04 Dec, 2012
Ottawa Giveaway Alert: Tradex wants to stuff your stocking!
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Fishbowl patrons|Giveaways and product reviews
We have a winner! Thanks for your entries everyone!
This great little giveaway is brought to you by Fishbowl patron Tradex. (You may recall the RESP post I wrote that was inspired by Tradex!)
But before I get into the nitty gritty, I want to mention a couple points to tie a bow on that previous RESP post. If you have child who turned 15, 16 or 17 in 2012 you should note that:
- In order to qualify for the 20% Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG) on contributions for a beneficiary in the calendar year in which they turned 16 or 17, a minimum of $2,000 in RESP contributions must be made for that beneficiary before December 31 of the year in which the beneficiary turned 15 years old.
- The last year that the CESG is payable is the calendar year in which the beneficiary turns 17. In other words, you don’t have a year after the child turns 17 to make that contribution. If his or her birthday is in December, you have less than a month!
RESPs can add up to some nice (free!) money from the government, so it’d be a shame to miss out on it due to a misunderstanding of the rules.
Note that RESP contributions are made on a calendar year basis, unlike RRSP’s where you have the first 60 days of the following year to contribute for this year.
And here’s an idea, maybe you ought to think about putting an RESP contribution in your child’s stocking this year! (Ha. Just kidding, well ok, not really. It could be an annual tradition!)
Anyway, on with the giveaway! In the spirit of the season, Tradex is giving away some great stocking stuffers – sans stocking – but all in a heavy-duty cotton Tradex carry bag. Behold:
This prize consists of
- A 2G iPod Shuffle
- A Digital Docking Speaker to connect your iPod or other mp3 player (can be plugged in but in this case, batteries ARE included!)
- A little plush tiger courtesy of AGF Mutual Funds
- 4 bags of custom-made Tradex chocolate acorns
- 2 jars of homemade jam – strawberry and blueberry – in support of QUAIL (Quebec Association of Independent Living)
- 4 deluxe cherry-flavored candy canes
It would be pretty sweet to see all that under the tree, wouldn’t it?
The whole kit and caboodle pictured above will go to ONE winner.
Interested? In order for your entry to qualify, tell us a little bit about how Christmas stockings are done in your house. Do you stuff them with practical things? Sweet things? Silly things? Or perhaps you don’t do stockings at all? Just tell us about it in the comments below.
- This giveaway is open to anyone residing in the Ottawa area but is void in Quebec.
- Delivery of prizing will be via Canada Post, or, depending on location of the winner, can be picked up or hand-delivered.
- If you can’t post your comment because you’re behind a firewall at work (or whatever), you can email it to me for posting at andrea at quietfish dot com (Please note, I cannot be responsible if your entry is misdirected or gets stuck in my Spam folder!)
- One entry per person please! We want lots of people to have the opportunity to win.
I will do a random draw of all qualifying entires using Random.org at noon EST on Tuesday December 11, 2012.
That’s it! Thank you Tradex for this sweet giveaway!
