SUBSCRIBE VIA RSSWhile I’m hard at work writing a prolific post about the positive life lessons we can learn from squirrels, I wanted to take a break and share what you all have already done to help support my Sweet Dreams Fund $1.11 Campaign. I was hoping to reach our goal of 1,111 pledge units by the end of April. At this pace, you could all reach that goal by the end of the weekend!
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The Coffee’s On Me! – CONTEST CLOSED! 
The randomly selected winner! 
It was a close call but this is the creative winner as chosen by the judges! ORIGINAL DETAILS: Actually, the coffee is on one of my bloggy buddy extraordinairesses, but she said she didn’t want or need recognition. So we’ll just call her Kadi P. Actually, that’s a little too obvious. Let’s say…K. Prescott. Better yet, I’ll just use her Twitter handle, @DigitalKadi. If you aren’t already following her, do it now! She rocks! She has offered up two $20 Starbucks Gift Cards for two lucky winners! You do NOT have to donate to win a card! All you have to do to win is comment below and tell me what YOU would do to find or raise $1.11 if you absolutely had to. The more creative the better.
I’ll be picking TWO winners when the contest closes Friday night at 11:59pm EST. The first winner will be the one that’s judged to be the most inventive, funny, and/or creative. Not creative? Not feeling funny? Would you just root around in the couch cushions? No problem! The second winner will be randomly selected through random.org. So be sure to comment regardless of how plain and uninteresting you think your method might be! So what would you do if you had to raise eleven dimes and a penny? Plunder your car’s coin tray? Rob your daughter’s piggy bank? Return 22 bottles or cans (11 in Michigan)? Pilfer a few pennies from 30 different "Take a Penny, Leave a Penny" trays at area gas stations? Tell me about it and WIN! The coffee is delish. Click here to scroll down and enter! THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR BELOVED CONTRIBUTORS! Just go right down the line and Follow, Follow, Follow! For extra good karma, tell them you found them through the Sweet Dreams Campaign! Huge thanks also to everyone who has posted the Sweet Dreams button on their site and shared the campaign on Twitter, Facebook, their blogs, via email, and otherwise! Awareness is half the battle and your commitment has proven the power of social media. Thank you! In addition to the lots and lots of $1.11 contributions, here’s our list of multi-unit pledges! PLATINUM CONTRIBUTORS (50+ Pledge Units) PJ Mullen – @pjmullen Also check out his post about it here:
Melinda – @findingthehumor
Dr. Andrew R. – @areesemd
The Ruimerman Family – (No more details provided)
Bryan A. – (My wife’s brother)
Kim – @MentallyInked
Annie S. – @mamadweeb
GOLD CONTRIBUTORS (20+ Pledge Units) Gena – @themorrisbunch Also check out her post about it here:
Lynsey – @partyplandivas Also check out her post about it here:
Andrew – @benspark
Kate – @TheShoppingMama
Jennifer – @eightymphmom
Christine – @youngmommy
Malia – (No more details provided)
Jenny – @TheBloggess
Melinda & Rob – @LkWhtMomFound & @anddadtoo
Robin – @robinelton
Lisa – @crazyadventures
Christina and Rob F. – @iv3461
Tina – @MadHatterMom
Patricia R. – @NCYankeeGirl
Baby Time Podcast – @babytime
TQND – @OOTQND
Stephen S. – @SjjSic2
Paula K. – @frostedfingers
Elizabeth and Jay Norton – @Elizabeth_N & @DrivesmeCrazy
Joe S. – @grassfedsteak
Jennifer B. – @mommybknowsbest Also check out her post about it here:
Katie S. – @ellisfan14
Trisha H. – @MomDot
Rhea T. – @mommy23monkeys
Kim D. – @shopwithmemama
Lesley L. – @LittleGirlGray
Jeff I. – @remotewraps
Cindi M. – @Moomettes
SILVER CONTRIBUTORS (10+ Pledge Units) Marci
Nina Say – @NinaSay
Fulltime Families – @fulltimefamily
Timothy J. – (No more details provided)
Linda S. – (No more details provided)
Don’t Forget the Coffee! Contest ends at 11:59pm EST this Friday! Remember, you do NOT need to donate to win, this is just a fun little contest/giveaway!
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Melting snow! I live in Canada and with winter ending, you wouldn’t believe the pennies, nickles & dimes we find on the sidewalks as the snowbanks shrink.
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The pillow case is awesome! If I had to scramble together $1.11 I’d probably put together a “Diaper Change Mobile” and make house calls. I would charge $1.00 per change. By the time taxes were taken out by the gov’t that would equal about 10 cents per diaper change. So, I would have to do about 11 diaper changes? I’m not sure because I failed math.
Psshhh I got all that money out of my couch which contains my secret coin collection because everyone is it too scared to look under the cushions. Congrats! So happy it is going so well!!!
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I seriously had this issue last week driving home from a nursing assignment and running low on gas. I looked in the side cups of my car doors, and in the pockets of my purse and at the bottom, and was able to literally come up with 5.74 in change. Boy I bet I made that gas station clerks day! But in all fairness, the majority of it was silver, I only had about .80 of it in pennies!
I got almost 2 whole whopping gallons of gas out of that rummage. And I made it home safe and sound!!!!
What a fabs question!!!
I’d set up an Adult Lemonade stand. Spiked lemonade – 10 cents. Who says kids get to have all the fun?
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I would do a handstand while my feet hold a hat that has a sign posted on it saying “Leave a penny for the Sweet Dreams Fund” (It would of course also say Find us on Facebook). After 100 and 11 pennies are raised, I would then return to upright position and pick up the 100 and eleven pennies that I just dropped and then send them to the Sweet Dreams Fund.
I would change Andrew’s sheets. Who knows what I will find
Or better yet check Kamryn’s toy box for his missing $45.
Thanks for the comment dear, but you do realize that you are ineligible to win, right?
Clean out under the kids’ carseats in the car! They find change all the time and lose it by the time they get home.
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I will sneek into your purse and scratch up $1.11. Then I would take the card and get you one of those new fangled fancey coffee drinks sounds like a plan
The above comment was from my husband and I’m pretty sure that he meant my purse, not Greg’s purse. Although, who knows.
I was gonna say, lol. Dude needs to keep his mitts off my purse.
And, I also don’t think he knows that he is ineligible to win as well. Oh well. They love us and that’s all that counts
i need caffeine…
I would search your house under cushions and pockets for the 1.11
I would definitely check my car for change.
I think I could find enough money in my change jar.
Check the car and couch for change.
I was super hard-up during college once and I found that walking through the drivethrus of fast food places can usually yield some change near the window that people drop and can’t open their door to pick up again. I managed to get a little over $2 after hitting 4 places, which was enough for a burger (luckily that was a short crysis).
If I had to raise money I would sell homemade crafts.
I like to scrounge through old winter jackets that I haven’t worn in a while.. I always find change in the pockets haha or I would sing in the train station with a cup. “I’ve been told that I’m the song bird of my generation “;) name that movie haha thanks for the giveaway and glad your campaign is going well
I would sell one of Shae’s stuffed animals or Shaun’s Ninjago’s to raise 1.11
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i would go pick up 56 cans off the street. at two cents each, ill make it to 1.11 just by going up and down a couple of blocks. i picked up 70 lbs in two weeks not too long ago so itll be a breeze.
I would look between my couch cushions! Or ask strangers on the street for change!
On the dresser top – for some reason hubby hates to carry change & that’s where it lands!
Taking a lesson from my travels in Latin America, I would probably learn a juggling routing and do it at a busy intersection during the red lights!
I could recycle cans, sell items on ebay, or walk around to every vending machine I can find and hope people left change in the coin slot or on the floor around the machine!
hit up my emergency jar (i try to put coins in it every week)
send the kids on a coin hunt for a few days – they seem to always find change whereever we go. Keep them occupied, focused on a goal and out of trouble!
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the kids have always known to go into mom-mom and pop-pops laundry room if they need to score some quick cash. Coins can be found scattered on the floor and on top of the dryer. I can just race them down there and snag the money first.
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The grandkids would always come to the aid of grandma…they would find the coins for me! (note: I have 9 grandchildren ages 6-22…they could do it!”
If I had to find this amount of money, without borrowing from my kids (they always have more cash than me!) I would check near the checkout lines at the stores, on sidewalks, and in public parks. Too bad no one uses public phones any more, or that would be a good place too!
I would look under my couch cushions.
Go door to door asking neighbors I’ve never met if they could spare some change so I can buy toilet paper since I just ran out….or whatever it is that I need that costs $1.11.
I would have to say that I would have to search my whole apartment lol because my hubby has a habit of stashing money here and there and then forgets where it is..once he put $100.00 in the bottom of a contact lens solution bottle…was a little cap that screwed onto the bottom….forgot it was there and it got thrown out!! omg LOL …so I am sure I would find money somewhere :-p
I would make it a scavenger hunt! People LOVE to help in scavenger hunts! Just for fun, I would only ask each person for one penny – and then I’d also ask them to take their picture with me for posterity! After I collected 111 pennies from 111 people, I’d make a photo album of all of my contributors on my FB page to share all the cool people who made it possible!
I guess I’m lucky since I live in Michigan (first time I’ve ever said that!) – 11 bottles and cans and I’m all set! I can find enough in one days walk for sure.
Raising 11 dimes and a penny is easy for all the muscle heads out there. But, i’m a thinking man. I would have to start with 3 dimes and a nickel, 15 reps twice per day. Curls and Presses. Every 5 days, i would add another dime, interchanging the nickel due to it’s mid-weight range. After a 6 week regimen, i would have my wife add the final penny. I will not fail in front of her, i don’t want her to think i’m weak.
I would sell my story of intense determination and success, use the proceeds for the $1.11 and donate the remaining $2.47 to a “You too can raise $1.11″ program for impassioned thinking men.
I would raid my husband’s plumbing truck to take the cooper and aluminum pipes to the recycler.
Our state charges .10 for every can or bottle you purchase and then you have to lug them all back to the store for a refund…which we do for the recycle value alone. If I needed to raise the $1.11 I’d offer the teen a percentage of the can return money to take those suckers back. Man, I’m gonna miss him when he goes to college.
I reckon you could make a lot cleaning up after peoples pets – noone wants to do it and would happily donate to a good cause and not have to clean up themselves!
I have something like $2.13 on a visa gift card. I would try to find someone who would give me $1.11 for it.
I would get $1.11 by picking up aluminum cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles and recycling them.
$1.11? I would do a chore for my parents
Collect the change from all my bags and purses
I would ask everybody to give me the spare pennies they don’t want.
@Elizabeth I – I’ll buy it for $1.11.
The fund would still gain $1.12 on the transaction. 
I’m going to charge my daughter $1.11 for driving her to school when she “misses” the bus again!!
I would do 111 small jobs for friends and family in exchange for a penny per job!
I’d empty my handbag–the old ones, too–there are pounds of change.
If I had to raise that kind of cash, I would go global.
And that means I would tweet, share on FB and write about it.
But I would also make a lot of phone calls!
Oh, and I donated!
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I’d just look in my daughter’s piggy bank lol (mean I know)
I would casually sit by a fountain inside a shopping mall all day and read a book like Atlas Shrugged while I slyly slid my arm down into the water and sloooowly pulled out the right change. If security walked by, I would energentically throw the coins back in and yell out a loud wish like, “Please God, end domestic violence!”
I would sell my Starbucks giftcard, the one that I am going to win, of course;).
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I’d take all my husband’s old Frappuccino bottles out of the recycling, clean them, glue them to a folding table, set it up in the front yard under a carnival awning, and hold a donations-appreciated ring-toss game!
I would stand under an upside down roller coaster and wait for the change to fall!
would dig in the bottom of my purse—-
you could also have an auction online
How I would raise $1.11 if I really had to: I’ve been told that my singing voice sounds like a bullfrog with a toothache; so I would station myself in a public parking lot- with an appropriate sign and sing quite loudly. I’m sure I’d get thrown enough change in a hurry!
I would go out to the car and check in the ash tray. We are not smokers and stash extra change there.
couch cushions definitly move the couch cushions for anything under 5 bucks
There’s probably that much between the sofa cushions and the recliner, so that’s where I’d start.
fantastic prize
How is it going? The giving that is? We all want to know!
I think that I could find that much in the cushions of my sofa!
I would take it out of our change container. The money is being put up for my oldest daughter’s birthday. Thank you!
I’m going to start getting my neighborhood involved. I’ll have each of my kids take a donation box and offer to clean up the toilet paper that “some sinister vandal” strewed all over their yard during the night for only $1.11. If we hit up one house each, we’d raise $8.88 in no time!
I check the furniture and always find change.
Thanks for the chance.
Get out the ole metal detector and go a hunting .. always a way to find some coins
First I would check my coin purse–the penny would be no problem, and at least some of the dimes, but I might have to get into my own piggy bank for the rest.
Wait…my grandma always has change laying all over the house. PERFECT!! I’ll just go visit grandma and wear a double sided tape outfit. CHA CHING!! Thank youuuuu Granny!
I would check my car for change
If i had to raise 1.11 i would knit and sell dishcloths to raise the money
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For me, it’s not a matter of making the money. It’s a matter of making sure that money doesn’t leave my pocket.
I do this by carefully going through the store fliers on Sunday to see what is on sale that we can use or need and match it up with a coupon.
We get many things for free or next to nothing, mostly groceries. Which gives us a good stock on hand.
In turn, when we get a notice for a local food pantry drive, we can afford to give back to those less fortunate.
When we lived on Long Island, whenever I had to drive through the Cross Bronx, I would pick up extra food at Burger King (with buy one, get one free coupons) in case I came upon either of the two homeless men on the side of the road looking for food so I had something for them.
clean the cushions in the couch
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Almost everywhere we go, my daughters and I find a penny or dime on the ground. We always stop to pick up the change. So to find an extra $1.11, we just need to go shopping! That’s right! And out to dinner, too. We’ll hit up every parking lot in town, and I bet we’d easily find $1.11 in change. It might be all pennies; and that’s okay. It gives us more places to go. It will also be a fun family activity – Who can find the money FIRST? Seriously, yesterday we were eating at an Old Fashioned hamburger stand. We were sitting at the counter facing a window that overlooked the outside covered tables. It was raining, snowing and sunny all at the same time with huge thunder clouds in the distance (Oregon weather- we like all seasons at the same time up here since we are known to accommodate everyone’s weather preferences!), so no one was eating outside. But through the glass, my 8 year old spotted something copper and shiny and asked if she could run outside and get the penny. So as of today, we only have $1.10 more left to find!
I would look in the washer after I wash my husband’s clothes. He is always leaving coins in his pockets, and I find them in the bottom of the washer!
Well I happen to have a twin sister, who looks just like me… and I know plenty of guys that would love to have a set of twins on their arms just to be able to say “And twinssssssssssssssss”… so I’m thinking that would be one way I could raise money! Not sure that I would ever do that though! LOL
I have a piggy bank where I put only pennies in ( I actually have several piggy banks based on coin denominations, OCD, I know,
). I’m sure that piggy has $1.11 in it.
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Now that my children are adults I would root around in their furniture (er um wallets and pockets) looking for 1.11 from them!
I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to rent my three children to work on my neighbor’s lawn for $1.11, but it would gain me some much needed quiet time. Instead, I’ll just have my husband pay me to stop singing along to my Glee Karaoke game for the 80th time this week. He REALLY hates Glee. (Not my singing!) I love Glee, and I love torturing him. So it’s a win, win! Plus, I asked for the new game as my birthday present this weekend. If he really loves me… he’ll get it. If not, I’ll just sing to the first game until he’s paying AND begging to give me the new game for some variety. I should make way more than $1.11 that way!
I would check out in the car or my change jar
I’ve got it in my change jar!
I would probably look under the seats in my car, stuff always seems to get lost down there…. or ask my 6 year old sister who carries all of her “monies” with her at all times. Actually I couldn’t do that, lets just stick with the car!
In order to drum up $1.11 all I would have to do is wash one load of my husband’s work pants, and then look in the bottom of the washer! He never cleans out his pockets, so with every load of his clothes comes a handful of loose change for me!!!!!!
Since I’m a horrible, disorganized, messy, lazy person that would be EASY for me to round up. Check my bathroom counters…yep! Shake my purse and pull all the change up that is on the bottom…yep! Dig around on my van’s floorboard…yep! Finally move the couches to vacuum under them and check for change…yep! Anyone that can’t round up the $1.11 can come to my house!! Thanks.
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I’d go through all of my purses and I’m sure I’d find some change in a few of them.
I’d set up a 1-900 number where (for a donation) people could ask yes/no questions and get an answer. I’d have a magic eight ball and a qui ja board beside me to figure out the answers.
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I’d collect at school
I could look through my boyfriend’s car! I think last time I cleaned it, there was around $5 in there in change! Oh the things you find in cars…
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I would look UNDER the couch. Every time anyone drops a coin the cats play with it until it gets lost under the couch.
All I would have to do to find $1.11 is to turn the couch or love seat upside down. If I was still a bit short of my goal, I would just look through pants pockets that were put into the dirty laundry. There is usually a windfall in both places.
If I had to.. I would bake something and sell it.
I’d totally dig through the pockets of winter coats I haven’t worn in a while. I stash change all over the place, so I think I could raise that $1.11 in no time!
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I’d look under the couch