Subscribe to Our Feed!As I mentioned before, I am one of the 50 blogs participating in the amazing HP Magic Giveaway. In case you forgot, you can win $6000.00 worth of HP & Microsoft gear. I’m serious. See it?
(More on the specs here.)
And I know I’ve taunted you with dates. And made you guess. And wonder. And wait. But I’ve been nice and continued to link to live giveaways. But guess what? It’s our turn! That’s right! Stop, Drop & Blog is now LIVE with our HP Magic Giveaway! Sound the alarm! Roll out the hose! It’s a four alarm giveaway, folks!
First and foremost, I need to tell you this: while our giveaway is based on a random chance, I want you guys to understand the reason our site decided to participate in such an amazing giveaway. I’ve been blogging all this week about the reasons we are so grateful this holiday season. I will continue to do so throughout the rest of this week. FireDad and I have recognized how truly blessed we have been in the past few years. We have two healthy, happy children. We have a house. We are having a Christmas of our own. We are in love with one another and with our family. We are so blessed. And as such, we want to share that feeling with your family. But we don’t want that feeling to stop there.
We know that we wouldn’t be as blessed as we are if people wouldn’t have taken time to share things with us along the way. The table my parents gave to us when we got our first apartment. The meals the ladies of the church brought to us after LittleBrother was born and I didn’t have enough time to shower let alone cook a healthy meal. The leads for freelancing jobs that others have shared with me because they felt that I would be best suited. The friendship others have extended to us over the years. Without those little bits of sharing, we wouldn’t quite be the family that we are today. And that’s why we believe so intently in the true meaning behind this contest: sharing the magic. While we can’t demand that our winner share the package with anyone, we’d really like to promote that idea. I won’t tell you who and how to share but I will delete all entries that say, “Gimme gimme.” I reserve the right to do so!
All that said: I’ll need you to visit the whole list of rules for the giveaway, of course, but here’s the rundown on how to enter!
1. Leave a comment on this post explaining what winning this package would mean to you and your family in these tough economic times and how your sharing of this package would contribute to the true meaning of the season. This counts as one entry. You may only leave one entry in this fashion. IP addresses are recorded. Obvious spoof IPs will be disqualified.
2. Tweet this contest with this tinyurl ( http://tinyurl.com/sdbgiveaway1 ) and the hashtag #SDBGiveaway. You may tweet up to twice per day. Come back to this post and paste the URL of each individual tweet you post. (I will check every single one at the end of the contest so do not delete.) Each tweet, up to two per day, will count as one entry. (How to get the URL of each individual tweet? Click on the “time” that your tweet was entered. It follows your actual tweet. “3 minutes ago” is an example.) And, not necessary, but feel free to add me on twitter. I’m FireMom!
3. Digg, Stumble or otherwise promote this contest via some form of social media (other than the twitter entry above). Come back to this post and paste the URL of each individual promotion along with your username in case things get confusing. Each promotion will count as one entry. One promotion per social media site.
4. Blog about this contest on your public blog telling your readers a longer version of the comment you left in entry option #1. Meaning: Blog about what this contest means to you and your family this year and how sharing it would impact friends and family. Include a link back to this post. Please come back this post to post the link to your permalinked post just in case my blog doesn’t pick up your track back. You are allowed to do this once and it will count as one entry.
All entries will be entered into a Google Documents spreadsheet. Your name, email, method of entry, date, time and IP address will be recorded. Upon close of the giveaway, I will double check the list for any blatant errors. I will then pick a winner via random.org. Winner will first be contacted via email on the evening of December 16, 2008. Winner has 12 hours to contact me by email reply before the giveaway moves on to the next random winner. Winner will need to provide me with full name, shipping address and telephone number but can choose whatever name they wish to use for announcement on the blog. No personal information will be shared with my readers. I will announce the confirmed winner (hopefully!) by noon here on Stop, Drop & Blog. Winner will be provided with a form for tax purposes so that HP may reimburse you via check for the taxes on this $6000.00 prize package.
Now that we’ve got the entry methods out of the way, I must insist you read the Official Rules of our giveaway. Your participation in any one of those entry methods is an acceptance of the Official Rules. And, let me tell you, #5 is quite possibly the biggest rule.
I am looking forward to meeting some new readers, reading your tweets and blogs and otherwise helping you get in the spirit of giving this holiday season. I encourage you to keep reading this week as I continue to blog about the reasons we are so very grateful this holiday season. In fact, I encourage you to swear of whining for a week and blog about the positives in your life, too! It’s quite refreshing!
Ready? Set! WIN!
ETA: Contest is closed as of 6pm on December 16, 2008. Winner will be announced on the blog tomorrow! Thanks for all of the entries, stories and awesomeness that you have shared with me during this amazing opportunity.
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I would keep the HDX for myself. I am still limping along with a 450 MHz pentium III with WinXP, 512MB RAM, and a 12 GB HDD.
I would give the TouchSmart to my wife, who has an even older system- an HP Pavillion Pentium II with Win98. She would finally be able to publish the book she started writing several years ago.
I would give the Mini 1000 to my son, who is 14, and has never had a computer. His interest in multimedia is limited by the slow capabilities of our family’s machines. He’d also get the Kung Fu Panda DVD to share with my other kids.
I would give the Pavilion dv4 to my mother- and father-in-law who have never had a computer of their own. It would be worth all the gifts just to see the look in their eyes when they received it. They would be able to listen to internet radio and news programs without having a time limit before someone had to take back their machine, and send e-mail and pictures of their grandkids.
Winning this contest would mean a lot to my family because we have endured quite a bit of hardship over the last 2 yrs. Our plans to upgrade our computer equipment have been pushed off every time due to unforeseen events making anything set aside for computers unavailable. I commend HP for offering such a giveaway in these times.
I love rule number #5. We don’t allow it at our house either. Whine, ya get double duty! Actually, we too have alot to be thankful for. Simple things, none of them relate to money except it is the catalyst for providing for our needs. We have a house filled with love, we have our health, and we lack for nothing. So, why do I want to win? My husband took a new job recently and it thousands of miles away while we wait for God’s perfect timing (ie. our house to sell.) Hubby is very lonely. We weren’t prepared for God’s timing not to jive with ours. The perfect plan humanly speaking was to all move together. As it is, we are stretching our dollars to fund his living expenses on top of ours. I am thankful we have dollars to stretch. Lives little for extravagances though. He hasn’t furnished the apt with the basics, yet he wants me to find him a laptop pronto so he can connect with us via webcam. His loneliness would be more bearable (though I keep encouraging him to be content.) My brother’s family has also seen hard times and is currently without a computer at all. I’d love to bless them with one, and all the other ‘stuff’ minus the mini that would help me keep my sanity when we do move, would be donated to one of several local charites, depending on their needs. “Jacob” of Jacob’s Hope is the child I refer to in my blog post.
just in case… my blog is http://luvmy12kids.blogspot.com
Why I should win this contest?
I am a young boy, and since I have a passion for graphics and photos, I would love to be using my hands for it on a touch screen. The printer would help me print my photos.
My sister needs a small laptop when she will begin at a boarding school next year, so I would love to give her that as christmas present.
I have followed this blog for a long time, and I do really love it.
My parents are paying for a new bathroom, so we don’t have that much money for christmas. I would love to be the one who gives away this christmas to make a memoriable day. It would mean a lot to me and my family.
The prize package would be of great help to me. Of course I will share the prize with others. I will take the Touchsmart PC. I will give the rest to my brother and friends. I have not yet completely decided on that
My tweets:
http://twitter.com/jmv1993204/status/1050902308
http://twitter.com/jmv1993204/status/1050902170
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Not that i even have a chance of winning i might as well try and enter.
I dont have a sob story and im not going to lie about how im going to give everything away to the needy, charity begins at home and if i win i would like to donate the 15? notebook, HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless AIO Printer, HP 564 Series Photo Value Pack, Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007 and Corel VideoStudio X2 back to this blog so they can put it back up for grabs to someone else who wasnt as lucky as me to win.
The touchsmart i would love to have that as my PC as mine is an aging celeron system with crt monitor, the 18? notebook i would give to my father as he has done a lot for me over the years including doing without things so that i could have what i wanted, sounds selfish and it probably is, i already have bought him a lot for this christmas including the phone he wanted but the notebook would be the icing on the cake as his Acer laptop is on its last legs.
The netbook i would want to keep for myself as i work in the field of IT and i would love to have a mini notebook instead of having to use a PDA that doesnt have a keypad that i had to supply myself.
Finally the Mediasmart i would give to my father for the front room, i bought him one of them crappy hard drive caddies that plays back divx and xvid and the software on it is dire, it only supports very few formats and the HDD inside is on its way out clicking and grinding.
Thanks for the opportunity.
http://twitter.com/iamsheppard/status/1050917489
I’ve twitted you now. Don’t know if I’ve done everything right.
http://twitter.com/eliassorensen/status/1050904611
http://jaxl.com/2008/12/11/hp-magic-giveaway/ my blog post about this content, and what it would mean for me to win.
I have digged you using my user at digg called “jafingi”. http://digg.com/microsoft/HP_Magic_Giveaway_3/who
Thanks for this nice blog!
As a student I can’t afford very fancy presents but if I won I could make a lot of people happy. I would keep the netbook because it’s great for school. I’d also keep the touchsmart and mediasmart as I love to play games and me and my girlfriend are movie-freaks.
The rest of hardware would go to friends and family. I have planned a good place for each item. They would replace old and aging computers etc. I would make them to giveaway their old computer in order to get a new one so I could make as many people as possible feel the magic.
Winning this contest would be helpful for my sister and I, who are in college, and my dad in two brothers who are back home. I would give one of the laptops to my brother who doesn’t have one, and I would give the printer to my dad so that he could make beautiful prints of our family.
http://twitter.com/laaabaseball/status/1050930810
http://laaabaseball1.stumbleupon.com/favorites/
http://laaatech.com/post/64258426/enter-hp-magic-giveaway-stop-drop-and-blog
Today’s tweets
http://twitter.com/osssyvan/status/1050949635
http://twitter.com/osssyvan/status/1050956190
i am from the philippines, a third world country. whatever kind of poverty you experience, we have it here twofold.
we have an organization in school, we really do need the money. and the student council does not have that much funds. maybe some of the readers can donate to us so we can at least have something to raffle off?
i do not know how to tweet. but maybe i can upload on friendster? i dont know.
i know now how to tweet! but i still cant figure out how to add.
our computers in school are so ugly and slow. we need to bring our own laptops to be able to make up for lost time. (and there arent enough computers for everyone)
https://twitter.com/aaaaaaart/status/1050995185
https://twitter.com/aaaaaaart/status/1051002341
http://profiles.friendster.com/artgallery (posted a shoutout. equal to digg?)
http://stilettoscandale.multiply.com blog entry
This would be awesome to give to my family. I mean we don’t usually exchange gifts, which is a long story but who would not want to give 6 grand to their family.
Actually, I would prolly give just the TouchSmart to my family, keep the HP Mini 100 for myself and gift the rest to a few students at the school where my mom teaches.
So now not only will my family be happy, a few other families will be as well.
Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/regac/status/1051059460