And The Winners Are…


Okay, so the response to the ProFlowers.com giveaway was awesome. Thank you to each of you who commented, tweeted and posted to win. I really wish I could give you all certificates, but I only have five.

I did promise I’d give you my worst Valentine’s Day gift, but really, there isn’t one. For many years, Jen and I have simply not given each other anything because of money. Fortunately, this year, thanks to ProFlowers, I was able to order her some lovely flowers. (In the interest of disclosure, ProFlowers gave me a certificate for myself.)

Some of your gifts were amazingly bad. The can opener comes right to mind. Men, NEVER buy a woman anything she can’t eat, smell or wear for Valentine’s Day. That’s kind of a given, but still.

How did I pick the winners? Well, I numbered all the entries by the guidelines I originally set up. Then, I used the random number generator at random.org to get the five numbers that would be winners. And then I matched numbers to entries. I also generated a couple extra numbers in case some winners aren’t interested or bad email addresses or any other reason.

Going into this, I probably knew 75% of the commenters although some we’re just acquaintances. But four of the five winners I actually know. Well, know is relative. A couple are ‘friends of a friend’ kind of friends and one is an Internet buddy. So very cool. One I don’t know, but she has a cool blog and it’s her birthday, so hooray for her. W00t.

Before I get to the winners, I did want all of you to know that ProFlowers was kind enough to give this offer to all my readers: order using the link below and you can get 20% off your order and a free vase. So, even if you didn’t win, you can still get a good deal.

That link is http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/10105-70521-26091-21.

On to the winners then!

  • My co-worker, Chris
  • Church friend of my wife, Robin
  • Fellow blogger, EDW
  • Friend’s mom, Candy
  • Complete stranger and birthday girl, Danielle

Congratulations to our winners. The certificates expire on March 1st, so don’t sit on them too long. If you’re a winner, I will email you shortly. Reply to that email and I’ll send your code.

Again, thank you all for making this a big success for me.
I appreciate it.

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9 Responses to “And The Winners Are…”

  1. EDW Says:

    I am happy to accept this award…oh, wait, what was I supposed to say? Right! Patrick is awesome. Four of out five bloggers agree!

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  2. Alaina Says:

    awesome sauce, man!

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  3. Patrick D. Says:

    @Alaina I have no idea what that means. Is it something the ‘young people’ say?

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  4. Danielle j Says:

    Thanks you so much for the giveaway- I’m excited I won!

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  5. Alaina Says:

    @Pat probly not most ‘young people’ just @Shaunananana

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  6. Christina Reilly Says:

    I’m so excited! I think I’m gonna send flowers to my grandma! :) YOU ARE THE MAN!!!

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  7. BeccA's Buzz Says:

    That’s great! I’m so glad it turned out so well. Perhaps they will offer you to host another contest in the future. I love how diplomatic you are when determining the winners. It works! Congrats to all the winners, better luck next year to all of us losers LOL 8-)

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  8. Danielle J Says:

    I wasn’t sure if you had sent emails out to the winners yet or not, but if you had I might have been a little delete happy yesterday when going through all of my millions of emails (I get a lot of random spam) and deleted because I haven’t noticed an email about the proflowers GC yet.
    Wow, that was quite the run-on entence.

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  9. Jami Says:

    Dang, for me, but yay for EDW!

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