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I had 451 entries into my Sears – Don’t Just Give A Gift Grant A Wish contest on my blog. It’s been the best contest outcome that I’ve had here on Julie’s Journal and a lot of fun.

I had a great time reading all the things that people would buy if they won the $100 Sears gift card, and now comes to time to grant someones wish! Ted Murphy from IZEA made the winner announcement on TedTube just a few minutes ago, and you can watch the show here.

Were you the winner? You’ll have to watch TedTube to find out!

JUST KIDDING!!! (But you should watch it, he’s a funny guy)

The winner of my Sears $100 gift card is…Jeanette Malan and she said she would buy the Kodak 9.2MP Digital Camera, EasyShare C913 – Pink Sears item# 00353288000!

CONGRTULATIONS! I will be contacting you through the email you entered on your comment.

[tags]Grant a Wish, Sears, gift cards, shopping[/tags]

Once again I have to share with you the greatest weekly deal on Buy.com. This week I bring you a Philips PowerSquid 5-Outlets Surge Suppressor for a super great price of $22.33!

We currently own about 3 or 4 of these now and they are way better than a regular power strip. The number one reason I like them is that it fits all my electronic devices no matter how large the plug is.

When I use just a regular power strip there is always one or two plugs that I can’t use because of the size of plugs on my printer, or cell phone power adapter. These plugs spread out and allow me to plug in all my stuff on one squid.

Features:

• Input Voltage – 125 V AC
• Output Voltage – 125 V AC
• Power Cord/Cable – 3 ft
• Receptacles – 5
• Weight – 1.55 lb
• Surge Energy Rating – 1080J
• Current – 15A Line Current

Make sure to check out the Weekly Deal sale on Buy.com every week. They have great deals on all kinds of electronic items like external hard drives, USB flash drives, GPS units, and hi-def digital camcorders. They even feature diamond necklaces, DVD’s and software, and cool things like this.

[tags]Buy.com, electronics, weekly deals, sale[/tags]

This post is a sponsored post on behalf of Sears via Izea. The opinions are mine.

It has been many many years since I have shopped at Sears. Not because I don’t like the store, it’s just that I always picture Sears as the big ticket items, and lately there are no big ticket items on my wish list. Speaking of a “wish list,” what’s on yours this year? What’s on your families? What’s on your favorite charities?

With the layoffs in my family, and the struggles we’ve had to endure these past few months, wishes are what get me through most days. Just the other day I was talking with my boys about what they wished for Christmas this year. They know we are struggling, but I wasn’t prepared to hear their answer. I thought they would still rattle off all the high dollar electronics that they normally want, but they didn’t. They said they wanted socks.

Now like any mother of a teenage boy will tell you, there are never enough socks. With all the sports they do, and the the general roughness of boys, you can’t keep enough socks in the house. They’ve even resorted to raiding their step-father’s sock drawer, leaving him with no socks to wear.

So when I got a $100 gift card to go shopping at Sears, what do you think I bought? Yes, socks! $100 worth of socks! My boys wish for socks was granted! I was pleasantly surprised at all the things Sears has in their store. It’s not just appliances and Craftsman tools.

So there you have it. My boys will receive their wish of socks for Christmas, and I had an absolute blast going to Sears with my gift card. The Sears gift card is a great gift idea because you can use it to purchase any item of your choice, yes…even socks!

Now for the fun part! I want to give one of you a $100 Sears gift card for you to go shopping and grant a wish for yourself, a family member, or your favorite charity. You can enter up to three times using the different entry methods listed below.

Have fun and good luck to everyone! I feel like freaking Santa Claus all of a sudden! This is great!

Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish Giveaway Rules

3 Ways To Enter:

1. Receive one entry by going to Sears.com and pick out the items you would buy with a Sears gift card (up to $100). Then come back to my blog and in my comments tell me the item #s of the things you would buy.
2. Receive one entry by Twittering the following
   “RT @JustJulie please grant my wish to win a $100 #Sears gift card – tweet to make your own wish http://urlbrief.com/73028a”
   Leave a comment telling me the URL of your Twitter (example: http://twitter.com/JustJulie/status/1050355129).
3. Receive one entry by writing a blog post about the Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish campaign with a link to my contest Julie’s Journal – Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish. Leave a comment with your blog post URL so I can check it out.

Contest Details:

1. December 23, 2008 – Contest ends at midnight EST
2. December 29, 2008 – Winners chosen by IZEA at random based on all the entries
3. December 29-31, 2008 – Winners will be shipped Sears gift card

Official Rules

Now get to entering and good luck again!

[tags]Grant a Wish, Sears, gift cards, shopping[/tags]

Once again I have to share with you the greatest weekly deal on Buy.com. This week I bring you a Aluratek – Multi-Media Card Reader for a super great price of $11.99 plus free shipping!

I think most people have a card reader on their newer laptops, but if you don’t this is a handy little gadget to have in your laptop bag. Plus it has pink on it, so you know that I love it already. I have a card reader slot on my Dell laptop, but I still have to use an adapter for my Memory Stick Pro Duo that came in my Sony camera.

This little gadget supports all the cards that you may have. MicroSD, MiniSD, Memory Stick (MS); Memory Stick Pro; Memory Stick Duo; Memory Stick Pro Duo; Secure Digital (SD); MMC & RS-MMC

Features:

• Compliant with USB 2.0 specification
• Fast data transfer – up to 480 Mbps, between your cell phone / smartphone / PDA and computers
• Backward compatible with USB 1.1 specification
• Plug-n-Play, Hot swappable, and Hot pluggable
• Limited 1 year warranty
• Cord storage
• 125 watts

Make sure to check out the Weekly Deal sale on Buy.com every week. They have great deals on all kinds of electronic items like external hard drives, USB flash drives, GPS units, and hi-def digital camcorders. They even feature diamond necklaces, DVD’s and software, and cool things like this.

[tags]Buy.com, electronics, weekly deals, sale[/tags]

Social Spark and Kmart gave Jeremy Schoemaker $500 bucks to go shopping at Kmart. He picked out all sorts of things for himself, his daughter, and the rest of his family, and it’s all documented in pictures on his blog.

The cool thing about this contest is that he’s giving away a $500 Kmart gift card to one of his readers, and that could be YOU!

All you have to do is click here and go to Jeremy’s site. In his comments he wants you to write what items you would buy at Kmart (with SKU numbers), and for extra points you can retweet about his contest on Twitter.

How easy is that? I know that $500 would sure help my family out this Christmas, and I bet it would help yours too! So hurry! Click on the banner below and enter to win. The contest ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 16, 2008.

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