Thanks to everyone who participated during last week’s 18-month anniversary celebration. I was surprised at the number and quality of comments you shared over the past few days. I’m particularly pleased with the site feedback, and so have added an extra iPod as a prize.

Speaking of prizes, I suppose you’re all wondering who the winners are. With the help of the handy internet random number generator, the following people have been selected:
Nature photograph
Don J. won a nature print from photographer Andrea Gingerich. Don will be able to browse Andrea’s catalog and choose the one that’s right for him!
Debt is Slavery book
Because of the number and quality of responses, I bumped the Debt is Slavery giveaway from two books to five books. The ol’ random number generator picked the following winners: AzBearin, Donna, Sevi, Little Miss Moneybags, and John Fiala.
Quicken Deluxe 2008
The fine folks at Intuit sent me three copies of Quicken Deluxe 2008 to hand out to the winners on Wednesday. Those included Flynn, Mike, and Lise Buisson.
iPod Shuffle
As I mentioned earlier, your site feedback was so valuable that I’m going to award a second iPod to the commenters on Thursday’s post. The two iPods winners are AnnieJ and long-time reader icup.
Nintendo Wii
Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. In order to qualify to win the Nintendo Wii, I asked participants to share their personal finance success stories. About 175 of you joined in, either on your own blogs, or in the Get Rich Slowly discussion forums. With just a couple of hours left to enter, I received the following e-mail:
Please find below my entry to the group writing project. I am sorry for the last minute entry, but I have been so busy, I almost didn’t make it. And congratulations on your 18 months of success and hope there will be many more to come.
The winner of the Nintendo Wii is ISPF from Grad Money Matters. She’ll receive a Wii bundle featuring an extra controller and Mario Party 8. (Trivia: I purchased this bundle at Costco a couple months ago, and have been waiting to give it away ever since.)
Thank you!
Over the next week, I’ll link to every blogger who shared a personal finance success story. Throughout November, I’ll share some of the best stories you folks shared. (If you have a favorite, please let me know!)
Thanks to all who participated over the past week. I appreciate it. And thank you for your ongoing support of this site. I firmly believe that it’s contributions from readers like you that help to make Get Rich Slowly useful and interesting. I look forward to exploring personal finance for another eighteen months, and for many months beyond…
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Bummer I didn’t win the Debt is Slavery book!!! But congrats to the winners. That is cool that you added an extra iPod!
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Thanks, J.D!
And a big thanks from my husband too! He is so excited that I am scared he will sit by the door for the next few days waiting to grab the Wii the moment the mailman steps off the truck
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Booo, i didn’t win!
Thanks for running the contests!
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Thank you- J.D.! This has been a great way to get in the habit of posting my thoughts- something I’m going to try to continue to do!
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It was fun fantasizing about winning some of these prizes, thanks for the opportunity!
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Congrats to all of the winners!
Judging by the number of comments I saw during the week, the contest must have been a great success for everyone.
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How very generous of you to give away extra prizes.
I enjoyed reading everyone’s comments and thanks for the opportunity to enter!
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Thanks J.D.! This whole process has been fun and interesting! Winning something is a nice side benefit.
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Congrats to everyone who won. I like when there are contests, it gives people a big incentive to post and there ends up being a lot of really good commenting and discussion. Good stuff, thanks JD.
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Thanks for the giveaway. It was exciting. Congrats to all who won.
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I demand a recount!
Just kidding of course. Congrats to all of the winners.
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Grad Money Matters winning article was an excellent choice for the Nintendo Wii contest. Handling our money well has alot to do with our attitude and reaching that stage of maturity where we finally decide to grow up and take some action. I’m looking forward to reading the other entries as you post them.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Belinda
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It is fun to share our story and read everyone eles’s too! Keep up the good work!
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Thanks for giving me a topic idea for my blog. Keep ‘em coming!
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Congratulations to all the winners.
I’m also glad that you added more prizes so that more people could win.
Keep up the great work, everyone!
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Congrats, everyone! Hope you will give us updates in the forums as to how your ‘winning’ helped you.
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Thanks! I got my copy in the mail last night, and I’m looking forward to reading it this weekend.
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Just wanted to say I received my shuffle this morning, and its awesome! Thanks, JD, and congratulations again on reaching the 18 months mark.
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