I’ve teamed up with some great blogging buddies to bring you an amazing giveaway! We are giving away $850 in CASH prizes (paid via paypal or cashiers check) just for being a Facebook fan! Three winners will win big…

• 1st prize – $550 cash
• 2nd prize – $200 cash
• 3rd prize – $100 cash

Please note: This promotion is in NO way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. This giveaway is sponsored by the 17 bloggers listed above.

What do I want for Mother’s Day? As a mom of little ones, I’m happy getting the home made cards, little planters with seedling plants in them, or whatever other creations they make me at school. However, as a mom, there are plenty of gifts that I would gladly take including a night that I don’t have to cook dinner.

Which leads me to the perfect last minute gift that every mother will enjoy. A night off from cooking with a gift certificate from Restaurant.com. It is a frugal gift as you can get a $25 Gift Certificate for as low as $2 with coupon code MOM at checkout. But wait, it gets even better, you can earn 25% cash back with you purchase your gift certificate through Ebates.

That’s the frugal gift! If you have a little extra dough to spend, every mom would love an iPad 2. You will get 1% back on your purchase when you shop Apple Store through Ebates.

Win $1,000 for Mother’s Day

Whatever you’re buying this Mother’s Day, start at Ebates and get up to 20% cash back! To celebrate moms everywhere, Ebates is giving away a $1,000 shopping spree from any of their 1,200 retail partners!

How to Enter: Visit Ebates.com and find something you or your favorite mom would love. Reply below with a description of what you found! A random winner will be announced Monday, May 10, 2011.(You must be registered with Ebates to win.)

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Ebates. The opinions and text are all mine. Contest goes from Monday, May 2nd to Monday, May 9th 2011.

This post brought to you by Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.

Imagine taking hundreds of wonderful pictures at the Grand Canyon only to discover there are no pictures on your camera! On a recent vacation, my mom had a moment of panic when she thought all the pictures on her memory card were gone. However, she was lucky and the memory card just wasn’t pushed down all the way in her camera.

After losing a loved one, all photos and videos are so precious. You don’t want to lose a single one. Backing up and uploading photos to safeguard your photos is so important.

That is why I was excited to get the opportunity to try out a Eye-Fi Wireless Photo & Video Memory Card. The Eye-Fi Wireless Photo and Video Memory Card is a easy way to back up and share. Plus, when your photos are automatically uploaded there is no more searching for cables and your photos are waiting for you in your online photo storage site ready to share with friends and family.

It is so simple to get started. Plug in the USB card reader to get started. Follow the installation steps and set up your Eye-Fi account. You can then link your Eye-Fi photos to your online sharing sites like Mobile Me, Flickr, Picasa among a few.

As you are setting up your card, you will be guided through all of these steps with the final test – taking a picture of yourself.  Then you will see that picture of yourself, uploaded to the sites you have set up. The whole process takes around 10 minutes and gives you that security knowing your photos will be uploaded seamlessly when you turn your camera on and it is connected to a wi-fi network.

Eye-Fi would make a great Mother’s Day gift or a great graduation gift. No one wants to lose their precious memories and Eye-Fi makes it easy to upload and share your photos.

What is required to use a Eye-Fi Card:

• Compatible SDHC camera.
• Wi-Fi Network 802.11b/g/n 2.4 Ghz
• Broadband Internet
• Windows XP/Vista/7 or Max X 10.5 and up

How would you like to win a Eye-Fi Wireless Photo & Video Memory Card? You can enter by doing the following:

1. Leave a comment: Why you should win the Eye-Fi Card.
2. Tweet the following on Twitter:

Easy Uploading with Eye-Fi Memory Cards. Enter to Win at http://bit.ly/gRkgaA #Eye-Fi

Giveaway ends 4/29/2011 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. You can see a complete list of participating blogs and Contest Rules here.

Thanks to all who entered the November Holiday Giveaway Bash at the beginning of the month! There was over 14,000 entries on just this site and I appreciate each and every one. I hope you had fun! Now, it’s time to congratulate the winners!

Winners have all been notified. It could take several weeks for the prizes to be received. Please be patient while the companies are shipping these items out!

Stay tuned for Holiday Giveaway Bash #2, which will start on December 6, 2010. We have some more great prizes to spoil our readers with! Including  In the meantime, be sure to enter the current giveaways on Bargain Briana including an iPad, iPod shuffles, and a $75 Fiber Plus Up Your Purse giveaway!

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