Win a $100 Amazon card for Black Friday 2011.

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Yesterday I went into a drugstore and found several aisles completely stocked for Christmas: lights, ornaments, wrapping paper, toys, candy and, of course, traditional sacred images such as Mickey Mouse wearing a Santa hat. Sigh.

While too-early Christmas marketing and commercialism in general both bug me, I am also practical enough to acknowledge they exist — and to help a reader stretch his/her dollars to the utmost. That’s why I’m happy to announce a giveaway sponsored by the Consumerism Commentary blog: a $100 Amazon gift card, just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Like it or not, BF and CM are part of the consumer culture. In fact, they’ve produced an heir called “Cyber Week” — deals that start the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

I encourage everyone to click on the link above to visit Consumerism Commentary, for two reasons:

You will learn things, and you will like it. The blog’s founder, Flexo (aka Luke Landes), is committed to developing “financially literate, capable, and successful human beings.” He’s a prolific writer who weighs in on just about every aspect of personal finance you could imagine — but always with a human touch. In other words, he knows what he’s talking about but he’s not a bloodless bean-counter. Over the years Flexo/Luke has developed quite a following of readers who weigh in with thoughtful (if occasionally snappish) commentary.

Which brings me to the second reason…

You can earn prizes. Once you’ve registered for an account, you get points for reading articles, leaving comments and sharing via social media. The points can be traded in for PF books and Amazon gift cards. (I’m saving up for a $100 card of my own.)

This giveaway will stretch over two weekends, with the drawing on Saturday, Nov. 19. That gives you maximum time to enroll but still delivers the goods in time for Cyber Week.

It’s important to keep in mind that not every deal during the BF/CM/CW time period represents the absolute best price of 2011. But in past years some of the loss leaders have been ridiculously cheap, so keep your eyes open. It helps to use a free app such as FatWallet’s Black Friday Deal Finder (which fortunately has an online counterpart for those of us without smartphones).

Finally: If you plan to do any shopping on Amazon this holiday season (or at any other time of the year), I’d like to ask that you consider using the widget here on the site. You can do this even if you aren’t buying the deal of the day or lightning deals. Go to the very top of the widget and click on the spot that says “Amazon.com” — you’ll be taken to a landing page to shop, and I’ll get a teeny-tiny kickback if you actually buy anything. Solvent bloggers are happy bloggers. Just sayin’.

To enter:

If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave separate, additional comments to get credit for each entry.

The deadline is 5 p.m. PDT Saturday, Nov. 19.

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361 thoughts on “Win a $100 Amazon card for Black Friday 2011.”

  6. it would be TOTALLY cool to underwrite my shopping with a gift card – lotsa kiddos on my list need staples {shampoo, socks, etc} and it would be awesome to have help with those! sign me ‘hoping I win!’, and thank you!

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  10. Thanks for the link to Consumerism Commentary; I will def check it out.I have been unemployed since July of this year (I know, better off than a lot of folks) and a gift card would be such a great thing to have for the Christmas season.
    Thanks.

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  26. Fingers crossed. BTW, I’m one of the ones pre-Halloween that run through the store, hand up as a blinder, screaming “Eek!” while walking by the Christmas merchandise. 🙂

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  42. Thanks so much for offering this! I already have at least $25 worth of gifts I’m looking at buying on amazon, so this would be a blessing!

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  56. I’m in! I get emails & follow on FB. I also use Consumerism Commentary thanks to your suggestion a while back 🙂 It is a great blog-not as good as yours though 😉 hehe THANKS!

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  102. What an awesome giveaway! I’d like to enter, please. And, as always, thanks for the opportunity!

    I’ll give Consumerism Commentary a glance, too. Many thanks to them for sponsoring this.

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  123. This would buy a lot of squeakie toys for all the good little kitties and puppies in my life!

    Please put me in this contest.

    Thanks Donna!!!!

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  139. I dunno, though…I almost think I would rather spend Black Friday reading Christmas stories and drinking hot coffee with the Husband. (Although fighting through the crowd at midnight Thursday at WallyMart is always worthwhile for the armload of $1.96 videos you can get…)

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  143. I follow on Facebook, too! 🙂

    … and follow via RSS, now that I think of it.

    $100 gc would really come in handy this Christmas, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed!

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  161. I’ve got five kids, and four of them have birthdays between Thanksgiving and the week after New Year’s. I could really use that $100!

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  171. I am following you on facebook now and i just checked it out and love the info on there thanks for it all !i can use all that info great site !

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  210. Hi Donna,

    I am a huge fan of CM and also black Friday. While the crowds can be tedious, I love getting good deals and 99% of my shopping done before the 1st of December.

    I will try to keep you a happy blogger!

    Susan

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  217. I’ve been lurking on your website and on your msn articles for several months now….I am trying to live a more frugal lifestyle after being the total opposite for most of my life. Thank you for your inspiration!

    Jennifer

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  349. Hi, I follow you on Twitter, and I Like you on Facebook. Thanks for the great blog. I have used many of your tips, and I now follow several other blogs that you have recommended, I get a lot of useful ideas.

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