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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It is the first Eco-Friendly bag I really thought I would use. There trendy and practical. Way to Go Job MoM’s
Not only is it good for the environment, I wount have a ton of plastic bags hanging around.
I use the store bags, but after awhile, they start to smell. It will be wonderful to have reusable bags that are machine washable!! Thank you for your creativity and ingenuity in starting this product line.
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These are wonderful Earth saving products. It seems though most of us try to recycle plastic grocery bags by using them as bathroom trashcan liners, etc.., we are just staving off the inevitable – eventually they will end up in a landfill. This grade plastic is not accepted at recycle places and will not be *turned into* anything else.
Thank you for producing a planet friendly alternative that is so chic and lovely. The style and bright coloring makes it obvious what your bags are for … I always feel that store security is honing in on me when I start stuffing store items into my plain beige canvas sack. :}
I caught a funny typo on the website.
I LOVE LOVE these bags! I love they’re great for the earth and so fashion friendly too!
Wow! Very cool bags. I love the design and I need all the help I can get to go green. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’d really like to win these because not only are they eco-friendly but I love the pattern of them as well. I already use eco-friendly shopping bags but I don’t have any as nice as these. Thanks for the chance!
I really want to win these bags so that I can finally stop using plastic and paper bags at the grocery store! These bags are stylish, roomy, sensible, and eco-friendly. I espeically like the produce bag and the cooler bag. This is so smart!
I carry reusable bags all the time and would love to have something terribly stylish and organized like the Blue Avocado bags. Not only are they cute but really practical.
Just discovered these bags which would be wonderful for converting my family to more sustainable shopping. Through their website, I found this one.
Thank you for helping us go green!
What a great way to support sustainability and Austin! Thanks.
want to be more eco-friendly but look great at the same time = these are a wonderful option!!!
I already use “green” bags when I shop but they are NOT as beautiful as these!!
I currently use reusable grocery bags, but have found that I really need some more compact ones that I can throw in my purse and always carry with me. I’ve seen the BlueAvocado ones at the Farmer’s Market recently and LOVE the designs!
These bags are so small and compact they would be great to keep in the car to be ready for holding groceries and shopping purchases! Thanks!
nice!
I try to use reusable shopping bags as much as possible, but they’re a pain to haul around. This would be perfect because they get so small and are so easy to carry!
trying to do as much as I can to go green
We would love to be more green, but we have 7 people in the house so we needs lots of bags! This would certainly help.
i would love to win this to help do my part in being green
i would love these cute bags. i normally carry my big bulky mix matched reusable bags and these would be great to keep in my car. i love that they take up minimal space.
GREAT ideas
I carry a chico bag around with me wherever I go. It would be nice to put a load of reusable bags in my car so I can’t forget them when I got to the market. I have a couple of trader joe’s bags, but they can be bulky. I’d love to have an arsenal of small ones! I also love the print, very fashionable. Thanks!
I’d like to win a kit because while I’m good at remembering to take my shopping bags to the store for groceries, I forget for everything else. If I won, I’d put a pod in my purse so I’d always have a reuseable shopping bag with me at all times. I’d also give one to my sister and mom who also forget their bags when doing non-grocery shopping.
These bags are incredible! I love how they’re beautiful & color-coordinated, & that they’re also compact & fit inside each other. Thanks for introducing me to these great bags!
I have only collected a couple bags, and they don’t match. This would be great, and fold away nicely for storage.
I’m trying to be GREEN everywhere I can but on a tight budget it’s not always easy. This would be one less expense and they look so cute.
This would be a great collection of nice looking bags that store easily.
I’d like to win this giveaway because I am impressed with these bags and I would like to use them. My current bags are getting worn.
I think grocery stores in general are among the worst eco-friendly participants. In my experience they always opt to bag in plastic vs. paper, often put single items in a plastic bag (to separate?) and are not openly receptive when I hand them recycled, reuseable bags. Nevertheless, as I make a conscious effort to help save and protect the environment – no matter how small or insignificant it may seem to others – I feel good
I love these, but I would love to win it for my daughter.
this would help me take one more small step towards going green. thanks!
Some of us were green long before it became trendy. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard when I go to the storees and see all the plastic they use to bag groceries. Also see them in parking lots, along the roadside. I would like to give these to my sons in their 20’s who I’ve always taught to recycle.
These would be great for me. I hate it when I forget my bags. But these are so nice and compact. And I love the Cool Kit!
I would like to win this give away so that I can be more ecologically conscious. Once you sit and think about how many bags you accumulate it really is alot, and I would like to prevent that waste in the future.
I was at the launch of Blue Avacado at SWOM Fest 08! I love this Great Green Giveaway b/c everyone can relate. Love these products b/c they are so easy to carry instead of the larger bags I use. I can keep these in my purse always for those small grocery runs (and I never have an excuse to use plastic again). I now have a few bags but I’m looking for more to encourage family and friends to recylcle! These are wonderful gifts! love it!!! Thanks for helping us go GREEN!
It all just makes good sense. Congratulations on your efforts, Blue Avocado. We all need to do our part to help the environment!
I have some cotton reuseable bags but these are neat because they compact so small they are very convenient. thanks for the chance, justicecw@hotmail.com
I’d like to win
I have a family of 6. It is hard to Carry enough Eco bags to Carry all the groceries I have to buy at one time, so I still end up with a lot of plastic bags. With these being so compact, it would make it easier to not use the plastic bags. With a family as big as mine, I have to go green where ever I can.
I keep reusable bags in my car but forget them all the time…it would be great to have them compact enough to fit in my purse! thanks!
I re-use the green bags when I think of it, but always leave the house without them when going to the store – these would be perfect to leave in the car or my purse so I’m never stuck using a plastic bag again!
I love reusable bags.. please enter me
When you figure one reuseable pak replaces so many plastic bags, and is made of recycled materials to boot, you are doing something for the environment in using these paks. Thanks for the giveaway.
These would be very handy to keep with for trips to the grocery!
I love how much these bags carry, and that I don’t have to worry about wasting so much plastic. Also I love how these are easy to clean.
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OHHH I love these. I would love to win those because I have started trying to brong bags with me shopping but The ones I have are so bulky I forget them all the time. These would fit write in my purse.
I love that they have a kit that works for everyone! This would be great as I forget the bags more than I’d like, or don’t bring enough – this would make it super easy to remember
I would love to use this for going shopping and cut down on my bag usage.
I like how compact these can be and who says that you can’t be green and stylish at the same time. These bags certainly prove you can!