Giveaway: Pick Your Own Prize

Giveaways are such fun. Who doesn't like getting a prize in the mail?  Surf the blogosphere, and you'll find giveaways for all sorts of things--many of which you have no desire to own.  Never fear, you do want to win this giveaway.  Why?  Because you get to pick your own prize!

This giveaway is sponsored by the nice folks at CSN.  Let me tell you a little about them:

CSN Stores LLC is a fast-growing, privately-held company offering customers the best online shopping available for home and office goods. A $200 million company, CSN is made up of more than 200 online niche shops offering a huge selection of products ranging from barstools and bedroom sets to grills, greenhouses and gaming equipment. It has items for budget-minded shoppers, luxury seekers and everyone in between. To review some of their products, please go to CSN's home page.   CSN maintains over 200 stores right now, but that number tends to grow several times per month.Overall CSN sells more than one million products with unparalleled selection in many categories including: cookware, barstools, bathroom vanities and tubs, cribs, strollers, stuffed animals, diaper bags, luggage and other travel gear, bedroom sets, dining room sets, office desks, greenhouses, kitchen and laundry room appliances, and much more.


CSN offers countless well-known brands -- some of the biggest names in home and office goods. These include: Herman Miller, iittala, Knoll, LG, Rachael Ray, Alessi, Bugaboo, DaVinci, Stanley, American Drew, Bello, Serta, Calphalon, Kohler, and many others.

So what is the giveaway? If you win, you get anything CSN sells, providing the cost is $20.00 or less.

Maybe you need kitchen gadgets.  Do you need pots or pans? How about a towel? Toys? Recessed lighting?  Is there a baby on the way? They even have shoes!   If it costs $20.00 or less, it can be yours.

How to enter:

1. For your first entry, go to CSN's website, find the gift you want, and come back here. Leave a comment with a link directly  to the gift, name the gift and your email address. To get the direct link, when you find what you want, click on it. You'll be taken to the page where you can click that you want to order it.  Copy the URL of that page by going up to the address bar, clicking so that the URL is highlighted, and then pushing the control key and the "C" at the same time.  When you type your comment and want to leave the URL, just hit the control key and the "V" key at the same time and it will paste the URL into the comment there. (copy and paste under the Edit menu work too)

2. For your second entry, find another gift you want, and leave a comment as above. Also, to do this, you have to be a follower, so join up if you aren't (and I will check).If you will, you'll get to pick which listed prize you want, but you have name and link to another one for a second entry.

3. For another entry, blog, tweet, facebook etc. about this contest. Leave me a comment with a link to your post.

4. For another entry blog, tweet, facebook etc. about this contest---leaving not only a link to this contest, but also a link to CSN's page about your desired prize. You can do this once daily--but remember you have to leave a new comment each time you do, and you have to link both to this page and to CSN's page. Again each new entry much have a separate comment and a link to a separate prize, but if you win, you'll get to pick any of the prizes you listed.