Seagate and The Gadgeteer want to help you celebrate Mother’s Day by giving away a super skinny new Seagate Slim portable hard drive.
Today’s mom is busy, connected and looking for ways to keep everything balanced and organized. So this Mother’s Day, why not give mom something to keep it all together? With thousands of priceless photos, videos and other files that need to be kept secure, she needs a simple and FAST way to back up precious content. Seagate’s new storage product, the Seagate Slim, is a perfect gift for the job. It’s sleek and portable (just slightly larger than an iPhone 5 and as thick as a pencil), and comes with a software Dashboard that allows for one-click or scheduled backup and the added feature of back up for Facebook and Flickr albums.
Read on for details on how to win.
Prize:
Seagate Slim portable hard drive ($80 value)
How to enter (please read carefully – any missed steps and your entry will be disqualified):
1. Between now and 05/12/2013 11:59PM EST leave a comment telling us about the strangest or most unique gift you ever gave your Mom on Mother’s Day.
2. At some point on 05/13/2013, I’ll pick 1 random winner using random.org. The winner will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to choose their prize pack. If I do not receive an answer to my email, I’ll do other random.org drawings till the prize is gone.
Rules:
1. Only one entry per person (warning: I check IP addresses).
2. Gadgeteer writers, family members and close friends may not enter this contest.
3. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for any lost packages or incorrect shipping addresses.
4. Winner must have a US shipping address.
Update: The winner is #47 Paul!
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I gifted a surprise cake, flowers and a gift voucher for fine dining.
I gave my mother an she tray when I was 9 ..problem was my mother doesn’t smoke 😉
I had my mom’s favorite (really old, purchased in Germany) recording of Beethoven’s violin concerto digitized. No currently available CD version would do because they didn’t have the right cadenzas!
My mom is 5′ tall…I actually gave her a copy of Randy Newman’s song “Short People” back in the late 70’s…
I was about 8 years old I painted a rock that I found in the yard with a picture of Me and gave it to Her
This year I’m getting my mother a multiple winery tour package where you have to bike from one winery to the next. Could be interesting after the second one 😉
I once gifted my mother Potatoes & Eggs. Apparently she really wanted them for breakfast, so I cooked for her 😉
Back in elementary school, the teachers told us to go out and collect shells. We then used those shells and glued them to a piece of paper to give to our mother’s for Mother’s Day. Playing with the glue was the best part.
Oil painting I did…. she loves it. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8v7MRgyF1Hxb3RRbWpZSVU2Uk0/edit?usp=sharing
Gave her a nice crisp Benjamin!
A classic… macaroni art.
A crappy ashtray that I made myself. What were we thinking back then?
I gave her a picture of me riding on my motorcycle that was taken when I was riding in the Texas Hill Country. Heck, every mom needs a photo of their daughter on a motorcycle right?!
I once gave my mom water from the Jordan River
I was born on May 12 mothers day, which is the ultimate unique gift for a brand-new mom (literally!).
Trip to Bora Bora
A hand draw picture of a chicken. Strange things we made in elementary school.
I gave my mom a frame made with pasta on it when I was in like the second grade (good job teach!). She was all WTF…A few wks later, half the pasta was gone. Some rodent had eaten it all off…
A house made of toothpicks from my elementary school days.
Gave her a glued macaroni picture and adorned the borders with flowers and vines. Vines turned out to be poison ivy…
Us Brothers purchased our Mother a house, took here to dinner and drove her back to her new home, gave her keys and wished a Happy Mother’s Day. She lives there and we take care of the bills. greatest feeling ever.
I gave my Mom a compact digital camera with an optical viewfinder. It was really hard to find one of those!
My mom hated to cook. So when I was 13 I cooked her a dinner then offered to cook for the next week. I ended up doing aboiut half the family meals until I went to college.
A ride on a nuclear sub while I was in the Navy during Family Day.
Gold spray-painted macaroni-decorated box (I think the teacher must have sprayed them). She had it on her dresser until after I went to college.
When I was twelve, I gave my Mom a puppy on Mother’s Day, thinking she will love it as much as I did, but I forgot about her dog allergies. Oopsies!
First one I ever gave her was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 🙂
On a mother’s day some time ago, my brothers and I took some money from our mom, (stole) , and we bought her an elephant figurine. Since she loves. Them because to her they are good luck. She was so pissed off, at first. Bit then. She saw the gift. She laughed so much.
A night of Bingo. She loves Bingo, me…not so much.
I gave her one of my school assignments I got a good grade on
Back several years ago I transferred our old family super 8 movies to DVD. We watched them together for the first time in 25 years. It was unforgettable.
a painted wooden spoon in second grade..
I gave my Mom a homemade card for Mother’s day. But I was 29 years old. Don’t worry – there were tickets to San Francisco in there also.
A bottle of perfume, but she didn’t like it.
Gave her the news that I’m getting married ! She lost hope of seeing her daughter-in-law … gave her hope back
I gave my mom a 3 legged kitten.
My Mother loved the music of Count Basie, Lena Horne and so on. Lena was playing Westbury, NY and I got her tickets for her show. That was a lifetime ago. Mom has been gone 30 years already. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I miss you.
I gave her a garden hose. I know lame, but it is exactly something she had wanted for awhile
I tiled her bathroom for her one year.
That would be today’s present. My mom is a big puzzle enthusiast. I found out that National Geographic can make a puzzle for your house from Google Maps, so I bought that for her.
My brother and I visited her many times in Florida for our distant homes – in spite of the fact that we both hated Florida.
Flowers that didn’t come on time and when they arrived, looked horrible!
Don’t use online flower sites was the lesson I earned.
I am embarrassed to admit that when I was around 12 I used all of my own pocket money to purchase my mother a porcelain doggy toilet brush. I thought it was the nicest gift ever at the time.
i had my mom over for brunch and she was talking about how she wanted special pasta plates. someone had given me some for a gift that i had never used or even opened, so i regifted them to my mom on the spot. she loved them.
Several years ago I purchased my mother a subscription to a service that provided a variety of flower bulbs every month for a year. She loved it!
I died her hair for her! It’s what she wanted!
When I was about 9 years old I gave my Mom a dog collar with a wish that I would get a “Scotty Dog” — we did! And I loved that little dog so much.
Gave her a garden weasel.
The most unusual gift was me. I drove almost 800 miles to visit without telling my parents I was coming. I was going to phone Mom and then knock on the door. Unfortunately, my parents were leaving the house as I arrived, so I stopped at the top of the driveway and got out of my car. Neither of my parents recognized me, buy they did stop to ask if they could help the “stranded motorist.” So unexpected, it took a minute or two before Mom knew it was me. Happy Mothers’ Day!
I gave see’s candy.
My mom love her MacBook pro very much. Once I bought MacBook Air and installed Windows XP on it. I gave her on Mother’s day. Never forget her face when Windows XP was booting on new MacBook Air. I god scolded. 🙂
Macaroni art! It’s like a rite of passage for every kid!
I once gave mom mom a coupon book–but I had made all the coupons.
I gave my mom a very good Card and a Dinner for Mpm’s Day
Bought a pair of earrings for her with my first pay check.
Crayon Mothers day card
Update: The winner is #47 Paul! Thanks to all who entered!