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Burlington Coat Factory $100 Challenge (and GIVEAWAY of course!)

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“A man can walk into Burlington Coat Factory with $645 and walk out a king.”
– Michael Scott, The Office, 12/4/08

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All of my regular readers (i.e. those of you who AREN’T just here to win a contest) know that I’m uh, um, cheap frugal. So at Christmas time, I always moan and groan in a very Scrooge-like way about all the money I am going to have to shell out for presents. Watching the sale papers for weeks for that EXACT gift to go on sale can be a bit tiresome. So, I was excited when the folks at Burlington Coat Factory offered me a $100 gift card and challenged me to see HOW MUCH I could get for $100. Woohoo!! This is MY KIND of challenge, people! At first I was all, “Yay, free $100! Now I don’t have to spend so much out-of-pocket on my dumb wonderful family!” But that only lasted for about thirty seconds. You see, my friend Andrea had told me just the day before about a family she met a couple of weeks ago that has three children, (one of whom is seriously ill) and not much else. I knew in my heart that I should take the Burlington $100 Challenge to see how much $100 would buy this family for Christmas. So, Saturday my BFF Luanne and I went to Burlington and had a BLAST shopping for them! It was difficult because Burlington has SO MUCH to choose from. The parents needed clothes and the kids (ages 5, 4 and 2) needed toys and it took us forever to pick things out because the selection of both clothes and toys was incredible! But after MUCH deliberation, here is what we picked out!

Two nice shirts for dad ($16.99 and $9.99) and a sweater and a fleece for mom (both $9.99)

shirts for adults

A CARS Mega-blocks set for the five-year-old ($16.99), a Cinderella Princess doll for the for-year-old ($10.99) and the V-Tech Discovery Nursery Farm for the two-year-old ($19.99).

toys for kiddos

Grand Total = $95.93 (before tax)

All that for less than $100!! And I was able to get it all conveniently in the same store, without even entering a mall! Yahooo! Thanks Burlington Coat Factory!

Allright, now you’ve seen what I can do with a $100 Burlington Coat Factory gift card – help give a Merry Christmas to a family who badly needs it. Burlington Coat Factory and Mommin’ It Up are giving FIVE of you, dear readers, the chance to do the same thing! We wanna see how much YOU can get at Burlington Coat Factory for $100!! Because we want you to have plenty of time to shop, this is going to be a SHORT giveaway. I will close comments and draw the five winners of the $100 gift card at 8 a.m. this Friday, December 12th. Then I will mail you your gift cards lickety-split so you can get to shoppin’!

There are a couple of rules to this contest (made by ME, not Burlington Coat Factory).
1) Don’t enter this contest if you do not have a Burlington Coat Factory nearby that you can shop at. Please give someone who can use it for Christmas the chance to do so.
2) If you win, and you have a blog, you will need to post your $100 Challenge shopping trip on your blog and let me know so I can link to it!
3) If you win and you don’t have a blog, you will need to email me a picture or description (or BOTH) of your $100 challenge shopping trip and I will post it here.
4) You do not HAVE to use your $100 gift card to give back to someone else, but I highly encourage you to do so! Think of what you can do to show someone in need what Christmas is all about this year! That being said, if winning this for your family is what you need, by all means use it as you see fit.

Ok – all you have to do to enter is leave a comment! One per person! Random number generator will pick the five winners! Happy entering!

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152 Replies to “Burlington Coat Factory $100 Challenge (and GIVEAWAY of course!)”

  1. We have a Burlington in the area and this would really help out with our Christmas shopping!

    thanks for the great giveaway!

  2. Awesome shopping trip! I would love to do a 50/50 challenge. Money is tight around here, but I would also love to share the money too.

  3. I love this challange and I would love to help someone out!!!! Im so glad Mommin it Up and BCF are doing this. What a great idea!

  13. I would love to win and help some one else’s family out. What a great thing to do and have a great feeling doing it.

  14. I would love to let my kids shop for another family in need. We’ve done the Food Bank thing already this year, and donated some toys, but a whole family’s gifts would be great. Thanks for the opportunity!

  15. Fabulous! My *baby* brother is currently trying to hold his head above water having lost his IT job and I’m sure he could make this gift card go far!

  17. I’d love to win this GC. My five sons would love the opp to go shopping for toys for tots themselves. And not have to worry sooo much about mom saying this or that costs too much. (They have no idea how much it costs to feed and clothes themselves…so why can’t they spend 125 dollars on a huge remote control dinosaur, lol)

  18. This would be great. This is the first year that my financial responsibilities have stopped me from donating toys, and I feel terribly guilty. Pick me, Random Number Generator!!

  19. The budget is tight this year, and (being the dedicated bargain shopper I am, and trying to pass my charitable wishes and bargain-hunting mentality along to my children) would love to use one of the cards to fulfill another family’s wishes. Fantastic idea!!

  22. This would be lots of fun to shop for someone else!! You’ll have to let us know how that family responded! God Bless!

  28. great giveaway!!!! We have a huge Burlington near us, and a new one that I haven’t even been to yet! And I have just the family in mind if I win!!!

  30. My Mom would go nuts!…. She has lost 70# over the last year and does not have anything to wear!…. This would be fantastic because we both love shopping at Burlington…. We’ve bought just about everything there, including my daughter’s crib!……

  31. How wonderful of you to use your $100 for another family! Great finds also!! I have an idea of what to do with it to help out others too…

  35. I love Burlington…and you really can do so much there with $100. I’d love to use some of it for my family and buy some toys for children in need. lys76 at msn dot com

  38. A Burlington Coat Factory was just built right down the street from me. My Cousin is due to have her baby in a few days and it would be so great to be able to help her out.

  41. I would LOVE to see how much I could get for a family in need (already have one in mind) for $100 at Burlington!!! Do they put out coupons?!?!? lol

    count me in!

  42. Burlington is great and the fact that I could get toys and clothes all in one place is great. The Salvation Army always puts names on a tree along with ages and what these kids want/need. I would love to be able to spend $100 on 1 or even 2 kids and be able to make a fantastic Christmas for someone less fortunate. Oh I hope I win so I can do this!!!

  45. I love BCF. We always find great deals when we shop there. I have a family in my church who could really use this. Thanks for the chance.

  46. This would be great to try and help out my sister, she is a single mom that could for sure use it. She has such a big heart and I want to try and help at much as I can. Thanks!

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