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$65 CSN Stores GIVEAWAY!!!

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It seems like the entire country has been having some crazy weather this winter. Places that NEVER get snow are getting lots of it, dry places are seeing record amounts of rain, and we are all freezing our buns off! I have to tell you, I’m not really a fan of summer, but I sure am craving some warm temps right about now! Tim has been taking Darah to the local park lately, and even in the cold weather, she has wanted to stay and play for a really long time! It has taken me by surprise, and prompted me to do a bit of searching into backyard swing sets. I’m curious to hear from you: do you have a swing set in your back yard? Do you just go to the local park? Do you do a bit of both? I’m not sure what the right answer is for us…

Whether you need a swing set or a set of tools for your little one, CSN Stores has got you covered! They have over 200 stores and pretty much everything you need to outfit your home, end to end! I’ve been shopping with them for a while now, and have always been impressed with their speed, quality and customer service! CSN Stores is fast becoming one of the first places I look when searching for an item online. More often than not, they have just what I’m looking for!

Win it!: CSN Stores would like to offer one lucky Stuff Parents Need reader a $65 credit to any of their 200+ stores! You can even purchase items from multiple stores in one simple transaction! Woo hoo! The contest will run until February 23rd at 11:59pm EST when a winner will be selected using Random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the winning notification before the prize is forfeited and a new winner is selected. Open to residents of the United States and Canada. Limit one entrant per household, please.

Mandatory entry: This contest is for Stuff Parents Need subscribers only, so for your first entry, you must subscribe to this blog via RSS or email and then leave a comment letting me know you did. If you already subscribe, thank you! Just leave a comment below saying so!

Additional entries:
1. Follow CSN Stores on Twitter
2. Follow Stuff Parents Need on Google Friend Connect (found on the sidebar of my home page)

Be sure to enter my other current giveaways, found on the sidebar of my home page.

Disclosure: I received nothing in exchange for hosting this giveaway. I just love CSN Stores and my readers!

$75 CSN Stores GIVEAWAY!!!

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Oh joy of joys! Today is the day that I’m bringing you one of your favorite giveaways!!!

I’ve got a $75 gift certificate to CSN Stores up for grabs!!!!

Many of you already know the joys of shopping with CSN Stores. If you don’t, allow me to introduce you to your new favorite online shopping resource!

Perhaps you are looking for a beautiful and functional way to store stuff in your home? Then you need to think about getting an ottoman coffee table, and CSN Stores has one for you, I promise! (We LOVE our coffee table/gorgeous leather ottoman/covert toy box!).

Or perhaps your floors are looking a bit drab, but installing carpet is out of the question and budget. CSN Stores offers area rugs that are to die for!

Whatever you are looking for, the odds are unbelievably good that CSN Stores has them (remember, they are a network of over 200 stores!).

Win it!: Let’s get this party started! One lucky Stuff Parents Need reader is going to win $75 to spend as you see fit at CSN Stores. This will no doubt help with your holiday shopping! The contest will run until October 27th at 11:59pm EST when a winner will be selected using Random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the winning notification before the prize is forfeited and a new winner is selected. Open to residents of the United States. Limit one entrant per household, please.

Mandatory entry: Show me something you would love to own that CSN Stores sells. Here’s an example: I love the natural look of this Adirondack chair, and would love to have a pair on my front porch! http://www.csnstores.com/Shine-Company-Inc.-4611-XSH1019.html

Additional entries:
1. Sponsor love: “Like” CSN Stores on Facebook
2. Blogger love: Subscribe to Stuff Parents Need via RSS or email (if you don’t know how, just email me and I’ll help you figure it out!).

Be sure to enter my other current giveaways found on the side bar of my home page. I only offer a few entry options for each giveaway, which makes the odds of winning better!

Disclosure: Nothing was received in exchange for this post. This is pure love coming to you from CSN Stores!

Closet Catastrophe Solved: CSN Stores to the Rescue

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When we moved from Memphis to Chattanooga, a good chunk of our furniture did not make it on the trip with us. We sold our dressers, which seemed like a fine idea at the time. They were just in ok shape, I think we even got them for free, and we valued other stuff more than them (the POD was so packed that we had to choose).

Once we got unpacked and saw that our clothes now lived in a big pile on the floor, we realized that we needed to re-think our brilliant strategy to “make excellent use of the closet space.” Our closets are much more spacious here, and we are definitely making great use of them, but still, we need space to put underwear, jammies, socks, etc. Organizational FAIL!

I wanted to give priority to Darah’s room, and made peace with needing to get her some sort of a dresser. One problem: there’s no space for a dresser in her room! We decided to throw a queen bed in her room for our occasional guests, along with her crib, glider, bookshelf, and huge pile of toys. So a dresser would have to be, um, suspended from the ceiling? Yikes.

Upon looking more closely, though, I realized that there was this great space in the back of her walk-in closet (such a luxury as compared with our teeny tiny closets back in Memphis!). If we could find just the right piece to fit in that nook, we’d be in business.

So I turned to CSN Stores to find the perfect solution. It had to be just the right dimensions and it needed to look like something appropriate for a little girl. It was actually a really tough order to fill. But did I worry one bit? NOPE! Why? Because CSN Stores has everything you could ever need, and then some, when it comes to home furnishing! I am continually impressed with the ENORMOUS selection of products they offer in their 200+ stores (yes, you read that right!).

Wanna see what we got????


LOVE IT!!! It fits in her closet SOOOO perfectly! The wicker basket storage unit shipped the day after I ordered it, and was on our front porch by the end of the week. It did require some assembly, but Tim had it together in about 30 minutes. I think he only swore once! 😉

I really love that this dresser will be able to grow with her for several years, and that both rows of drawers are down low, so that she can open and close them when she gets a little bit older and wants to try dressing herself. The top is also sturdy, which means we just created an extra shelf in the closet. Woo hoo!

Big thanks to CSN Stores for helping solve our closet catastrophe. I would recommend this piece to anyone, and I can say that I have had a very positive experience each time I have placed an order with CSN Stores. Check them out the next time you are looking for just the right item for your house. I bet they have it!

Disclaimer: I received a $75 gift certificate to put toward a purchase for review. I paid the difference between the price of the furniture and the certificate myself. The opinions expressed here are strictly my own.