Mother’s Day! Mother’s Day! Have you gotten your mother anything yet? No matter where we turn, there is talk about that perfect gift for Mom. I will say that I am usually the one to pick out or even buy my own Mother’s Day gifts, so when I get anything extra; that just makes my day! Last year, the kids each made me a Hallmark flowerpot and to this day, that still means so much to me! I love shopping for my mom! (That’s me & my mommy!)
Western Union is here to help you out with Mother’s Day! “Return the Love” is a national Mother’s Day Campaign designed to encourage consumers to give mom the perfect gift.
Did you know that more than 40% of moms admit to pretending to like their Mother’s Day Gifts? This seems high, but pretty realistic!
When researching Mother’s Day gifting trends, a recent Western Union consumer survey1 found daughters and sons of all ages have good intentions when it comes to finding the perfect gift, but 42 percent find it hard to shop for the perfect gift for mom.
“Seventy three percent of consumers are planning to give a Mother’s Day gift this year and Western Union’s ‘Return the Love’ campaign is designed with both the gift giver, and the gift recipient, in mind,” continued Stockdale. “The gift of cash is easy and convenient to give, and it’s sure to be something that mom will never return or exchange.”
“Return the Love” is a multi-faceted, integrated consumer campaign designed to encourage consumers to send the gift of cash, this Mother’s Day.
“Return the Love” campaign elements include:
- Kick-off special performance dedicated to Moms featuring Wyclef Jean and Paulina Rubio at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, on April 29, produced and broadcast live by Telemundo.
- Several Wyclef Jean and Paulina Rubio performances and consumer-facing events, including a special concert honoring military moms;
- Advertising via print, broadcast, radio, out-of-home, mobile and online channels showcasing the myriad of ways mom shows her love to her children, from giving them 12,368 kisses to changing 5,345 diapers and preparing 19,710 meals;
- In the social media space, Western Union dedicates a tab on its Facebook page encouraging fans to share how they are honoring and celebrating their moms;
- Additionally, Western Union has a Flickr®page (flickr.com/groups/love2010) where consumers can share photos of their moms. Each week, Western Union will select photos from this gallery to display on the company’s home page, www.westernunion.com
The Western Union consumer survey also found 42 percent of moms have pretended to like a Mother’s Day gift; and separately, 30 percent thought the gift was either “thoughtful” but not a gift they wanted, or they did not receive a gift at all.
This year, let’s give mom what she really wants!
Western Union’s Return the Love Photo Group
Western Union has set-up a Mother’s Day Flickr group where you can share photos of your mom or even a photo of you and your child. Each week, they are selecting photos from this gallery to display on the company’s home page at www.WesternUnion.com
Western Union just sent me a Mother’s Day gift — a $50 Western Union gift card! What mom couldn’t use $50? They also sent me some additional $50 Western Union-branded gift cards to give to my favorite moms (my readers!) on Mother’s Day!
All opinions in this posting are 100% my own.
- Five (5) winners will each recieve a $50.00 Western Union Gift Card! (Total of $250.00!)
–> Western Union Gift Cards are just like Visa prepaid cards; they can be used wherever Visa is accepted.
- Tell me about your mom! Do you have a special memory that you want to share?
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my mom was a great lady she was always there for me whenever i needed or a shoulder to cry on she passed away in 1989 and i have so missed her being there for me
My mother in law is always there for us. We love her.
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My Mom, even though she has permament heart damage from two heart attacks, is always there for us. If anything happens, she is there. She always cooks and bakes and brings healthy things for us, her grandkids and great grandkids. She lives to serve others.
my mom is just a wonderful , loving mom! The world would be a better place if there were more just like her out there
My Momnow deceased was the best, my favorite memories were of Christmas going pick out the Christmas tree then spending hours decorating it. She loved to load it down with iciclles.
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My special memory of my mom is making cookies, cinnamon rolls and crafts just before Christmas when I was in fourth grade. She told me of a large family in town facing medical and financial troubles, and we were going to be “sharing” Christmas with that family. The entire week that we prepared the Christmas box seemed “magical.” It was thru this experience I learned the power of charity and the art of giving graciously and with “heart.”
My mom is always there for me and my kids, and never expects anything in return.
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My mom is the best, although she tends to nag a lot I know she means well & wants what’s good for me!
my mother raised eight kids and made each one of us feel like we were the most important person in her eyes.
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i tweeted http://twitter.com/purplelover04/status/14516797091
Tell you about my mom? OK. LOL….
My mom works in the same office that I do, which means I have TONS of stories. It also means that I can NEVER escape!
Mom is the type of person who believes those chain emails floating around. I just wish she would fact check them before sending them to everyone on her email list. She loves to overreact. Just the other day, she came into my office to tell me that she is going to the doctor’s to check out a pain she has been having, and she wants to make sure that I know where she hides her money, “just in case”. She drew me a map. And she left her Avon order in my office because she didn’t want to leave it in the car in the heat in case she got sent to the hospital.
Seemed like a lot of hassle for just some gas pains!
(I love my mommy)
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My mom worked hard when I was growing up so she was always at work but now that she’s retired she’s a great grandmother to my son =)
My favorite Mom memory is going on a roadtrip to Disneyland with my mom, lots of music, greasy spoon diners, and of course the magic of Disney at the end of the road.
I subscribe by email.
I subscribe via email
I tweeted
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Tweeted the giveaway:
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My mom is awesome! She’s kind & caring and always there when I need her
My mom likes to live in the ‘sticks’ with lots of animals but she’s not really an animal person, what the heck? She’s from a harder time and she likes to completely take care of herself
My mom works so much that i never spend Mother’s Day with her…this year was different..i met her at her work before she got off !! She was so surprised! We visited some family and spent time at her house looking at photo albums and drinking tea(then later wine)
Great Mothers Day this year!!
http://twitter.com/livelovelynn/status/14509506712
My mom was a wonderful woman and yet very aggravating at the same time!
I tweeted via katiebtdoor:
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My mother is a minister and she raised me by herself. I thank her for the wisdom she’s provided for me.
My mom is my friend and shopping buddy. We always shop together.
Thank you for the great giveaway!
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My mother is 83 and still going strong. She’s active as a Hospice volunteer, in a senior choral group, and in the church!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I am an e-mail subscriber
I follow you on twitter (@GMERRELL) and tweeted at http://twitter.com/GMERRELL/status/14506783050
My mom is the most reliable person I know. No matter what happens I always know I can count on her for whatever it is!
I subscribe
http://twitter.com/susan1215/status/14506590226
I loved going shopping with my Mom
My mom is pretty great. She went to school to learn sign language to be able to help people at her work with hearing difficulties.
tweeted-http://twitter.com/hondaray6/status/14504938666
My mom’s best talent was her cooking. I remember her most in the kitchen baking, making dinner, and in the summer canning vegetables and making jams and jellies.
My mother passed away several years ago. She was the sweetest, most unselfish, and loving person I’ve ever known. I never heard her raise her voice or say anything unkind to any of us e kids. I miss her still.
Thanks for the giveaway.
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My Mom always puts other before herself. I’d like to take her out to dinner with thisl
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my mom is a super hero she can do anything with such perfection. i wish i was more like her
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My mom lives far away, but has always been there whenever I have needed. She even drove 16 hrs on Sept 11(2001) from NY to WI to be with me when my daughter was born preterm.
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My mom always liked baking & cooking from scratch. I have lots of memories helping her make things like apple butter & dumplings.
When I was about 13 years old, my dad was at sea and my mom went to a party for Navy wives. She wasn’t a “partier” and didn’t go out often. She certainly didn’t stay out late. So, when it got to be 11pm and she wasn’t home, I started worrying. I called the party, and they said that she’d left. By the time she got home, I was crying, afraid she’d been killed, and she had a Florida driver’s license, and no one would know that she had a home and child alone in South Carolina. Of course, she was fine, it just took her a little while to drive home, but I told her that from then on, she had a curfew! She told me later it was the best thing that ever could have happened, because when I got to be driving age, I always made sure she knew where I was and when I would be home. Now that she’s a widow, and I call her regularly in the evenings to make sure she’s okay, she is pretty careful to let me know when she’s going out for dinner or a church board meeting or something that will have her getting home late.
http://twitter.com/cneiding/status/14497855195 tweet
I Tweeted this giveaway to all my Twitter friends – Daily Tweet!
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Last chance to tweet!
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My mom is my best friend and helped me thru many issues while growing up
daily tweet http://twitter.com/5memb/status/14495976362
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My special memories are of the two of us making christmas cookies together.
Daily tweet:
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My mother likes to keep in touch with everyone. She is in her 80′s and is still wishing she could find some of her elementary school friends!
My mom is a nurse!
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Gardenstatemom@aol.com
My mom has an infectious laugh that makes everyone around her happy.
Daily Tweet http://twitter.com/eyzofblu63/status/14490756946
My mom is a loving and caring woman and my best friend.
shawn113(at)hotmail(dot)com
I lost my Mom when I was twelve years old. But I was blessed to have an aunt “Dot” who sacrificed alot for myself and my sisters. I loved her so much …
Tweet 5/22 http://twitter.com/ktkatherine/status/14488944752
I subscribe in google reader (Anne Jolly)
I tweeted
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My mom is amazing, she volunteers to help foster kids and loves to play with her grandchildren.
My Mom is my everything. She’s my best friend. My Mom was a very young teenage mother but she and my Dad stuck together and made a great life for each other and me.
Mom isn’t just my Mom. She’s “Mom” to lot’s of kids and adults alike. She’s the kind to make sure you eat, makes sure you have everything you need, would still scold you no matter what age you are to straighten you out and hug you when she’s done. We giggle at nothing sometimes, cry together others. She always tells me she loves me, every day in fact and always gives me a hug and kiss when I go. Not a day passes that we don’t at least talk on the phone. She loves spring time and flowers, new babies and four legged fur balls. My Mom, she’s pretty much perfect and I’m lucky to be her daughter.
Thank you for the chance. Momma would surely appreciate a bit of money to spend on herself.
my mom taught me to respect others
Memory of her drawing a Christmas tree in the new fallen snow on her porch.
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5/22 tweety
The day after my mother gave birth to her second child, her husband left her, at 27 her mother died of a brain aneurysm leaving her to raise her young siblings along with her own children. My mother went on to have two more children, while working full time most of her life. She owned a dress shop, was a nighttime bookkeeper, Activities Director for the YMCA, and a Reserve Police Officer, but most of all she was a loving wife and mother. My mother is now a full time caregiver to my father who has Alzheimer’s.
My Mom has had me (or me and my husband) over for Sunday dinner ever since I moved away. It’s always a very fun, special time for all of us.
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I posted this giveaway on my Blog
http://carolsbloggys.blogspot.com/2008/10/contests-from-our-bloggy-friends.html
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My Mom is no longer with me, but the last thing we did together was go on a cruise and we had a ball! She really enjoyed it and I loved being able to show her a good time!
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My mom rules!
Tweeted
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Thanks
I think of my mom as the last of the Southern vamps. She loved the men and they loved her back.
My mom was ever practical. Her favorite Mother’s Day gift was when I gave her a years supply of coffee and toilet paper.
tweet:
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http://twitter.com/lifesandcastle2/status/14475757542
My mom always runs late, We can talk about anything, and she has a big heart.
My mom is a wonderful seamstress and she made me the most beautiful yellow dress for my school tea one year. I am so proud of her and her accomplishments and she always made me feel special.
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runningmatey at hotmail dot com
My mom is a retired school teacher. From her I get my inability to go past a grammatical error without having to fix it.
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My mom is one of my best friends. She has always supported what I wanted to do and we can totally geek out to each other. She dealt with all of my ‘issues’ growing up. Soon I”m going to be a mommy and she is being soo supportive!! It just warms my heart
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mrsmchappell at gmail dot com
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My mom was a good mom when we was growing up, she was a hard worker. After we got older though she changed
My mom is so creative – she can sew, cook, make crafts, garden and the list goes on! I wish I had gotten some of her talent!
Thanks
Tweet 5/21 http://twitter.com/ktkatherine/status/14466595355
Awesome blog and thanks for the giveaway!
Would love, love, LOVE to win this!
She has the best smile ever!
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My mom is a cheapskate when it comes to herself. She only orders ice water at restaurants. She brings her own toilet paper and food when she comes to visit us because she doesn’t want to use ours!?!
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My mom wore reinstones on her shoes she had closets of them I remember going into the closets & picking out the glittery stones …& she never got mad she just bought more… I miss MY MOM even after 36 yrs I still miss her
ty for the chance to win!! Follower on twitter as”alongcamemary1″ fan on facebook “Mary Rodowicz”……….I also subscribe to your email and blog..love your blog!! Mary:) :cassieandmary@yahoo.com
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My Mom was an army wife and dealt with me and brother admirably when my dad would away. She is very kind and giving. I love her more than life itself.
I am a new Twitter Follower who retweeted this giveaway with the green button as-sharonjo1! Fingers crossed! Thanks! senekers@comcast.net
I am a basket weaver and I like to weave special baskets I think my Mom would like especially for Mother’s Day! Thanks! senekers@comcast.net
Tweeted! http://twitter.com/melahelen/status/14430644490
My Mom thinks I am so freakin’ funny! She laughs so hard at some of the things I do. No one is a better audience than she is!
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my mother has been gone for quite a while but I did enjoy hearing her tell about acting in silent films when she was a very young girl
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I’ve been blessed with an incredible mom. She is so willing to help and loves unconditionally. She now has 20 grandchildren, yet she has the ability to make each one of them feel special and loved! She taught me how to be a mom by being such a wonderful one herself!
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My mom is the most beautiful person and has filled my life with joy. She adopted me at 3 days old and has never made me feel anything but loved and wanted. Never for one day did I feel less of a daughter because I am not her biological child.
http://twitter.com/Missy_wpg/status/14456655475
I tweeted with the button above tweet number 375 username @blueeyeleo
I am getting to repeat the things mom use to tell me when I was a kid in the hospital like “Its best for you you cant get better if they dont do these tests” since she is in the hospital now and doing the same thing I use to fighting about not wanting to take the tests.
I love my mom! She is always there for me.
Mom is the ultimate care taker in our family – she has spent the past two years taking care of daddy who is bravely battling colon cancer.
My Mom has passed on, but I will always remember our trip to Disney World on Christmas. We froze our butts off and would have given just about anything for a turtleneck sweater or even just a sweatshirt.
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My mom is the strongest female role model I know. She is assertive, isn’t afraid to stand up for her family, and is there when you need her. We recently lost my dad to cancer, and she still tries to put up a strong front. I love her dearly.
http://twitter.com/idahomom7/status/14451596492
My mom fought a courageous battle against breast cancer. I miss her everyday.
Tweet.
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I am subscribed via email as jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com.
My mom is a truly wonderful person that draws people to her where ever she goes. She is always there to lend a hand or an ear and never passes judgement as she says that is Gods job. Not hers.
She has a beautiful spirit that comes out in her personality and smile.
And at the age of seventy she has never changed or strayed from her convictions or the person that she is.
I am very fortunate to have been chosen as her child.
Thank you so much for the chance to win.
jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com
Subscribed to Mommy Goggles by email
Blogged about the giveaway
Tweeted the giveaway
My mom was funny and full of laughter — she could make anyone around her enjoy the humor in things
*Thanks* for the giveaway!
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My Mom loves to buy little trinkets for the kids and adult kids. Everything she does, she puts a little thought behind it. Growing up it was tough, but Mom knew what to do.
Later in life things got better and she shared everything with no conditions. Love was always there and so is Mom.
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Tweeted http://twitter.com/pittsy82/status/14442527140
I blogged about this giveaway!
http://lee38.blogspot.com/2010/05/win-50-visa-gift-card-from-western_21.html
I subscribe to your feed via email subscription!
I follow U on Twitter and Tweeted this giveaway to my Twitter friends!
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My Mom is my best friend (and fishing buddy)! She’s a great wife, mother, grandmother, friend and confidant to ‘all’ who has been blessed with her ‘loving spirit’!
She continues to love my siblings and I ‘unconditionally’ (which at times, can be quite difficult) and takes great pride in caring for my ‘ailing’ father who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.
She only sees ‘the good’ in others and is always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need!
And – Oh, did I mention that she makes a ‘killer’ blueberry cobbler!
Thanks for the great giveaway offering and for allowing me to express ‘How Great My Mom Is’ to your readers!
Good Luck to all!
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http://twitter.com/JalapenoMama/status/14440248728
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http://twitter.com/ccboobooy/status/14439339045
My mom has the biggest heart in the world. She’ll give you the clothes off her back.
http://twitter.com/purplelover04/status/14438000010
my mother overcame schizophrenia with the help of new meds on the market..its nice to have a mom. she was diagnosed when i was about 5. im 37 now.
I know everyone says it, but my mom is the best. I don’t go a day without talking to her atleast once!
Thanks for the opportunity!
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http://twitter.com/KawaiiSplosion/status/14422090288
Although crippled, she never let it be an obstacle. She would sew me costumes to play dress up in and teach me how to have fun with simple things using my imagination. Wheelchair bound, she taught me not to care what others think of you.
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5/21 tweety!
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My mother is now deceased. She instilled in me a strong sense of family, honesty and integrity. She is missed.
My mom is a very talented artist. Thanks.
Mom’s are the best!!!
My mom raised five kids. Thats crazy awesome. I don’t even know how she did that.
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I just entered the Western Union $250 Giveaway #MommyGoggles! http://tinyurl.com/36sf2us
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http://twitter.com/saphyress/status/14396785494
Some of my favorite memories were family vacations
Daily tweet http://twitter.com/rsmstahley/status/14391575624
I remember how Mom would play Candyland with me for HOURS! She must have been so bored, but she made it fun for me!
DT http://twitter.com/maybaby522/status/14391458098
I’m an email subscriber!
Tweet! http://twitter.com/her5boys480/status/14391137352
My Mom has sacrificed her retirement years to raise a special need grandchild…she is just amazing!
I signed up for your email!
I just tweeted here http://twitter.com/femalebiker21/status/14390662248
My favorite memory would be going to the beach with my mom for the 1st time when i was 8 and us playing in the ocean.
My very favorite memory of my mom is when we went to NYC for Mother’s Day a few years ago. She had never been there and we had a wonderful time!
05-20
https://twitter.com/someluckydog/status/14383098833