Wishing you a Happy New Year, plus a NeatDesk Desktop Scanner & Digital Filing System giveaway to keep you organized going into 2012!
We had a highly disorganized, hectic, fun-filled Christmas weekend this year. We ran from one place to the next starting Christmas Eve morning, baked cookies in between, showed up late once because Ole decided the odd warm weather required a Christmas Day motorcycle ride (worth it) and stuffed ourselves silly on prime rib, shrimp dip, Christmas cookies and more. Then we collapsed on Monday morning after midnight when we returned home.
I woke up Monday and looked at the carnage that was left in the wake of Christmas. In the midst of trying to declutter, organize and make my house feel like a home again, I keep thinking about all the paper that we store. Receipts for goods purchased, school forms for the kids, recipes printed off and shoved into binders or, more often, between the pages of other cookbooks that I am using simultaneously.
Enter the NeatDesk. I finally opened my NeatDesk after months of looking at it in its box. Stupid of me to not have done it sooner, really. I have the ability to scan and store receipts, doing away with the clumsy piles that so often occupied my desk. I can do the same with teacher correspondence, recipes I cut from magazines and more.
By far the most fun piece of the NeatDesk High Speed Scanner is its ability to extract information from my scanned in information and put it into a digital format, making filing easy and gathering information later on more than simple.
The Neat Company is letting me give away a NeatDesk High Speed Scanner & Digital Filing System to one of my readers to help you get organized in the New Year, too! It means less time cleaning and fretting and organizing and decluttering and more time spend with your family, enjoying them. Here’s to a year filled with special moments and a simpler life.
THE PRIZE
One lucky reader will win a NeatDesk Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System!
HOW TO ENTER TO WIN
1. Leave a comment. What is one of your goals for 2012?
2. Follow @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter and tweet the following, and come back and let me know you did:
Get organized for the New Year. Enter to win a @NeatDesk Scanner (ARV$499) from @FoodforMyFamily http://su.pr/27A6jC #giveaway
THE RULES:
This giveaway will run until Sunday, January 1st at 11:59 p.m. ET and is open to all U.S. residents. A winner will be chosen at random using Random.org from all eligible entries. Each reader has 4 chances to win by completing the above tasks and leaving a separate comment for each entry method completed. Chosen winner must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!
This giveaway is sponsored by The Neat Company. Tips, opinions and random thoughts are 100% mine.
My goal for 2012, simplify…..everything! This would be oh-so handy!
My goal for 2012, 2nd post as I’m a FB follower – do all the projects that I love in Pinterest! Lol….it may take all year!
I like food for my family on Facebook
My goal is to organize my things and my space so that my time is better spent and we have space to breathe!
I like the neat company on facebook
I must stay caught up on my accounting and bookwork this year and not get so behind!
I tweeted the giveaway.
My goal for 2012 is to be more organized and realize that I can’t get everything done at one time!
One of my goals for the new year is to become more organized and keep track of all the paperwork that comes into the house.
I need to loose about 30 pounds. I must get healthy!
I liked Food for My Family on Facebook.
My goal for 2012 is to streamline the paper flow, especially for bills (and particularly for medical bills).
Definitely to become more organized!!
I like Food For My Family on Facebook!
One of my goals for 2012 is definitely to get more organized! I’ve got tons of school papers sitting around and a small apartment!
My biggest goals are to get organized, but not let it consume me
I like ffmf on fb
My number one resolution this year is to be braver, more audacious.
I’m following you both on Twitter, and I tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/taly_g/status/152111680539721729
I also like you on FB :
2012 goal: simplify! and organize!
My goal for 2012: Don’t sweat the small stuff 🙂
One of my goals for the new year is trying to eat healthier.
2012 goals: live simply, love fully, laugh loudly
I tweeted about the giveaway.
I tweeted about the giveaway!
My goal for 2012- make my house into a home! Including decluttering all the paper!
Following on twitter
I tweeted about the giveaway.
already like ya on Facebook.
I like you on FB.
I followed Food for my family on twitter (ConnieBolickLee)
I also like the Neat Company on FB.
I followed Neat Company on twitter (ConnieBolickLee)
Oops! I should have just had one entry for twitter, strike one off, sorry! But I did follow them both.
I liked Food for my family on facebook
I liked Neat Company on facebook
Liked Neat Company on Facebook.
Truly? My goal is to get this book done and get back to being a mommy. I miss my babies… miss being there for them in everything. Thats my goal! 🙂
I’d love to be more organized in every area of my life in 2012.
I followed you and NeatCompany on twitter to enter the contest.
My 2012 goal is to simplify every area of my life. There’s too much clutter. The Neat Desk scanner is acutally on my wishlist for 2012. I’d love to be able to get rid of all the paper clutter.
I liked you on facebook.
I liked Neat Desk on facebook.
A 2012 goal is better meal planning so that I don’t have to think about what’s for dinner every night when I get home late.
One of my goals for 2012 is to eat a more healthy whole foods diet.
I follow Food for my Family on FB
I’m now following @FoodforMyFamily on Twitter.
I also like Neat on FB.
Already like you on fb
I’m now following @neatcompany on Twitter.
Already like Neat on fb
One of my major goals is to blog more.
I tweeted your giveaway on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/gcgrytdal/status/152121982559846400
I like you on FB.
I liked The Neat Company on FB
My goal is one blog post each week (once I dig myself out from the overwhelming pile of paper thanks to a year that brought us a new baby, new jobs, new school, a cross-country move with 2 very young children, building a new house and living in the in-laws basement!!)
Happy New Year!
I like you on FB and I just like-d Neat Book as well.
Declutter and write more in 2012.
I already an a loyal follower on FB 🙂
My goal for 2012 is to cook more!
I like Food for my Family on facebook!
A major goal for me would be to get life more organized, so this would be a huge help to me!, and to get more done in our new home!
And I like The Neat Company on facebook! 🙂
I liked the Neat Company on FB…super Neat!
I am such a pile maker. This is just what I need to eliminate my piles. Neat Company, where have you been all my life?
One of my goals for 2012 is get my house organized and get rid of the stuff that we don’t need.
I just liked FOOD FOR MY FAMILY on FB
Organize — this is perfect for it!
I just liked THE NEAT COMPANY on FB as well. Seriously, this is what I’ve been needing for a long time. I’m so glad GOD made smart people to invent awesome stuff.
what a cool giveaway! Your picture is amazing. Honestly adorable!!
I subscribe to food for my family
I like the Neat Company on FB
I SOOOO need to make a budget!!
Organize the basement- which includes piles of paper and other saved clutter!
I “like” food for my family and neat desk on fb
I just noticed they could be separate entries for “liking” Neat desk and food for my family on FB
To be more organized!
Keep up with my fitness regimine. But mostly to be at peace with the mess (controlled chaos) created by my family and instead enjoy them in spite of it.
To eat fresh and cook more! Happy New Year!
My goals for 2012 are (1) lose weight (2) post more reviews to my blog
I like Food For My Family on FB
I like the Neat Company on FB
Declutter our home! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
We are so close to being debt free…my goal is to finish that process this year.
Joined the food for my family community on facebook!
Liked the neat company on facebook
My goal goal for the new year is to be more organized, and to start working out again, that is when my shoulder feels better. My house is typically neat and clean, but oh the paperwork that area needs LOTS of help this would sure do the trick.
The closet in the family room has two file cabinets in it. One of my goals for 2012 is to get rid of one of them to clear some floor space in that closet. The NeatDesk Scanner would certainly help with that.
I follow you both on twitter and tweeted.
https://twitter.com/createdbydiane/status/152141698833715200
I like you on facebook
I like the NeatCompany on Facebook
My goal for 2012 is to get organized, I’ve got boxes to the ceiling and a desk piled upwards of 8″ high in my office =( Plus I’m hoping to get a room mate this year, so I can NOT look like a hoarder…
I already follow you, just followed @NeatCompany & tweeted https://twitter.com/#!/poodle_power/status/152143220736929793
I already like you on FB
I just liked Neat Co on FB
My goal is to stay politically active but not to take politics so personally.
I follow you on twitter.
I follow Neat Company on Twitter.
I tweeted your giveaway (momUNblogger)
I follow you on Facebook.
I follow Neat Company on Facebook.
One of my goals for 2012 is to get more organized~!
I am following @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter and have tweeted the following, and come back and let me know you did:
Get organized for the New Year. Enter to win a @NeatDesk Scanner (ARV$499) from @FoodforMyFamily http://su.pr/27A6jC #giveaway
I joined the Food for My Family community on Facebook.
and the The Neat Company community on Facebook.
Awesome give away! My goal for the new year is to get more organized and to keep up on all of the paperwork and clutter around my house.
I like food for my family on face book under Ann Nelson.
I already follow you so I didn’t do that again
I have twittered the get organized message
I have followed you and neat on FB
My goal for 2012 is to take control of my life through organization, weight loss, and time management.
I also like Neat Company on face book under Ann Nelson, cnelson2093@gmail.com.
To exercise and stay organized
One of my goals for 2012 is to make enough money through my blog to visit my daughter in Hawaii near her due date, so I can be there for the birth of my second grandchild!
I follow you both on Twitter and I tweeted about the giveaway: http://twitter.com/#!/fruglxperiments/status/152155829628448768
I’m already a part of the Food For My Family facebook community.
I haven’t come up with official goals for 2012 yet, but I know there will be something related to clearing up the clutter in there, so this would help with that!
I Like The Neat Company on facebook.
My goal for the new year is to get my paperwork organized, and I need a ton of help so this would be great! I’m following you both on Facebook.
To get back to blogging, I really slacked off at the end of 2011.
What an awesome giveaway. Organizing the paper and reciepts are at the top of my New Years list. As a child care provider, every reciept that comes Sometimes it needs to be in two different places for our records. I am anxious to learn more about this!
One of my goals in 2012 is to do well in all my nursing courses! One of these would be great for scanning homework assignments and other important documents! LOVE IT!
I follow Food for My Family on facebook!
I follow the Neat Company on facebook!
I follow @FoodForMyFamily on twitter @nluther22
I follow @neatcompany on twitter @nluther22
I tweeted about the giveaway! https://twitter.com/#!/nluther22/status/152163120264122368
To start a blog!
My goal is to keep better records and this would be so helpful.
Tweeted.
Following on Facebook.
One of my goals for 2012 is to establish, develop and maintain a viable home-based business.
I entered on The Neat Company community on facebook. This product is just what I need to get organized.
I just entered on Food for Family on facebook. Hopefully, I can get organized in 2012.
One of my goals for 2012 is to reconnect with old friends. Another is to finish scanning all my old photos. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
My goal is to get organized. So I could really use this Neat Desk! 🙂
I follow you on Facebook
I follow the Neat Company on FB
I follow @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter and I tweeted
Getting more organized, of course! It’s happening, little by little. This would be a great tool! Thanks!
I NEED THIS!!! I’ve spent the day dealing with all my paper piles. So overwhelming to try to stay organized…
I joined the Food For My Family community on Facebook.
I joined Neat Company on Facebook.
I follow you both on twitter and tweeted the giveaway 😉
I follow you both on Facebook 🙂
I already like you on FB
I already like The Neat Company on FB
Some of my goals for the new year include better organization and better health.
One of my goals for 2012 is to lose weight!
Thank you for the lovely giveaway!
Your kids are gorgeous and they are so photogenic.
I joined Food for My Family on Facebook.
I am planning to be more organized in the new year and to spend more time on things I enjoy
I like you on facebook
I am following Food for My Family on twitter and tweeted the giveaway as seaslife on twitter 🙂
I liked the Neat Company on Facebook!
My 2012 goal is to start my own business!
My goal for 2012 is to help my children stay organized for school and get rid of some of my papers that are laying around!
I Like Food for My Family on Facebook.
I Like Neat Company on Facebook.
My goal is to cook some new dishes that are budget conscious and full of veggies.
One of my goals, perhaps the most important, is to finally GET ORGANIZED! I used to be skilled at that, but over the years I’ve become lax and definitely more and more less organized. It’d be wonderful to have the tools and a practical, workable system with which to put things “in order” not only for my own personal needs here at home, but also to help out my husband with this trucking paperwork.
I’ve followed both @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter and tweeted the above tweet about the giveaway:
https://twitter.com/#!/notapeeplepersn/status/152209296132800513
I joined the Food for My Family community on Facebook.
I joined The Neat Company community on Facebook.
My goal for 2012: simplify.
Clear out old files, and file the loose papers floating about the house.
My goal is to be better organized so I dont miss anything important and enjoy everything else.
I follow both on twitter and tweeted about the giveaway.
I follow the Neat Company on Twitter.
I like Food For my Family on FB
I like the Neat Company on Facebook.
I like the Neat Company on FB
I am following FoodforMyFamily on twitter.
I have like the Food For My Family Facebook page.
To get into shape and start eating better
I want to become free from the materialism that is so easy to fall prey to in our advertising centered lives – recycle the papers! I like Food foe My Family and Neat Company on Facebook. Happy New Year!!!
One of my goals for 2012 definitely involves organization, especially of all the paper clutter.
I would love to get my classroom files in order by scanning them and recycling the paper. Bye bye all those icky file cabinets that take up comfy reading space. Thanks for your blog,
Besides the usual “get into shape” blah, blah, blah…. I am going to pass my LCSW state exam and become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (for which I will really need a good system for taking care of paperwork 🙂
I “liked” Food for my Family on FB.
one goal for the year is to do 2 pull-ups. (there are many that aren’t quite so mundane. :))
Have a baby! 🙂 (not pregnant yet…)
I like Food for My Family on Facebook.
I like the “Neat Company” on Facebook.
I just got married and my goal for 2012 is to merge and organize households!
Wish me luck!!!
My goal for 2012 is to go through my entire house organizing room by room.
I joined Food For My Family on Facebook
I liked the Neat Company on Facebook!
I am now following Shaina with Food For My Family on tweeter.
I have always followed you!
I have tweeted all of your great information to my tweet peeps 🙂
One of my goals this year is to think more seriously of home business ideas. My husband launched two business this year and has been encouraging me to follow some dreams.
Beautiful photos — Happy New Year, Shaina 🙂
Very nice Photos. Happy New Year 🙂
One of my goals for 2012 is to declutter my life!
Following you & Neat Company on twitter and tweeted! http://twitter.com/#!/kaori_ikeda01/status/152311263584731136
One of my goals for 2012 is to declutter at least 20 items per month.
My goal for 2012 is to declutter and organize my home. Taking small steps, of course. So, this would be a great help!
I joined the Food For My Family community on Facebook a couple of months ago.
I Liked the Neat Company on Facebook.
One of my goals for 2012 is to start a memory jar for the year with my hubby. Instead of keeping a journal which can be a bit time consuming, we’re going to write on post-it notes to remember the best moments of each day!!
My 2012 goal is to exercise because i eat too much!
I like FFMF on fb
I like NC on FB
I follow & tweeted
My goal is to scan all my mom’s old pictures and make some shutterfly albums for her xmas gifts next year.
A few of my goals are to get fit and healthy, get organized, buy my first home, and finally start my own blog/small home business. I am terrifed and excited! This Scanner and more importantly the filing system would be a HUGE step foraward for me. ^^
Tweeted! http://twitter.com/#!/LilyBard/status/152419050100756480
Following the Neat Company Community on Facebook!
Already following you on facebook! 😛
Advance happy new year..Hope you celebrate it really enjoy..Thanks for sharing..
My New Year’s Resolution to to try and become more organized so this scanner would be a wonderful item to have!!!
I follow you on Facebook.
My goal for 2012 is to keep working out as much as I have been lately. I also want to run a 10k in May with my hubby 🙂
I tweeted the post.
Well, I definitely could use this as one of my goals is to organize the office…too much paper everywhere makes for grumpiness!
I joined the Food for My Family community on Facebook.
I joined The Neat Company community on Facebook.
We have a couple of boxes of papers we’ve moved at least once. Now that we might be moving again, my goal is to toss, scan or file these boxes so we don’t have to pack them up again!
http://twitter.com/#!/cmouse01/status/152455659080781824
Run a marathon!
I plan to wake up earlier, and exercise several times a week 🙂
2012 Goal – to declutter! I don’t feel like I am present (too distracted) or my home is comfortable (too many piles) for my children. Want to fix that for them!
Already follow Neat Desk on FB!
I follow Food For My Family on FB. Thanks for offering this!
My goal for 2012 is to run in my first half-marathon in April!
I like Food for My Family on FB.
My goal is to learn how to use my new camera!
One of my goals is to scan the box of papers from my childhood that my mother saved then gave me!
I sent the tweet!
I joined the Food for My Family community on Facebook.
I join the The Neat Company community on Facebook.
One of my goals for 2012 is to be more courageous and stand up for myself
I follow you and The Neat Company on Twitter
and I tweeted here:
https://twitter.com/#!/picatasi/status/152586941550964736
I like Food for My Family on FB
I like The Neat Company on FB
My goal for 2012 is to exercise at least 3 times for 30 minutes every week!
My goal for 2012 is to eat healthier: include more fruits and veggies in my regular diet and start taking baby steps towards making more things from scratch.
One of my goals is to be a more caring and charitable person to those around me.
Im a member of the Food for my Family community!
I am a member of the neat desk community on facebook!
My goal for 2012 is to stop procrastinating.
I follow you and Neat on Twitter & tweeted about the giveaway.
I follow Food for my Family on Facebook.
Wow, what a cool giveaway.. I wish I could participate, but I live in Canada, so I don’t qualify :-(. But I already follow you on Facebook and Twitter, not for the giveaway, but because I love this blog :-). Happy 2012, Shaina!
My goal for 2012 is to continue to declutter all the kid stuff and to make more room in the basement for active play and lego building.
I am new to your blog. And follow you to prepare food for my family.
Thank you
My goal is to declutter my whole house!
Thank you!
Sorry for the 2nd comment -I follow you on facebook.
My goals for 2012 is to become better organized. I also do not want to get behind in folding clothes.
I tweeted about the giveaway:
https://twitter.com/#!/mrsdreajulian71/status/152758635620085761
I joined food for my family on facebook
I liked the Neat company on facebook
Goals for 2012? lose weight (cliche I know, but needs to get done!)and get more organized
I follow you both and tweeted!!
Goals for 2012: Take care of ME! 🙂
https://twitter.com/#!/SarafinaKitchen/status/152764405954772993
Following @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany 🙂
Aaaand…following the FB pages. 🙂 Thanks!
My 2012 goal is to get organized. This would help. 🙂
I am following Food for my family on facebook!
I am following the Neat Company Community on Facebook!
I am following Food for my family on facebook!
One of my biggest goals in 2012 will to become more organized! I saw your commercial for the Neat Company and feel that this product would help me control the mounds of paperwork I seem to aquire through the year. I don’t like to throw anything away for fear I will need it one day, I am so excited to possibly win your Neat Desk scanning product. I think your product will make my life so much easier and also help me become organized and less frustrated!
Thank you,
Angie
Tweeted, followed, and Liked all the above :). One of my goals in 2012 is to acquire a set of rock-hard abs.
I would love this. We used to enter every single receipt, check, deposit, etc into Quicken, and then got behind. After 2 years of stacked up receipts I finally had to give in and admit defeat and just throw them all away.
P.S. I am already your friend on F.B.!
I am now a fan of Food For My Family on Facebook!
Also a fan of The Neat Company on Facebook!!
My New Year’s Resolutions are many… lose weight, eat healthier, run a 1/2 Marathon, more patience, and MORE ORGANIZED. I have been looking at this scanner and hope I win. My husband just started a new job and this would help us keep up with the paperwork associated to his new employment! Happy New Year!!
I would love to be able to scan all my receipts and paystubs in 2012.
I tweeted – kmw0919
https://twitter.com/#!/kmw0919/status/152821402708348928
I followed Food for My Family and Neat Desk on Twitter – kmw0919
I liked Food for My Family and Neat Desk on Facebook – kmw0919
A NeatDesk would really help with all of my paper organizing in 2012!
To be more organized.. Is that irony?
@puzzl3princ3ss follows both twitter accounts and tweeted
https://twitter.com/#!/puzzl3princ3ss/status/152829900712185856
Kim Kelly likes your community on facebook 🙂
Kim Kelly likes the NeatCompany on facebook 🙂
My goal: to do a better job taking family photos!
Also, I joined the facebook page, too!
…liked on Facebook.
I liked Neat on Facebook.
One of my goals for 2012 is to continue losing weight and to look better and feel better in my clothes. 🙂
I like Food for My Family on Facebook.
I joined The Neat Company community on Facebook.
one of my 2012 goals is to complete 12 projects for my house – 1 each month.
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Follow @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter as 10750coupons
tweeted. http://twitter.com/#!/10750coupons/status/152949890132094976
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like food for my family on fb as ten coupons
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like the neat company on fb as ten coupons
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My goal is to blog more in 2012!
I follow food for my family on FB
I joined the neat company on FB
My goals for the year is to quit smoking and be more organized with our business.
One of my goals for 2012 is to become a certified doula. Running a business and being a homeschool mom pretty much makes having the NeatDesk a necessity. Happy New Year!
I follow you both on Twitter and I tweeted… http://twitter.com/#!/browngirlspeaks/status/153163320688521216
I joined the Food for My Family community on FB (Terri Lee-Johnson).
I joined the Neat Company community in FB.
Followed The Neat Company on twitter
Liked the Neat Company on Facebook
Liked Food for my Family on Facebook
Followed Food for my Family on twitter
Goal for 2012: Continue to work on graduate degree, and expend more energy on self improvement instead of wasting time watching reality tv
I follow Neat company on Twitter!
I follow Foodformyfamily on Twitter
OOPS….this should have been with the one above…and I tweeted!
I need to get homeschooling papers scanned, lots of receipts and paperwork for my mom organized.
I liked Food for my Family on FB!
I follow Neat Company on FB already!
To get organized and run a marathon!
To handle each piece of paper once and make immediate decisions about what to do with them!
My goal is to conquer the clutter in my house!!
Follow @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter and tweeted contest 🙂 @mstephens66
I follow Food for My Family on Facebook 🙂
I follow The Neat Company on Facebook 🙂
I know it sounds fake but since we’ve around home from our christmas visit home (the other home – aka parents’ house; home is always my house and whichever relative I’m staying with too) I’ve been plotting how to eliminate paper from my house. I need to reduce these piles and even the storage devoted to filed stuff. That and keeping up with keeping my house clean. I do hope you report back on how the neat scanner is working for you in a couple months.
I must get organized and more efficient!!
I follow the Neat Company and Food for My Family on Facebook & Twitter
I tweeted the giveaway on Twitter
I follow the Neat Company and Food for My Family on Facebook & Twitter
I tweeted the giveaway on Twitter
I follow the Neat Company and Food for My Family on Twitter
My husband has been wanting something like this; I know it’s a great idea but we haven’t sprung for one yet….