Here’s a fun fact about me:

I have never, ever, ever been able to keep a clean bedroom.  In college I always tried to keep my half of the room neat enough so that my roommate wouldn’t KILL me, and that’s about the best I’ve ever done!

My room is small.  My closet has slanted ceilings because it’s directly under the roof and you can’t even stand up all the way in it.  We don’t have enough space to store clothes, books, etc.  Poor Bobby keeps all his clothes in the basement on shelves because there is not even close to enough room in our bedroom for both of our wardrobes.

So it’s small. And usually the floor is covered with clothes, shoes, and books. And laundry baskets.

Bobby took the entire week off work this week since the kids were going to be on break, and so I’ve been planning for awhile to clean the bedroom this week.  I asked him to remove the kids from the house for a minimum of three hours and he did for over four!

And I cleaned the whole time.  Two baskets of laundry, two bags for goodwill, and three bags of trash later, I am done.  Save for the vaccuming, because for the love of all that’s holy I NEED A LIGHTWEIGHT VACCUM.  Mine is too heavy and despite my groveling with several vaccum-making companies, I’ve never had any luck getting one to review. And GOD FORBID I have to buy my own!! I mean, really, that’s preposterous. Besides I’m saving all my money for a new couch since the children have deee-stroyed ours completely.  But anyhoo. I digress.

I’m 34 years old and I’ve never been able to keep a clean bedroom.  What’s your deal?

As you may have noticed, Jenny and I love us some Tide. In fact, I just searched our site and came up with 27 posts in which we mention Tide. We love working with the brand, but we also just love the products and use them all the time. I mean, Jenny buys Tide as opposed to whatever detergent she can get for 67 cents with a coupon, so you know how serious it is.

(And also, we love hanging out with Tim Gunn.)

One of our favorite Tide products, though, is Tide Stain Release.

I wrote a post about a year and a half ago that involved a crayon, the dryer, and an entire load of laundry – and Tide Stain Release came to the rescue.

Re-reading that post reminded me of something – a little secret about me and Tide Stain Release. For the first… I don’t know… month I used it, I didn’t realize that I was supposed to add it to the washer in addition to detergent. I thought it was more of an “instead of” proposition. Finally one day I happened to actually read the directions and found out otherwise, but it got the clothes so clean I would have never noticed!

My goodness, I am REALLY rambling… let me get to the point of this post!

Tide Stain Release has a great challenge and Sweepstakes coming up on their Facebook page starting March 28th!  You could win a year’s supply of Tide Stain Release or an HE washer and dryer!!!  To help get the challenge kicked off, Jenny took the “get out” challenge and caught it on video for us:

Wasn’t that amazing?  You do NOT want to miss this great challenge! Here’s how you can keep in the loop! First, go “like” Tide’s facebook page. Then, starting March 28th, visit the Tide Stain Release Challenge tab on Tide’s Facebook page and click the “Take the Challenge” button. The first 100,000 registered participants will get a free sample for themselves, as well as three extras to share with Facebook friends, so they too can take the Challenge. Any registrants thereafter will receive a coupon for Tide Stain Release.

- Increase your odds of winning by sharing feedback (good or bad) about Tide Stain Release on the Challenge page, once you’ve tried it. Here, there’s also a chance to have feedback included in a Tide Stain Release advertisement!

- Increase your chances of winning even more by taking a poll about Tide Stain Release on the Challenge page.

We can’t wait for this great challenge to begin, and we’ll have more exciting Tide Stain Release news next month as well. We hope you’ll head over to Tide’s Facebook page to take the chance to “Get Out!”

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We are being compensated for working with Tide on the “Get Out” challenge. All opinions on the product are the real deal!