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Jeans are Fun. Breast Cancer Sucks! Let’s do a Free Jeans Giveaway! – CLOSED

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If you visit here often, you know I love Lee jeans . What’s not to love? It’s a great brand. The jeans FIT! They’re stylish without showing my crack to the world. They’re affordable. I could go on and on.

Here’s another reason to love and support the brand. Lee is sponsoring its 15th Lee National Denim Day on October 8 to raise money for breast cancer research and awareness. It’s one of the largest single-day fundraisers for breast cancer, and it involves simply putting on a pair of jeans that day and then donating $5 to the cause. You can watch some inspiring videos by clicking on the box below, and then learn how to participate:

Now here’s a way you can win a free pair of jeans to sport on Lee National Denim Day. Five lucky Lipstick to Crayons readers will win a free pair of Slender Secret Keller Bootcut Jeans (pictured below) by entering the contest below (US residents only!!):

Giveaway Guidelines:

To enter the contest, you MUST become an email subscriber to Lipstick to Crayons. The subscribe button is in the upper right corner of the site. Once you subscribe (or if you are already a subscriber), leave a comment below telling me you did so, and make sure the email address you provide is the one you used to subscribe. After completing this mandatory first entry method, you can gain additional entries by doing any or all of the following (but be sure to leave a separate comment for each thing you do):

  1. Watch the videos in the widget above and make a comment about one of them
  2. Blog about this contest
  3. Tweet this giveaway on Twitter (you can do daily tweets, but leave a comment each time you do)
  4. Favorite Lipstick to Crayons on Technorati
  5. Stumble this post
  6. Add Lipstick to Crayons to your blogroll or my button to your sidebar
  7. Become a fan of Lipstick to Crayons on Facebook.
  8. Post a link to this contest on your Facebook page.

This giveaway closes at 11:59 p.m. Central time September 17, 2010.  Be sure to include a valid email address with each of your entries. Winners will be randomly chosen via random.org and will be notified via email and announced on this post.

If any winner does not claim the prize by September 20, 2010, she will forfeit the prize to an alternate winner who will be drawn at random.

USA residents only please!

THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO SUSAN, COMMENT #22, MARTHA, COMMEN $117, AMY COMMENT #134, V.C. COMMENT #138, AND CHARLENE COMMENT #171.

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  1. I was impressed with all the ladies that spoke on the video. I am a huge supporter of Breast Cancer related charities, my mother died of Breast Cancer when she was just 49 years old and I was 19.

  2. I am a subscriber, and I am so thankful to Lee for helping to raise funds for Breast Cancer charities. And thanks for hosting the giveaway!
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  9. Facebook fan and grr with the comments having to be a certain length

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  12. I think the videos are very inspiring and the women seem so young to have had breast cancer.

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  14. I subscribe to email! I love Lee Jeans and I love that helping a very important cause

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  17. a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 27 while pregnant with her 1st child in the video

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  24. I watched the videos and I think they do a good job showing that anyone can be diagnosed with breast cancer, and even if you’ve been told the chances of overcoming it aren’t very good, that there is always hope with the right treatment.

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  27. I didn’t realize that someone is diagnosed every 3 minutes with breast cancer.

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  29. The woman that said she told the doctor to call her husband and tell him because she couldn’t hear it right then, sounded like what I would do. It would be so hard for someone to hear from a doctor and my heart goes out to the women everywhere that has been diagnosed.

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  31. Nice video. My mom was diagnosed in the spring.

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  39. I watched the video and I think the most shocking thing that I heard is that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. OMG! What a scary fact.

    What a wonderful thing that you and Lee are doing to promote Breast Cancer awareness.

    As a woman and mother I Thank You both.

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  48. I watched the above video. I cannot believe that a woman is diagnosed every 3 minutes…wow. Definately need to find a cure.

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  52. The fact that these women are still so young and have battled through breast cancer is a very awakening thought

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