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***This Giveaway is now closed and no longer taking entries.  Thanks to all who commented.  The results will be announced Thursday, June 23, 2010***

Sometimes we have weeds.  Weeds that need a whack. 

I tried explaining to the weeds that we have a blog and threatened them with being outted on said blog…but that didn’t seem to convince them to leave us alone.  I guess that only works with family. 

Anyhoo.  Jeremy already owns a weedwacker…a wonderful beaut that tackles the weeds that sprout around our stone wall, along our neighbors fence and that cover the entire back yard.  So when the fine folks at Black n’ Decker offered us one of their new shmancy electric weedwackers, I wasn’t really jumping at the chance to acquire a new yard tool.  Call me crazy but enough is enough.  But then my boyfriend looked at me with those blue eyes.  And he flexed his calf muscles (you know what that does to me – let’s just say that’s how Will came to be).  And he may or may not have bit his lower lip before leaning in for a soft one (that may have been the post pregnancy hormones but a girl can imagine it actually happened.)  And then he suggested that we just do a giveaway.  Hot & generous.  Mostly hot. 

Anyway, I told the Black n’ Decker peeps that we would be happy to just do a giveaway.  But they decided they wanted our opinion on how this puppy works….AND….(I love ands)….AND they would provide an additional weedwacker as a giveaway!  So we put it to the test.  Literally.  We worked this baby (as in my boyfriend did all the work as I incessantly asked questions).  

First off…it is the Black and Decker 24 volt cordless string trimmer and edger.  Secondly, it’s electric.  Like the slide.  Sorry about the cheesiness.  It’s electric.  And therefore it requires charging.  When we tore open the package, the first thing you wanna do is charge it up.  Thirdly, electric weedwackers have a reputation of being the weaklings of the weedwacker community.  But this one was surprisingly powerful…and required an extra long charge at the beginning.  So first charge – then get acclimated.  First there are two ways to use it.

The first way is to have the head swiveled down.  This is the weedwacker function.  You know…for getting in those awkward spots that the mower can’t fit or under stuff like trees or playsets or around fences.   

But you can also swivel the head to use the tool as an edger. 

In this position, the little metal bracket comes down and acts as a guide for along sidewalks and driveways. 

So right after Jeremy became fully acclimated, we decided to put it to the real test…the fence.  In the past, lesser weedwackers that we borrowed were not up to this challenge.  The single string would get caught in the fence or the long weeds and would require that ever-popular “BANG THE POO OUTTA THE WEEDWACKER” adjustment that you see people doing.  But surprisingly it worked just fine.  No tangles and no banging required.  

Now I would like to draw attention to one of our favorite features : the Power Command.  Honestly, I feel this should be called the Bower Power Command…because it is awesome.  Basically it is a power-saver/power-booster switch.  It’s like the turbo button on my hairdryer.  When it’s on, it goes into super-mode…you can immediately hear and feel the power.  And when it’s off, it conserves the battery.  That’s like a two-for-one.

And now for the before & afters. 

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

Nice, eh?  So here’s the deal, we have a giveaway for one of these puppies…you can win one.  But if you don’t win, you can score one at your local home improvement store for your hubby, your dad (Hello! FATHER’s DAY!) or yourself (it’s honestly light enough for a gal like me to handle…and I’m a total wuss!). And as a bonus, the Black n Decker folks have also provided a coupon.  Go here to see the freebies you can score!  Oh – and here is the coupon code for you to enter – TRIM351

Now onto the giveaway!  Here are all the details on how you can win a Father’s Day Gift of your own:   

PRIZE : 1 Black n Decker Cordless 24 volt String Trimmer/Edger

NUMBER OF WINNERS : One (1)

TO ENTER : Leave a comment with the phrase “Whack Me” and tell me what you would do for this prize.  Would you climb Mt. Kilmanjaro?  Anybody willing to trade a firstborn?  How bout bodyparts…anybody wanting to barter?  Let’s hear it!        

PRIZE SHIPS : Within the USA

NITTY GRITTY :  This giveaway ends on Wednesday, June 23rd at 8am EDT.  Only one contest entry per email address.   The winners will be chosen using Random.org and announced on Thursday, June 24th.

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  5. Whack Me! (lol)
    My hubby really needs a new timmer/edger so i would go to the moon and back just to win this baby for him 🙂

    C

  7. Whack me! We have a small yard that we cut entirely with a weed wacker. My husband was “wacking the grass” a couple weeks ago and our weed wacker blew up and caught on fire. Like stop, drop and roll fire. So, we have no way to cut our grass right now. I would appreciate this tool so much because my grass is now 4 feet tall. I’m so desperate, I may just break out the scissors! If we won, we’d promise not to blow it up!

  8. WHACK ME!

    I would to just about anything for this bad boy! Our backyard is an overgrown mess of tangled weeds covering ripped off siding, old drywall, and rotted 2x4s from our renovation currently underway…and we don’t have the cash to go buy one! Pick me!

  11. Whack Me

    For this weed-whacker, I would have my own sexy husband flex go to every house on the street and flex his calf muscles for them as a special treat!

  12. Whack me! If I got this prize, I would send my husband over to your house and do the weedwhacking and edging for you. How’s that for volunteering someone else to do a chore! Hope I win!

  13. “Whack Me!”

    I would pull up all the poison ivy I bet ya got in them thar woods… with my bare hands. Lol.

  14. Whack Me!

    I would give just about anything to be rid of the weeds around my newly planted flowerbeds!!

  15. WHACK ME!

    I will resort to the old stand-by: Bribery. Specifically, food bribery. Cocoa brownies w/ bourbon-soaked cherries? humingbird cake? rhubarb/strawberry BIG crumb coffee cake? bbq chicken chili? NAME YOUR PRICE!

    …. I will also do a jig of happiness.

  16. Whack me!

    So I’ll probably go the typical route and offer up a kidney plus some toes to sweeten the pot. But, of course, I’m flexible about all that. 🙂

  19. Whack Me!
    I don’t think I could climb a mountain, but I would gift it to my husband so he(we) can finally get our forest of a backyard looking somewhat normal.

  21. Whack me!

    For this weed eater (which my husband has been pestering me saying we need to get anyway), I would weed whack by the bushes where I saw a snake last weekend–a snake that caused me to jump up on the hood of our car and scream for my husband to come outside and carry me inside! I’m that afraid, but for this weed eater I would be willing to put some weeds out of their misery myself!

  22. Whack me! This would be a great gift for my soon to be baby-daddy! I’d trade you a brownie!

  23. Whack Me!! Id do anything for this thing. The weedwhacker we have now makes me work too hard to get our tiny yard done. I’m a little OCD about our yard so Id give up my husband for it! =) haha Im j/p but i want it!

  25. Little makes me happier than giving my lawn a fresh crew cut! In fact, I was just talking to my boytoy this past weekend about how I’d love to replace our current corded electric Black & Decker weed whacker with a chargeable, cordless model. And oh, the things I’d do to get it! I will refrain from mentioning the potentially obscene/illegal things, but I would certainly love to get creative and make some modern art installation out of the unwieldy tangled mess that is my 100ft extension cord that currently trips me up and drags through my pool (yeah, that’s probably not so safe) every time I am outside using our whacker!

    So c’mon – WHACK ME!

  26. Whack Me!!!
    I want that edger so bad, that I’m willing to send my husband your way to whack and edge your garden. Of course he responds well to being super picky and pointing out where its not even or when he misses a spot. Oh, and he’ll never tell you that if you want something done a particular way, that you should get out there with the dang thing and do it yourself. Now if that doesn’t sound enticing, I don’t know what does.

  27. Whack me! To win this weed wacker I would do the ultimate……I would allow myself to go and get a pedicure and then a massage and buy a new pair of shoes. I know, tough work but someones gotta do it.

  28. “Whack Me”

    I will literally name my first born child after you to win this, ha! We are actually shopping for a weed whacker/edger as we speak. I just discovered that I could gain an extra 4-5 inches of walkway if we could edge!

  30. “Whack Me”

    hmmmm thats a tuffy but I would def consider any amount of physical labor, mountain climbing marathon running, triathlon, you name it!

  31. WHACK ME.

    To win this prize, I would braid your armpit hair. [shudders] Okay, for real, I would buy you some special bacon from the University of Minnesota Meat Club (run by animal science students) and send it to you so you can taste the deliciousness. It’s called Gopher Gold Smoked Bacon and it’s awesome.

  33. Ours just died two days ago…. this would be awesome and much needed!! And by the way, I am obsessed with your blog… thanks for always being honest & a source of entertainment!

  34. Whack me! I would like to attack the driveway and get a few precious inches back on the side by using the edger!

  35. WHACK ME!!

    Ohmygoodness… I’ve been looking for a weed-whacker! I have a 1/2 acre that is out of CONTROL with weeds and places too sloped for my lawnmower. I would make lots of cupcakes or any other goodies for anyone kind enough to grant me a new weed whacker… preferably one with guts and that doesn’t die after 10 minutes of use.

  36. “Whack Me”
    That is one cool tool, I might learn to weedwack myself! but shh, don’t tell my husband! He would love to have straight edges around all our grass.

  37. WHACK ME! with this tool, i might actually do some yard work 🙂 i would trade my super fabulous pool float!

  38. Whack Me!
    I really am glad to hear that I could handle the ‘weed wackin’ myself. The boyfriend says he would crop dust our entire yard if he could. So, this way I could say..”I won this weed wacker off of Katie’s blog, and now you have to use it cause it was free.” Think that will work? Yeah, me neither.

  39. Whack Me!

    My husband and I are full-time, poor college students trying to get through the summer. My husband has recently started up a little lawn care business to earn us some extra cash. This trimmer would be a God-send!

    If we win (er, even if we dont), we’ll come out and mow your lawn for freeeeee! 🙂

  41. Whack Me!

    Humm…well considering we do not have our own weed wacker and have to borrow from the inlaws, I thinkin’ first born might be a fair trade…

  44. Whack me!

    I’d be willing to make you dinner for a whole week! My hubby is all about yardwork, and he’d LOVE this new toy!

  45. WHACK ME! . . . I would walk over hot coals to reach the brand spankin’ new weedwhacker!

  48. WHACK ME!

    I would actually go out in the heat and make my garden look presentable if I won this giveaway! It is 100 degrees today in Missouri so heading outside in that is about as challenging as climbing Mt. Kilmanjaro!

  49. Whack Me: I have a chain link fence that is always hard to trim next to. I would use this string edger/trimmer for that as well as edging my sidewalk which is my least favorite yard chore to do.

  50. “Whack Me” up with that nifty tool. As for what I’d do for this prize, why that’s the same as what I’d do with it. Namely, finally getting around to cleaning up the edges of my sidewalk. ^_^

  51. Whack it! I would trade my manual-break your back-blister inducing-wooden edger for your shining B & D 😉

  54. We just moved to 5 acres and ooooh how this would come in handy. I’ll trade you for tootsie pop!

  55. Whack me!

    I would LOVE to win this for my husband. His is a hand-me-down and he’s just not in love with it. Although, unless I take reallllly long to write this comment, it appears that I’m the first commenter… and first commenters never win. 🙁

  56. ” WHACK ME!! ” :). I feel funny saying that!

    I would most definitely trade my first born for that beaut… if we are to ever be blessed with a first born 🙂

    funny that this would come up today… just last night I was dragged by the ear to home depot with my husband to look at what?… weed whackers. Yikes, who knew there were so many with so many options. I think he would be VERY pleased to get this, it would maybe even lead to a first born :).

  57. Saying “Whack Me” just seems like an invitation to all kinds of craziness, but I guess I’ve already said it! Don’t have a firstborn to give up, but I’d bake a heck of a nice cake for you in exchange for the trimmer!

  59. Whack me! What I would do for this…well Im not sure what I would do for it but I would be very happy to slather on some sun screen and whack the weeds rather than pull them! The not pulling part is key…

  60. Whack Me!

    I’d mow the lawn for this prize! (something I haven’t done since HS since the hubs takes care of it now).

  61. I have to admit, when I hear the work “whack” the first thing I think of isnt a weed whacker, its mafia movies! So with that as inspiration, I’d be willing to send my old gas guzzling smoke spewing weed wacker to sleep with the fishes for a chance to use that handy dany black and decker!

  62. WHACK ME!

    I would pitifully drag myself across my unkept yard on my hands and knees to win this prize.

  64. “Whack me”

    I’d be willing to trade in the boyfriend who would usually be whacking the weeds, for my own weed whacker 🙂

  65. Whack me! I’d say I’d trade you my new house (fingers crossed for the inspection), but how about some tulip bulbs instead?

  67. Whack Me! Seriously today I would trade DH for this or any power tool….oh wait you would probably give him back!LOL

  68. WHACK ME! We have a Black & Decker trimmer/edger very similar to this. Except it needs to be plugged in. Call me crazy but the reason I don’t do the finish work on the yard is that it takes too much effort to get out the extension cord and drag it all around behind me while trying to not chop the cord in half and still reamain the owner of 10 fingers and 10 toes at the end of the exercise. A cordless one might be just what I need.

  69. Whack me- Cant give away the firstborn (since we dont have one yet) But i would organize the heck out of whatever you had that needed organized. I heart organizing and its more fun for me and treat for you.

  71. WHACK ME!!!! I really need this. I have weeds that defy removal and I keep imagining that I see snakes. Heavens, if I really ever see one. It won’t be a pretty sight. Anyhoo, I really do need this.

  72. whack me! i’d give you a bowl of homemade veggie soup cause that’s what i’m making for lunch. and maybe some fruit salad. my HUSBAND however, would give his right arm for a weedwacker. (he’s left handed, so he’d still be able to weed wack. don’t worry.)

  77. Whack me!
    I’d bake you cookies twice a month for the next year! We have an electric weed whacker that you have to plug in, and my husband complains about it ALL the time! He wants a cordless one – BAD!

  79. Whack me! This would be an excellent gift for my husband. He has a trimmer but it has a long cord that he has to drag around the yard. To get it for him I’d eat some bacon! (Inspired by Katie). I’m a vegetarian so this is a big stretch for me!

  80. Whack Me!

    Ok, not really. Hubs would love this, we inherited a weed whacker that tends to not like to cooperate. I’m too wimpy to do the trimming, so anything that makes life for hubs easier in this dept is good by me! Plus his birthday is coming up….

  82. Whack me! Serious need of this weed wacker. Currently, Jason goes out with lawn clippers and does ever inch by hand. I would volunteer my time but, you know, I hate yard work. I think my man would love me forever and ever, not that he does already, but to add this, it would mean the moon. I’d be willing to trade my lovely cat for that!

  84. Whack Me

    I’d use it to tackle the weeds in my parent’s backyard of retirement home while I am living it going to graduate school. And then probably take it with me when I move out! 🙂

  86. Whack Me!

    I would actually go do the weed wacking myself…instead of sending my husband just to win that beautiful toy.

  88. whack me! i’d probably give away my dad’s old lawnmowers/whackers, etc. does that count?! 🙂
    thanks so much!

  89. I would use this to Whack me some weeds. My husband has a very old hand-me down weedwhacker and this would be an awesome replacement. I love that it is electric. I think I would be willing to not remind my husband to sweep up after he mows if we won this prize:)

  90. WHACK ME! (that sounds so wrong…) and I’ll buy you some bacon & babysit for you 🙂 haha jk, but that little man of yours makes me want another one. (My son is now 3 1/2. baby fever is horrible!) But really, I might actually give my neighbors a break with our eyesore of weeds. We had this weird raining week (it’s AZ, it’s rare!) and now I have HUGE weeds in the back. But they are going to take over my house because I am and will not go and hand pull them in 115+* heat! Too cheap to hire help since we’re saving to buy a house. Priorities, here! LOL. Taking care of those weeds in this heat is like giving away your thumb or climbing Mt Everest. Great blog, btw. Thought I’d stop lurking and say hi 🙂

  94. Whack me!!!!
    My husband has been begging for a weed wacker for months! This would be the best surprise for him! If I won I document his first weed wacker expeience for you with pictures so that you could share in his joy and excitment!

  95. In order to get the Black and Decker Weedwacker I would “host” you and your man-baby and your boyfriend to come out to SUNNY CALIFORNIA where you’d get to: go to the beach a lot, stay at our house on a delectable little futon in the spare room, compare your thighs to mine, eat ice cream and bacon all day, and yes, even “WHACK ME” with the weekwacker we win, if you’d like*.

    *no expenses paid, stay on the futon is conditional that we get along, you can have some bacon anyway, and whack one of us but only one time and only if we actually win the weedwacker. 🙂

  96. Whack me!!!! I would seriously shave my head for this! Okay, maybe not my head, but my hubby’s head. 😀 He needs a trim anyway…

  97. WHACK ME!!! The husb. has been hinting that he might just go out one of these days and buy a weed whaker, and that is NOT in the budget right now, so what would I do for this prize?? I would make my secret recipe cookies and try to find a way to send them to you. Please.

  99. Whack ME!

    Oh man would my man be happy if we won – our current, sad, sad excuse for a weedwhacker is circa 1901, I think. And I know he thinks the other husbands on the block secretly laugh at him when he whacks our weeds. I would totally lend you my (really, really cute) puppy (ok, two year old dog) for a day for a chance at saving his street cred.

  100. Whack Me!

    I’d mow and trim the lawn myself for this sweet prize, a chore I usually leave for my husband, even if it means wading through a knee-deep front yard (you think I’m kidding but it’s currently up past that.)

  102. Whack Me! I would give it to my husband even though June 24th is my birthday and I should be getting all the gifts!

  103. Whack Me!

    My fiance and I are going to be buying our first house soon, and that means he’s going to have to start doing yardwork, so I’d love to be able to surprise him with this treat 🙂 And I’d be willing to bake you a cake as thanks. Although we don’t live near each other so you might have to travel to North Carolina to pick it up. 🙂

  104. whack me! i’d give it to my husband to make his life in the yard a little easier.

  105. Please ‘WHACK ME’! My backyard looks like ‘throw-up’. We just moved into this new house, and cannot get to the backyard yet. It has poison Ivy everywhere. We would be so, so, so grateful!!!!

  107. Awesome giveaway! I would give this to my hubby for Father’s Day! He is a big yard worker and deserves something rad!

  110. WHACK ME!

    For this weed wacker, I would listen to Kesha’s whole album nonstop for 24 hours a day and for 7 days!

  112. Whack me! For this, I would dance. That might not seem like a big deal to you, but you’ve never seen me dance. 😉

  113. WHACK ME!

    I’ll volunteer to be the one using this weed whacker if I win this machine 🙂

  114. Whack me!

    I just bought a new weed eater cause the gas one sucked. I got a corded one though, and would gladly trade it for this fabulous battery one!

  115. Whack Me!

    If I won this prize, I would whack the heck out of some ivy growing along our fence and in our backyard. My yard looks like a jungle. I want to go all Rambo on it! People don’t make alot of Rambo references anymore, do they?!

  116. Whack Me! Oh my how I want this – our landlord’s weedwhacker weighs 30 lbs i swear and I can’t stand to use it – but the yard looks so so sad and scraggly.

    I would sign karoke for this thing. And thats terrifying to me.

  118. Whack Me

    I would do all my yard trimming & edging by hand with a pair of scissors for a year… er, wait, that’s what I’m already doing. I would bake a batch of peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies and mail them to you.

  119. Whack me! I’m tempted to say that I would weed eat naked, but we have a lot of poison oak around our house and that could get ugly

  120. “WHACK ME!” My “girlfriend”, also known as “The Misses” and I are coming up on 1 year in our home. She has really turned her thumbs green and started a “planter box” garden in the back yard. While we space the boxes far enough apart to get the mower thru, you can’t mow right up against an object like that. So I would like to get that Awesome B&D Trimmer! It will make our (her) garden even prettier, and we (I) promise to put all the grass clippings in our composter….

    Stan

    P.S. Am I the only guy that’s posted on this so far? Awesome!

  123. whack me!!! what would i do for one of these? i would actually use it to whack the weeds if I got it, hope i do :D.

  125. Whack Me!
    My hubby has this horrible habit of trimming our yard with his over-powered weed whacker. Last month, it got away from him and he whacked one of my favorite plants in our yard. I cried. So for the love of my marriage, I need this whacker before he kills anymore of my precious plants. xoxo

  126. WHACK ME!!! (please?) I would seriously take that puppy to my daughter’s elementary school and clean up the mess that is growing and creeping all over the sign at the entrance to the campus – first to restore some Wildcat pride and second to show the school district that despite budget cuts and other unpleasantness, it doesn’t take much to keep the school looking neat. Love NJ, HATE the NJ school budget nonsense! Thank you 🙂

  127. Whack me! What a great gift for my husband. I would give you him in exchange for the weed whacker! Kidding…well maybe.

  128. WHACK ME!!

    I live in the city and our patch of yard is too small to buy a mower. This would be GREAT for our little lawn!!

    If I win this weed whacker, I will spell “BOWER” out of grass clippings on my street and make neighbors pose with it.

  130. Whack me! hmmm, I would sit and watch my husband/boyfriend and his manly arms whack the weeds down, which in turn will help us stop receiving notices from our neighborhood.

  132. Whack Me!!!

    Instead of a trade I would go to the neighbors two doors down and whack the grass that has overtaken the sidewalk so much that you can not walk side-by-side. I might have to do this under the cover of darkness. 🙂

  133. Whack Me!!

    I’d trade my inconvenient current weed wacker that requires to be plugged in at ALL TIMES for sure!!! I hate that thing!! 🙂

  135. WHACK ME!!!

    I LOVE a nice clean edge! Right now we borrow my father-in-law’s weedwacker that doesn’t work well at all. I do the weedwacking because my husband is not OCD like me, but with this beauty I might actually enjoy the process.

    And if I had it I would edge out the neighbors yard all summer. He recently had back surgery. Having a pristine yard is really important to him and he hasn’t been able to get out there and do it himself.

  136. Whack me!! I would edge and weed the lawn myself instead of nagging my husband to do it if I had a nice CORDLESS electric whacker like this one!

  137. Whack me!
    If I won this for my hubby, I would start doing yard work too. I hate yard work.

  138. Whack me! I would give this weedwhacker to my dad for father’s day – it’s coming up so soon and I’m still not sure what to get him!

  139. WHACK ME!
    I can’t say I’d do much for a weed whacker (I’d rather buy furniture), but I know my husband would give up gifts and dessert for a year to get one.

  140. “Whack Me”

    Oh my husband would love this! We really need one, and the Black & Decker trimmer/edger looks perfect. So because it’s for my husband, I’d do almost anything. I’d eat McDonalds every day for a month. I’d jump off my roof and land on a mattress. I’d clean up all the dog poo at the dog park. I’d do pretty much anything except put a squirrel tail in my mouth like my friend Levi did. That’s just too gross.
    Please pick me!

  141. Whack Me!

    My husband has been nagging me about one of these. I keep telling him we have to finish our inside renovation projects (we bought a 1930’s ranch that was/is in need of some desperate repairs) before we can tackle the outside. And then I nag him to finish up something else. I’d be willing to give up my nagging power for the rest of the summer. Meaning, I’ll stop nagging him all summer. Its going to be difficult, but I’d do anything for my own super sweet “boyfriend” to have a cool toy. 🙂

  142. Whack me! Our weedwhacker is broken, due to my husband’s “BANG THE POO OUTTA THE WEEDWACKER” moves to get the string to come out. We’d be so excited to win the Black & Decker that we would come over and help you guys out with your yardwork.

  144. Whack ME! To win, hmmm how about a babysitter?!?! Nevermind that I’m a complete stranger – I have 2 of my own and they seem to be doing just fine =)

  145. WHACK ME!
    If I were to win this wonderful piece of landscape sculpturing
    techonology I would trim the weeds in our yard where the SNAKES
    like to hide!!

  146. Whack me!

    I would invite you and Will over to a playdate with my pretty-darn-terrific-if-I-must-say-so-and-everyone-happens-to-agree-with-me three boys.

  148. Whack Me!
    Wow – I just told my hubby last night that we need one of these (and enticed him a bit by telling him they have electric ones now – he is a bit of a tree hugger). I’m pretty sure I’d do lots of things for the chance to win this. Including mowing the lawn for my guy (this has been his job, but this tool looks way too fun for me not to offer!).

  149. WHACK ME!!!

    I’d actually trim the yard with this thing….would no longer have to bribe the hubby to use you antique one we currently have.

  151. Whack Me!!! How about I baby sit your little cute baby and in trade i’ll take the weedwacker 😉

  155. WHACK ME!
    I’d give up caffeine for a month! (and I looove sweet tea, so its a big sacrifice)

  157. WHACK ME!!!! (Please?!?!) We’ve been living in our current digs for over a year and haven’t whacked ANY weeds the whole time. We’re in dire need of a weedwhacker and are especially dying for an eco-friendly version!

    I’d do pretty much ANYTHING within the legal realm of thinking for this thing!!! I’d walk to pick it up — from Upstate NY to wherever I’d need to go! (And I’m not a big “walker.”) I’d do anything Fear Factor-ish that you can think of!!! Congrats to whomever does win, though.

  158. Whack Me! I would bake you a cake once a month for the rest of your life! We are moving to a new townhouse with a small yard and this would be perfect for us!

  159. Whack me! There are days when I would trade my sons, but I quickly get over that. I would surely let you borrow them for a few days though! 🙂

  160. Whack me, whack me!!
    We live in Mexico (but have a US mailing address) and no one here owns a mower b/c no one really “does grass” (or maybe they don’t do grass b/c they don’t have mowers…). Anyhoo, whack me so we don’t end up trimming our grass with scissors (sniff, sniff) 😉

  161. Whack Me!

    I have a small catering business so I would send you a weeks worth of prepared meals for this bad boy! (I just bought a house that is in need of some weed whacking)

  163. Whack Me!

    From one Bower to another, let me tell you, I would give just about anything for one of these. We are in our first summer in our first house, with our first child on the way.

    When we have to use our current weed wacker that sucks, I get just a tad frustrated! It barely hits anything and the string pops out. So yes, I would give just about anything (but now our first born, I am kinda partial to the little thing 🙂

  164. Whack me! Whack me like a whack-a-mole!

    I bought the hubs one last year – but it is has a cord – who knew that would be a problem?

    I’d be willing to give up my yard for this weed-whacker…wait… that would defeat the purpose – ok just the back part thats all muddy and gross anyway. Good deal right?

  165. WHACK ME! I would give up all my rights to lawn care and let my hubby have it all!!

  166. WHACK ME!

    I would mow the yard in the insane Florida heat for my hardworking hubby. 🙂

  167. Whack me!

    I’d be willing to eat an entire onion. And if you knew me, you’d know that THAT is huge for me. HA-YOOOOOOGE!

  168. Whack Me! I’d…weed my garden for a chance at this weed whacker. Because I couldn’t use it for the garden, because then I’d kill all my veggies in addition to whacking the weeds. But it would work great for along the neighbor’s fence, and the driveway, and the sidewalks. Also, I’m pretty sure this is what my mom got for my dad for his birthday.

  169. WHACK ME!!!!

    Hmphhh, I hate to say it but, pick up dog poop for a week. We have 2 dogs so, needless to say, that’s a lot of poop.

  170. whack me!!

    my husband would love this!! i would buy you all the bacon in the world! (i buy a lot of it when its bogo at winn dixie =)) so i have some to spare!

  171. WhAcK Me!

    Love the prize! How about some fabulous cupcakes?! I make a mean buttercream icing! 🙂

  172. Whack me! I would totally start eating bacon (with pork) again for that weed whacker! 🙂

  174. WHACK ME! I would… use… a… weedwacker… Seriously, that’s saying a ton because I don’t do yard work, but for this, I would!

  175. WHACK ME! I would return THIS SAME WEEDWHACKER we just bought from Lowe’s and have not used yet. Thanks for the review–we were doubtful of the power, etc. and now feel confident it has been “Bower approved!”

  177. Whack me! I’d provide free babysitting for the scrumptious William Bower. (if you are willing to drive 8 hours north.)

  183. “Whack Me”! Hmmm…I would trade in my husband who does laundry and cooks me dinner every night (I know, I know-it turns me on too) for this weed whacker!

  185. WhAcK mEEE!

    I would volunteer my husband to go and be your weed-whackin’ slave with his new toy ;0) PLUS he is a new father (as of May 25th) and would freakin love that fabulous whacker for his first Fathers Day…im just sayin ;0)

    ..And from one bacon fiend to another…you MUST go watch this! :

    http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/42402

    hilarious..you will thank me later ;0)

  186. WHACK ME!!! I would do all the lawn work for the rest of the summer. But please don’t tell my husband….

  187. whack me!! The hubs and I were just talking about how we need one of those suckers! I would be willing to do all the yardwork for this!!

  188. Whack Me!! I asked my hubby what he would do for a new weedwacker….he said he would put on a baby seal costume and go swimming with some great white sharks. Haha don’t ask me where he came up with that idea!

  189. Whack me! My hubby would lurve this. If I lived by you, I would babysit for your adorable son anytime. And I would cook for you, including my famous blueberry crumb bars, mexican spinach dip and bacon(!) wrapped pineapple bites.

  190. WhAcK mE! For this prize I would mow AND weed the yard for my husband! What a great Father’s Day gift!

  191. Whack me! I was pulling out weeds along the side of our sidewalk yesterday… BY HAND. I’d love to try this weed-whacker-baby out!

  193. Whack me! If I won this for the three guys in my family (husband and two teen sons) my guys would LOVE me and I would bake them a “Bower Power Pie” :o)

  195. Whack me! I don’t have a firstborn, but would give my two Boston Terriers, instead! Complete with horrible gas 😉

  196. Whack Me!

    Well, since my husband is the one who does the yard work, I could trade him and do the yard work myself. But, I kinda like him so I think I will keep him.

  197. WHACK ME!
    I would trade me 2nd born for the weed whacker. he just plays video games all day, so he isn’t much help with house work. Maybe you could get some use outta him…jk! This would be really cool for us because I am stuck doing the yardwork and my weedwacker is whacked! It has a mind of its own.
    Thanks for the giveaway~

  198. Whack Me!

    I’m not sure what I would do for this prize. Maybe fry you up a whole pound of bacon, make you a BLT, with some Baconaise (of course) and if you got some of that bacony goodness stuck in your teeth, I’d provide you with some bacon flavored dental floss. It never does to have bacon in your pearly whites.

    Sound good?

  199. Since I’m the one who does the edging and trimming with our weed whacker (It broke just this week) I think you should whack me! Whoo hoo!
    Lila Ferraro

  200. Whack me!!! I’d actually do my yard if I had this. And my neighbors. And probably yours as a thank you!

  201. WHACK ME! I’d be willing to bake you (the Bowers and the fine folks at Black & Decker) special, delicious baked goodies for a whole year. I’ll ship them wherever you want. I consider baking one of my better talents and I think it best to stick to what I’m good at. I could make you my mom’s famous chocolate chip cookies, brownies, blondies, cake on a stick, cupcakes, muffins, my Grammy’s banana bread, the list goes on and on. Plus, I’m willing to take requests.

  203. Whack me!

    I would go out and use this puppy MYSELF. Which may not sound all that impressive, but bear in mind that we live in Arizona. And it is averaging 106 degrees these days. And we haven’t weed-whacked our yard EVER (since we don’t have a whacker yet.) And we haven’t mowed in four months. And I am VERY pregnant. Me doing yardwork is sounding more impressive, yes?

  205. WHACK ME!!!!!!!

    I would retire my Chinese scissors (this is, of course, only what we call them…they are made in China, and poorly at that–they don’t have any special Chinese formation or anything, although that would be cool) that I use to trim the long, hairy grasses that we can’t get to with the mower.

    And maybe I’d bake you some goodies.

    Firstborn…eh…I love mine too much.

  206. Whack Me! Need one of these babies sooo badly!!!! I’d clean your bathrooms for a year!

  207. Whack Me!

    Pretty please!

    I desperately need one of these. I’ll put a blog ad of your site up on my site so people can find you that much easier 🙂

  208. Whack Me!!
    I would get out in the backyard and actually help my husband with our so called weed yard. I would also send you before and after pictures. It is a jungle!

  209. WHACK ME!

    I think I would pack up and move down South to buy a house with a yard for this….which is my plan as soon as hubs ever graduates from grad school later this year. And a weed whacker is on the to-get list, so to win it would just make our day! We have a turning-1-next-week son to spoil instead of yard tools to buy!

  210. Whack Me!!!

    I would be willing to bake you any bacon-flavored concoction of your choice! :o)

  212. “WHACK ME!”

    I’d………say, “Thank you!” to Random.org if I won. 😉 Or I could tell you how horrible 38 hours of labor then a c-section were, but I’m guessing you already know that.

  214. Whack me! I would bake as many delectable treats as you and your boyfriend could eat. My hubby would love to get rid of our weeds with this toy!

  215. Whack Me!

    Oooooo …..I’ll keep reading your blog! Oh, that, or I’ll babysit. Conditions: sitting time not to exceed 6 hour time period, said baby to be sat within the state of California [at parent’s expense, of course] and a firm guarantee of no poopy diapers.

    …this is all assuming I WIN the whacker…

  216. Whack me!!

    We need one of these. We just bought a house and all we have is a lawn mower so our trim goes without 🙁

  219. Whack me!

    My husband was complaining about our weed trimmer earlier this week.
    I’d love to see his face if this showed up in the shed!

  220. Whack it to me! I’d get this yard in tip top shape and be the talk of the neighborhood with this whacker. What would I do for it? For me to know and y’all to find out!

  221. Whack me! My DH really needs to whack some weeds in our backyard and for it I’ll send you a bouquet of tall grasses and dandelions — does that work?

  222. WHACK ME!

    I would swim the English Channel with one arm behind my back to get this whacker; although considering that I’m 7 months preggo, and definitely not in any kind of shape, I might drown – but it would still be worth it.

  226. WHACK ME!

    I’d give it to my father for Father’s Day! He is in DIRE need of a weed wacker – you should see his backyard! He’d be so happy he’d drive down from Jersey to whack your weeds too!

  227. Whack me!
    We now own our first home, and need a weed whacker. At least my husband says so. But most of his attention (and most of our money) are being poured into repairing the used (turns out to be VERY used) commercial lawnmower he picked up. So I’ve been sneaking out with the hedge clippers and making the weeds magically vanish. Out of sight, out of mind, right? It seems to be working–he hasn’t brought up the subject of a weedwhacker for quite some time!
    So I suppose this was really about what I’ll do to avoid getting a weed whacker…

  228. Whack me – I’m thinking I might trade our betta, Cook…but I need to run it by our 2 year old first 😉

  229. WHACK ME!!!

    Our yard is looking quite nasty these days, so we definitely need this prize! I wouldn’t trade my first-born, but since he is only about a week or two younger than Will, I would trade an hour or two of our little guys hanging out while we eat some delicious bacon. 🙂

  234. Whack Me!

    I’m pretty sure I would … take care of my neighbor’s lawn.

    And bring you fresh baked cookies.

  236. WHACK ME!
    Oh what wouldn’t I do. We’re currently sporting a pretty mangy yard – and it’s one of the things that is driving me nuts with 4 weeks to go before our first baby! Telling the hubs to fix it might go better if i had this tool. . . 😉

  239. WHACK ME! I would totally send you all the bacon that the great Athens area has in stock!!

  240. Whack me! I will give you a two for one special on our whiney kitties that are driving me absolutely bonkers!

  247. Whack me! Katie I would give up eating bacon for this whacker and I loveee me some bacon!

  248. Whack me!

    I’d trade you a miniature schnauzer that is the bane of my existence. I mean a complete and total sweetheart.

  250. WHACK ME!

    I’ll send along the world’s best homemade toddler cookies (in a few months, when you need them).

  251. WHACK ME!

    I will check your blog daily for updates… oh wait, I already do that 🙂

  254. WHACK ME! Delete the other comment, this one handed typing thing is hard! I’ll send you pics of my darling 3 mo old Maya and we can begin talks of future courting between little ones!

  255. Whack Me!

    I am petrified of creepy crawlies, especially ticks – soooooooo with this handy dandy tool I may just work up the courage to give the hubs a break and tackle the yard all by myself for once!

  256. WHACK ME!

    I would totally give you run of our house, whenever you wanted to visit little ole Charlotte, NC (PS, our house looks a LOT like the Petersik’s…so your should all feel at home!)

  260. Whack me! I’d travel to Korea to get one. That’s where I’m reading your blog from right now. I’m here for three weeks teaching teachers of English, but when I get home to Michigan I’d love to have one of these machines.Love your blog.

  261. Whack Me!!! Edging my driveway and sidewalk has been on the list since I bought my house. Please Whack Me 🙂

  262. WHACK ME!!

    My husband would be SO excited to get this! He may even trade….well….me? Ha, just kidding….. kind of 🙂

  263. Whack Me!!

    I would host a party for you in my weed free yard after putting this prize to good use! 🙂

  264. Whack me!!

    I’ll come over (from WI!) to babysit little Will so you can have a date night!

  267. WHACK ME!

    I would wrestle a killer whale for one of these!
    {and I am TERRIFIED of them…seriously…have you ever seen Orca? That was one ticked off mama whale!!}

  268. Whack Me!

    Hmm… I would… volunteer to watch all eleven of my nieces & nephews at the same time! Believe me, with ages ranging from 8 to 8 months, that’s a chore! 🙂

  269. Don’t whack me! My husband already has this and LOVES it, and like you, Katie, I don’t want another. Great giveaway though. Kudos to B&D!

  272. WHACK ME! I’d challenge my husband to a “weed whack off” (that sounds kind of weird) to see who can edge faster and better with the old whacker and the new one 🙂

  273. Whack me!

    I’ve actually been trying to squeeze as much out of my current weed wacker with whatever attachment we’ve needed. But I might have to make some room for this bad boy.

  275. Whack Me.

    I do the worm in a crowd of people (and by worm I mean hopelessly flop on the floor like a fish on land). It wouldn’t be pretty.

  276. Whack me!
    We have a small yard and could easily knock it out with this tool. I would send you before and after pictures to feature on your blog 🙂

  277. Whack Me!

    My dad would LOVE this! He’s always in his backyard and frontyard fixing things up. If he could, he’d live outside in our backyard! Seriously!

  280. Actually, being the mother of 8, a number of which are mentally ill, I can honestly say I would NOT be willing to let any of them WHACK ME anymore! Occassionally when they were younger, that did happen. I would, however, be willing to let ANYONE borrow, take for a day, live with, etc my 4 year old, assuming, of course that they would return her after 8 hours… if they could last that long. Trust me – she could try the patience of any saint! Between her screaming and her consistant chatter, I am witts end, and she just recently gave up naps! So weed-eating would at least drown her out for a while!

    All jesting aside, I would love to have an actual working weed-eater.

  281. WHACK ME

    I’d take my 7 month preggo body outside in the heat and actually use the weedwacker to make our lawn look decent. 🙂 I guess I’d have to win before I could make could on my promise.

  282. Whack me!

    I feel weird typing that. Like I should be on some made for tv mob movie. 🙂

  284. whack me! I’d pick up all the dog poop in our backyard, instead making my husband do it. maybe.

  286. Whack me!!

    I would definately go to the moon and back for it! I looove doing yard work!!!

  287. Whack me!!

    I’d cheer for the darn Gators (bleh!) for one game to score this weedwacker!

    ROLL TIDE ROLL!

  288. Whack me!

    Apparently Dutch Monkey Doughnuts has *gasp* a bacon maple that’s to *die* for! Can you imagine?!

  289. WHACK ME!

    I would totally fight my hubby to use this instead of him! I am SO jealous of clean-edged lawns. Great giveaway Katie!

  290. Whack Me!!
    I would stand on my head and cluck like a chicken. Oh wait, that’s what I’d do for a Klondike bar. I would love you forever, I would like you for always, as long as I’m living, my best friend you’d be. Ok, I have nothing original. But I could really, really use a new edger 🙂

  293. Whack me!
    I would help me elderly neighbor whack her yard with this bad boy. The one we have now is just to heavy for a wuss like me.

  295. Whack me!

    For this beautiful cordless weedwacker, which I so desperately need, I would gladly come down to Georgia and do your moving/edging/weeding myself. I really enjoy doing yard work, just as long as I have the right tools!!

  298. Whack Me!

    Our gas powered weed whacker just started leaking so we could really use a new one!

  301. WHACK ME, puhLEASE!!!

    I would sew some hand-made mini-outfits for your adorable little Will for this one! Well, I’d actually like to do that anyways, if I can. I’ve had so many friends having babies lately, but they’re all girls, and I’m DYing to try out some of my more mini-manly ideas, if I can. Any chance you’re game?? Feel free to e-mail me and let me know…

    And tell your honey Happy 1st Father’s day for me!

    🙂

  302. Wack Me…. I would actually try it myself, rather than make my hubby do the yard work!

  304. Whack me!
    I’d finally be able to edge around my flower beds instead of waiting on someone else to do it!

  306. Whack me!
    I think winning this would totally motivate me to make good on my promise of landscaping our little side yard *sometime* this year. Gotta keep up- couldn’t have the lawn showing up the “garden” (heavy air quote fingers on that one!)

  307. Whack Me!

    I would actually edge the yard despite my sad, sad inability to properly use a weed eater mostly due to my completely unstable hands that shake too much under the weight and power of my husband’s gas-powered weed eater which results in a horribly ugly crooked line instead of the nice pretty edging we all want which is so sad b/c my husband spends a lot of time away since he’s in the Navy and therefore the edges of my yard are super overgrown.

    And I would also write what could be the world’s longest run on sentence. 😉

  308. Whack me! Man, I don’t know what I would do for this. Maybe anything. All I know is that when my husband mows our yard, he somehow conveniently skips all the edges. Not pretty. So yeah, we are in desperate need of this!

  309. Whack Me!!! Our trimmer died this week and my husband is interested in replacing it with an electric model. I would do cartwheels in my currently non-trimmed backyard!!

  311. Whack me!

    We’re trying to sell our house and our yard looks like a jungle….so we’re pretty desperate. I’d be willing to volunteer my husband for weed whacking services to the WHOLE neighborhood! Isn’t that nice of me? :o)

  312. Whack Me!

    I would give up blogs. No I wouldn’t. That is a total lie. They are my secret addiction.

  313. I wquld so totally retire my long extension cord and celebrate not having to drag it around!

  314. Whack me!!

    I’d volunteer my husband to do the chicken dance for all to see! No actually, we’d probably use the weed whacker to help both of our parent’s with their yards more.

  315. WHACK ME!!

    I would tackle my yard and show this machine whose boss and my husband wouldn’t know what to do with himself 😉 I guess I would share with him as well 🙂

  316. Whack me! I’d let my hubby stay inside to play with our 3 boys while I went outside to play with a new garden tool!

  323. Wack me! I would do yard work… in Virginia’s 95+ degree heat… in a snow parka… with a giant magnifying glass above my head.

    Or something like that! 🙂

  325. Whack me!

    I’d donate some of my Computer Science mojo to your blog for this…we’ve needed one for awhile 🙂

  328. Whack me.
    Sine I’m the one in the family who does the yard work I would totally put fun stickers and bedazzle the weeds out of that thing, as well as, wear matching gloves!

  334. Whack Me!

    I would tatoo Bower Power on my body to prove my undying love and appreciation.

  336. Whack Meeee!

    I would stay awake with Will while you and your boyfriend sleep for several hours each night, have baskets of bacon ready for you and your BF when you wake up, and do the cabbage patch on the subway on my way to work.

  337. Whack me! I would love to win this and not for my hubbie, but for me. He mows and I whack weeds. Our current model has a cord and no edging function. So, what would I do? I’d babysit for free!

  339. Whack me!

    What would I do to win this? I would leave a comment on your blog. And then hope really hard that I win. 😉

  340. WHACK ME!!!!! I would babysit sweet little Will so you could have a night out with your boyfriend!
    You should see the crap in our yard, we have two weed wackers and they both stink!!!

  342. Whack me!!

    My fiance would LOVE this … because I may actually go out and help him in the yard!!

  343. whack me! I would actually, seriously, honestly do yard work if I had this. And I HATE yard work.

    Thanks guys!

  344. WHACK ME!

    i would give…………………………..this to my in-laws so my husband doesn’t have to do their weed whacking anymore! :c)

  345. Whack Me!

    I would give it to my Dad!! He is always fiddling around the yard and just the other day when I was over there he couldn’t get his own weed whacker working so it would be perfect for him!

  346. Whack me!

    I would send you pictures of my bunny rabbit. Worth a million bucks, she’s that adorable.

    And I’d actually trim around our boulder wall and gardens. And my neighbors would love you.

  348. WHACK ME!!

    I would trade all 3 of my non-working riding mowers for this! Or alternately, make you many bacon flavored treats!

  351. WHACK ME!

    I would gift it to my husband how gives me gifts of kitchen appliances instead of jewlery. Grrr!

  352. Whack Me!

    I would become more addicted to edging than I am to organizing!

  356. Whack me!! Ill babysit Will and change his diaper for you guys and give ya a break 🙂

  358. Whack me!

    Every time I hear the word electric, or just think about electricity, I start singing the electric slide! So it’s only appropriate to do the Electric Slide while frying some bacon for you! (My neighbors probably think I’m nuts for doing the electric slide while mowing with my electric lawnmower!)

  359. WHACK ME!!!

    I would actually go in my basement…really, it’s awful. We live in a 100-year old house and let me tell you…the basement is just plain creepy!

  360. WHACK ME!

    Oh, I think I’d have to say that I’d do anything for this, but gotta draw the line somwhere. SO, I would say the biggest thing I could do is stop nagging my husband while he did work- that’s huge. WAY bigger than a body part, for sure. Maybe dance a jig too.

  364. Doesn’t it bug you at night to always be copying Sherry from YOUNG HOUSE LOVE? I mean, even your giveaway rules are the same. Jeepers! Stick to baby stuff and boyfriends–that’s what is YOU and REAL…your other stuff is starting to get embarrassingly copycat-ish to YHL.

    ps. didn’t you have a “tips for bloggers” list some time ago that said to BE ORIGINAL.
    yeaaaaah…i’d take some of your own advice on that one, dear.

  365. Whack me! For this.. I would be willing to make bacon candy (yes that is a thing and it is delicious)!

  367. Whack me!! I will eat bacon at every meal for a week straight, in your honor!

  368. Whack Me! I would love to win a weedwhacker as I feel like our pitiful yard might just be the evil child of the neighborhood amongst the other yards! I’ll send over lots of bacon!

  369. WHACK ME….i would go ONE! WHOLE! DAY! without chocolate. and considering my severe addiction, it would be like cutting off a body part….(okay okay, that is a little extreme…but i promise, it would be HARD!)

  371. Whack me!!

    We ahve a hand me down corded weed wacker- I would love not having to deal with the cord. And an edger like tool would be awesome.

  373. Whack me! I will get up and rock Will in the middle of the night, even after playing whack-a-mole with my kids all.day.long

  374. “Whack Me” I would give the hubs a break and do the yard myself if I had one of these!

  376. Whack Me!

    I would trade my husband for this, i’m the one that does all the weed wacking around the house so who needs him?! haha

  378. WHACK ME!

    I would clean my husband’s bathroom for this! Free him up to tackle the weeds!

  379. Whack Me!

    I don’t know what I’d give for this, but my husband would LOVE this! He’s constantly complaining that our older-than-we-are weed whacker stinks and is hard to control.

  380. Hi Brenda,
    To answer your question – no it does not bug me at night. Actually I didn’t come up with these rules…the people at our very first giveaway did (Olympic Paint Giveaway way back in August of last year). And although they may look similar to YHL – they are pretty standard as far as it goes for complete freebie transparency.
    Hope this clears things up!
    XO – Katie
    p.s. you forgot to say WHACK ME! 🙂

  382. Whack me!! I would pretty much do anything to make my boyfriend’s yard work a little easier on him! He’s pretty much amazing!!

  384. WHACK ME!

    If I win this baby, I – yes, me, The WOman – would give my wonderful hubs a break on Father’s Day, and I would wield this power tool and whack our weeds. Believe me – this is saying a lot!

  386. Whack Me!

    What timing! Just this week we discovered our weed wacker disappeared in the move and are now in the market. I would love to try this one out! So much so that I would… comment on this post. 😉

  387. Whack me 🙂 !!

    what would i do? i’d let you watch my crazy boys, haha! just kidding, i’d say thank you thank you thank you from my hubbie! he is so sick of using hand-me downs from his dad!!

  388. Whack Me!! 🙂

    My husband and I are just buying our first house together and could use this immediately!! I would stick toothpicks under my fingernails for it! Ok well maybe not that… but I do want it really badly!

  389. Whack me…
    I’d groom all the weeds in my yard with scissors to get my hands on that beaut.

  393. “Whack Me”

    I would actually whack the weeds for my hubs so he could get a break!

  394. WHACK ME!
    What would I do for this prize? I would *actually* weedwhack my lawn, which I am sure all of my neighbors would appreciate.

  395. Whack Me!

    And for it I would visit you and tell you over and over and over again that your blog is awesome and original and I love reading it every day.

  396. Whack me 🙂

    Because our neighbors park too close to our curb to get a good edge in- and with a more sophisticated tool (i.e. Black and Decker 24 volt cordless string trimmer and edger) we might scare them into parking (ever so rudely) in front of someone elses house! 🙂

  397. Whack Me – We are moving into a new home so I need this so bad. I will design a room just for you so you will have a free place to stay if you ever want to come to…. Michigan? I know – why? But its here if you want to come. =)

  398. WHACK ME!

    I’d use it on our backyard – or shall I say my HUBBY would use it!! Get those weeds outta here – so our four boys will have freedom to RUN! (Come on over to play anytime w your little guy!)

  399. Whack Me!
    I’d promise to never use this tool so long as I live so that my husband could ‘enjoy’ it 🙂

  400. WHACK ME!!!!

    Well I would tell you that you have the cutest baby boy, but you already know that. If I lived in the Atlanta area I would offer to babysit for you, but since I live in Dallas I can’t do that. I will tell you with all sincerity that I love visiting your blog and reading about your life with Will and your boyfriend.

    Keep up the good work!!

  401. Whack me! Ours just died and a new weed wacker is on top of my dh’s wishlist!

  402. Whack Me 😛

    I would go so far as to enter a blog comment for an offer as great as this!

  403. “Whack Me”

    If I never had to look at the foot high weeds along our fence again, I would promise my husband that I will do the weed wacking for the rest of our lives!

  404. Hi Katie,
    I’ve already entered but I saw the comment “Brenda” left and couldn’t help but leave my opinion as well.

    Rude people have nothing better to do than to critique others. She would have also noticed in your “tips for bloggers” post that you receive rude comments like hers from others as well but you keep on-a-posting! That’s what makes you and this blog great!

    And as a devoted daily reader I would also like to comment that your blog is one of a kind and regardless of what rude people have to say, I appreciate all the hard work you put into your blog.

    Hope this makes your day a little better!

  405. Whack me! I would probably be willing to barter my entire yard full of weeds for this prize. Weeds, over cut grass, and a yard in dire need of cutting and a lack there of mower. Yes I would barter that hands down. 🙂

  407. Whack Me. I would be willing to drive to your place and help you with your weeds before even thinking about mine:) seriously, we need this tool. ours continues to get tangled up and it drives us crazy!!!

  408. WHACK ME!!
    Ooooo I would LOVE to win this prize! I would give the ultimate sacrifice: No shopping for one month! (excluding food)
    Thanks for giving us the chance to win!

  409. Whack me!
    I would wake up early for a week and water my lawn! We don’t have a sprinkler system.

  410. WHACK ME!

    I would give up raw chocolate-chip cookie dough for the entire summer; not like, “hi, I made this in a bowl” cookie dough, but the super-awesome kind that comes pre-squared so you can go in after it in the fridge & it’s all cold and wonderful… aah.

  411. Whack Me!!!! I am in charge of the whacking, while my hubby does the mowing…and I’m sick to DEATH of whacking extension cords by mistake. You would think the neon orange would be hard to miss. Apparently not. I’ll swap you for my firstborn – his name is even William, so you wouldn’t have to re-label anything! But he’s five and thinks he is in charge of the world, despite my and his little sister’s attempts to inform him otherwise. He’s really is great, but it always makes me sad when they lose that “new kid” smell. So I’m in the process of recreating him on a smaller scale. But give me another 6 months. We get a baby in the after-Christmas sales!

  412. Whack me upside the head and call me Kristy! We would buy one of those Thank You cards where you can record your own message and we’d say something silly on it and mail it to you…but only then will you know just how much it means to us…well…because you’ll hear it!

  415. Whack me! I’d do 500 pushups for this baby…and if you saw my scrawny arms, you’d know that is no easy feat!

  418. Whack me (which sounds wrong)! I would let you whack off my finger for this. My husband wants one so bad!

  419. W-w-w-w-whack me!

    Whack me, slap me, give a little hack, me!
    Do a little dance and shake it all around thee!
    Get a Black & Decker to weed around the back – Whee!

    Ok – only one stanza this time because if I lose it again, I would be beyond-help-depressed!

  421. Whack me!

    If I won, I might actually do some of the yard work myself instead of forcing the hubs to do it all!

  422. Whack me! I’d give up going to Target for a year, and that is the craziest idea I have ever thought, let alone said outloud!

  425. WHACK ME!!!!

    I am a newbie to your website, and I must say, that I LOVE IT!!!!
    And, being a single mother, I also have to love power tools-especially one that could save me money from hiring a lawn guy!
    So, even though i NEVER win anything, here is to winning this handsome new power tool!
    I would definitely trade a free furniture redo for a free cool power tool!
    How does that sound??

    I will be back to visit for sure! Best wishes!

  426. Whack me!

    I would send you my first born, but he’s extremely hairy and eats an awful lot. On the plus side, he likes to mop. So I’m keeping him. But I could seriously use the weed whacker, pretty please!

  427. Whack me! I would let my husband do all the weedwhacking around the yard! Oh wait…I already let him do all that but I’m sure he would love to have this awesome new weedeater to work with!

  429. Wack me! I would use it – I would wack the yard & make hubby clean the kitchen while I’m outside.

    Come over and I’ll make you a grilled cheese w/bacon sammy! Yummy!

  433. Whack Me! I will send you a new bird for your house. We both share this love of decorating with birds and nests. 🙂

  434. WHACK ME!!! I would whack someone for you…my hubs is really in need of a whacker of weeds, our neighbors would thank you and they would most likely send you baked bacon goodies.

  435. Whack me! I’ll use all of the time that my husband and I would have spent at Home Depot staring at this very machine, debating whether or not we really NEED it, to work on world peace.

  436. Whack me!! This would be so great for our yard. I love the look of a clean yard, and we really need to edge the areas around our sidewalk!

  437. Whack Me!

    Hmm… i’d use it faithfully and give it lots of goody green stuff for breakfast, lunch, supper and dessert??

  438. Whack me!

    For this prize, I promise to actually do the yardwork, and maybe even garden!

  439. WHACK ME! I would send you some bacon if I won =) I think my husband would kiss me. He has an ongoing battle with the weed whacker since our backyard is basically a pile of gravel with weeds. Long story for another day on how it got like that.

  440. Whack me with your best shot!
    I would stay overnight in a display tent at Wal-mart to score this handy dandy cordless Whacker! 🙂

  443. Whack me! I would send you lots of virtual cookie love. Just the idea of having something that can edge too makes my heart happy.

  444. Whack me!

    For this prize, I think I would have to dress up like a pirate (because that just seems like the sensible thing to do) and fry you some bacon from the top of Mt. Kilmanjaro.

  445. Whack Me!
    I would actually do our lawn if I won this. Anything to make it easier.

  447. Whack me!

    I would mow the lawn for my father for the rest of the summer (and let him do all the weed whacking with the new toy)! 🙂

  448. WHACK ME!

    Hubby and I just moved into a place with loads of grass and we currently have nothing stopping it. It’s beginning to take over!

  450. Whack me! We do not have anything to maintain our lawn, sure would be nice .. not sure what I’d do for it though. No first born to give, need my body parts and don’t have too much to barter with.

  453. Whack Me!

    I’m sure my husband would trade me for one of these and if he does, I’ll be sure he sends me with bacon!

  455. Whack me! I would actually go use the weed-whacker if we had this one! I could also be persuaded to make you some of my bacon-infused waffles if I win… just sayin’… I’m just in Birmingham, not too far for waffles with bacon in them! 😉

  456. WHACK ME!

    I would be willing to do a whole lot for a weed whacker! My poor walkway has been completely taken over by some weeds that are growing under my neighbor’s fence and I need to whack them so I can get in my car and go to the store and get some bacon! 🙂 I found a great recipe for a BLT and I’ll make you one if you ever come to KY. Or maybe some chocolate covered bacon. I hear it’s good. And I’d probably kiss the ground you walk on, because I’m really getting sick and tired of sitting on the ground trimming my edges with scissors. I have a whole bunch of walkways leading to the front door, side door, and back to the garage, so I’d be eternally grateful to cut the time I spend edging by about 95%!

  457. “Whack Me”!

    I’d actually use it instead of just passing it to the husband and have him do all the yard work 🙂

  458. WHACK ME! I would totally help my husband with the yard work…wait…I take that back. I am sure my husband would love it. Maybe our neighbors too….since our yard looks so sad next to their nicely manicured edges.

  459. Whack me!

    I’ll film all the destruction I cause with the weed whacker set to cheesy horror flick music!

  460. Whack me!

    After being given a 20 year old weed whacker from my grandparents-in-law, only to have it break on the second use, we are in need of one of these puppies!

  461. WHACK ME!!

    I would volunteer to take care of your yard for the rest of the Summer if it meant I won the fabulous cordless whacker!

  462. Whack me! I would gift it to my husband for our 3rd anniversary/house warming present for our first house, AND offer to do the edging myself!

  463. whack me! my husband would be ever so thankful and i could quit griping about the weeds!

  465. “Whack Me”

    Please! I would make you a rhubarb cake! (or just give you the recipe). Need to trim around that rhubarb too, this Black n Decker Cordless 24 volt String Trimmer/Edger would work great!

  466. WHACK ME!

    If I won this weedwhacker I would get out there and whack those weeds in this 100 degree Charlotte weather while 5 months pregnant. While taking many, many water/shade breaks of course 🙂

  467. Whoops! Whack me!!!!!If I won, I would do a cheer in my driveway with my newest prized possesion, for all of my neighbors to see!

  468. Whack Me!!

    I’d actually go out in my tick infested yard wearing no DEET and use it!

  469. Whack Me! (pick me) Whack Me! (pick me) Whack Me! (pick me)…

    I will bake you a big batch of muffins and then I will sing your praises high and low because my hubby will be the happiest man on earth. The spring on our previous weed eater, ahem, whacker, broke two weeks ago and he is going nuts. Therefore, mama is going nuts too. Please, please, please, PICK ME 🙂

  470. “Whack Me”

    my mower would seriously thank you for this. the previous owner put railroad ties (half buried) along the top ridge of the monster ditch (i HATE that ditch) & ever time I mow I manage to run over the edge of one!

  471. Whack me! My husband would be absolutely thrilled . . . and would probably be willing to share my cleaning abilities for a year or two. 🙂

  472. Whack me! This is genius. We just bought a new weed eater and trimming along our fence is proving impossible. It has basically proven to be a gigantic waste of money, it is continually getting jammed and not working, so my husband would be thrilled if we won! We’d use it to edge around our fence and along all of our walkways.

  473. Whack me! Please! So that we can stop using our clumsy hedge trimmers in place of a weed wacker. Not a good substitution but it’s all we got!

  475. WHACK ME!

    I might actually tell my husband that I entered a contest to win something that would be another example of how I give gifts to him that benefit me. It’s how I roll.

    He whacks our new home’s yard and I get to watch him from the shade sipping lemonade. See, be both win.

  476. WHACK ME!

    I would send you a bacon-wrapped hot dog from Busch Stadium! Also, I’d send you some bandaids that look like bacon strips. Hilarious!

  477. Whack me pleeeease!!

    What a great giveaway! We re-sodded our yard last year and the weeds are trying to overtake our pretty sod! I would trade my husband’s flat screen for it! Oh, maybe I should ask him first.

  478. Whack Me! I would give my hubby’s banjo. The banjo, which incidently keeps him from keeping our lawn looking good most weekends. 🙂

  479. Whack Me!

    I would make fresh squeezed lemonade for my husband every time he used this bad boy!

  480. Whack me!

    What would I do for a weedwhacker… so much! We just planted our first herb garden in our first house-home and the weeds are brutal! I’d easily give up my beach plans to take a WHACK at them!!

  482. Whack Me!

    What I would do for a weed whacker…well I’d for one throw our 10 yr old one away that doesn’t work but my husband is sure he can fix SOME day. Then I’d show him how a weed whacker is SUPPOSED to work…you have to teach them before they can do it themselves! :p

  483. Whack me! I would sign up for a free give-away for this trimmer! Or buy it if my wife let’s me if I don’t win..?

  484. Whack me!

    I would volunteer to do the yard work for a month, and give me awesome husband a break!

  487. Whack Me!! Haha … I’m making bacon, can’t you smell it?? I’d offer to send you bacon in exchange for this bad boy … but FRESH bacon is so much better. So I’ll come make you some hot-outta-the-grease bacon for you!!

    Great blog, Katie, keep it up 🙂

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