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Your Personal Advisor for Valentine’s Day (GIVEAWAY)

February 10th, 2010

Have you been racking your brain for the perfect gift for your special Valentine? Let Walgreens help!

During the last few days leading up to Valentine’s Day, Walgreens will transform their 26,000 beauty advisors into “Personal Gift Advisors” to help last-minute shoppers find the right gift - from popular fragrances and cosmetics, to candy, cards and cute plush toys. So make your special someone’s heart melt with Valentine’s Day essentials from your local Walgreens. Not sure where a store local to you is? Use their Store locator.

Did you know? A recent report from the National Retail Federation shows that couples plan to spend less on each other this year; forecasted to spend an average of $63.34 on gifts for their significant other vs. $67.22 last year. Walgreens provides a great value to those who are on a budget this year and the advisors can show you how to be savvy on your spending.

As a special Valentine treat this year Walgreens is offering you the chance to win a $25 Walgreen giftcard. To enter just leave a comment stating what you would love to buy for your special someone at Walgreens this year. All entries must be received by NOON EST  Thursday Feb. 11th, 2010. All enrties must have a valid US mailing address. Winner will be selected by random drawing.

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Walgreens supplied all of the information for this post as well as the giftcard for giveaway. They are also supplying me with a giftcard as a way to say thank you. All opinions are those of my own.

Customize Your Gifts (GIVEAWAY)

November 13th, 2009

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED!!!

But please check out Vista Print for their everyday low prices and to order

Are you looking for that perfect customized holiday gift to share with your loved ones? Let me tell you about Vista Print. If you have been a reader of The Post-It Place for some time you will remember that I made some Erin’s Graduation Announcements at Vista Prints and they turned out FABULOUS! Everyone that received one was amazed at the job they did and how affordable they were. I was really, really happy with the cost. But there is SOOO much you can do on Vista Prints that people don’t realize. How about a 2010 calendar filled with family photos for all those Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, etc? They will be thinking of you all year long as they treasure such a personalized gift.

Do you need some personalized cards to send out this year? Check out Vista Print huge selection. They have so many styles and designs to choose from that you will have a hard time deciding. From traditional to elegant, from business to fun and funky. Whatever your need for a holiday card, they can help without having to pay outrageous prices. And you can personalize them to suit your family or business.

Here are ours this year:

I am very proud of how they turned out.

They have many other gift ideas, too many to name them all. You can check out their Holiday section HERE and choose what fits those on your list. Perhaps it is a customized Tote Bag or a T-Shirt.

And, thanks to Vista Print…you can enter to win a couple of great products from their holiday store. There will be 2 winners.

The first winner will win:

Holiday Cards - Vistaprint allows customers to create high-quality, low-cost customer holiday cards to insure that their cards stick out among the hundreds of cards people receive each year. Vistaprint is happy to give away fifty (50) flat 4”x8”holiday cards to one lucky winner. Check out more about Vistaprint’s holiday cards at: http://www.vistaprint.com/holiday-christmas-cards.aspx?xnav=LeftItem&xnid=Holiday&dng=1345556

The second winner will receive:

Photo books/photo flip books: Photo books from Vistaprint are high-quality, full color books that allows parents to create great looking baby books that can be gifts for parents, grandparents and other family members. Vistaprint is happy to giveaway one (1) photo book or photo flip book to one lucky winner. Check out photo book options at: http://www.vistaprint.com/flip-photobooks.aspx

To Enter: Visit VistaPrint and leave me a comment telling me what you would make for someone on your list. All entries must be received by November 27th at 5 PM EST. All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winner will be selected at random and will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail.

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Follow Vista Print on Twitter and Tweet this contest (make sure to use the @Jillybean01 and @Vistaprint)

I was in no way compensated for this post, nor did I receive any product.. I just happen to really love VistaPrint! They are however offering some really great giveaways here.