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Giveaway: $25 Staples Gift Card! (closed)

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Today's sponsored giveaway is from Staples, the world's largest office supply store. They want to offer one of you a $25 shopping spree gift card.

Are you ready for back-to-school days? Thanks to Staples' Back to School products, we're ready! I love visiting my local Staples, where I can smell the ink, thumb through the papers, and gather odds and ends for practical – and fashionable – reasons (even if you're useful, you should look good!). I also enjoying visiting Staples.com, where "fast and free delivery" (over $50) really means just that (We purchased a desktop computer recently. It arrived overnight!).

Here are some of the bestselling back-to-school Staples products we were sent to review for you:

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  • DoSomething.org inspired planner, notebook and composition book. I kept the planner (July 2010-August 2011, conveniently). Our 13yo daughter wanted it, too, but I wanted it more. ;). Our 15yo son kept the other two books for his schoolwork. The designs include background on social issues and tips on how students can make a difference. (.99-$11.99)
  • Glam Rocks calculator, pen, and stapler. Bling! Our 13yo daughter naturally nabbed these. The Glam Rocks products are hand-crafted. ($4.99)
  • A 2GB Swivel Flash Drive (by Omnitech). The cap stays in place, yay! ($12.99)
  • A Portable Speaker (by Omnitech). This is the coolest little thing. The sound quality is amazing. Use the portable speaker with your mp3, iPod, Sony PSP and more. ($9.99)
  • "Peace" notebooks (Staples brand). Our 13yo took these, too. "Peace" seems to be the symbol of the '10s as it was in the '70s (I'm guessing, though, that our teens would think I'm, like, so non-groovy calling this decade "the '10s") ($1.99-$5.49)

And our favorite product of all, the Zip It-Unzip Your Mind pencil pouch ($5.99), which was invented by an Israeli student whose class project called for turning an everyday item into something new. It's a brilliant idea!

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Guess who claimed that, too?

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Do you want a $25 gift card to spend at Staples? Well, then, all you need to do is write us a comment below (see "comments," below the ad).

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Only one entry per method, okay? Post your entries separately. Open to all readers, in any country! Random.org will select one winner. The winning entry will be verified. Entry deadline: Friday, August 27th, at noon CST.

UPDATED August 27, 2010:  Congrats to:

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  6. We shop Staples all of the time for school and computer supplies. We recently purchased a new desktop and printer from them and were so pleased with the knowledgable staff. We have also recently purchased a new home phone system and a laptop bag. I would love to win this gift card – there’s always more to buy at Staples.

  8. Staples is the kinda place
    Where you go to just in case…
    You need some of
    this and some of that…
    you race around,
    what you want can be found..
    Need some ink? don’t raise a stink…
    Its like an ace in the hole
    Cause Staples is the place,
    to which we race!

  10. I would love a $25 gift card to Staples!!!!I homeschool and my husband is a fifth grade teacher! We could put that to use real fast!

  11. Lori –
    We LOVE Staples! We’ll probably be heading there over the weekend for a few intended items, and an embarrassing number of impulse buys. 😉
    I’d love to have the card. Might use it for the scout troop as opposed to the homefront. Those girls love their arty badges!
    By the way, the pencil case reminds me of the work of an artist named (really!) Cat Chow. She makes sculpture and clothing from readily available things that aren’t normally used for such purposes.
    Her website is:
    http://www.cat-chow.com/
    You can see a picture of her and one of her wonderful skirts made of a continuous length of zipper at:
    http://www.ultrapdx.com/zero/2008/03/06/get-raw-cat-chow-at-reed/
    Thanks!

  17. I’d love to win – we go through supplies from Staples like you would not believe (and this is despite my tendency to go in for, say, a stapler, and come out with a hundred dollars’ worth of pretty notebooks and pens!).

  20. So many things needed, some just wanted, some necessary some just fun. This card would alleviate the “guilty pleasure” of buying more of the fun, impulsive stuff!

  25. Wow! It would be great to win the Staples Gift Card! There is always something on the supply list it seems that I need to get and this would help out beautifully!

  26. Pleas count us in for the Staples fun. I think I could go there everyday and find something I needed 🙂

  29. I would love this. We always need something at Staples. I need to check out that pencil pouch. 🙂

  33. I would love love love this one! I have been holding off on getting a few last minute supplies so this would come in VERY handy!

  46. We’d love to visit our local Staples with this gift card and our long list of school supplies!

  50. We LOVE Staples!!! I am in need of a new binding machine for all of our lapbooks and special projects. The $25 Staples gift card would lesson the financial means needed to purchase it. Thanks so much for offering this opportunity!

  51. I love the idea of just the supplies. I may have to load my heathens up and do some shopping today! But having a gift card from Staples would help, too.

  59. Staples has those items that you never knew you needed…not to mention I love that they have the capability to spiral bound paperback text books…works great for homeschooling materials…I love it!

  63. Would love it. I’m a fool for supplies. And we make art nearly everyday. $25 would be a great boost. Thanks.

  68. We can always use more school supplies! The Staples gift card would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

  69. Went and checked out our local store. Hadn’t been here terribly long but was excited after seeing the ads for years and now I can just go and check it out in person.

  98. Some woman like shoes, I love office supplies! Oh I hope I win so I can support my addiction!!! Hahahaha!

  99. Wow, judging by the response, everyone would love a Staples gift card! Please enter me as well. Thank you~

  100. We think it's great!  Our 13yo daughter was baking the other day and had it on top of the fridge.  When her 15yo brother and Daddy, separately, walked into they room they both said, "Wow! That's playing the music?"  We're pleasantly surprised.  Best of all, it doesn't need batteries.  She charges it up with the included plug-in charger.  It's very portable, so she can put it in  her purse to carry around (teens, sigh).  I think I'd like one, too!

  102. I appreciate the opportunity to enter, and would LOVE a Staples gift card to make back-to-school shopping that much easier for my homeschooled children of 13 and 3, and my husband and I, who just recently returned to school, full-time!
    Thanks again!
    Angelica E.

  103. I was just planning my Staples (not) back to school shopping list for this week & would love the gift card for another shopping trip!

  118. I still need to get printer ink and dry erase markers, but that planner looks nice, too! I’d love to win.

  124. Yes, i love STAPLES and their Teacher program.
    Recently, I bought paper only for 1 cent. With mail in rebates.
    Thanks for the offer!
    Olga

  128. I would love to win the Staples gift card. Tomorrow is our local Staples Teacher Appreciation Day!

  129. I could really use this gift card. It would definitely come in handy with 4 children and a huge pay cut. Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂

  148. Yes! I would like a Staples gift card! This really would come in hand with three children!

  161. This would be great, considering this is our first year of Homeschooling and we NEED loads of supplies.

  169. We would love to enter….although if we win, I might need to get one of those pencil cases for me 🙂

  171. We just started getting staples in Minnesota! I love them, they are so much better then office max and office depot.

  178. I love the idea of the zipper pounc, kudos to kid you design it!. Yes I like to get a Staples Gift Card.

  184. I would love to win this! Although I bought most of the school supplies I will need this fall for my 4 school-aged children I am sure I will need ink again soon. 😉