Home Depot is offering a bunch of really cool tools for under $20 this holiday season. Being a really awesome company, they offered to send some bloggers some of the tools to review and giveaway (not review and keep–bah humbug) to their loyal readers. I got a super cool screwdriver set.

I’ll admit that when they said they were sending me screwdrivers to review that my initial reaction was “how on earth am I going to review screwdrivers? Don’t you just put it on the screw on turn it?” Yep. I’m crafty like that. When I got the screwdriver kit, though, I was like a kid in a candy store. It had all these cool little bit things. Every bit you could think of was in this kit (like 12 of them!). The batteries were included (YES!!!) so it makes an easy holiday gift. All I had to do was take the little paper out, which was thoughtful of them, so it didn’t drain the juice. I immediately started assembling and pushing the right and left buttons to watch the bits go back and forth.

And then…I did something that was decidedly male…I started looking for things to take apart. Oh yes. There had to be something in the house to take apart. And we’re just going to leave the story as to what was disassembled there because you really don’t need to know more about that. What I will say is that this screwdriver is AWESOME and I’m loathe to give it up (ARGH!). For $10, I’m considering putting it on my wishlist. Mom, are you reading this? Everyone needs a good screwdriver. If I hadn’t said I’d give it away, I might have actually given it to her as a gift. We love the freebies.

However, now I have to give it to one of you. One slightly used and gleefully toyed with screwdriver is up for grabs.

It can be yours if you win.

Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment before December 15, 2010 at 5pm CST telling me one thing you love about this time of year. (1 chance)

2) You can tweet this giveaway and/or link it on facebook and/or link to it on your own blog for extra chances to win! You can do this as often as you like, but it only counts once. (1 chance each)

3) You can add the blueshelled facebook page to your facebook pages! This is going to make me really happy. (2 chances)

3) You can put a blueshelled.com blog button (seen in the sidebar-along with code to add it to your blog or website) on your blog or website, or if you already have one, you qualify, for 3 extra entries. I will verify this before your entries will count. Let me know it’s there and where I can find it. It’s pretty!

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**I can only ship in the United States. I’m sorry to my International folks. I adore you, anyway.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Things to remember here: 1/the giveaways are made possible by me and my sponsors. I rely on word of mouth to bring people to my blog. Please spread the word about blueshelled.com! 2/If you or anyone you know might be interested in sponsoring a giveaway here, please let me know. 3/ This blog sucks up the love. Thanks!

Besides being awesome and supporting unknown bloggers, they also do fun things such as giveaways to the faithful readers of said unknown blogs. It is another way of supporting this blog and rewarding the people who spend time here and I am incredibly grateful for their support. As such, I’d like to direct you back to their amazing home page and ask you to give them a whirl.

They are offering a great line of Skinceutical Advanced Brightening products, as well as all of the amazing skincare stuff you love. The Advanced Brightening products are particularly good for damaged skin, as they decrease the effects of that damage as well as protect your skin. If you aren’t using skincare, now is a good time to get started. I can tell the difference in my skin on the days that I use skincare versus the days I don’t. Soap and water isn’t enough, especially with the pollution we encounter daily in the air around us. I’m a fan of even toned skin, as mine tends to be blotchy, and this particular set helps even out the skin tone, as well.

My favorite product in the set is the sunscreen. I hate sunscreen. I hate the way it feels. I hate applying it. I hate having it on my face and stinging my eyes. I actually tried this brand a couple of years ago and it’s the only sunscreen I’ll use on my face because I can apply it with a makeup sponge and it feels like there is nothing there. Ok, enough gushing about the skincare. You want to know about the prize, right?

You don’t have the money to invest in skincare? This is where I come in and SkincareRx.com helps you out. We’re offering a giveaway for my readers! It is the largest prize I have ever offered and I’m thankful to them for sponsoring it. A gift card to SkincareRx.com is up for grabs in the amount of $150! This is NOT just for women. Men have skin, too, that needs protection. Even if you aren’t into your skin, I’m sure you know someone who is. Mother’s Day is coming up. What better gift than a $150 gift card to a great site? It’s pretty easy to enter, too. Here’s what you do:

As the sponsoring blog I will track and validate all entries. So when you post here that you posted or retweeted. I will check to see if you did. The winner MUST provide me with their full name, email address and a mailing address. Those are the rules. If you can’t do it, you can’t win.

How can you enter?

SkinCareRx Giveaway Entries

1) One entry for becoming a fan of SkincareRx on FaceBook
2) One entry for following SkincareRx on Twitter
3) 2 entries for retweeting any one of my tweets about this giveaway
4) 7 Entries for a blog post with a link directed to Skinceuticals Advanced Brightening System. This blog post must have a minimum of 100 words and use the words “SkinCeuticals Advanced Brightening System.”

That’s up to 11 entries! Post here when you have completed all of the entries you’d like to complete and I will keep track of them. The contest will run for 2 weeks and the winner will be posted March 22, 2010. Good luck everyone!

Planner #1:
Here are your random numbers:
1 Timestamp: 2009-11-10 05:30:29 UTC

Congrats, Loopy! Please email me your mailing address to jillian at blueshelled.com within a week!

Planner #2: Here are your random numbers:
3 Timestamp: 2009-11-10 05:31:21 UTC

Congrats, Ellie! Please email me your mailing address to jillian at blueshelled.com within a week!

Lipstick Palette goes to my girl, Natalie! Please email me your mailing address to jillian at blueshelled.com within a week!

Thanks to all of you for spreading the word and for entering my contest and congratulations!!

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2009-10-13 23:38:44 UTC

Congratulations, Neil! Shoot me an email with your mailing address and I’ll send your speaker to you sometime this week!

For those of you that keep entering and aren’t winning, please don’t give up. It’s random, so I don’t have control, but I will continue to offer giveaways as frequently as possible.

Keep an eye here and on twitter for more giveaway updates!

Thank you all for your continued support of Blueshelled.com!

This week I’m sharing an Altec Lansing 360 Travel Speaker that is compatible with most items that have a headphone jack. I actually bought this a while ago in a Two-for-Tuesday on Woot. I wanted one for myself and wasn’t going to use the other one, but justified the purchase by saying I could always give one away to you all. I’m glad I did because I love my speaker. It’s about the size of a can of tuna (lawd, I hate tuna), and it’s about the same weight. I throw it into my briefbag for work and can easily pop it into my purse for school or on the go, as well.

Why bother with one of these? Sometimes you don’t want to wear headphones and other methods aren’t convenient. My office at work doesn’t have a computer and I don’t want to lug around my computer to work to listen to tunes. I have to be able to listen to what’s going on around me, so I can’t wear headphones. Or, if I want to go to the park, and blast my music a bit, I have it. Not that I ever go to the park, but there you have it.

It’s a handy little thing to have and I’m excited about this one. Look at the specs and then enter.

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1) Leave a comment before October 13, 2009 at 5pm CST telling me what fall means to you, a fall memory, or what you like best about fall. It can be any of those things.

2) You can tweet this giveway and/or link it on facebook and/or link to it on your own blog for extra chances to win! Make sure you leave individual comments so all of your entries count.

3) New blog followers/subscribers get one extra chance! Make sure you leave an individual comment letting me know how you are following/subscribing.

4) Loyal blog followers/subscribers (meaning you’ve been here for at least the last week) get three extra chances. Make sure you leave an individual comment for each of these and let me know HOW you follow me. This is important so I can see how people are subscribing.

5) Follow me on twitter or already following me on twitter earns you 1 more. Don’t forget to leave an individual comment for this.

6) You can put a blueshelled.com blog button (seen in the sidebar) on your blog or website for 3 extra entries. I will verify this before your entries will count. Let me know it’s there and where I can find it. It’s pretty!

Things to know:
**US only for this one.
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your answer fits the criteria, you are eligible (unless you are me, Leon or A.J.)

Things to remember here: 1/You can always follow me on twitter to get sneak peeks at giveaways and find out when they are coming and 2/the giveaways are made possible by me. I rely on word of mouth to bring people to my blog. Please spread the word!

Congratulations, loopy, on your toothbrush and refill set win.

If you are ticked you didn’t win, and I get ticked about not winning freebies all the time, so you are in good company, please don’t stress it. I will have another giveaway very soon. If the toothbrush was the only thing you needed to complete your life’s work, sorry about that. My bad.

Thanks again for reading my blog. It means a lot to me.

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2009-08-14 22:16:30 UTC

Congratulations, Caleb! You are the proud winner of a SNAZZY new mousepad. Please email me your mailing address within the next week and I will get this out promptly. Thanks for reading!

The next giveaway starts next week! Keep your eyes on this page. Blueshelled.com readers are valued at this blog and valuable to this blogger.

P.S. People that are on my twitter followers list get a sneak peek of giveaways and a heads up that they are coming. Why not follow me on twitter?

Click on the picture twice to see the larger version.

Since this is a small giveaway, I’m not going to make it hard on you. Comment here and let me know which type of computer system you prefer. I’m a MAC girl myself.

1) Leave a comment before August 14, 2009 at 5pm CST telling me what type of computer system you prefer.

2) You can tweet this giveway and/or link it on facebook and/or your own blog for extra chances to win! Make sure you leave individual comments so all of your entries count.

Things to know:
**Anyone may enter as long as I can read your post (must be in English).
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands (like getting lost in the mail).
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your answer fits the criteria, you are eligible (unless you are me, Leon or A.J.).

P.S. People that are on my twitter followers list get a sneak peek of giveaways and a heads up that they are coming. Why not follow me on twitter?

So, to help ease the disappointment and sting for those that did not win, I’m going to put up ANOTHER giveaway. Yeah, I can’t afford to keep these running ALL the time (unless you all want to hit the donations stuff on the right hand side of the screen or click on the ads more frequently), BUT I can do them more often when I have things to share.

Today, I have something that those of you that are addicted to office supplies, like me, will LOVE. It’s something from mytagalongs, which is a site I’ve spoken about here a couple of different times. These super-fantastic Sticky-notes-to-go are small enough to be carried in your purse and are excellent for work, your journal or your daily planner and I have ONE to give away to a lucky winner this week!

The theme this week is our dwindling blockbuster list. I need movie suggestions! Help a sister out!

1) Leave a comment before July 30, 2009 at 5pm CST telling me what movie we should add to our blockbuster list.

You can leave up to THREE movie comments. Yep, that’s three chances right there.

2) You can tweet this giveway and/or link it on facebook or your own blog for extra chances to win! Make sure you leave individual comments so all of your entries count. (That’s an extra 2 chances!)

Things to know:
**Anyone may enter as long as I can read your post (must be in English).
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands (like getting lost in the mail).
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your answer fits the criteria, you are eligible (unless you are me, Leon or A.J.).

P.S. People that are on my twitter followers list get a sneak peek of giveaways and a heads up that they are coming. Why not follow me on twitter?

As a consumer, there are times I feel like maybe we should reward the places that are helping look out for us in ways like this.

Feedback is always helpful. What do you think about the freebie resource posts?

I found a resource that you might want if you don’t have an external hard drive at home or, if you have one and have run out of space. They don’t pay me to say this either. It’s just something I found on my own because I chose not to buy an external hard drive.

It’s a website that will allow you to back stuff up for up to 2GB of storage for free. This is good if you have a lot of pictures, etc, and want to free up space on your computer. It’s called mozy.com and if you sign up through me, I get extra storage. If you don’t, that’s ok, too. I still think it’s a worthwhile resource.

I found that out when my hard drive fried itself in April of this year and they wanted to charge me $95 to put my stuff back on the new one. Crazy. Anyway, take a look! Go to Mozy.com and then put BSPGNI in the referral spot. Again, it’s worth it even if you don’t put me as a referrer. Great freebie!!

Jillian

I tried to make it fit in my sidebar and it made my face look funky. I also tried doing a funky little badge like Justin Timberlake, but I’m not savvy enough to do it right?

So, maybe I’ll do a status in a post now and then, but really only when my makeup is done and I’m having a good hair day. You get 50% of that today and only because it’s a new toy that I can’t wait to show off. Currently, they are invite only, but I signed up to be on the waiting list today and got the code, TADA!, today.

For the new subscribers to this page, Welcome! To everyone else, thanks for hanging around.