I am so excited that at just 6 months-old, Organizing-Life just surpassed 100 subscribers! Thank you to all who subscribe to my almost-daily tips, printable planners, and thoughts about organizing. I have had so much fun getting to “know” my readers and commenters and sharing how I organize my space, my time, and my budget.

In the vein of organizing and decluttering, I am doing my first give-away. This box which has been sitting in my kitchen for a few months is begging for a new home, so here we go.

A few months back, I responded to a Rubbermaid blog Adventures in Organization post that asked for bloggers to blog about their food saving products. I received two Rubbermaid 20-piece Food Storage sets, one to try and one to giveaway to my readers. The set includes 4 different types of containers: Produce Saver, Lock-Its, Easy-Find Lids, and Premier.

To tell you the truth, I gave away my set to my mother-in-law who seems to have a food-storage-container-exodus in her home. I am a user of the Rubbermaid Easy-Find Lids, and I really like them.I feel they have a good air-tight lid seal (I haven’t tried shaking soup in them), are easily stack-able in the fridge, don’t warp in the dishwasher, and the lids really do click-together and don’t fall all over my cabinet.  

I don’t like that the Easy-Find Lid containers turn orange when I heat up tomato sauce, or my Korean red-pepper paste, in the microwave, and I don’t like that the lids are so contoured that they are always wet when they come out of the dishwasher. I have had my Easy-Find Lid containers for about a year now, and they don’t stand up to dishwasher/toddler-throwing/picnic-going wear and tear as well as I’d like. The lid tops are showing signs of a dulled finish and roughed edges.

Since I am a lover of uniformity, the Rubbermaid Easy-Find Lids are the only ones I use for left-overs in my home. I never lend these out, since I’d never get them back, because they are too expensive to replace. (I send goodies home with friends in those round plastic take-out containers.)

The Produce Saver containers have a special insert that keeps food off the bottom of the container to keep produce fresh and crisp longer. My bluberry trial did work, and I thought my berries looked fresh and plump at day 5 after coming home from the market. The Lock-Its containers have the locking lid tabs for a tighter seal, and the Premier container is made of a different type of plastic that is stain resistant (which would probably solve my orange-plastic problem I mentioned above but I didn’t test this out.)

If you have a food-storage container exidous in your home and would like to win this Rubbermaid 20-piece set, please visit Rubbermaid’s blog, Adventures in Organizing  post: Stories about Food Storage Organization from EasyFind Lids.com, and leave an entry in the from below describing which story you found funniest. (My favorite was about the lid-eating gremlin who works in cahoots with the dryer sock-monster.)

You can also leave a comment at www.easyfindlids.com about your Rubbermaid story to enter to win one of 5 weekly 20-piece food storage set prizes (like this one) AND to be entered to win $500 in Rubbermaid products! (The grand prize winner to be picked at the end of October 2009.)

I know you all love additional entries so here is how to get them:

• Subscribe to Organizing-Life.com via RSS or e-mail, (click on the buttons at the top of my left sidebar) or let me know you are already a subscriber, and fill out the form again to let me know you’ve done so.
• Or, spread the word about this contest. You can tweet about it, or blog about it and then let me know again by filling out the form. (Please link back to Organizing-Life.com and www.easyfindlids.com in your blog posts.)

You can enter up to three times (one for each type described above) and you must complete the form once per entry. Only one entry of each type per e-mail address will be counted. If you are seeing this post in a reader and can’t see the form below, please click over to fill out your entry. US only please. This contest is a quicky and will end tomorrow, Thursday, July 16, 2009, at 11:59PM eastern time. I’ll select one entry using Random.org and announce the winner here at Organizing-Life.com and contact the winner directly via e-mail Friday, July 17, 2009. The winner must respond to me by Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 11:59 PM with their mailing info, otherwise their prize will be forfeited and a new winner will be selected.

Good luck! Happy Organizing.

This contest is now closed. 7/17/2009. Thank you to all who entered, and thank you for reading Organizing-Life.com. Happy Organizing!