National Napping Day | Protect-A-Bed | Giveaway
March 15, 2010 by admin - Jennifer
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Company: Protect-A-Bed
Item Reviewed: Will be receiving a Queen size Mattress Protector
Item Given Away: Queen size Mattress Protector
Start Date: March 15
End Date: March 29
Protect-A-Bed offers consumers a complete line of protective bedding products to create a Healthy Sleep Zone. The unique technology featured in Protect-A-Bed’s mattress and pillow protectors was developed in South Africa in 1980 before the company was officially established in the United States in 2000. Now selling in 27 countries, Protect-A-Bed is a worldwide leader in mattress protection innovation. The company developed the proprietary Miracle Membrane® and patented Bug Lock® and Secure Seal®, which help create a dry, bed bug free, anti-allergy sleep zone for people of all ages. Protect-A-Bed products are listed as a Class 1 Medical Device with the Food and Drug Administration and have received the Good Housekeeping Seal. For more information, visit www.protectabed.com.
Protect-A-Bed® supports the art of napping on National Napping Day
Napping is an art – an art studies show bolsters health and creativity. History has produced a legion of great nappers. Among them are Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Lord Byron, who after sweet slumbers achieved great feats of art, science and literature.
Is this a coincidence – this combination of greatness and napping? On this Napping Day, we at Protect-A-Bed think not. Napping Day is the first Monday after daylight saving time begins. It’s the day when the majority of us, a bit weary from losing an hour of sleep, desperately long for a short siesta. And, we here at at Protect-A-Bed believe you should cave to that longing.
Studies abound tout the benefits of napping, from enhancing memory and learning, to improving work performance, and increasing mental acuity and overall health. That’s why on the first Monday after daylight saving time begins, it’s fitting to celebrate the benefits of the nap and those who take them.
However, those who nap the best understand a sleeping place needs protection from allergens and dust mites. After all, waking from a nap with the sniffles is no way to wake up at all. Research shows 10 percent of the general public and as many as 90 percent of people with allergic asthma (depending on the study you read) have an allergy to dust mites. And, dust mites love spoiling our napping refuge, taking up residence in mattresses and pillows. In fact, as many as two million dust mites can thrive in an unprotected mattress.
Besides dust mites, it’s not unusual for other allergy triggers like pollen and pet dander to become trapped within mattresses. By using a mattress protector, allergy sufferers can create an impermeable barrier between themselves and the allergens within their bed. By coupling mattress protection with pillow protectors that seal allergens within pillows, people can create a virtually allergy-free nap space.
So today, harness the creative power that comes from napping, and embrace your inner Da Vinci. And remember, the art of napping needs a canvas, and that canvas comes from Protect-A-Bed.
Today only (Monday, March 15th), Protect-A-Bed will be hosting a Twitter contest where they will be giving away sets of Premium Pillow Protectors to those who share the funniest place they’ve ever taken a nap. To enter, follow @Protect_A_Bed on Twitter and use the hashtag #nappingday to share your funniest or strangest nap location.
And in honor of National Napping Day I am pleased to be hosting a giveaway for one lucky Dirty Shirt reader to win a Queen Size Protect-A-Bed Premium Mattress Protector for themselves. See rules below to enter today.
I will be receiving a Queen Size Protect-A-Bed Premium Mattress Cover from Protect-A-Bed as well as one to giveaway to one of my readers as part of a campaign for Global Influence.
Giveaway
- MAIN RULE – Tell me in comments the funniest place you, your spouse or your children have fallen asleep, doesn’t have to be long. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
- 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment.
- 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter (button in subscribe section on the right sidebar) and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.
- 1 Extra Entry – Tweet this giveaway. Copy and paste – @Jentifa is giving away a Queen Size Protect-A-Bed Mattress Protector! Check it out here http://bit.ly/bJXmQa. Then come back and leave the direct link to your tweet (go to your twitter account, click on the words when your tweet was sent (ie. 5 seconds ago) and copy and paste that link in comments.
- NEW – 1 Extra Entry – Friend me on Google Friend Connect on sidebar and leave a separate comment that you did.
- 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.
This giveaway will run through midnight on March 29, with winner being announced the morning of March 30. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
I have one of these on my bed and I LOVE it. I would like to have one for my daughters bed too!
I remember when my daughter was little, maybe 3ish, she had played hard all morning and refused to take a nap. I was busy cleaning house and doing my daily routine and opted not to wrestle her over a nap. I knew when she slowed down for a minute she would be asleep. Going about my business I realized it had gotten quiet so I went to see what she was in to. What I found was so cute and so funny. She had been playing in the livingroom where she was putting her dolls to bed on the sofa. When I found her she had fallen over on the sofa asleep … standing up. Imagine a tiny 3yo, face down on the sofa asleep with both feet still planted on the floor. She gave a whole new meaning to falling asleep on her feet.
Under a six-foot-tall hoop skirt I was making. I used it as a tent.
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I have napped on the floor of a bus before. Under the seat — there was more room there
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DH and I were running errands with the kids yesterday and we hit the grocery store. One of the boys was sleeping soundly and we couldn’t put him in the cart, so Dh took him to the home section of Kroger signature store and sat in one of their comfy chairs. They slept for at least half an hour.
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the funnest place?……. well as a family i cant answer that but as a single person i can say at the salon while getting my eyebrows waxed…yeah i know weird
When I was prenant, I would always fall asleep in the waiting room while waiting to get in for my prenatal appointments. I was always sooo tired when pregnant. Thank you for this giveaway. Would love to win.
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not funny, but i used to fall asleep in our meetings all the time
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I am one of those people that has to fall asleep in my own bed so I don’t have any funny places that I have ever fallen asleep.
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I fell sound asleep sitting at my computer playing a game.
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when my son was 2yo he fell asleep during dinner right at the table
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My son and husband just fell asleep last week at a professional wrestling match, I am not even sure how they accomplished that one!
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The funniest place I ever fell asleep was in a restaurant at Disneyland and my face fell in my plate of spaghetti when I was 5.
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My husband and daughter fell asleep fishing from the dock the other day!
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My husband fell asleep on a military tank when he was in the Marines.
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While staying the weekend and my grandparents in laws house which is in a different state from where we live, my husband and I had to sleep in the back of their durango, since there was no more roomin the house. There was a lot of family there that weekend.
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My boys have both fallen asleep outside in the yard in the summertime. Scared me to death the first time it happened!
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Once during a telephone conference call for work, I sat down on the couch (I work from home!!) and actually fell asleep….and I think I was snoring, too!! Not sure if anybody noticed or not!!
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I fell asleep standing up waiting in line for a movie since I didn’t sleep the previous night!
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the only places I can think of is church and the movies
The funniest place I’ve fallen asleep is at a get together at my in-laws. Everyone was talking to each other and I just snoozed right off in the middle of it. In my defense, I was pregnant at the time.
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I haven’t fallen asleep in odd places but my friend fell asleep at a KISS concert we went too.
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my 2 yr old daughter (at the time) was playing and sat in her doll wagon and dell asleep!
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My Grandson, when he was about 3 could fall asleep anywhere…in his glider rocker with each leg up on the arms of the glider, in his high chair with an ice cream cone in his hand, half way on the dog. Just about any where.,
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I fell asleep in class while taking my midterms! It was so tired reviewing the night before and I just realized that I had snoozed when my prof came to my desk. Apparently, I had fallen asleep while answering my essay test – and half of what I wrote was gibberish!
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I remember taking my son to a rather loud musical movie when he was about 6mos old. The child could sleep thru anything. I nursed him and zonk not a peep for 2 hours. Thanks for the great giveaway.
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I have to be in my bed to sleep. My husband though can and will fall asleep anywhere – in church, at movies, at friends playing cards, while driving…….. it’s really more annoying than funny.
I fell asleep outside in my backyard under the summer Florida sun on the day of my first date with my Husband! I was Lobster red for our first date! Luckily, he had seen me before and really liked me. Lol…If I hadn’t liked him so much I probably would have canceled.
I remember on more than one occassion I, or one of my sisters, would fall asleep at church under the pew and our parents would forget us there!!
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When I was a child, I climbed inside of an old steamer trunk and got a little too comfy and fell asleep, my parents found me dressed in old antique clothes with a floppy had over my face.
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When my son was 1, he fell asleep in the laundry basket as I was bringing it upstairs.
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The funniest place I’ve fallen asleep was on the public transportation bus on my way home from college classes – good thing I woke up before my stop!
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My son is constantly falling asleep in his high chair!
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