Help donate gift baskets to our troops!

Although many people do not agree with the wars, fighting, and all that comes along with such topics, it is something that we hear about all of the time. It has become a way of life for many of our own troops in order to help protect this country and all that live in it. I believe that I speak for most of us (hopefully ALL of us) when I say that we can all respect and appreciate our troops and the things that they go through, daily, to fend for us!

With that being said, GourmetGiftBaskets.com is teaming up with bloggers to donate Christmas Gift Baskets to our military! Want to learn more? Here's how it works:

Military Donation

Review the selection of Christmas Gifts, http://www.gourmetgiftbaskets.com/Christmas-Gift-Baskets.asp, on your Blog. The topic of the Blog Post should discuss the Christmas gift selection and how they can be a great gift for someone. I you choose to participate, you won’t receive a product to review but they will donate two care packages to soldiers at a military base on behalf of your Blog. You can also custom write the card to the soldiers if you choose to. Providing the same offer to your readers is also encouraged. They will donate two care packages for every Blog Post written about their Christmas Gifts selection.

These Blog Posts should be posted between November 21^st and December 9^th. Send over a list of the Blog Post URLs by December 14^th to make sure all the Care Packages being donated can reach the soldiers in time for Christmas.

So, if you decide to post about the Christmas Gifts selection on your blog, be sure to encourage your readers to do the same. Once you (and your readers, if applicable) have published the post, send me the specific post URL and I will pass it on to GourmetGiftBaskets.com's Online Marketing Manager.

I would like to personally thank GourmetGiftBaskets.com for, not only, donating so many gift baskets to our military troops, but I would also like to thank them for allowing us (the bloggers) to be such a large part of this great promotion.

I am not being compensated in any way for this post. This post is strictly for the pleasure of my readers and to help boost up the amount of donations given to our Military Troops.

Balloons to help disabled children

Now, I'm pretty sure that we can all agree that children are our future - they're an overall blessing to this world. And now, MyOwnPet will be donating $5 for every MyOwnPet balloon purchased, that will go directly to Canines for Disabled Kids. Be sure to check this out!!

I am not being compensated for this post in any way. This post is strictly to provide my readers with information about a good cause.

Joplin Missouri Aid Support - Check it out!

As many of you know, I have done a few different reviews for GourmetGiftBaskets.com! They are a fantastic company that has wonderful gourmet gift baskets for their customers!

As if I didn't like them enough already, now I find out that they've (the employees) have banned together in order to create a super-sized gift basket for the great people assisting in the clean up ofJoplin, Missouri (which was hit on Monday by a devistating tornado)!

The enormous gift basket weighed more than 70 pounds and included over 200 small food items to help give the workers and victims energy!

I just cannot believe how generous GourmetGiftBaskets.com has decided to be! It's incredible to see that some companies are still willing to put others over themselves - it's not just about the money, it's about people, morale, and helping one another! I certainly feel as though GourmetGiftBaskets.com has went above and beyond!

Below are a few ways that you can help out, as well:

» Food Bank Donations
» American Red Cross
» Volunteering

GourmetGiftBaskets.com, great job in stepping in to help out others! You deffinitely deserve some recognition for what you have donated! Job well done for helping those in need and the people working hard to help them!!

I was not compensated in any way. This post is soley to provide my readers with general information given by a great company!

Better Basket Blog Hop - Amazing Cause!!

I was given this wonderful basket from Natalie at The Adventures of Paul & Natalie, and I am so thrilled to say that I'm a part in this wonderful event!! This virtual gift basket will change the lives of many, and I am so pleased to announce that I will be passing it along to others, as well.

So what is it for?


Here is some information on the Hershey's Better Basket Blog Hop:

"This Easter season Hershey is all about helping you to create Better Easter Baskets with their special limited edition Easter candies found at Walmart.

More importantly, Hershey wants to promote the idea of going good in our own communities. The Hershey Company is committed to making a difference in the communities where we live in, and has a heritage of giving back to the community."

Thanks to Hershey's and 20 different bloggers looking to blog for a good cause, baskets like the one above were created and given to charities of each bloggers choice to spread Hershey's ongoing message around: We are ALL working together to do good in and out of our own communities!

In addition to those 20 baskets donated to charity, Hershey's is also sponsoring a Better Basket Blog Hop where Hershey will donate $10 per blog post entry for the Children's Miracle Network, up to $5,000. Amazing.

So with this being said I'm going to pass it along to these blogs but please post this if I don't pass it along. It's for an amazing cause and we could all post for this.

Rather than pass it on to one or two, or even five of you -
I'm passing this on to everyone!
PLEASE participate.

If you want to be apart of the blog hop, here are the rules:

Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.

Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.

Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.

Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.

Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.

Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).

Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.