Tuesday, September 14, 2021

It's A Special Giveaway Brought to You From Alaska!

 Who's ready for the Eighth Sluggy's Boring Blog Box Giveaway for 2021?!?

It's September already and the warm weather of Summer is going to be a distant memory soon.  I've got something different for this month's giveaway.

Let's take a look at what is in the Giveaway Box this month........it's all stuff I bought and shoved in my overflowing suitcasse or got for free on the trip to Alaska(or a travel item or in some way associated with the trip).  Since y'all didn't go with us, I am bringing the trip to y'all! 8-)))



2 x Starbucks dark roast ground coffee bags(Starbucks was available on the cruise ship--sell by Jul 28/21 but really, does coffee go bad?)
1 x Park West water bottle(the company selling art on the cruise)
1 x Park West pouch on a string(like a lanyard)
1 x travel Gillette deodorant
1 x travel Suave shampoo
1 x travel Dove body wash
1 x travel Vaseline lip balm
1 x travel Sensodyne toothpaste
1 x Nestle hot cocoa pack(from the buffet restaurant)
1 x Werther's sugar-free caramels pack
1 x NCL branded pencil(used for playing trivia games)
1 x NCL paper straw(3 sucks and these things collapse)
1 x Alaska Airlines cracker pack(Sky Bits)
1 x granite rock taken from on top of Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau
1 x NCL gaming token(use in the pusher game)
1 x NCL cruise t-shirt(size XL-I won this playing games)
1 x Seattle Chocolates(came in our Alaska Air meal)
1 x Lipton Cinnamon Apple tea bag(from the buffet)
1 x Alaska branded pencil
1 x American Airlines mini pretzel bag
1 x NCL deck of playing cards(I won these playing games)
1 x pack reg. mouth Ball canning lids(Seriously these things are like gold! lately)
1 x TEMSCO helicopter co. sticker
1 x Sanitizing wipe from American Airlines
1 x pack of Alaskan Fireweed wildflower seeds
1 x cork coaster from Ketchikan Alaska
1 x NCL drink cozie(Another of my winnings)
1 x Extra gum pack(Polar Ice flavor)hehehe the flavor

Close up shots of these goodies.....






And the front of the t-shirt



Depending on where you shop, the winnings have a reg. retail value of approximately "priceless!".

Here's how this is going to work.....

* The giveaway is open to ALL readers, previous winners or not.
* There is a limit of ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PER DAY.  Come back each day to enter again.
* Only VALID entries will be posted.  A Valid entry is a limit of one per day and I MUST HAVE VALID CONTACT INFORMATION FOR YOU(either you are on the Giveaway Contact List which I maintain, your comment is connected to a Google/Blogger profile which links to your email address or you email me directly(my email is in the side bar on the Blog)your email address.
IF YOU ENTER THE GIVEAWAY AND DON'T SEE YOUR COMMENT It's because I'll be offline some of the next 2 weeks and won't post entries until I am back online.

From all the VALID entries I receive I'll pick a winner at random and the winner has 48 hours from when the post goes live to contact me with their full mailing address.

In your entries I'd like to hear where is the furthest you've traveled for a vacation, the craziest thing you did on vacation, the most fun thing you did on a vacation, your favorite place to go or thing to do/see on a vacation, some place you have always wanted to go on vacation, etc.

If you are on my Giveaway emails list just leave a comment and your name(with last name initial please)to enter. If you aren't on the Giveaway emails list make sure you leave your email in your comment OR email me your email privately after you leave a comment(my email is in the side bar area under "About Me").
I'll leave this giveaway open until September 27th, Monday at 11:59 pm Eastern  Daylight Savings Time. On September 28th, Tuesday, I'll draw the winning entry and post the Winner that evening or so.

*Please note these rules*
I'll post the name/ID of the winners on this blog on  and those persons have 48 hours from the time stamp on that post to contact me privately via email(my email addy is listed on my "About Me" page, as well as on my side bar).

Disclaimer--This giveaway is open to those with mailing addresses within the US only.  As the cost of postage to foreign countries has gotten too high I am sorry to say I can no longer afford to mail boxes outside the US.  These giveaways are not sponsored by any companies.  I pay for it all(the cost of items given away and the postage to mail it all)out of my own pocket.

***PLEASE NOTE***

Please make sure there is a way for me to contact you in your comment.

If you're not a registered Blogger User with YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION on your User page, please put your email addy in your comment or email me your email addy privately when you leave a comment so I can get a hold of you. If your Blogger associated user profile is a GOOGLE one make sure your email info is linked to your profile.

So let's get this Giveaway started. Good luck to everyone!!!

Alaska Bound Sluggy

37 comments:

  1. The craziest thing I did on vacation: I went to Atlanta (was living in PA) for a week, got a job and stayed 15 years! Michelle D.

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  2. I had to think abou this, so Ithink Bonn Germany was actually the farthest we have travelled. The crziest hting was taking my then 13 year old, spur of the moment on a EuroStar for a Day trip form London to Paris-then getting caught in traffic becasue the Chinese President was in the city, and made it back to the train with 5 minutes to spare.

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  3. The furthest i have travelled on vacation is to Rome, Italy. However, the craziest thing I did on vacation at the time was to eat fresh uni (sea urchin) that our tour guide (diver) brought up from the sea by the tour guide/diver on our tour boat in Acapulco. The most fun thing I ever did was to spend my honeymoon watching the sunset on the beach in Oahu and my very favorite place to go was driving the big island of Hawaii with my new husband, in one day in Hawaii. My one bucket list item is to go 1st class, the whole way, on a world-wide (cities I pick) trip.....

    Soccamomma
    jaenm05@comcast.net

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  5. The farthest I have traveled was either to Mexico or Canada.

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  6. I went to Alaska several years ago so my could see snow. There was a heat wave that year and the Iditarod couldn't start for lack of snow.

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  7. I live in Oklahoma and the farthest I have ever vacationed was Key West, Florida. The beach has always been my favorite spot to enjoy!!!

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  8. I think the farthest would be California. The first time was in a camper that my dad built on the the back of our pickup truck with my brother and sister.

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  9. I would like to visit Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice so I could walk close.

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  10. Even though I had been to Niagara Falls the year before, I insisted on going again because the water had been stopped. It was amazing and an historical event and sight to see the Falls dry.

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  11. I would like to drive the length of the Natchez Trace or be driven...lol.

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  12. The farthest I've traveled was to Jamaica (7-day Western Caribbean cruise).
    Lingerlonger8@gmail.com

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  13. Bucket List Item if I win BIG on the lottery: Around The World Cruise on Viking Cruise Line. All first class accommodations of course. LOL!

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  14. Okay, if I win the lottery, lingerlonger has a good idea. I could do that.

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  15. Ha! This is wild, I was just reading to my kids about Mendenhall Glacier tonight! It's in our 1001 Natural Wonders to See Before You Die book!

    I think the furthest I've gone for vacation was New Zealand. I went there when I lived in Singapore.

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  16. The first time we went to florida, I wanted to go to St. Augustine. We stayed on an island. I don't remember which island. We got there the week they were having a week long festival which we went to every night. The children had so much fun. Husband, not so much.

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  18. Wouldn't mind an Alaskan cruise at all!

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  20. Furthest traveled was to Canada. Gerry T. Merlinsfamily@outlook.com

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  21. My mother told me she had always wanted to go to Alaska. I wish we could have gone together.

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  22. I've been to Canada a couple of times (Ontario) but it was many years ago.

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  23. On one trip to Florida, we took a ride in a horse-drawn buggy. the horse was ill and could not see out of one eye. Not only did it run away, it ran onto a car. I thought we were going to die. My children told the story at school with great glee that Fall.

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  25. Would like to visit Scotland. Have Outlander fantasies. Gerry T. Merlinsfamily@outlook.com

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  27. Tommy visited Scotland, the land of his ancestors, and regales me with stories. He makes it sound very appealing.

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  28. I went to Austria in college...to help babysit my cousins' children, who were missionaries. I'd love to go back!

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  29. For Mary H. She emailed me her entry.

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  30. We traveled to Alaska ( I am in Florida) for a cruise. Great fun, the the best excursion was the float plane trip to an out of the way campground to have a salmon dinner.

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  31. I went to Myrtle Beach 2 years ago at the invite of a friend. I flew by myself and only took a backpack with 9 items of clothing and a make up bag with the basics. I It was great!

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  32. Cruises are our favorite vacations!...but we haven't travelled since Covid ) :
    Bonnie S

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  33. We live in Vermont, took an old RV to Disney World. Camped in PA and a tornado came through the campground. Destroyed a brand new camper next to us. Then we ended up in NC during a hurricane and on to Fla in a second one. Long crazy vacation but we had fun. All of our kids and grandkids met us there.

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  34. Actually, the whole thing was a little crazy. My husband surprised me with a retreat to Bosnia Heregovina. I had several months to prepare but there I was, less than a week before my trip, riding the subway in NYC to get an expedited passport. I was lucky it all worked out because this was early 2002. I am on the main email list

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  35. Husband and I went to cruise port with no tickets and got tickets to leave on cruise leaving that day while I’m vacation in Florida. This was before kids of course! jul1361@aol.com

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