No, it’s not at all weird that the requirement for this giveaway is posting a comment on this post and that most of the comments are from an address of david@david.com or david-y-dave@daveyboy.com.
Nope. Not my husband. Merely a coincidence. Not weird at all.
Everyone just keep to your own business.
HEY IT’S A GIVEAWAY FROM MANTIS.
All I want for Christmas is a Mantis tiller…but this would also be great.
So when Growing a Greener World posted their must-have Christmas list I got pretty excited. It’s like the holy grail of Those Who Have Gone Before. There’s still a tiny little driplet of drool droplet on my floor that I never cleaned up from the first time I opened the list. The name of that list might as well be “Hark, We Can Be Trusted.” I think I’m going a little overboard…I’ll quit now…did you catch the part where it’s a great list?
Ahem.
But there’s no gear tote with dividers on there. And mama likes a garden purse. Which is why I was SUPER PUMPED when Mantis contacted me about giving away a totes adorbs trusty-toter-totes. {By the way, no one from the product development department ever contacted me about naming this tote. This eludes me to no end.}
{Also, I was desperately trying to work the word “tater” into that perfection of nomenclature but I couldn’t figure it out.}
{This reminds me of the time I was teaching a college class and calling roll. “<Nice normal name>?” I asked, looking for the young man to respond.
“Tater,” he answered, “just call me Tater.”
“As in Tot?”
Just kidding. In a rare show of self-editing I managed to not say that last part. Oh but how I thought it.}
{How did I get here again?}
TOTE-CHALK-FULL-OF-GOODIES-GIVEAWAY.
{I will pause here to let you appreciate the segue I utilized between the teaching rabbit hole I fell into and the tote bag giveaway.}
{No?}
{Can’t find it?}
{Chalk…it was the chalk…get it?? Moving on. Or backward. Or in a tailspin. Whatever.}
Here’s how you enter the giveaway, David.
I mean.
Here’s how you enter the giveaway:
Comment on this post and tell me the most random thing I would be likely to find in this garden tote should I visit you while you’re gardening, should you win it. And while humor is appreciated, let’s keep it PG, people. Anything PG+ will get you auto-deleted and disqualified by my Ukrainian-ninja-hacker-backer who still seems to be lurking. {He’s cool with trying to guess my password, NOT COOL with inappropriate comments. Everybody’s got a morality line.}
So what do you write…in the comments…to win the tote…FOR EXAMPLE: if I know I’m going to be in the yard for longer than a few minutes I appreciate having that green stretchy gardening tie on me at all times. That stuff is handy. Or, if I’m feeling zippy, I might write that I also appreciate having a pocket full of Starburst that I would no longer have to haul in my pocket but could now tote in my snazzy new tote.
Comments will be open from right now through noon CST on the day after Christmas. One comment entry per email address, please. I will use a random number generator to select the winner, email you for your address, and then send it to Mantis, who will lickity-split mail you the loot. Let’s keep this in the continental US people, just to make it easy on them with the price of stamps and all that.
Unless you plan to keep your mailman in your tote and then you could send him to Mantis to personally collect your tote.
No judgment here.
Hey David, did you enter yet? And know what goes great with Starburst? A Mantis tiller.
I always have chocolate handy, but you could also find a baseball in there!
probably some of m’s dora the explorer gardening tools. she has a greater collection than I do 🙂
2 Christmases ago my husband bought me a CamelBak water bottle. Little did he know that I would use it EVERY SINGLE DAY after that. Not an exaggeration. I never leave home without it. So when I go outside the water bottle goes with me. Surely it would fit in one of those nifty pockets.
You might just find a good read in my tote (if I had one). Yes, I work in my yard….but what I really like to do is snuggle up with a good book in my backyard. It is my “happy place”.
You would totally find “Gardening for Dummies” in my tote.
I think I would have my iPod playing the Dixie Chicks “Wide Open Spaces” on repeat, so I could belt out the line “I want to grow something wild and unruly”. Much to my neighbor’s dismay. 🙂
You would probably find some sort of seasonal candy (Cadbury mini eggs, peppermint Hershey kisses, etc)
My water bottle, my trusty weeder, and some insect repellent because around here (Atlanta) it is usually hot, weedy, and buggy.
“As in TOT?”……Good One!
My tote would definitely have some lip gloss and Perky Jerky!
A packet of tissues would be most useful. I always get a runny nose while gardening when it’s too cool to actually be gardening but I do it anyway.
I suppose the tote could be chock full of “garden advice”. Once a gardener has been through one or
After two gardening seasons, they can’t wait to share their extensive gardening wisdom with old, new or
aspiring gardeners. Be somewhat skeptical before using this advice. Experts will tell you to plant in “drifts
three”. That’s fine if you have plenty of room. If not consider planting in “drifts of one”. They will tell you
to label all of the plants. Be careful. I took this advice literally and my garden became full of plastic plant
markers; My grandson said it looked like a “mouse graveyard”. After I removed all of the markers, a visitor
to my garden said, “her visit would have been more meaningful if the plants were labeled”. Take it from
me, there’s no pleasing some people. Another well-meaning friend said “It’s not enough to love flowers,
you must hate weeds.” I invited her to stick around and help me weed. She left and has not been back.
Take the best advice and ignore the rest. Gardening should be fun. Enjoy it and after one or two season,
be generous in dispensing your hard-earned gardening wisdom.
I never drink enough water when I’m outside, so a water bottle would be greatly appreciated!
These days I’m never without a burp cloth, no not for me! I’m sure I’d have one of those!
i’m pretty sure that being the germaphobe i am, i would likely have some hand sanitizer in there.
My tote would have to be big enough to fit my gardening friend, Holly. I got no skills.
Just call me tater.
Kneepads. Wooden matches for my bellpeppers. Treats for Jake.
An extra pair of gloves since I seem to get holes in mine…