I love cereal. Who doesn’t? From Fruit Loops to Cheerios everybody remembers chowing down their favorite cereal as a child. I have never really gotten over my love for cereal, I love it so much that it provided the inspiration for the very first Ted.me super promotional happiness giveaway.
Win a Bathtub of Cereal and Help a Family in Need
A box of cereal is good… but 52 boxes of cereal is better. That is enough to fill a bathtub (trust me, I know). The winner of this promotion will nab themselves 52 boxes of their favorite cereal. You can choose to bathe in your winnings, or simply consume a box of cereal a week for a year like a normal person. But it gets better…you can help families in need in the process. If I get over 500 unique comments on this post (up to 2 per person) not only will the winner get 52 boxes of cereal, I will also donate 52 boxes of cereal to our local food bank. Everyone wins.
How to Enter
Each person can enter up to 2 times, once via their blog and once via twitter.
Enter with your blog. To enter with your blog simply write a short post including one of the promotional images or video below and link back to this post. Please make sure you drop the URL of your post in the comments.
Win a Bathtub Full of Cereal from Ted Murphy on Vimeo.
Enter with Twitter. To enter with Twitter simply tweet this out “RT @tedmurphy is giving away a bathtub full of cereal. Help a family in need http://urlbrief.com/0910d7”
Rules and How the Winner is Chosen
Each post and tweet will be assigned a number in a spreadsheet. I will pick a number at random live on a special edition of TedTube on November 24th. You have until midnight EST November 23rd to enter via your blog or Twitter. If the winner lives outside of the U.S. they will receive $200 via PayPal in lieu of cereal (sorry, I can’t ship all that cereal internationally)
This is a private promotion and not associated with any company. It’s just little old me having some fun and helping people out.
What’s your favorite cereal!?!
I would have to go with Cheerios or Fruity Pebbles.
Only you, Ted! I will gladly re-tweet, and donate my boxes as well if I win. Great cause!
Big respect for the creativity 🙂
Fruity Pebbles or coco puffs probably would have made more sense for the bath 🙂
seriously funny stuff. Good luck with the campaign
Unreal, Ted. You never cease to amaze me as to how far you will go. I’m with Dina, I’ll donate my boxes if I win and will have to make a post this week. Great promo video, Ted.
nice contest – bathing in cheeeerios…. lol – what if I get lucky charms the marshmellows may melt in the milk – might be bathing in marsh mellows instead
I re-tweeted for you. (darkfaerie) If I win I’d donate the boxes as well – a) I don’t have room for them and b) I think it’s a great idea to donate.
I am loving that people are volunteering to donate their winnings. Great stuff!
Well done, Ted. You are, indeed, a cereal entrepreneur.
I’m crazy for the Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries, but like the other altruistic cereal fans, if I win, I’d want to give my cereal take to charity, too.
Also, I am hoping to get some reassurance that the Cheerios in your tub won’t be repackaged for the food bank!
Haha great idea Ted. I might just have to make a post about this for a great marketing idea.
@Shawn Collins:
I like to eat Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries and leave all the Crunch Berries for last.
My favorite ceral is Lucky Charms and I’d love do donate 51 boxes to my local food bank…I just want to keep 1 box to celebrate the win.
Totally twittered and I’m going to blog.
What is wrong with you? Ted, you’re crazy.
I love Raisin Bran Crunch and I’m down the street from Izea, so you wouldn’t have to pay shipping!!
To quote a line in my favorite Quaker Oatmeal commercial…”It’s a good to do and a tasty way to do it!”
I’ll see your 52 boxes and I will raise you 52 boxes. If you get the posts you need, I will also donate an additional 52 boxes to the food bank of your choice!
I’ll get a post going shortly.
[…] Ted is giving away 52 boxes of cereal to a single winner and all you have to do is blog or twitter about the contest and let him know what your favorite cereal is. You can choose to keep your winnings or give them away, but if Ted’s contest gets over 500 unique comments, he’ll give another 52 boxes of cereal to his local food bank. […]
This is perfect Ted! I have 3 favorites: Quaker Natural Granola, Oats, Honey & Raisins, Rice Chex, and Golden Grahams.
If I win, I’ll take your 52 boxes plus 52 of each of my other two favorites down to the Road Runner Foodbank.
I’ve got my post up, Ted.
While I can’t donate a box of cereal for each week of the year, if you get our 500 comments, I’ll donate a box for each month to my local food bank.
I think we should pick a day to all donate and call it National Cereal Bloggers Day!
http://corrinrenee.com/2008/11/16/win-a-bathtub-full-of-cereal/
Kashi Bro, Kashi….
Great blog and great cause….
@Missy Ward:
I am loving that Missy!
I am pratial to Count Chocula
Oh my goodness, Ted, you are so not right. LOL Saw these pics in my flickr and had to come see what it was about. I want to know… is that a cereal and milk bath, or cereal and water? And are you wearing pants?
This is an awesome idea though! I can’t say that there’s a single cereal I’d want to eat 52 boxes of… right now I’m eating mostly Rice Chex because they’re gluten free.
Tweeted!
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Why am I not surprised to see these pictures? What a great idea, Ted! I’m with the others and would donate if I win. I blogged about it.
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Don’t…know…what…to…think.
What a fabulous idea! I really admire you for always coming up with ways to give back to the community. Those pictures are hilarious. I sent out a tweet, and also have posted about your contest on my blog. I hope you quickly reach 500 comments: http://laviedelaurie.com/2008/11/16/win-52-boxes-of-your-favorite-cereal/
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Ted, you’re a sick man.
Well, this is certainly a unique and creative idea! Not surprising coming from you! I’m not sure if I can pick just one, but if I had to, I’d probably go with Cap’n Crunch. My daughter might want Life though!
http://sewingmom.com/2008/11/16/win-cereal-and-help-a-family-in-need/
nothing better than Vanilla Almond Special K!!!
though… if i were choosing a cereal for bathing in, i’d probably go with cheerios too…
Very creative Ted – as always!!!
I hope you ate all the cereal before getting out of the tub… but just so you know, I’m NOT coming to your house for breakfast!
I retweeted and will be glad to donate my prize too if I win!
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Ted, once again you inspire me, and yet I’m not inspired to eat cheerios at the moment, I wonder why. But I am inspired to enter your contest and I’ve posted on The BenSpark, about this outrageous and very cool contest. http://www.benspark.com/win-a-bathtub-full-of-cereal.html
Ted, here is my Twitter. http://twitter.com/BenSpark/status/1008953479 and for the hell of it I posted this to Facebook as well. The diggs and stumbles are not far behind. I know they don’t get me more entries but they will get word out about this awesome contest.
Also I will donate 1/2 my winnings to a local charity. I could use the cheerios too. We are not all high rollers. So now that I entered the first ever Ted.me contest I hope that you stop over and enter my photo frame one.
haha .. completely over the top!!
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Tweet and we like Kix, Frosted Flakes, and a ton of other cereals.
I love anything chocolate!! Forget the healthy stuff!! I would have to keep a box or two for posterity and then donate the rest. Dude, you’re awesome!
oooo boy now that looks like a weird bath! Not sure I’ll enter the contest, I’m not THAT crazy about cereal, though I do like the idea of helping the homeless!
Death by Cerial. Great Stuff! 😉
Tweeted it out! Will also be donating my winnings! I think it would be a great addition to the Rock For Hunger Thanksgiving breakfast feeding in downtown Orlando. Thanks Ted for giving back, it really makes you a rockstar.
What a creative concept for a great cause. I actually love oatmeal does that count? Instant is fine. I would donate my winnings to charity.
You’d think by now, this kind of stuff would cease to surprise me, but this is…. wow, crazy in the most awesome way possible. I love it! Oh, and I’m a Frosted Mini Wheats girl.
I love eating cereal for dinner. I’ll definitely donate my share if I win. 🙂 Nice give away.
Great idea, Ted!!! Way to go!!!
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My Tweet- http://twitter.com/Table4Five
Great idea. I love the pics! Here is to helping a family in need.
Great idea! Here’s my blog post about it: http://single.today.com/2008/11/17/win-a-bathtub-full-of-cereal/
love this.
I love this idea. I love Captain Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch. With 52 boxes I will even have enough to share with the kids, lol. I will give 45 boxes to our local food bank if I win!
you have officially ruined cereal for me. Talk about a carb overload.
Just finished my post.
http://mommyto2.bravejournal.com/entry/29398
How cool! I heard about your contest through Elizabeth @ Table4Five.net. I blogged here: http://chocolatefingerprints.net/?p=631
My fave cereal is probably Peanut Butter Cap’N Crunch.
I also tweeted. My twitter username is andreamcmann
Wow. Seriously. Wow. I would go with Peanut Butter Bumpers, myself.
@JustJulie just twittered about your contest you weirdo.
And I blogged about it: http://www.juliesjournal.com/2008/11/17/win-a-bathtub-full-of-cereal/
I’ll be donating the cereal if I win also 🙂
You never cease to amaze me Ted. I tweeted it and asked where the speedo was http://twitter.com/techguy/status/1010113471
I would love to see a cleanup video …. 😉
That’s MY boy! Son, your creative genius never ceases to amaze me! Remember-NO SUGAR!…you know what it does to you!
totally tweeted
Hilariousness! Spread the cereal love.
Hey Ted,
This is great- quirky and fun….but a good cause. Looks like people are sharing this link—- I found it on someone’s blog!
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@Ted Murphy:
Post done: http://missyward.com/2008/11/17/win-a-years-worth-of-cereal-from-ted-murphy/
mmm…cereal, i can haz a spoon?
What a sensational giveaway!!!!!!
I have had the pleasure of entering this giveaway by blogging about it and posting the video on my site:
http://www.bananasandberries.com
Thanks for the opportunity!!!
-Barb 🙂
You’re a Fruit Loop for Life. But Cherrios on your Quest to put Honey Bunch’s Of O’s in the hands of the needy.
I tweeted the giveaway over at twitter:
https://twitter.com/barbarabaker
Thanks again…I’ve got my two entries in now, so all I’ve got to do is cross my fingers and hope I win so I don’t have to buy anymore for a while 🙂
-Barb 🙂
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I totally just blogged about it. I’d love a years worth of Cinnamin Toast Crunch. Yummy!
I just Twitter-ed it too, because everyone must know about this great giveaway!
Wow, I thought I was the only one who consumed more than 2 boxes of cereal a week! Ted you unknownly united all of the cereal loving people in the world! God bless you cereal-loving heart Ted <3
Special K w/ red berries all the way!!
This is the BEST blog contest I have seen all year!
I am a Honey Nut O girl myself and if I win I would like all my cereal donated to your local Womens Transition Centre 🙂
Lucky Charms are my favorites, anyhoo, you crazy guy I posted on my blog http://slightlymordant.com/blog/2008/11/18/win-a-bathtub-full-of-cereal/
If I win you can donate my cereal along with yours to the food bank.
Not so much of joining the contest. But I want to be part of the 500 unique comments that can earn 52 boxes of cereal for your local food bank. 🙂
What a creative idea!
Cinnamon Toast Crunch is my favorite cereal, interestingly enough the latest episode of Radiolab features some cereal type discussions:http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/11/18/choice/
My kids’ favorite cereal is Honeynut Cheerios, and if I should win, I’m keeping it all. Muwahaha! Hey, we go through a TON of cereal with five kids! By the way, my kids are tripping out on your pictures! I should have video’d their reaction to seeing you in the bathtub ‘o cereal. They want to know if you’re naked in there. (P.S. the rest of us DO NOT want to know the answer to that.)
Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal!
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what an awesome contest! my favorite cereal is strawberry frosted mini wheats. i twittered (cadifi) and blogged about it.
http://journey1000words.com/?p=2408
Good stuff Ted! One of my not so healthy faves is Reese Puffs, holy smokes…good times. Cheerios are most days.
Oddly this isnt the weirdest thing I have seen today…
great idea…just promise me it’s not the same cereal from the video!
Ted, you are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!
Huh! I just wanted to use that word!! As always crazy pics !
I just tweeted it
http://twitter.com/ramanujam/status/1011984166
Ted, I mean no disrispect to you. Your post is very creative and this is funny, but at the same time I am also disgusted at what I see in this post of yours. You wasted 52 boxes of cereal! And how could someone have done that? There are people starving, begging for food, and that would do anything to get that food and you’re playing with it???? Playing with foood and wasting it?? Just because you’re going to donated it to your local food store as well doesn’t make it right. You wasted that food and yea. Dude I have a lot of respect for ya, but this really pisses me off.
Ted! You put the fun back into running a company. Like Google =P Fun stuff having a cereal giveaway!
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@Shawn Collins:
“cereal entrepreneur” HA HA HA – – you’re killing me Shawn! /sarcasm
I noticed that Ted did not confirm in his reply to you that he would not repackage the “used” Cheerios…..interesting…..
@Tim Jones:
Don’t hate on me just because I know how to bring the funny.
“Cereal entrepreneur” was way funnier that the stuff on your favorite show, Two and a Half Men.
What a great contest! Thanks for doing this, Ted. If I win, I’ll donate my cereal to my local food bank too.
My favorite cereal is definitely Rice Chex, and I like Frosted Krispies when I take a notion for a sweet cereal.
I blogged at http://www.fencedinfamily.com/blog/?p=277
I tweeted for you! My username is FencedinFamily. Thanks again!
I’ve added the link to my blog too, check it out: http://www.mattchilcote.com/post/60608955/ok-this-is-just-funny-there-is-a-guy-here-in
Looks like you’re narrowing in on 100 comments! Just wanted to come back with my second to help get you to 500!
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What a sweeeet idea. Mini-Wheats are my favourite!
we continue to ask the question – is there a cure for baldness? in adam mory’s case i sure hope so!
I love me some Kashi cereal, I think Ill pass on the cheerios for a while 😉
Great idea Ted… I guess I’m more of a Cap’n Crunch type of dude…. Although, with enough sugar… and sliced bananas… cheerios can bring the thunder!!
If I win I’m donating my winnings as well.
Genius.
I will retweet this today and also I will donate my boxes if I win, not a huge fan of cereal and seeing you in a tub full…well…kind of gross…not you just the cereal. 😉
Cheerios and Fruit Loops float so they work well in the tub. Try taking that picture with Raisin Bran…
BTW- Whole, Skim, Or Soy Milk?
Great promotion and the Twitter message has been sent.
Hope milk was at room temperature!
Great cause… You can give winnings to a deserving family.
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If we win we get cereal that hasn’t been swum in, right? 😉
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I just entered the contest and I promise to donate the cereal to a food bank if I win! 🙂 Go Ted!
Ted, I told some people about you:
http://joshuadenney.com/bringing-karma-back/
I guess if I win, I will be getting $200. If I win, I’ll figure a good way for it to be used for charitable cause.
I’d definitely donate. How does a bathtub full of cereal and human oils, etc. smell? How did you smell when you got out?
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I both Twittered (username Zengrrl) and blogged about this contest (http://zengrrl.com/?p=174). I figure better late than never, right? LOL
As for cereal faves, right now I’d have to go with blueberry muffin mini-wheats or frosted rice krispies, though I also dig granola mixed with cornflakes.
@Emil Wisch:
I would have to say not so good.
Truly awesome. Your kids looked like they had a blast in the “making of…” Great to see people smiling, laughing, and all for a good cause. Well played.
Rock on.
dj
What a fun / unique contest ted. I’ve created my post, hope I win. http://www.gardenofthoughts.blorc.com/2008/11/22/win-a-bathtub-full-of-cereal/
I would love to know where this idea originated! So much fun!
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Posted a link to the contest on my blog along with other photos of people in a tub of food.
Posted a blog entry with the link and twittered the tweet as requested.
http://the-word-of-jeff.blogspot.com/2008/11/win-bathtub-full-of-cereal.html
It would have been more fun with a cereal like Lucky charms. More colorful.
I hope no one dies from this promotion because this would be known as a cereal killer.
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Ted, you are a crazy man. Where’s the cake?
Out of all the blasted cereals out there – you choose Cheerios?
C’mon Ted! Haven’t you learned ANYTHING?
Wheaties! The Breakfast of Champions!
it means a lot of cereals . ymmm ……………………… and also a good cause
i would love to win that, i think its a sweet idea, hopefully you wont be giving away the cereal that your sitting in.
So Ted, since I’m going to win this….go ahead and ship all that cereal to the Macon Food bank! Great Idea and I love that you’re the freak that you are!
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There are 5 houses in five different colors
In each house lives a different nationality.
These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.
The CLUES:
The Brit lives in the Red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane Drinks tea.
The Green House is on the left of the White House.
The Green House’s owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the Blue House.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
The QUESTION:
Who owns the fish?
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I don’t get this. You must have wasted a ton of cereal doing this. I understand you are trying to get people involved and help out but I don’t like the image. Basically I see this as someone sitting in a tub of cereal having fun who can someone who is hungry look at this and not be bitter.
I like the idea of giving back and making a donation. I think the bathtub full of cereal is in poor taste.
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He he he let us give this food to Ethiopia:-)
The cereal game has been starved to death:-) No?
dude you’re crazy 😀
this is the first time i’m running in to your blog but believe me..i am your biggest fan from now on 😀
cereal for life :))