As this week closes, I have a few announcements to make! The first is that we are now ready to announce the winners of Our First Year Anniversary Giveaway along with the prizes they’ve won. I went ahead and used Random.org, the premiere source of random numbers and numerical generators to meet all your daily random needs. Prizes have been awarded in the order the drawing was done.
There were 50 comments in all after I excluded my comments from the bunch. There were 22 valid entries that qualified from the post My Silicon Valley Job History and another 28 entries came from my Anniversary Giveaway post. So from a total of 50 submissions, I got these results!
Here are the folks who won, along with what they won:
Entry #2 is Financial Hack who will receive the $50 iTunes Music Store Card.
Entry #8 is Chief Family Officer who picks up one of the financial books offered: The Complete Tightwad Gazette paperback book or the Rational Investing For Irrational Times hardbound book. I am offering the winner a choice of books!
Entry #34 is Vixen On A Budget who also gets a money book! Same conditions as above. Note that because there were 24 entries in the 1st post, this is the 10th entry in the 2nd post.
Entry #42 is Dawn from Frugal For Life, who takes home the Mystery Prize! She gets $100 cash straight to her Paypal account.This is the 18th position in the 2nd post.
Nope, I did not supply any booby prizes this time. I don’t have any bricks to give out so Clever Dude can remain as the undisputed winner of the best booby prize ever.
I’ll be contacting the winners privately to arrange the distribution of the giveaways. I thank you all for participating in this event; I truly appreciate your supportive words and visits!
Now on to the next exciting thing! For a little departure from the money scene, I’d like to announce that I will be hosting the Carnival Of Cities on Monday, October 27, 2007. If you are keen on entering a post about any city or cities, you can submit your entry here. Real estate specific posts are welcome, of course!
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I would like to thank God, my parents and my siblings for making me who I am.
Most importantly I would like to thank SVB for making this all possible and for crew at random.org for being so…. random
Really – Thanks, this is a blessed coincidence.
Very cool. I’m never opposed to winning things
Congratulations to the winners!
Thank ya’ very much.
Hey, I put those bricks to good use supporting my pool pump and filter! It was a bit disappointing opening up a 20lb box and not finding a giant iPod inside
Thanks everyone! It was a fun event! Here’s to more fun giveaways down the road and across the blogosphere.
Clever Dude,
LOL. glad you were able to make use of those bricks! They’re also good for doorsteps I hear.