Great big $1400 giveaway

UPDATE: WINNERS ANNOUNCED. BIG CONGRATS TO THESE WONDERFUL WINNERS and to everyone who shared their stories: Thank you. So, so inspiring from peeps who have just started out up to people who’ve been on the journey a while now! xx

So last month I was a part of an amazing e book bundle deal that you may well have bought and be enjoying right now. I won’t tell you about it again, because you’ll be sad you missed out. So…

I pledged with my sales, in addition to the $1 per bundle going to a UN relief project as a group of authors, to put 10% of my sales to the incredible OzHarvest food rescue powerhouse as well as 10% towards giveaways for the blog. The rest, whatever it was, was going to help me and my son go to my godson’s wedding in Mauritius next year and the rest re-invested into the business with a free e book coming soon, a new site domain, better payment gateways and e course performance and a whole bunch of items that just need doing.

Well, in the interest of transparency, I thought it would be cool to lay out all the figures. I’m amazed and excited to say with big thanks to you who did buy the bundle through me, that my revenue from the bundle sales was $13,000.

So, here’s the breakdown.

$13,000 commission from sales ex g.s.t ( I still can’t quite believe it! That’s 457 people buying the e book bundle through my link)

MINUS

$1,000 facebook ads (getting your message out is expensive on facebook these days if you want anyone to see it! Liking the facebook posts of pages and businesses you like is the best way to help small business minimise these costs.)

$12,000 before tax. (I’m calculating my pledges on this figure for the 2 x 10%’s.)

$1200 towards OzHarvest, my pledged charity of choice

$1200 towards giveaways for you guys (the whole community, you don’t have to have bought the e book bundle)

That leaves $9,600 less 30% company tax is net earning $6,720 (I hope they do something good with the money, Aussie government!) , which has paid for 2 x tickets to Mauritius for the family wedding, leaving $3,500 for me to spend on building a better website and some nice design work on a free Christmas e book coming up for you guys. Yay all round!

So, that’s a whopping $1,200 going to OzHarvest from me thanks to everyone who bought it – it equates to 2,400 rescued meals going to homeless people! So essentially, we’ve fed 114 people, 3 meals a day for a week.

Here’s the payment receipt. Go team!

So amazing. If you wanted to donate for the Christmas period you can pop to their website HERE. Ronni Kahn the founder is an inspiration and a friend. The change she drives is epic, both environmentally and socially.

Then, there’s my pledge of $1200 to the giveaways. The lovely Irene from Nourished Life (the best online low tox beauty shop EVER! So strict. Never a need to worry!) has given me a discount to make my giveaway stretch further- yipee! So, here’s what you could win just in time for Christmas <3

PRIZE 1 – Worth $699.00 – BIO Mineral Pot 500. Purest Water filter on the market.

This latest version of Water’s Co successful line of filters removes up to 99.9% fluoride, something that no other filter has ever managed to do. The smart design features sleek black housing and a blue glass reservoir with tap outlet. The powerful, long-lasting filter holds 5.25 litres.

The 5.25 Litre blue glass reservoir makes it ideal for domestic & light commercial use and it comes complete with a filter kit that will last an average of four years. As well as fluoride it also removes chlorine, chemicals, heavy metals and bacteria. Coral and silica sands in the filter re-mineralise the water, helping to keep your body in tip-top condition. It re-mineralises and ionises ordinary tap water!

Some of the key features include:

– 13 stages of sterilising, filtration & activation, multi stage cartridges contain:
– Sub micron prefilters
– Silver ionised activated coconut shell carbon,
– Ion exchange cation resin for 99.99% Fluoride removal
– Bio organic coral mineral sands
– Silica sands
– Far infrared ceramics
– Bio ceramic Somelite™
– Magnets and other patented filter medium.

Check it out here on the Nourished Life Website

PRIZE 2 – Worth $329.00 – Southern Cross Pottery 12 Litre benchtop water filter

Enjoy safe, fluoride free water with this Large Water Purifier. Suitable for households that use a lot of water, this filter stores up to 12 litres at any one time, meaning there will always be pure, great-tasting water at any time of the day or night.

While filtering out all known contaminants, it leaves beneficial minerals such as magnesium, calcium and potassium in the drinking water, so you can enjoy maximum health benefits. The attractive, cost-effective design comes in a variety of styles so you can choose your favourite to brighten up your sink. It comes with a separate ceramic stand and is 260mm wide and 500mm high. Comes complete with the Fluoride Plus Filter which needs replacing every 12 months.

Filter removes 99.9999% of Pathogenic Bacteria, Cysts, Sediment, Chloromines, Chlorine, Lead, 97% + Fluoride, Volatile Organic Components, Metals, Arsenic, Glyphosate and 99% of Nitrates.

Check out further details on the Nourished Life website here.

Prizes 3 and 4  – 2 x $200 Make up and Skincare “best of” boxes from Nourished Life, hand selected by Alexx & Irene.

I have made sure a couple of my favourites such as Skin Food by Weleda & W3ll People mascara are in there along with a few of Irene’s favourite eye, face and lip products!

To enter, all you have to do is 3 things

1. Be a subscriber to my blog – if your’e not already you can do that HERE. I will never, unless extremely urgent, send you stuff more than once a week, that is a promise, so you don’t need to worry about inundation unless it’s truly helpful to you!
2. Simply leave a comment here on the blog with what it is about the low tox life that has helped you feel more awesome along your way.
3. Say what city & country you’re in in the comments, as the best of boxes are up for grabs for anyone in the world, while the filters are just Australia.

I will choose the winners and announce them here on the blog next week on Wednesday the 25th November, and send news to subscribers FRIDAY NIGHT of the 27th. So do it today so you don’t forget. You have to be in it to win it, right?

Good luck and thanks for being a part of this awesome community!