Pay It Forward Giveaway Contest!!

Swistle, one of the coolest ladies I know on the internet, is hosting a huge Pay It Forward giveaway contest. She is asking for everyone interested in hosting a giveaway (big or small- you can determine the prize) to write a post about it on Monday or Tuesday and email her (swistle at gmail dot com) the link. Then she will have a giant list of giveaways that we can all enter! The fun doesn't stop there, though! Every person that wins a giveaway has to host one of their own! That's why it's called a "Pay It Forward" giveaway- because it keeps going and going!

Because I wasn't sure what a Pay It Forward Giveaway entailed, I asked Swistle. (Turns out it has very little to do with Haley Joel Osment). Here's Swistle's explanation.

So! Pay it Forward contests! They have kind of a dumb name, but it is what they are called and we are too late to vote on it. The way they work is that a blogger says he or she is having a Pay it Forward contest, and a bunch of people enter by commenting on that post (I like to give a lightweight optional question to answer; last time I asked if your skin was dry, oily, or combination). The blogger uses a random number generator (or scraps of paper in a hat) to select a random commenter, and sends that commenter a surprise box (contents completely up to the blogger) in the mail. The recipient of the surprise box must then post a Pay it Forward contest on his or her OWN blog, and choose a random commenter to win it, and send a surprise box to that commenter. Then THAT winner....and so on.

You can visit Swistle to learn more about the contest or head over to Melessa's blog, who won Swistle's last Pay It Forward package, to see a PIF example.

And be sure to check back here on Monday to enter my Pay It Forward Giveaway Contest!!