ClassesYouValue Online Classes Giveaway (99 Winners)

When you are looking to organize your home better, to purse a healthier lifestyle, to become a better parent, or to brush up on your writing skills, ClassesYouValue.com has an interactive online class for you with tips from an expert in the respective field. It's the place to attend non-academic e-classes at the price of a movie. Enter to win 1 of 99 free spots in an upcoming class of interest to you!

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Now fill out the Giveaway Tools form below for your chance to win! Good luck! For those who can't wait to win, you can get a free class by signup for the "Coming Attractions" newsletter at ClassesYouValue.com.

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Disclosure: I received a free class in exchange for this publication. icefairy's Treasure Chest is not responsible for prize fulfillment.

Organizher Menu Organizer Review & Giveaway

Busy women, especially moms, often have to juggle between work and family, manage multiple schedules and keep track of a zillion things at the same time. It's therefore extremely important for us to stay organized so that our life can be more efficient and less stressful. To get better organized is my top-listed New Year's resolution. I'm so glad to find out that Organizher offers a full line of organizational tools to help me achieve my goal.

From everyday shopping to family activities, and from menu planning to budget control, Organizher provides almost everything you need to stay on track, including planners, memo books, calendars, notepads, expense trackers and so much more! Organizher products are not only functional, versatile, but also look fabulous.

Here's the Organizher Menu Organizer with pagemarker paper clips I received for review. It's sturdy but lightweight. I expect it to be easily used and reused for years to come. The TechLock rings make the organizer expandable, and its capacity highly flexible.

The menu organizer includes a handy "Take My Order" notepad and 20 pages of sectioned notetaking sheets to jot down food preferences or restaurant favorites of everyone in the family. Additional planning pages are available for free download at www.mead.com. The organizer also comes with a zipped clear-view pouch to fill in anything you like.

My favorite part of the organizer is the elegantly designed pockets, which can be used to store recipes, coupons, and even take-out menus. Having my recipe cards and money-saving coupons all in one place makes menu planning and shopping so much easier! You may sort the contents in your pockets with adhesive labels or the Organizher pagemaker paper clips with matching design.

The Menu Organizer retails for only $12.99. Dimension: 9.25”w x 11.5”h.

To find out more about Organizher products, please "like" Organizher on Facebook. You may also want to read product reviews written by other moms while you're on that page. It's also the best place to find out new giveaways like the one I'm hosting here.

The Giveaway

Mead has generously offered to give one of my lucky readers an Organizher Menu Organizer, same as the one I reviewed above! The winner will have fun exploring all the possible ways to take advantage of this multifunctional product. It does more than menu-planning!

Disclosure: I received free product to facilitate my honest review. No monetary exchange took place. All views and opinions expressed are my own.

Back To School with AboutOne & $500 AMEX Gift Card Giveaway!

More students are going back to school this week. It can be easily told by the number of school buses running on the road. The start of the new school year means a noticeable change in schedule for both the kids and parents. There are a variety of calendars to keep up with: the school calendar, after school activities calendar, special events calendar, volunteer work calendar, and so on so forth. How do you stay on top of all of them? One of the major challenges for moms during the back-to-school season is how to get organized and avoid chaotic situations.

Each mom has her own tips and tricks for keeping things in order. More and more organizational tools, both online and offline, have been developed to help make a busy mom's life easier. One great example of such tools is AboutOne, which offers a digital filing system and more to assist you in managing different aspects of your life, including important contacts, family memories, health records, valuable possessions, and education history, along with all appointments and deadlines you need to take note of. It's the most comprehensive and versatile online organizational system I have ever tried.

Besides the schedule challenge, moms are also faced with growing piles of handouts and homework sheets kids bring home from school. You may begin to wonder how to declutter without losing any crucial information. AboutOne has a neat feature that allows you to store school records for all of your kids. You can easily keep track of their assignments, test results, awards, and upload images of their completed school work, art and science projects, or anything you think is worth keeping a record of. It's extremely helpful for kids in high school to put together a college application with all the necessary information conveniently stored in one place.



You can enjoy all the AboutOne features for just $30 per year. You may test drive it for free before you decide whether it's the right system for your family. No strings attached!

The Giveaway

AboutOne and the Global Influence Network have teamed up to bring us a fantastic giveaway. One Grand Prize winner will receive a $500 AMEX gift card, an upgrade to a free subscription to AboutOne.com, and a $250 donation to the school of her choice! All other entries will receive an email with a code for 25% off a one year subscription to AboutOne.com.

Please follow 2 mandatory steps to enter the giveaway:

1. Sign up for AboutOne free trial through this link. The 17-day free trial gives you 17 full days of usage with no expiration date. No credit card information is required! You must sign up through the above link to be eligible.

2. Fill out this secure entry form with all required information.

The giveaway ends September 9th at 11:59 p.m. ET. Open to U.S. residents age 18 or older. Limit one entry per person.

Disclosure: I was compensated for my time by the Global Influence Network, who directly administers the giveaway and handles prize fulfillment.

Pretty Neat Review & Giveaway ($250+ in Prizes)!

~~The giveaway is now closed. Congrats to winner Allison!~~

It is my wish to keep my home spotlessly clean and meticulously organized, but it's been quite a challenge to keep everything well in place with a toddler playing around. It made me feel frustrated at times about not being able to achieve what I wish. I'm so glad to have read this enlightening new book called Pretty Neat: The Buttoned-Up Way to Get Organized & Let Go of Perfection, which shows me how to increase efficiency and be happy with being imperfectly organized. The book is coauthored by Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch, the creators of buttoned up organizational products.

Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, Pretty Neat offers tons of practical tips for tackling common organizational challenges that busy moms have to face on a daily basis: clutter at home, toy tsunamis, inbox overload, meal preparation and more. It includes interviews of real moms who have developed their own systems of organization to save time and sanity while having to juggle between work, family, and the hustle and bustle of life. The tips or tricks presented in the book are easy to follow and can help you keep clutter under control without being stressed out.

My favorite part of the book is Chapter 11: Tame Your Inboxes. It provides three simple and feasible steps to help me deal with the problem of inbox overload. I have multiple email and social media accounts that I need to check every day. There were times when I dreaded opening my inboxes because of the volume of messages that awaited attention. I also receive dozens of letters and packages by conventional mail. Processing mails and emails take up a considerable amount of my time. The fear of missing an important mail or message has been a constant source of organizational stress for me.

After reading Pretty Neat, I feel better knowing that I'm not alone on this issue. I've started trying some of the strategies suggested in the book with regard to filing, labeling and prioritizing emails and they have proven quite effective in reducing clutter in my inboxes. I don't want to give away too much in detail here because I hope you'll benefit directly from reading the book yourself.

You can get your own copy of Pretty Neat at Buttoned Up for only $14.95. It's a great value considering the time and trouble it will save you through getting better organized. It's a book you may refer to often for ideas and inspiration.

The Giveaway

Alicia and Sarah have generously offered to give one of my lucky readers a copy of their new book Pretty Neat! But that's not all. The winner of my giveaway will also be automatically entered into an additional drawing of a Grand Prize including a $200 gift card (same as cash such as Visa or AmEx) plus a selection of Buttoned Up products valued at $50! Her chance of winning is 1 in 150.

Required Entry: Leave a comment telling me an area in your life or home that has been the biggest organizational challenge for you. (Please leave a valid email address in your comment or make sure one is visible in your blogger profile).

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Giveaway ends at 11:59 pm Central Time on 3/20/11
Open to US Residents Only

Winner will be chosen using random.org and will have 72 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.

Thanks for entering and good luck!

Disclosure:I received a free copy of the book for review through Global Influence. No monetary compensation was provided. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.