December 5, 2008 UPDATE: It’s official — our two lucky winners are Ronda G. and Joanne S. Thanks to all for participating. Everyone can be a winner at Blue Avocado when you use their special discount code: blogluv5 to receive a 5% discount on orders over $60.
The Blue Avocado Giveaway is Closed, but be sure to check out our current Great Green Giveaways listed in the middle column of this page. original post follows:
Make your move to eco chic reusable bags, or give them as wonderful holiday gifts. Compliments of Blue Avocado, two lucky readers will each receive a unique and innovative shopping bag kit, made from beautiful recycled materials. Available in three stylish colors; winners get to pick their favorite shade.
- First Prize: the Cool Kit replaces 13 plastic shopping bags, ($44.99, pic above).
- Second Prize: the Ready Kit replaces 9 plastic shopping bags, ($24.99, pic above).
Each prize includes free shipping to anywhere in the U.S.
TO ENTER: STEP 1 & 2 – first, visit Blue Avocado and check out their eco chic shopping kits. Then enter a comment on this post telling us why you’d like to win this Great Green Giveaway.
STEP 3 – Prize notification – is via email so be sure to add the following address to your email address book: m at AlternativeConsumer.com.
Entries must be received by 12n (ET), Fri, December 5.
Random Drawing takes place on Friday, December 5, 2008. Two lucky winners will be notified by email. (Don’t forget to add: m at AlternativeConsumer.com to your address book.) Winners need to reply to notification within 24 hours in order to claim their individual prize, otherwise their offer is null and void. The 2 winners’ names will also be included on this post.
Thanks for reading The Alternative Consumer — start clicking, and good luck! (One entry per person.) AltCon runs contests and giveaways all time so subscribe to our RSS feed to stay updated.
Related: previously on altCon (11.13.08)
blue avocado’s coordinated collection of reusable shopping bags
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I carry around reuseable bags and it would be handy to have compact ones all the time for the places you just do not know or for those times you don’t want to carry the big bags..I personally love the idea but know the hubs hates to carry big bags in- security stops him like he is stealing bags and this would be easier for him too…and for me to carry plus these are styling and not dorky
I’d like to win because I am trying to get everyone I come in contact with to go GREEN. My family and I have made great strides!
These kits are terrific. I like that they are so compact; there’s a lot of storage capacity but make a small package when not in use. They come in such pretty colors, too.
Very nice designs. :) Happy Holidays
would be a great addition to the things my family needs to be green.
I would love to have this. I need more ways to be green.
I would love to win one of the shopping bag kits!
I need to win this giveaway because I want to be green…but also because Seattle has declared a war on shopping bags, and will soon implement a charge for bags, both paper and plastic!!!
These bags are great, not only are they stylish, but they help to reduce & reuse!
I’d like to win because I would use them to make sure everyone in my apartment is shopping as eco-friendly as possible!
I use canvas bags, and these bags look wonderful! One can never have enough!
I fully support helping the environment out and these bags are so convenient to carry around. I think they’re great because if I ever decide to stop by the grocery on the way home, I have a bag to carry them in.
These are great! I’m always forgetting to bring my own shopping bags, so to have an entire kit in the car would be great!
I love the lime colored ones. I think something like this would be perfect for me. I haven’t been the greatest at remembering my reusable bags, but these are so compact that I can carry them around in my purse.
I LOVE their products! GREAT ideas to help people save the planet!
I seem to accumulate mountains of plastic grocery bags,these bags are a much Greener alternative.
My whole family is going green and I am trying to get them to avoid using paper and plastic bags
i’m green with envy
Very practical. I dont like the clutter of all the canvas bags in the car. Collapsible makes sense.
I want to be more eco-friendly but look fabulous at the same time. These bags can help me achieve that.
Love these bags! I would love the cool kit as I combine my errands and sometimes my cool food is not as cool as I like when I finally arrive home.
Awesome!
I dislike using plastic shopping bags immensely and still have a problem remembering to bring them back to the store for recycling. These bags are perfect, they can tote more than plastic, people know you are about the environment and they just happen to look great too!
I’d like to win this Great Green Giveaway because we do major shopping just once per month, and we could use the bags so we can stop using plastic. And since they fit inside each other, they’d be easy to grab when it’s time to go.
I have been trying to remember all the non plastic bags, but I suck at it. It would be great to have a pack I could just leave in the car. Thanks!
I have been guilty of using plastic bags and would love to replace them with something nice like this.
Would love to win this so I can stop using those plastic bags at the store. Thanks!
Right now I am using a conglomeration of bags that I already had available, none of which are collapsible so are quite bulky. A coordinated set which is easy to carry around would be so GREAT!
Would eliminate the plastic bags from the supermarket
I love that they are compact and all fit in one bag! I now carry 10 bags into the grocery store and it’s cumbersome…I would give my old ones away to other shoppers for free if I win!
these bags are so neet.
I bought reusable bags at my grocery store to carry my groceries and save on both paper and plastic bags. They are not that strong and eventually break. It would be nice to have a set of sturdy bags to take with me with the added touch that the bags are colorful (and not the drab black that I use now).
I have a couple of reusable bags now, but that’s not enough when I do my big weekly shopping, so I’d really love to have some more bags. I like the different styles that come in these sets from Blue Avocado.
could really use these
I have a few cloth bags, but these are really cool! I love how they fit into each other and the design is very neat!
I’d love to win these bags as I haven’t gotten around to buying reusable shopping bags although I’ve been meaning to. These are great as they include insulated for your frozen products and bags for the produce. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I’m TIRED of swimming in plastic bags, I’d love to get one of these kits. They’re very stylish.
We have a new law in Seattle regarding plastic bags. Many people will need to purchase reusable bags and I know that they will not be able to afford it. I’d love to win these so I can give them to people who really need them.
Thanks for the opportunity.
I really like these bags. I bought the cloth ones for $.99 and then fell apart the first time I used them…All the stitching came out. These are very sturdy and would be great. The the designs too.
This would be fabulous to win. I am guilty of using plastic bags and I would love to stop. Thank you
I love these, I have alot of bags I carry with me, but I would love these for my daughter-in-law. She tends not to recycle as burn everything in the wood stove. So if I got these for her, she would be more inclined to reuse. And if she decided no to use them, well I would be tickled to take these to the store. Thanks from a recycler for 40 yrs.
Love how compact they are and that there are enough for a trip to the store…which usually takes up several bags…and they are so attractive as well, Would love to win. THANKS
I need this shopping kit. I love the blue. I have some reusable bags but I need more. I also would love to give some out to people who need them but are really finding thier finances stretched to the limit and cannot afford these great bags.
I love the fact these bags are sturdy and compact too.
I need this win because…Plastic is not my friend, and plastic bags are DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!
I could use more bags, we have some reusable bags for the market, need more.
I’ve been picking up a few of the reusable bags at the store. The hard part is remembering to pick them up. I could put a couple in each car and one in my purse.
I was wanting to give my mother an eco package for Christmas and this would be perfect!!!
I try to be as green as possible however, many time my reuseable bags get left behind… They are big and when you are carring a newborn, diaper bag/purse, and holding a toddlers hand welllll you don’t always remember to grab the bags.. So having some that roll up or are all in one bag oooo heaven…
I already have a couple of the reusuable bags. but I end up never having enough room for the things I buy. This would help in a big way!
I really trying to do more to recycle. I’ve always reused the plastic bags that the grocery store, but I’m ready to do more. Thanks for the contest.
I would love to win these because they are so compact I can keep them in my purse and never forget them when I am going shopping.