Please go vote for the winner of this giveaway! We have a lovely hardcover Photo Book Giveaway for an engaged couple! Did your sweetheart propose to you recently and you are making wedding plans? If you recently said “Yes, I will marry you!”, then tell us about the marriage proposal. We want to hear the how he proposed story and that will enter you in our Photo Book Giveaway.

For the special Bride and Groom to be we will be giving away a My Publisher’s Hardcover Photo Book! Three stories will be chosen by us here at Lil Duck Duck so our readers will then vote for their favorite story.

We have a sample here in our hands and this is truly bookstore-quality printing – and we are not easily impressed as we hold a high standard when it comes to photo printing . Think what a special memories book this will be for your photos from your dates, to highlight your wedding preparation photos, ring shopping or use it for your honeymoon photos! Read more

The time has come to share with you the five finalists of the TurboTax Cutest Last-Minute Tax Deduction contest.

In past two months, they received over 300 beautiful baby photos from across America. If you haven’t already checked out these adorable babies, go to www.CutestTaxDeduction.com to VOTE for the finalists.

(One of the finalists, Noah, is the son of one of our readers who learned about the contest from our blog!  He is most adorable – might want to cast a vote for him…

Don’t forget that there are still a bundle of tax deductions that come with a new bundle of joy. For example, a baby born in 2008 could deliver a $1,000 child tax credit. That’s a gift that keeps on giving until they turn 17.

Be sure to file a new W-4 form with your employer to claim an additional withholding “allowance which may help boost your take-home pay. Also, consider taking advantage of childcare reimbursement (flex plans) at work that let you divert up to $5,000 a year into an account to help pay for child care bills.

For more information on tax deductions and maximizing your taxes, go to http://turbotax.intuit.com/

Check out this contest…

Swiffer and Warner Music have teamed up and created a contest called the “Swiffer Break-up Music Video Contest.”

Here’s the best part : The Grand Prize for the contest is $15,000.

Here’s how it works:

Swiffer-lovers can submit a short video to YouTube that demonstrates how they “broke up” with their old cleaning products and now use Swiffer for all their cleaning needs.
If you enter, you receive 10 downloads of “break-up” songs to use in the video (that’s one of the requirements).

The top 10 videos will be posted to YouTube for the general public to cast a vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes wins $15,000.

You can find a complete list of rules, prizes and approved “break-up” songs at the Swiffer brand channel.

Please keep in mind that this contest ends tomorrow, 1/30 so have some fun making your video and you might be a winner!