Major, Massive Give-Away

Or, at least I think so.

Real Simple sent me five purse organizers to give away on my blog.  Are you interested?

They are black pocketbooks with silver circle handles, and they can be filled and slid inside your regular purse.  You can also carry them by themselves.  I LOVE mine, and blogged about it here. 

If you want one, leave me a comment.  I'll give away three to random drawing, and two, with a few goodies inserted, to two readers who can tell me the reason that they should be picked.  Why are you the one most in need of organization?

This contest is open until midnight, Tuesday, August 28th. 

Comments

[Roseann]

My bag usually has all this stuff in it,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwitte/sets/72157594377453719/

and more. Usually just laying loose and I have to dig, dig, dig to find anything.
And I'm starting school for myself, so I need to be the most organized I possibly can be.

[MJ]

Me pick me lol! hmmm why I should be picked. umm ... Well I guess the biggest reason would be having 9 children and a hubby to keep track of. Having that many lends to many receipts, medical cards, paperwork and things that a lot of times has to be taken with.

Totally love your blog! :) Keep writing!

[eko]

I am burnt out on purses - carrying a camera type bag now that has room for all the vital cards (even has a big enough pkt f/passports) - But it is not in any way nice looking, and adds no class to my style (I don't think I even have a style :P)

SO, I would love one just to look more pulled together, more a woman of my age (40) - than a teenager touting about with a bag that could pass as a gamers...

[Tracy]

I would love one of those. I saw your post about cleaning out your purse and coveted one of those greatly. I had actually cleaned out my purse that day - mostly out of shame and embarrassment. It wasn't too hard to clean out that day though.

That's because I took my dd to a museum and they had the security stuff - it was a presidential museum, thus all the security stuff. I took a gallon zip lock and dumped most of the contents of my purse in it because I just KNEW that something in it would trigger an alarm after going through the x-ray thing and they would have me step aside and then dig through my purse to find the item, and my daughter would have never wanted to be seen with me again, and the scariest thing is that the purse itself wasn't much bigger than the ziplock bag, but oh, my goodness, there was a lot of stuff, and I have done this often over the years, doing what my dh calls a "purse dump", and then I LOSE things that are important and I have to find them again, and that's scary.

And if that run-on sentence doesn't show how desperate and disorganized I am, I don't know what else will. Please take pity on me. I only have three children so I have no excuse, unless it's to say that my youngest has PDD and that's part of why I am desperately pursuing organization in my house. I will succeed! Will you help me in my quest? Please?

[Busy Mom]

Pick me.

It's possible I could have a fourth kid, or, another pet down in my purse somewhere, I'm not sure.

I keep hearing noises, but, I can't get through the pile of receipts, important papers, and, various computer accessories to investigate the cries.

With a purse organizer, I could just lift it out, and, take a look.

[Kris]

Well, I am the one who keeps jumping from my diaper bag/backpack to my tote bag to my black purse to my brown purse, to my work out bag. I am constantly missing either my lipstick or my check book or... you get the idea. It just may be the one problem that makes pushes me over the brink of insanity.

Purse organizer, or life saver? Tough call...

[Kris]

Well, I am the one who keeps jumping from my diaper bag/backpack to my tote bag to my black purse to my brown purse, to my work out bag. I am constantly missing either my lipstick or my check book or... you get the idea. It just may be the one problem that makes pushes me over the brink of insanity.

Purse organizer, or life saver? Tough call...

[Melessa, Mommy of Four]

Pick me! Pick Me! And while I doubt it is the best reason you will read, I need one because despite FlyLady, the Julia Morgenstern books, and every other help for Moms with ADD that I've spent money on; there seems to be nothing in this world that can cure my chronic disorganization.

[Tammy/Photography for Fun]

I am VERY unorganized. I try to get organized and put everything in an orderly fashion, but it never stays that way. I have a sporadic or chaotic mind and I tend to jump from one task to another OFTEN. Drives my poor husband nuts. But the saddest disaster is my purse. My husband absolutely refuses to try to find anything in there, even upon request. He'll pick it up and hand it to my daughter if I'm driving and can't get what I need myself.

[Aileen]

I am in desperate need of organization. I am married to a Navy chief who recently deployed for many months aboard the USS Dallas. I have two little ones, ages 2 and 4, who I suspect are more monkeys than human beings. A large part of my day is spent chasing after them... which leaves a lot of other parts of my life cluttered and disorganized!! I also recently found out I'm pregnant with a third (a blessing we didn't know we wanted until we got it) so on top of the two howler monkeys I already have, there will be a newborn thrown into the mix. With no help at all because hubby is out at sea. You can imagine what the state of my home will be like at that point. I feel like the only control I have anymore is in my bag!! Truth be told...it's hideously jam packed full of random items right now...stuff like gerber graduate snacks, sharpies, a single balloon, a sample of KY I got in the mail, 3 stamps, a half eaten Nestle Crunch bar, a silver spoon, pantyhose, and a host of other crap that I swear I have no idea how they got in there. I just know if I had something like this black pocketbook...it would help me keep at least one part of my life organized. My bag. Something I do have control over. Then I won't feel so bad about the disorganization everywhere else.

[Annika]

Pick me! I tend to carry around a tote bag with everything just shoved into it -- knitting, keys, loose change, credit cards (in my wallet if I am very organized that day), sunglasses, sunscreen, Sam's sunglasses, a change of clothes for Sam, sometimes a diaper, USB cables, mail, entire other purses... It's awful, even if I do have some really cute tote bags. I spend half my day digging around and cursing because I can't find anything.

[Deputy's Wife]

Oh, if there is ever a person that needs to be organized, it is me. As of right now, in my purse, there are at least 15 debit receipts that need to be entered in my check register. In addition to that, there are a couple of lip gloss tubes, Tums, Tylenol (that keeps opening and spilling into the bottom of the purse), two yo-yos, a Lightning McQueen car, a half opened panty-liner that has candy stuck to it. Oh, there is also my billfold that won't snap shut so everything falls out of that.

A pathetic sight it is.

[Loralee]

I could tell you why I am in desperate need of organization, but today has been one of those days where you don't know whether to laugh or manically cry over the joys (and not) of being a parent.

So, I will throw my hat in for the random and cross my fingers!

[kelli]

Ok. I'll be honest.

I'm forgetful now. And it's getting worse.

If everything is not in it's place, I can't find it. It's a part of the fun of being sick :)

I can't tell you how many times we've driven to town (about 20 miles away) and discovered that "someone" (ok, me) has forgotten something vitally important. So, it's 20 miles each way back to the house, grabbing whatever we needed and heading back.

Yeah, I'm highly popular in that department.

So, there's it is :)

Thank you for offering this up!

And good luck to EVERYONE!

[Not The Mama]

Ooh, I've been envying your purse organizer. I'm at that awkward just-post-college stage where I am discovering that I can no longer get away with a wallet on a keychain or a tiny little for-fashion's-sake-only purse. But when I try carrying a larger purse I get frustrated by the fact that I can never find anything. It's a mass of receipts, packs of gum, notepads, pens, pacifiers, toys, etc. I can never find my cell phone before it stops ringing and I can never find a pacifier when Henry starts randomly screaming in public. A purse organizer would really help me transition into a grown up who carries a real purse.

[Pickel]

I will be traveling soon to Guatemala to meet my second son and I KNOW that when he comes hom all chaos will break loose in my house (not that it isn't that way already).

[Pickel]

P.S. with a kid with SID...there are lots of neat toys in my purse that I can never find.

[Kerry]

You should pick me because I adore getting things in the mail and my birthday is coming up...

Also, I have a purse that is two years old (and came from the thrift store! How pathetic is that?!?!) Things go into my purse...never to be seen again. I didn't get to go to Blogher so I didn't get any free bootie...waaaa

[Anastasia]

I'd love to win too :) I have a few purses and they all have stuff in them! Things get lost from one purse to another. It's madness! :) This would keep all the important stuff together and make it all easier to find!

[stephanie]

pick me!
i am a second grade teacher and a grad student to boot. that combined with my after school tutoring jobs (gotta love teaching and the small bucks it pays). i usually just throw things in my purse, car, backpack, you get the idea. help!!!!!!!

[Paige]

Oh, how I could use some purse organization. Why is it that you start out with a nicely organized, clean purse, and then soon it's been taken over and is full of receipts, coupons, diapers, wipes, four different chapsticks, mints, gum, a bottle of diet coke, post-it notes, a small doll (?), three matchbox cars, cards of all kinds, kleenexes and bobby pins. And my van is like a purse on wheels, which is even worse.
But thanks for passing those along. There's a lot of us out there who need organizational help.

[Suz]

Ok, so if you could pick only one lucky winner, that winner should be Aileen, who is pregnant with #3 and her husband is at sea with the Navy... but since you're giving away more than one, you should send me one too!!!
I have a 2yr old and a 10 mo. and it would be a public service to all those around me to help cut down my search time (aka the time my children are screaming in public while I search for toys, sippy cups, baby tylenol, benedryl, snacks, cell phone, spare change, wallet, insurance cards, or whatever is the answer to the current crisis in my bottomless pit of a diaper bag). With two in diapers my poor diaper bag is over taxed and under organized. I'm so disorganized that I had my wallet stollen and didn't even realize it until much too late. With this handy-dandy organizer my wallet could have its own little home :-) helping me to keep track of it and so much more!

[Farmer]

I could really use one of those. I love my summer straw tote, but everthing is just a mess in it & it's hard to find what I need.

If my name is not chosen, could you let me know where I could purchase one like it?

Thanks!

[Jill]

Organizer? Purse organizer? I swear I'm magnetically drawn to the phrase. Maybe it's because right now I just finished a good, long, hard cry. The cry was due to the massive mess of moving madness we are in. Right now, I don't know where a good portion of our belongings are. Currently I am typing this on our laptop, on our bed (no sheets - don't know where they are), and a large box of clothes is next to me and four, no wait, five more large boxes of clothes/shoes/bedroom items and whatever else the movers stuffed in them are behind me. Organization? I could use some. I don't know where to go next and what in heavens name I should do once I get there. I would love someone to help me find my way. Especially today. I could use some help finding my way to the ice cream shop.

[xenia kathryn]

Umm... my excuses for a purse organizer filled with goodies can't compare to your previous commenters. So... just add me to the drawing :)