My son was dreamed by mail...send in those YOMD entries!

[bumbershoot]

We got a padded envelope in the mail today, addressed to my 3 year old. I thought it was the set of Pixar pins that our Yule-time purchase of Ratatouille and the Pixar Shorts DVD got us through Disney Movie Rewards. But no! He was Dreamed*!

He got the cutest light blue lanyard with "Where Dreams Come True" and "Year of a Million Dreams" written on it. On the lanyard were two CUTE pins. There's a circle surrounding the YOMD castle (people smarter than I have said it's sort of a hybrid of a castle) with "where my dream came true" and "walt disney world", and a banner across with "The year of a million dreams". One pin has donald and goofy, and the other pin has mickey and minnie. They are really really cute.

It was so exciting to get that in the mail! And Eamon was too cute (he's just about to turn 4)...hubby-Robert told him that he won it because I had sent mail-in entries, so DS insisted that I should have one of the pins.

The rules and regs are here. The very basic info is:

eligible participants can enter without being present in a Disney Property by hand-writing their full name, complete mailing address (including postal code), daytime telephone number (including area code), and date of birth on a piece of paper or postcard and sending it with proper postage affixed to: P.O. Box 8650, Elmhurst, IL 60126, USA or if a legal resident of the UK: 2008 Disney Dreams Giveaway,483 Green Lanes, Suite 200, London N13 4BS, England. Limit one mail-in entry per person per day during the Giveaway Period. All mail-in entries must be mailed separately, postmarked on or between December 19, 2007 and December 31, 2008 and received by January 14, 2009 or they will be void.

I have 3 USPS postcards (one for each of us) per mailing day (it's possible I could send one for Sunday, too, but it's not clear enough for me), with the mail-in address on the postage side, and on the other side I write the name, address, phone, and birthdate "vertically", so that address can't get confused with the other address. We've been sending them in haphazardly since Jan 1, and today we finally got something!

The costs of entering almost every day are very possibly going to be over the $$ value of prizes you might get, but hey, it's fun, and even though I think it was already won, I'm still going for the DVC membership.




*part of the Year of a Million Dreams, the big promo thing Disney has been doing for 1.5 years now...can win thing at any time while in the parks, and can enter by mail as well.

 

[avalon451]

WOO HOO! That's exciting. Way to go! Well, that's a definite indication for the rest of us to get those postcards in.

How fun for Eamon! Congrats!

 

[Monkey Monkey]

How exciting! Congratulations Eamon!!!

 

[disneyfan4ever54]

Congratulations to Eamon! How sweet that he wanted to give you one of the pins! I remember reading just a day or two ago that you said that you've been sending in the cards sporadically and hadn't received anything yet, so it's so great that your DS won today! I just started sending cards this week, so hopefully my DS or I might win too.

 

[julezdisney]

How wonderful! I have to start doing that- there's just no excuse not to!

 

[RaeRae's Mommy]

That's so cool!!
Please post a pic of the item's if you can.

 

[ashbyyokosuka]

How fun for all of you--especially your little one!
and he sounds like a sweetheart--insisting on giving you a pin!!!

 

[LisainCalifornia]

Wow, that is fantastic!

I am going to try it too! I am so glad he got that.

Take care,
Lisa

 

[audrabolster]

CONGRATS! I remember you always mentioning that you've been mailing these in! I'm so glad he won something!

 

[lulubelle]

Couldn't have happened to a better family!
Congrats Molly, that is awesome.

 

[bumbershoot]

It's a really weird coincidence that it came today.

I can't believe I didn't even *think* to take a picture of them. Of course I will.

To anyone who is going to start sending them, know that they do the drawings about a month after they receive them, so it's all rather delayed.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Woo! Go Eamon!

Congrats!! What a sweet boy to give his mommy a pin, too!

 

[toocherie]

Congrats to all of you (what an exciting thing to happen to a 4-year old!)

 

[tink too]

Congratulations to Eamon! What a great pre-birthday surprise!

I knew us UK folks could enter by postcard, but didn't realise that the address for entries for us was actually IN the UK! That's it - I'm off to fill in some postcards for us so I can get them posted tomorrow

 

[LoveThatMouse!]

Awwwwwww!
That's Wonderful!
Congratulations!!!

 

[blue donkey]

Wow, congrats!

You're such a dedicated mommy sending in those entries. And your son is way too precious, insisting you have a pin. What an adorable moment.

 

[bumbershoot]

It was indeed adorable.

A few minutes later, before I had read what was on his lanyard (back story: they were grilling veggie burgers on the apartment's big grill, and came up to deliver the veggie burgers and the mail, then were going back downstairs for osmething they forgot, and I saw what was in the envelope and ran down the hall to give it to DS...when they came back up DS gave me the pin...so there was some time before I actually looked at the lanyard), DS said dreamily "it's, it's, it's like a dream came true..."

Awwwwwww.

Gotta get those pictures taken!

I actually read through the list of prizes last night, and wow! Lots of good stuff. The link they say to go to for the list of winners doesn't seem to work, so I don't know what's been given out already, but that's OK.

 

[jernysgirl]

How much is postage for a postcard these days? I definitely need to start doing this! I would love to have a YOMD lanyard or even the coveted dream ears!

 

[tink2dw]

I'm so happy for you and your ds. What a great day!! And it is nice to know there are winner!!

 

[bumbershoot]

I think the new postcard postage is 27 cents?

I just bought the postcards with postage on them directly from USPS. Seemed to work well.

Like I said, the cost of entering the contest might, depending on how the odds work for any individual, might be more than the financial value of what one might win, but it's still fun!

Though I noticed last night on the prize page that the ARV of the lanyard and pins was $24. Since I think we spent 30+ for the 100 postcards we bought, it's close, but not quite breaking even. (anyone else thinking of Real Genius right now, with the sweepstakes entries?) And I lowered our chances b/c really we should be working on our second group of 100 postcards, but I still have 4 postcards left to send from the 100.