Last week I attended a T-Mobile Party hosted by my dear friend Kristen from Dine & Dish.
There were several other Kansas City Bloggers at the party (which was my favorite part), we were able to experience the new T-Mobile store layout (lots of screens, white and pink), play with the new Android Tablets, and get a chance to win a phone.
I won a phone.
And I have decided to pay it forward and give away the phone.
But I have a plea.
Please only enter if you are a current T-Mobile user and need a new phone or if you are thinking about becoming a T-Mobile user. (And seriously, there are some great plans on T-Mobile – including the unlimited Talk & Text Plan for $39.99.) The phone is pre-programmed for T-Mobile Users – so it will do you virtually no good if you are a Sprint or Verizon customer.
With that being said – one lucky Kansas City Mamas reader will win a T-Mobile my Touch 4G Slide Phone.
Here’s How To Enter The Giveaway
(Remember, each comment is considered a entry – so leave a separate comment each time.)
Leave me a comment and tell me about a time you gave it forward.
Additional entry: Become a email subscriber to Kansas City Mamas. (I promise, I won’t spam you.) And then leave a comment and let me know.
Additional entry: Become in Like with Kansas City Mamas on Facebook. (We have fun, I promise.) And then leave a comment and let me know.
Contest will be open till end of day on December 21, 2011. Winner will be notified by email and has 48-hours to respond before another winner is chosen. Good Luck.
Disclosure: T-Mobile provided the giveaway prize, but I was not compensated in any other way. The written remarks are entirely my own. Want more information – check out my full disclosure statement.
I try to give it forward anytime I hear of someone or something in need and can help! I recently gave toys and money to an unexpected family suddenly in need for Xmas that the Boy Scouts was helping! We give extra food to charity quite often, also!
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I once won a sandbox for my kids, but already had one. Instead of swapping for the new one and selling the old one, we decided to pay it forward to some kiddos who didn’t have a sandbox (and wouldn’t be able to afford it most likely).
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Our family has never been ‘well off’, but we’ve always been happy and we’ve always managed to round up a bit of savings for Christmas gifts. I have always been very Thankful for that. Once I got out on my own I realized that there are some children that don’t even get a package of socks to unwrap Christmas morning. Since then, i always participate in an adopt-a-family program each year. Some years we’ve been able to give more than other, but we always put toward a little something. 🙂
I pay it forward everytime I go couponing. Although my household is on a limited budget which is nearing zero, when I am able to get something for little or nothing, I make sure that I give it to someone whose situation is worse than mine. I have given several young people some things to help them get started in their own place. I am a current T-Mobile subscriber and could really use a new phone.
This year we donated roughly $1000 in barely used, brand name clothing to the SMAC Center instead having a garage sale. I don’t know if that’s paying it forward, but it was the right thing to do.
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Love the emails I get from you. Nothing like saving for my family!
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I try to pay it forward by helping my friends and family save through couponing and comp ad shopping. I love showing them how with some work and organazation (and a couple good email newsletters..;)…)they too can save for there families. I am happy to say some of them are better at it than I am now:) Nothing like sharring a good deal!
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I always try to pay it forward with anything I can, whether it is freebies in the mail, frree stuff froom coupoing, or clothes or household items my family no longer needs. As a once single mother, I know that every little thing helps when raising kids! No donation is ever too small.
I lost my job yesterday morning and was quite upset buy on my way home I had to stop at the gas station. On my way out of the parking lot I saw a man sitting there in the cold with his stuff. Even though I was stressing bad knowing what I was going to be dealing with soon I felt a need like a pulling to him and just had to try to put a smile on his face. I pulled over and talked to him for a while finding out he was a teacher for many years and one of the teachers who lost their jobs when kcmo schools downsized. When it was time for me to go he smiled at me and said thank you for taking time out of my day to show him that he was still important
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My family supports a little church in the inner city and this past year at their Ice Cream Social, my son won the grand prize raffle drawing. When we went up to collect it, he told the pastor 50% of it was going directly back to the church. I was very proud of him for that! On a side note, we would Love to win this. I am a long time T-mobile customer and my cell phone is literally falling apart. I have been wanting to switch to another but can’t justify the expense since T-Mobile is by far the cheapest carrier.
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My kids and I started taking $1 bills to Dollar Tree and randomly hiding them among the toys for a lucky kid to find 🙂 We also tried a new one yesterday and taped quarters to the toy machines that are on the way out of certain stores. Hoping just to make someone’s day 🙂
I love this idea….I am going to start doing it too!!
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Contonued…….and that someone still cared about him. Although I didn’t have much I gave him what I had along with my time. I said God bless you and he responded with he just did 🙂 Merry Christmas! As I walked back to my car I turned around to see a huge smile on his face and he waved to me. I waved back and left. The biggest thing I learned today is everyone no matter how much you have in your purse or pocket we all have the most amazing and helpful thing to give and that is time 🙂 so I encourage everyone to take some time out to put a smile on someone elses face 🙂
I have been stocking up on all sorts of personal care items with coupons and I mail them to my brother in law on a regular basis, he is a struggling actor in hollywood and is completely broke so I always try to make sure he is taken care of.
I really need this phone, i have been a t-mobile subscriber for years and my phone has duct tape on it to hold the back on but i just cant afford one right now, i used the money for christmas presents instead.
I already subscribe to your email and am so grateful for all you do for all of us 🙂 I am a long time t-mobile user. As of October of this year I have been with them 13 years. Been looking for a new phone cause mine has been having problems but I just haven’t had the extra to get one. With all of that being said I would absolutely love a new phone and would be so appreciative!
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I have Tmobile and my husbands phone is ready to bite the dust. I actually have this phone and I love it. But I don’t want to sign another 2 yr contract right now and pay $400!
I actually printed business cards that I carry in my wallet. They say: You have been shown a random act of kindness, enjoy it and pass it along. My favorite thing to do is to pay for the person in the drive thru behind me. I pay for the order and then I had the cashier the card to give to the person. It is just a little thing but it puts a smile on their face and gives them something to feel good about all day. I make sure to do it everytime I have my 10 y/o grandson with me so he is learning a great lesson of kindness.
Happy Holidays!
This year we have been paying it forward by doing a Random Act of Christmas Kindness for at least one person each day during the month of December. So far some of the things we have done are putting candy bars on windshields in busy parking lots, ringing the Salvation Army bell, paying for the order behind us at McDonalds, adopting a family, delivering baked treats to the dentist office, and leaving candles inside random mailboxes. I really need a new phone! Mine is several years old and I went in to look at new phones, but they are way out of my price range! Thanks for paying it forward!!!
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For my son’s fourth birthday, I suggested that we ask for non-perishable food items instead of gifts. We then donated the items to our church pantry. It will be a tradition that we will continue.
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Just last weekend there was a lady at the gas pump and her credit card wouldn’t scan and she said she had no money. We saw her going around asking everyone for money just to scrounge up enough to get her home. So we decided to fill her tank up for her. She was very grateful and she too said she would pay it forward. Feels good to do just a simple thing like that. 🙂 Never know….I may find myself in the same situation and would hope that someone would help me too.
I won a gift card to a grocery store and I knew my friend needed it more than I, so I gave the gift card to her.
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I pay it forward by helping other kids with xmas. We were once in a bad positikn and someone blessed us so we do the same.
I would love to give this phone to my husband! When we added my husband to the family plan, we had been given a phone by a friend, so I gave the free phone we got to a friend’s daughter who had just broken her phone. Now my husband could use a new phone, and we aren’t ready for an upgrade yet! This would be a great surprise!
With all the items that I’m able to get for free or cheap, my family and I make care packages for the homeless. We include Tootpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, soap, lotion, comb, washcloth, etc. The items that we use daily that most of us take for granted are appreciated by someone who is in need.
I donate a lot of my samples and free/cheap items. We’ve been lucky in the tough economy and I love helping others.
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I pay it forward as a part of life especially after my family was so blessed by others growing up….but this past thanksgiving weekend we were given boxes of food left over from a food drive and we laid all the food out on the table and invited 2 friends over for dinner…and gave them each shopping bags. we have a food allergy home and our cupboards were pretty full anyways but it was a wonderful thing to watch our friends who were counting pennies and collecting coupons for this months meals not even be able to carry their groceries to the car by themselves. then we fed them warm food and had such a great weekend!!!! it reminded me how much it meant to our family years ago…
Love your site and would love to surprise my husband with this phone!!
Every so often, I offer to pay for someone else on the bus I take home. Inevitably there are people on the bus who can’t afford the fare, and I like to take care of it every so often.
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My lady that I hire to help me needs a new phone. This would be great. I subscribe faithfully.
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I subscribe to your newsletter. thank you Kelly!
a couple weeks ago at checkout at Target, the cashier gave me a $5 off $50 coupon that another customer had left behind (the other customer didn’t want it). it really helped and I was so grateful. the next trip to Target I went to same cashier and at checkout, purchased another $5 gift card, then gave it to cashier to “pass it on” to someone who might need it. very small but i hope it brightened someone’s day like it had mine earlier.
I pay it forward by putting my parents on my family plan.
I am a Tmobile customer. My favorite time paying it forward was when I was in high school a few years ago…back when I had money and wasn’t a mom yet. lol. Anyway, we had a family in my high school who house burnt down right before the holiday season. There was 4 kids and the parents who were homeless, clothesless, and more. They never realsed the families names but offered for anyone to buy items to drop off in the office for them. I felt so bad so after I got my paycheck from work, I went to WalMart and bought each a clothing item, then went to the Dollar Store and got stockings and filled them with soaps, body spray, hair clips, brushes, tooth brushes, and tooth paste. My principle personal thanked me for being a gen-ours high school student, that not only would I go through the trouble but would provide so much. This year and almost every year we try to as least do one angle tree and more if we can afford it. Hoping to win this phone for my husband as his phone isn’t working much and we have awhile before our contract up is and we can renew. Thanks for the chance.
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Already a Facebook Fan too! Thanks for everything, every since I found this site I have been able to save more money.
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I would LOVE this phone (as would everyone else!)…I am a very loyal T-Mobile customer and have the 3G MyTouch…but my battery is messed up and only lasts about day now…so new phone would be a blessing.
Paying it forward–I try to do this all the time in small ways, but one of my favorite times was two years ago at Christmas. First off, a year before that my mother was having a difficult time financially, and I couldn’t do much to help her. So we found a church that gave her a Christmas dinner, helped her pay off some utilities, and gave her a few small gifts to give to my younger brother. I promised God/The Universe (whatever you call your Source Energy) that I would pay it forward in a big way if I could find help for my mom, and so I made good on that promise.
The next year I got everyone together at my job and my husband’s job and raised over $300 in cash as well as additional food items and household stuff. I asked to be guided to another single mother who could really use a helping hand. Well, I found one…and she had a teenage daughter (and you know teens don’t get as much help as the younger kids because of their age)…but she was not an ordinary teen. She had been through a horrific deal…she had some learning challenges, and had been through sexually assaulted by a family member, and was suffering from very severe depression, and her mother could not even afford winter shoes for her. So I took the cash and went online to Aeropostale, great for teens, and hit up their Black Friday sale. I/we loaded this lovely girl up on new hoodies, jeans, tees, gloves and scarves, sweaters, and even got her a new pair of furry boots and and some tennis shoes. I loaded everything up, the clothes, tons of food and toiletries, and enough stuff for a great Christmas dinner, and dropped it off to the mother. She cried so much when she saw all of the boxes of food and clothes. Her car was packed! She e-mailed me after Christmas and said we probably saved her daughter’s life because she was suicidal. She adored her boots. 🙂
I know I’m just a small fish in a big ocean who has done things like this, but this was such a gift to me to see someone receive such a blessing. And she promised to pay it forward when she got back on her feet.
I recently paid it forward at Aldi’s. I was waiting in line with my cart with only 4 things in it when a woman came up behind me with her 3 checkout bags already full and was trying to juggle them. I took the things out of my cart and told her to put everything in the cart. She said “what about your quarter?” I said someone once gave me a cart, so I was happy to be able to do it for someone else. The man in front of me had a full cart and had been listening. He told me to step ahead of him in line so that I could check out without waiting. So not only was I able to help this woman but I gave the man ahead of me the opportunity to help someone too. So it wasn’t just a quarter that was gained here. It was the chance for two people to do something to help someone else and show there are still kind people in the world.
Not only have I been a T-Mobile subscriber since they opened their doors, I also like you on Facebook.
I also subscribe to your e-mail. It would help so much to have a new phone. My phone is 8 years old and the battery only lasts 3 hours, whether I use it or not.
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am a current Tmobil customer and have been since they were Voicestream. This phone would be a huge blessing for me as my current one is several years old and often does not ring or randomly decides to shut itself off. I have been off contract with tmobil for several years but have been considering going back on one so that I could get an affordable replacement phone. This one would be wonderful because the plan I am on is no longer available and I would have to change plans in order to go back on contract to get a discount. As I am a single parent it is difficult to pay it forward in a large way but with the benefit of coupons I am able to donate in ways that I would not be able to otherwise. I use your page weekly and have learned to purchase all kinds of things with coupons. I was blessed to be able to donate 3 large tubs full of items that I had collected from couponing and join a caravan from my church that went to Joplin 3 days after the tornado hit. It was an expieriance that changes the way you look at things.
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I am not trying to enter, buy wanted to let everyone know if they call T mobile and ask for the loyalty department, sometimes you will get someone who knows what they are doing and can get you a grat deal on an upgrade. My “normal” upgrade cost for the my touch 4g slide was $199, but a lovely lady was able to give it to me for $50! I admit sometimes I get some one who doesn’t know what they are doing or don’t care, but if keep trying you will find someone. With that said I have been with them for 14 years. Good luck to all.
Also every 2 years or so they do have free phones too. They are android phones, but it is a new working phone.
They AREN’T android phones, sorry for the typo.
It’s Christmas!!!!!, and there’s nothing better than to share the love for each other by giving and letting people we know and sometimes who we may not know that it’s better to give than recieve. I appreciate this site for all the hard work and time it takes to keep us all updated about the deals out there. I appreciate the stories of paying it forward. There are still wonderful people out there. Christmas is every day when you just take the time to make a difference for someone. : ) Merrry Christmas Everyone!
I follow you on facebook and subscribe to kcmamas. I pay it forward whenever I can. My tmobile phone got wet and is ruined, but I am still on a plan with my son and his wife… Thanks for the opportunity.
Just the other day I was at Michaels and had two current ads with a 40% off coupon. I only needed one so when I overheard a woman debating two items because of the price I offered her my extra coupon and you would have thought I paid for the items myself. The awesome thing was my next stop was the grocery store and I didn’t realize I left my wallet in the car till I was at the register with brownie mix and ice cream. I only had enough cash in my pocket to get one, so I was going to put the ice cream back when the woman in line in front of me got a Catalina coupon for free ice cream with her receipt and turned around to ask me if I could use it! Awesome and proof to me that good Karma comes back to you!!
I love to give things forward – how about a Penzey’s spice set this year?
thanks for the chance to win!
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I am already an e-mail subscriber and have been a follower on FB for some time:).
One of my favorite ways to pay it forward is to help new parents out, especially working moms. I found myself extremely blessed to be able to have so much help with meals for dinner after my two children were born, and prior to babies did not realize how much help such a simple thing could provide. I am also blessed to be able to stay at home with my children and have seen many friends cry as they returned to work.
So I started organizing meals for the first couple of weeks a new mom goes back to work so she is able to just snuggle those kids in the evening and not have to worry about dinner! Love hearing how they are able to enjoy the time they have with those little ones and make every second count.
I donate food to my local food bank about once every 2 months
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Already a email subscriber! Liked on facebook. Thanks for this opportunity, my daughter has been waiting to upgrade her T-Mobile phone so this would be a great Christmas surprise!
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I pay it forward by leaving coupons at the store so other people could save money. Also I donate food and clothes.
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I pay it forward by adopting 4 angels from each year. I also pay it forward by donating money, food and clothes all year long.
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I give to an organization at work that helps to provide healthcare to children both in KC and around the world.
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I try to donate both time and “stuff” whenever possible.
Before I became a SAHM, I worked for a company that would allow you to use a certain number of work hours to volunteer during the given year. I would encourage anyone else who has a company with a similar policy to take advantage of it, it was great!
Woman in line did not have enough money to pay for groceries and started trying to figure out what to take back, I asked how much she needed and gave the money to the clerk. The lady cried and told me how grateful she was, I said I know you will help someone else if they need it…I feel blessed that I can help.
I donate all year long to all types of charity. From animals to homeless people.
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Every year, my husband and I always adopt a family during Christmas. We provide all the gifts and a giftcard to the grocery store so they can have a good meal that day.
A few days ago I was at Steak N Shake with my kids having a quick lunch and I noticed an older couple sharing a salad and drinking water. It just seemed like they were a little cash strapped but still wanted to make an effort to go out and spend time together as a couple so I went to pay for our food (with coupons of course) and asked to pay for theirs too and send them each over a shake for dessert too. (Which they also let me use coupons for. Which rocked. lol)
The cashier wasn’t supposed to tell them about who paid for it but she did before I made it to the door with my crew, and the older lady came over crying and thanking me and even gave me a hug. She said no one had done anything for them like that in a long time and that she would be sure to pay it forward.
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I donated a video camera to our schools FFA fundraiser that I had gotten with a coupon from Staples that was free with purchase!
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I give it forward as much as I can with my limited income.
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I pay it forward as much as I can, food drives, clothes, etc.
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We gave our pizza to the family next to us at the bowling alley. We had gotten the entire deal from a friend of ours and, because of allergies, couldn’t eat the pizza. So we ordered the kind the family next to us wanted and gave it to them.
I landed a job as a publishing sales rep several years ago and my manager hired me despite the fact that I had no experience. Now that I am a hiring manager myself, I try to do the same and look for candidates who possess characteristics that lead to success rather than simply hiring candidates who have held former positions in our industry.
I’ve always been good with home improvement projects, but I know a lot of my friends struggle with them so I try to lend a hand. This month I helped a friend redo his entire kitchen, including installing new wooden floors and cabinets.
I would like to win this phone. I’m 18 and beginning to start college. I have donated things to charities that needed them. I’ve donated over 20 pieces of clothing(sweater, shirts, pants, etc.) and donated a couple of toys as well. I’m going to donate more and i recycle as well. i have a really bad phone, not even touchscreen, which has a broken camera and gets stuck way too much. i never owned an android or any smart phone before. i would like to win this phone. i will recycle my old phone if i win or sell it and donate the money to a charity if i win. thank you and i hope i win.
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Okay this is so weird that I just happened to see this post for a free phone you are giving away. My aunt just called me yesterday asking if I had an extra phone because hers got broke and they don’t have a lot of money, it would be awesome to be able to pay it forward and give the phone to my Aunt!!
I once found $20 on the street so I paid it forward by giving it to my favorite charity Sister of the Road (which feeds and helps the homeless in my community). Thanks for the contest!