a great online toy store that carries some awesome learning games for kids of all ages!!!

Well, I found out today, that All of the Small World Toys catalog pass the new 2009 standards and that they stand behind all of our products.

We have been testing for lead for over a decade and were testing for phlalates long before it was required to do so. We have been around since 1961 and our philosophy has always been to provide safe toys in small hands. Compared to our competitors this puts us in a great position for 2009 since we are already compliant to the regulations thanks to our years of testing :)

 
They are are also offering free shipping on orders $50+ on our website with a ton of new toys on promotion for the Thanksgiving weekend! Check out their awesome deals!! The promotion runs until Tuesday. The Plaja Pets magnetically mixable plush toys are now in stock at the warehouse as well! These are super cute, and great gift ideas! 

As a Mommy Brain Reports reader, you can also get 20% off of your entire order at Small World Toys!!!  You must use coupon code SALE137 to receive the 20% off! This coupon ends December 15th, so act fast!!! Save a whole lot of money this year by shopping with Small World Toys!

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This Giveaway is now Closed

You can win a $500 Walmart gift card on Mommy Brain Reports!!! 

Yes, you heard read it correctly. $500. From November 26th through December 15th you can enter here to win a $500 Walmart Gift Card, courtesy of Nickelodeon! We want to know how you save money during the holidays! 

This contest is going to require some work! There are 4 ways you can enter to win:

1. Leave me a comment stating your best money saving tips for the holiday season! If you entered any of my previous contests that asked the same thing, you may repost your same comments.

2. Turn your tips into a video! Show me what you’re doing this holiday season to save money! Upload it to YouTube, Photobucket, or Google Picasa, and leave me a link here! Be sure to mention Mommy Brain Reports in your video!

3. Blog about this giveaway and comment here with a link!

4. Tweet a money saving tip using the hashtag #nick and #11moms in your tweet! Then leave a comment with a link to your tweet!

Winner will be chosen at random at 12NOON PST Monday December 15th! Winner will be notified that afternoon, and will have 24 hours to reply! Winner will be announced on Mommy Brain Reports Wednesday December 17th.

For even more chances to win, check out all of the ElevenMoms sites!!!

 
Good luck!!! 

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Christmas Giveaway Roundup!

Nov-25-2008 By Monica

Holiday Giveaway Roundup

Mommy Brain Reports Holiday Giveaway Roundup!

December 1st – December 15th 2008

Giveaways are done at the blog owners discretion, but please follow these guidelines if you would like to link up to Mommy Brain Reports!

1.  The Holiday Giveaway Roundup is just a way to link up,drive more traffic to your site, and gain more entries from people who otherwise may not have known about your site/giveaway!. 

Readers should leave a comment on your site, and your contest post to enter your giveaway. You can place your link here on Mommy Brain Reports using our Mr Linky, that will be set up and ready on the first day of the Roundup.

2.  Your giveaway can go live at any time during the Roundup. Just make sure to come back here and put your giveaway information on our Mr Linky with a direct link to your giveaway, not your home page!

3.  I will be posting the links to everyone’s giveaways as a sticky on my homepage for the duration of the roundup. I’ll also tweet it several times over the duration. 

4.  When your contest has ended, you must choose your winners, and notify them directly! It’s a busy time of year, so don’t expect them to come back and see if they won! 

5.  Please choose your winner no later than December 15th, and please send the giveaway prize to arrive before Christmas! This is the Last Minute Shopper giveaway! 

6.  Please allow both bloggers and non-bloggers to enter your contests! Whether you hold it for residents of the USA, Canada, or Worldwide is completely up to you. I can bet you’ll get more entries the more you open it up to outside the USA. Please CLEARLY note this information in your giveaway up front!

7.  There are a few things that will not be allowed to be part of the giveaway:

  • Items that are not considered family friendly are not allowed, don’t post it here.
  • Items must be free, and not require any form of payment.

8. You must cover the shipping to the winner of your giveaway, no exceptions. 

9.  Use the following code to place the button on your site!

10. You must include a link to Mommy Brain Reports on your blog post. Use the code above to link to Mommy Brain Reports. 

If any of these guidelines are not followed, your link will be removed from my Mr Linky! 

Thanks in advance for participating and I hope everyone has a GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON!

 

Holiday Giveaway Roundup

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Savings Sunday- Save on diapers!!!

Nov-23-2008 By Monica

Being a mom of twins, diapers were the one thing I dreaded buying every payday. Well, even more often than that when the girls were first born. We had to get the preemie and newborn diapers at the grocery stores or Walmart. We typically bought them at walmart where we could save a couple of dollars off of the grocery store prices. 

Once they got into size 2 diapers though, we started buying them at warehouse stores! We found that using the Kirkland brand diapers saved us a lot of money. At Sam’s Club, you can buy Huggies or their brand diapers as well. 

Diapers.com is another option to get discounted diapers as well, but it doesn’t do very good if you’re in need of diapers NOW! You definitely have to plan ahead for this purchase, but if you do, you’ll save quite a bit of cash!

The best thing for us though… I was so glad when the girls were potty trained.

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