A $100 Gift Card from Plastic Jungle.

Plastic Jungle, is a great site where you can buy discounted gift cards, and they’re giving our winner the chance to choose any gift card listed up to $100. Very cool.

Plastic Jungle also offers folks the option to trade in gift cards for cash, OR you can trade cards in for a card you really want – something that could come in handy after the holidays. Click on their silly monkey to learn more about trading in gift cards, and even scoring quick cash back on cards…

We had just 19 entries for this prize, so your odds of winning were swell. I randomly drew a winner, and that person is…

Comment #11 or Audra, who said, “The recycled sweater pants was creative.”

Congrats to winner Audra. Thanks to everyone else who played along, and a big thanks to our Blogtoberfest prize sponsor, Plastic Jungle. If you haven’t been to Plastic Jungle before, check them out.  

If you didn’t win, and are feeling bummed out, no worries; check out one of these contests…

• At Inhabitots, there’s a stupendous Green Halloween contest happening. It’s easy to enter – simply leave a comment with one brilliant green Halloween idea. The prizes in this contest are so adorable too – great green goods for the kiddos.
• SheKnows has 2 great contests happening. The first is a cute kids costume contest and then there’s an even more adorable pregnant Halloween belly painting contest. Entering one of these contests will make you eligible for a very nice prize pack – a Philips Lifestyle Prize Pack, which includes a Norelco Shaver, Digital Photo Frame, Electric Toothbrush, Bikini Perfect Shaver & Headphones! Not bad. Click here to learn more and enter. 

Or you can…

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This Halloween, Simply Thrifty is holding a fun Little Monsters costume contest for all the adorable little spooks out there.

Little Monsters Costume Contest Rules

1. Find the costume to end all costumes for your little one.
2. Dress your little monster up. (Kids birth to age 12 can enter… after that we’re dealing with tweens).
3. Snap a photo.
4. Send a copy of the photo to me at Jennifer.Chait (at) b5media.com by November 7th, 2008.
5. On November 8th, 2008 I’ll mix up all the entries and randomly draw a winner. (The winner will be posted by the evening of the 8th.)

I’ll be posting photos here at Simply Thrifty so that we all can enjoy them, but the best part is the amazing prize you can win. Our wonderful sponsor Seagate Technology will be awarding the following…

Prize: Seagate FreeAgent Go (for Mac or Windows): A thin and colorful hard drive with docking station that makes it easy to update and organize your desktop and is the perfect portable solution for your content.

This is a very cool (and handy) prize that will help you to preserve all your digital memories for years to come. Learn more about the Little Monsters Contest Prize: Seagate FreeAgent Go.

You have three weeks to enter; so hunt down a great costume for your little right now and be sure to take your camera along on Halloween.

Good Luck!

[images via stock.xchng and Seagate Technology]

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First though, I thought I’d post some other fun contests that are happening around the blogosphere currently – because frankly, free swag is about as thrifty as you can get.

First up, at Inhabitots, there’s a stupendous Green Halloween contest happening. It’s so easy to enter – simply leave a comment with one brilliant green Halloween idea. See what you can win:

Now we were just talking about green living yesterday, so you should be chock full of ideas. That said, head over to Inhabitots and enter to win a cool eco-friendly Halloween prizes. Hurry though, this contest ends very soon.

More contests!:

SheKnows has 2 great contests happening. The first is a cute kids costume contest and then there’s an even more adorable pregnant Halloween belly painting contest. Entering one of these contests will make you eligible for a very nice prize pack – a Philips Lifestyle Prize Pack, which includes a Norelco Shaver, Digital Photo Frame, Electric Toothbrush, Bikini Perfect Shaver & Headphones! Not bad. Click here to learn more and enter – or click this image below.

For the gift wrapping challenged, there’s a National Search for the Worst Gift Wrapper in America at Bowdabra. By submitting your entry you are guaranteed to receive a free gift wrapping e-book valued at $19.99 along with the chance to win:

• Grand Prize: 2-night trip for two to Las Vegas, N.V.
• Second Prize: $100 gift certificate to Bowdabra®.com
• Third Prizes (10): Bowdabra® website kits (ARV $24.95)
• Fourth Prizes (5): Five scrunch ribbon kits (ARV $22)
• Fifth Prize: One Mini Bowdabra (ARV $9.99)

Bowdabra is also offering two free e-books valued at $14.99 each.  No purchase or contest entry is required to download these e-books:

For crafty folks, there’s the DIY Halloween Contest with so many cool prizes you won’t believe your eyes.

An easy to enter Halloween Contest at Deb’s Going Green.

AND don’t forget to hunt around the Lifestyles Channel for that little Blogtoberfest icon, there’s still a mass of prizes available, but Blogtoberfest is all over soon, so hurry up and get hunting.

Have fun! 

[image 1 via Inhabitots / image 2 via SheKnows]

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