Support the reader economy: Giveaway #3.

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It’s Friday the 13th, but maybe this will be your lucky day: Time for another giveaway in my “Support the Reader Economy” series. 

Longtime readers know I’ve been giving things away since I started this site* back in May 2010.  Often the giveaways are things like books, gift cards, fun stuff from the Financial Blogger Conference, or combos that I make up, such as the “Coffeehouse Cliche Giveaway” (a fancy notebook and a Starbucks gift card, so you can be one of those folks writing the Great American Novel in a coffeehouse.

More recently I’ve been focusing a lot more on giveaway prizes made in Alaska, in an effort to support our local economy. But with inflation nibbling (or gobbling) at people’s financial well-being, I decided to create the Support the Reader Economy giveaway series.

The prize is a $15 gift card of the winner’s choosing. That could be a physical or virtual card, depending on your preference.

Sure, $15 won’t do much. But sometimes it’s fun to have $15 to play with – or to use to put a few gallons of gas in the car until payday. 

Not that you have to choose a gasoline card. It can be for anything: restaurant, clothier, big-box retail, home improvement, local boutique (as long as I can purchase an e-card there), automotive, pet supplies, shoes, sporting goods or, yes, Amazon.

At this time of year, you might want to give a card (physical or virtual) to your child’s teacher, with a note of thanks for how much your child has blossomed. You could hang on to it until  Father’s Day and surprise your dad with $15 worth of fun at wherever he thinks is fun. Or, heck, treat yourself to something you really want/need.

How to enter the giveaway

There are five different ways (see below) to enter this giveaway. To clarify the first tactic: Don’t leave a comment every day. Only the first one will count; any others will be discarded.

Since the prize can be an e-card** in this giveaway, readers from outside the United States are encouraged to enter. If there’s a way for me to order a card to wherever you want to shop, then I’ll do it.

Finally: As the giveaway series goes on, you can continue to enter even if you’ve already won. The random number generator doesn’t play favorites. #TotesRandom

But you can’t win if you don’t play. Here’s how to do that:

Leave a comment below (limit one comment for the entire giveaway period)

Be sure to leave a separate comment for each entry (e.g., “Subscribed via e-mail” or “Follow you on Twitter”).

The deadline to enter is 6 p.m. PST Friday, May 20. Winners are notified via e-mail, so check yours! If I don’t hear back from the winner by 6 p.m. PST Saturday, May 21, I’ll have the random number generator choose a new name.

*Holy cow. That was a long time ago!

**Unless the winner insists on a physical card, that is. In that case, a winner from outside the U.S. would not be eligible.

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110 thoughts on “Support the reader economy: Giveaway #3.”

    • Hi! Signed up for email and followed you on Facebook and Pinterest. So nice of you to offer this giveaway. Best to all! Lisa

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  6. I was just having a conversation on this topic with the bank teller yesterday when I marched in to cash an $11.77 refund check. He mentioned that many folks neglect to cash or deposit small checks & they expire. I laughed internally as I thought to myself – that is something a frugalist would NEVER do! Thank you, Donna, for your gift card giveaway regardless of amount. Follow via email.

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  28. I subscribe via email. 2010 for this blog and before was the time on MSN Money group?
    Thanks for thinking of us who live outside of the U.S.

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  55. Thank you for the opportunity to win a gift card. If I am lucky, I will use it to help with the cost of painting my living room this summer.

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  67. It’s been TWELVE WHOLE YEARS since you started this blog!?! Well, here’s to the next twelve, Donna!
    I follow you on Facebook.

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  69. I do all the things (follow you on all the platforms) but honestly, I look forward to getting the emails most. $15 would be a nice treat.

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  71. Donna, the other day when you were in Arizona and musing about possibly retiring, I screamed to my computer screen, “No! You can’t retire! Say it isn’t so!”. I have also recommended you to a high school student. When I was subbing at a suburban district for business/financial math, a kid lingered after the last-period class and said “this course has been an eye-opener for me; I never knew people budgeted for new clothes every month,” and went on to say how he has 5 t-shirts for school and only buys a new shirt or pair of jeans when an old one wears out. (Our kind of people!) I told him about you and your “Playbook” series, as well as Tightwad Gazette and The Dollar Stretcher website (for which I write from time to time, and also see your articles there) and I think he’s going to check into it. Meanwhile, before this kid came up and started talking to me, another boy was telling me how he was buying a 2nd car to go with his gas-guzzling pickup truck and how he and his dad and grandma buy a new vehicle and trade it in after a year for another luxury vehicle….I almost spit out my coffee when he was telling me all this! Two extreme examples on opposite ends of the spectrum, those boys were!

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  72. I believe I have followed you for all 12 years and will for the next
    12 (God willing). I love your giveaways and the reasons for them.

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  92. I follow you on fb and I subscribe to your emails. Still share the emails with my daughters but I see neither has entered here🤨and they know I’ve won before .. I showed them them the wonderful pendant I received from you, handmade from a local artisan. Kids!!🙄I’ll be sending this it to them again. Please don’t be retiring yet .. there’s so many more people to reach!!

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  99. Thank you for all the wonderful giveaways. $15 is breathing room, indeed! And for a frugalist, it can go quite far…

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