Monday, September 26, 2011 Let's Talk Dirt(y) + Giveaway!
***This giveaway is now closed!***
Hello! How are you? I am jamming to The Verve Pipe - Freshman. I am also currently missing Joey at 4:37 am NYC time. This is the longest we will be apart from one another. It's been a totally gross level mush fest of love notes and text overload. You would think after seven years we would stop acting like teenagers, but no, we are totally besties. I wouldn't sleep until his plane landed, it's just how I roll. But you. I hope you are well. I hope you are sleeping. Or at least on some sort of normal schedule. In honor of Joey, and our passion picks, we have a super awesome giveaway for you today! Let's talk about the dirty a second.
So, as you may have read, our basement flooded along with some leaks in the ceiling. We lost quite a bit of laundry. Bye bye Dwell Studio duvet set. Bye bye Orla Kiley towels. Bye bye pretty clothes and sheets. It's been raining a lot in New York and the water table just couldn't handle it any more. So Joey filled up the shop vac 20+ times to save the basement. He had some questions if the Vac could be used in this fashion and thanks to this awesome Q & A, it was like someone was reading his mind and his questions were answered.
If you are wondering, yes. The Shop Vac can double as a water pump if your basement floods. Instant gratification at it's finest. Yay community knowledge!
Oh yes. The shop vac. You have saved us so many times. You have made Joey's workshop bearable. You have sucked up so much water and sawdust, I am surprised you are still living to tell the story. We love you. We want to share you with the world. If you don't have one, you need one. It's not a "sexy" tool, but it's been used so often, we deem it product we cant live without #5, to kick start our week of favorite tools giveaways.
Yep! This week, all week, we will be giving away a favorite item a day to kick start our season of giveaway! Thanks to a wonderful company, StackExchange.com, and their AMAZING Home Improvement vertical, they will be sponsoring all the loot!
What is Stack Exchange? Glad you asked! Stack Exchange is a wonderful place you can go to ask questions and get/give answers. Their Home Improvement/DIY vertical is what I suspect you will get A LOT of use out of. We encourage you to check it out! Get some karma points by answering DIY mysteries or ask a question and get that answer. But right now, get yourself in the game to win a Shop Vac, you have no idea how bad you need one.
Giveaway info:
- Prize: One (1) Shop Vac with accessories care of Stack Exchange: Home Improvement MSRP $53.49
- How to Enter: Tell us your favorite tool or accessory which helps you get "the job" done! Don't forget to tell us why you love it!
- Extra Entry: Follow @StackDIY on twitter, come back and tell me you did!
- Giveaway Ends: Sunday October 2nd at 9:00pm EST
- How Many Lucky Winners?!: One (1)
- Ships to: US Only
- Also: Please only enter once, with the exception of the extra entry. We select our winners using random.org and will select a winner by October 5th and notify by email, so use a real email address!
Reader Comments (55)
Currently my favorite tool is our little indoor mini shop vac. With our pets and home improvements it is the only thing that would work to keep our house clean.
I love our cordless drill, my purdy paint brushes, and my iphone, because listening to some killer tunes on Pandora is essential to doing any DIY project. (plus, I have to be able to tweet about what I'm doing, right?)
I'm following @stackedDIY on twitter. @alwaysnwonder
One of our favs would have to be our cordless drill!
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Our cordless drill is the best tool for most jobs!
OH my--so many to choose from. Probably our drill!
My favorite tool would be a paintbrush. I love what paint does to transform a space or project.
I'm following @StackDIY!
my favorite tool right now is the internet. we just bought a house and spend hours a week looking at diy & retail sites!
We don't have many tools yet, but we love our drill!
My dyson! it's the only vacuum I've had that sucks up pet hair like nobody's business
I love the feel of a well-balanced hammer...it makes for a much better rhythm in working.
Not really a tool...but an accessory...painter's tape. Love, love, love!
I don't have many tools, but I am slowly building up my toolbox! I would say my cordless drill has come in very handy for many projects... I just wish the battery would last longer!
I use google for pretty much everything!
mm my favorite tool right now is a paint roller.. its helping my hubby and i get the job done in our new house! :) a shop vac would be so awesome to have with all the renovations we have planned!!
i followed @StackDIY on Twitter!! @ahasserd626
My favorite tool is our Kreg Jig! Saves us and having to fill ugly holes on projects!
I'm following @StackDIY! @whatthegraham
My favorite tool is a good paintbrush! We're just starting on the DIY journey, and painting is the first step. It's going well, thanks to a good cutting-in brush.
The nail and stapler gun. You can tackle so many projects with it!
Lately, my favorite tool is my battery operated screw driver. Sure beats twisting a screwdriver manually.
Favorite tool, a sander, it changes everything!
@StackDIY follower!
My laptop, not a real tool, but it's great for searching for home improvement projects.