Hi guys!
It’s been a while since we did our last giveaway, and thought this was a great one to get back into the habit again :) We’re giving you TWO chances to win something today!
Giveaway #1: Total Room Makeover from Rent-A-Center!
Making over a room or a space in your home can be tedious, costly and demanding. However, if you want a change there’s no way to get around those annoyances… until now. During the next week, Rent-A-Center (RAC) is hosting a Room Remake Sweepstakes, where one lucky winner will win a total makeover of a space in their home with new brand-name furniture, big screen TVs… the works, all completely free!
RAC makes life manageable for hardworking people that need an affordable alternative when credit isn’t available or doesn’t make sense. RAC offers an affordable way to get what you need when you need it, without the risks and long-term obligation of a credit transaction.
TO ENTER: All you have to do to enter is “like” Rent-A-Center’s Facebook Page, and then let them know WHY you need a room remade – that’s it! They will pick a winner via their Facebook Page by this Sunday, Nov 14th.
Giveaway #2: $50 Visa Gift Card
Separate from the above giveaway, Rent-A-Center will also be giving one of YOU guys your very own $50 Visa Gift Card! (And we actually get one too – woohoo! One of the perks of running a finance blog :)) All you have to do to enter this one is answer the following (same) question in the comments below:
Which room of your house would you want re-made, and WHY?
Leave your answer below by this Sunday, Nov 14th, and you’ll be entered to win. We’ll use Random.org to pick it so everyone gets a shot. You must be a permanent resident of the 50 United States or D.C., and 18 or older to win. Good luck!
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GIVEAWAY OVER. Lucky winner: Elizabeth I
DINKS (Dual Income No Kids) Finance is a blog discussing personal finance for couples. While by no means financial experts, we own a variety of assets including real estate and stocks. We've both been up to our eyeballs in debt and have made tons of financial mistakes. However, we've both successfully retired that debt and we both do learn from our failings. We hope that our voice in this blog can help others in achieving their goals!
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Sheesh, I’d love to get our office redone. My wife and I share it and we each have an old desk with crappy chairs. Would be nice to get it spiced up.
I would remake my bedroom because it’s the only room that’s mine (I live with roommates). Als because my furniture is from my parents house that I got years ago.
I’d love to redo my living room. I have no style sense and it always looks disorganized
I’d like our dining room redone. It’s basically just a depositing place for all my kids’ school stuff and junk.
I’d love to get our bedroom redone. As young, frugal DINKS we have a wide assortment of mismatched hand-me-down bedroom furniture. I’d love to get a new bedroom set!
I would remake the kitchen because it looks like the brady bunch kitchen or worse and because its the room where the family spends the most time
jacksoncrisman@yahoo.com
Seeing this Rent-A-Center advertisement makes me lose some of the respect for this blog that I’ve built over the years. I’m sure RAC is a good business, but dinksfinance seems to have lost its way.
I would want to redo the master bedroom or the office area. Both need big time help! I just started my own business and a new office area could help me become a lot more organized
My boyfriend of 4.5 years and I had a huge fight over the summer (and temporarily broke up), in part because he has a really stressful job (he’s an attorney) and there is no real way for him to be alone in the house the way it is currently set up, and he’s not someone you want to be around when he’s stressed about work! When we reconciled, we agreed to convert our spare bedroom (which has a literally 20-year-old full bed that’s falling apart anyway) into a den/TV room where he could play video games, but we haven’t been able to afford it, especially now that he’s considering quitting his job anyway. He’s been in trial for the past two weeks and working 100+ hours a week, I am sure he’d love to know we are making progress on his “man cave.”
Basement! I work from home and unfortunately that’s where my office is. We nicknamed it “the dungeon” because it is so dark and dingy.
Definitely my 5 year old son’s room. We have a new baby – 6 days old – and we have focused on her nursery and getting things ready for her so my son is feeling a little left out – and he has NO space. I would love to get him a cool space saving bed, study area because he loves to draw and just totally make over his space so that he feels special. Being out on unpaid maternity leave through Christmas, it’s just something we can’t really do right now – but I would love to one day!!
I’d like to redo our guest room to have better storage and organization.
The living room! We have layers of slip covers on a couch that did not live up to the quality we expected. Years ago, we specifically got a couch that has a pull-out bed, which is no longer functional–we have frequent house guests, and finding a place for them is challenging! (Christmas uses a combination of an air mattress, the couch, and room sharing!).
I’d love to have my living room re-made because everything in it is a hand-me-down! I’d love to have a new couch, rug, coffee-table that all go together. And some storage besides cardboard boxes would really kick it up a few notches! ;)
Living room. I am saving money by living with college style furnishings.
I’d love to have our office re-made, it’s kind of a mix of everything!
I want my living room re-made because right now we just have an old couch and broken furniture. It’s not pretty.
would love to re-do our office! it’s just a bunch of bookcases and an old desk.
my bedroom could use some redoing. I just do not sleep well in that room.The bed is uncomfortable,the walls are to brightly colored,and the carpet is from the 70′s and its puke green.
truthhole@gmail.com
My home doesn’t need a makeover but I would use the Visa card to buy a futon. Thanks!
I would like to re- do my kitchen because it needs to be modernized.
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
I would love to have our living room done… thanks!
My living room could use a makeover because I have a couch that I was paid to take from an old college roommate. It is red, green, and white and very uncomfortable! Festive for Christmas, not so much for everyday! :)
I would remake my bathroom…for long it had some leaking pipes….
so I would spend on that…
thank u..
I would remake my bedroom, because it is definitely in need of an room makeover. I live with roommates and am a recent graduate in some serious need of an “adult” bedroom. I’m not living out of a race car bed, but my room does still look like a dorm room. Not only that, but I have to move out of my place in January and this would give me the opportunity to get rid of some of my bedroom junk and upgrade it.
Thanks for the opportunity.
I’d definitely like to redo my home office. Now that I’m spending more days working from home, I’d really like a sweet set up!
I would redo our bathroom – we have literally no storage space, so everything we own is hanging from hooks.
For sure, my living room needs a makeover. It is so tiny, all of the furniture is too big, they are mismatched hand-me-downs that now have messy slipcovers on them. It is truly a nightmare!!
Likely the basement, It’s finished, and we do have plans to turn it into a nice lounge area, but at the moment it’s mostly a storage area.
Our living room needs a makeover because we have no real theme or “look”… just thrown together furniture that gets the job done but isn’t too cute!
I would redo my laundry room and add some serious updates
My living room needs a makeover as I have just cobbled together cheap mismatched furniture since I moved in late August, I call it eclectic but truthfully its just bad.
bedroom… builder’s beige and no curtains… wifey and i are putting on a show for the neighbors every night
Sweet! My home office needs a makeover, everything in it is super lame. Well, almost.
I would remake our kitchen, I would love to put some wood floors in their and get rid of the laminate!
Living room! We have a really old TV, a small couch…it could use a little TLC!
another room is my future office. right now it’s just a storage room. i bet i could fit a desk in there if i moved some stuff out haha. one baby step at a time.
the formal living room at my parents’ house needs to be redone badly. the ceiling caved in for no good reason so all the furniture is covered in insulation, dust and drywall. mom’s forced to look at new couches and a coffee table. dad’s been fixing the ceiling. it’s coming along, but still a mess
Kitchen!!! I want more counter space!
Right now every room needs a makeover. I’m currently living in a studio and will be moving to a one bedroom apartment in the next couple of months. I’m on a limited budget so the giftcard would go towards mattress or a bedframe and everything else would come from freecycle or craigslist.
My bedroom could use a lot more storage space
Our bedroom needs a makeover. We’ve really neglected it.
our living room could use a make over, it’s a bit bare at this point
Reasons why my master bedroom NEEDS a makeover:
1. My dresser was in my daughter’s nusery who is now a junior in COLLEGE!
2. My nightstands are bookshelves that were in my daughter’s nursery. (see #1)
3. My bedroom TV is a 13″ tv/vcr combo that was purchased over 10 years ago.
(Yes….You read correctly…VCR!)
4. The lamp on my husband’s nightstand has beer logos on the shade. (UGH!)
5. I’ve been married 23 years and have never had a bedroom set.
6. My husband’s dresser is a hand me down dresser that he received when we got married in 1987.
HELP!!!
The kitchen!!!! We had a water dripping from the ceiling from the upstairs bathroom so the kitchen is torn apart at the moment.
Our home office definitely needs a makeover. Actually, it really just needs to be “made” because it’s never really felt like an office. We moved to our condo over a year ago, and there are still boxes in the office that haven’t been unpacked. Nothing’s organized. It’s just terrible. It feels like a grossly oversized closet that never got any love.
The living room. Every piece of furniture is a hand-me-down from parents or friends. It looks like a dorm room. And I’m almost 30.
My living room because it looks like a jumble of my wife’s stuff, my stuff and the baby’s stuff instead of on coherent space!
The basement because it’s totally empty wasted space right now and, as my husband is always telling me, it would make a great man cave!
We have an empty bedroom that we used to rent out which will soon be the nursery for a baby girl. We need to paint it and get furniture and everything!
I would love to get help getting my new living room done up! In a month I’ll be in a new apt…with the need for lots of help as I don’t have much!
My office. I need a new monitor for my compy.
The Kitchen! It’s outdated :(
My bedroom. The furniture doesn’t match.
My bedroom – it’s the only one that’s really MINE!
My computer room needs to be decorated. The furniture is either too small or too big and overall it doesn’t seem organized.
My rec room because I’m rocking the 80′s tropical floral print furniture.
My living room because I have been putting all my money towards my student loans and haven’t had any extra to put towards decorating :(
Master bath need s MAJOR makeover! Shower stall re-tiled, new doors – Florida’s hard water has stained them badly! New vanity, – still have the original circa 1982! Yikes! Oh, and take down the WALL mirror, install something smaller and more modern – nobody needs to see THAT much of my nekkidness!!
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Family room (hangout room) – it needs a new comfy chair and I’d like to freshen it up in general
basement. looks like a dungeon
I want to redo my kitchen because nothing has been done to that room since the house was built,I bet!It is falling apart and looks bad.Plus,we are always in our kitchen
jacksoncrisman@yahoo.com
My bathroom – its in dire need of a paint job!
The office, because although it is an office, it is being held hostage by all of the kids toys!
My dh’s “man cave” needs a makeover. We had a Halloween party and my dh’s clutzy friends spilled beer on his pool table and knocked over an antique slot machine.
My bedroom! The dressers are falling apart and my dog worked his jaw on the legs of my bed.
My living room, it’s just a mish mash of furniture that doesn’t work together on top of ugly shag carpet.
For sure my bedroom – I am not even going to tell you the furniture situation, it is embarrassing – it’s desperate!!
My kitchen needs some serious work. We’ve got jammed drawers and some scratched up countertops!
My bathrooms need serious makeovers!
My kitchen – it feels very cluttered and it’s boring in terms of decoration and aesthetic appeal :(
Which room of your house needs a makeover, and WHY?
Living Room, there is nothing in it
My living room could use some love. It was furnished with other people’s left overs years ago and nothing has changed!
I would use it in our bedroom… we haven’t done anything decor wise!
My family room could use some sprucing up for sure!
I would use it in our bedroom-it is time to get rid of the mismatched Ikea furniture from college!
*Giveaway now over*
The lucky winner is….. Elizabeth I! Congrats! We’ll be shooting you an email soon to grab some info. Thanks for participating everyone!