Like Mother, Like Daughter ~ Generations of Tide Review & Giveaway

Washday soaps? Jane tried ‘em all, And every new detergent. But, none matched Tide – and so she cried, „“Please send some Tide! It’s urgent!“

Do you find that your purchases are influenced by the products you grew up with?  The products your mother used?


I certainly do.

My mother, like her mother before her, used Tide and Downy exclusively for household laundry.

It was really never anything we discussed.  Tide and Downy as laundry choices were a given.

Now, as a mother, I only use Tide and Downy products.  Although, I will admit to trying an "off brand" laundry detergent as a starving student.  
Once was as long as that lasted.  

One other time, after being swayed by a cute snuggly bear, I also tried another fabric softener.   Again, I went zooming back to my tried and true Tide and Downy.

Detergents, soaps, she tried them all and wasn’t satisifed ... But now his shirts are dazzling clean! Smart girl ... she turned to Tide!

What was "true" for my mother and grandmother, were also my laundry "truths".  Tide and Downy work great, leaving my clothes clean, fresh and soft, just the way I like them.  It's something I can count on.

While I do seem a bit stuck in my ways, I do move with the laundry times.  It took a bit of internal persuasion to make the conversion, but I did finally start using a Downy Ball.  What a fantastic gadget that turned out to be!

Now I'm on the precipice of yet another technological laundry upgrade.  (And the timing is just right, as my 10 year old Downy Ball has just worn it's little self out).

I recently received a Tide Retro Prize Pack from Procter & Gamble, to test out and share with my beloved readers.  (Big smiles!)  This coincides with a special promotion celebrating Tide's 65th anniversary ~ Tide is offering special edition packages with 1947 graphics, exclusively at Target, while supplies last!

Along with a number of Tide and Downy samples, I received a very cool retro Tide tshirt and an innovative Bounce Dryer Bar.  The Bounce Dryer Bar looked very interesting, but I'll admit, as a Downy liquid girl through and through, I had to warm up to it a bit before I actually put it to the test.

After shaking the last drop out of my Downy bottle and rinsing it for recycling, I bit the bullet and opened the Bounce Dryer Bar package, looked it over with a critical eye and installed it inside my dryer.  (No worries here, Readers, installing only requires the peeling of paper backing from the adhesive strip and sticking it to the wall of your dryer!)

 The result:  I love it!!!  After putting it through several loads of laundry, I found that it works just as good as my beloved Downy, but has some clear advantages: primarily that once it's attached to the wall of your dryer, you can forget about it for FOUR MONTHS!  Fabulous!  

While it will take a while for me to "learn" to stop reaching for my Downy ball, this advancement in streamlining my laundering is going to be greatly appreciated by the chief laundress in my house - ME!

Happy 65th Anniversary, Tide!

***GIVEAWAY***

In celebration of Tide's 65th Anniversary, Procter & Gamble is generously offering my readers a chance to win a Tide Retro Prize Pack as shown above.  Two lucky readers will win!  In addition to sample of Tide, Downy and innovative, time-saving Bounce Dryer Bar, you'll receive a Retro Tide Tshirt, which is available in Blue, Green, Red or Orange, adult size large.

This giveaway is open to residents of US, 18+ and will end on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at midnight EST.  The winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries and notified by email.  The winners will have 72 hours to respond before I must move on to runner ups.

Please leave your email address, in anti spam format, in your first entry comment, if it is not available via your comment name, so I may contact you if you are a winner.  Anti spam format is any layout that is not easily recognized by spam bots, such as tsue1136 (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Note: To be eligible to enter this giveaway, you must follow That's What She Said publicly via Google Friend Connect (mid right sidebar).

***MANDATORY ENTRY***
Tell me about the laundry products you can't live without or a laundry story in which your favorite laundry product saved the day.  

***BONUS ENTRIES***
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* Tweet about this contest, limit three tweets per day, 1 comment per tweet.
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* Enter any of my other active giveaways, leave a comment letting me know which, 3 entries per additional contest.

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THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.
Congratulations to:
Jayedee, comment #52 and Nicole, comment #118,
courtesy of Random.org!

On behalf of Procter & Gamble, Tide and That's What She Said, thank you to all entrants for following and participating!

I was provided with a Retro Prize Pack to explore for the purposes of creating this feature.  Information and images sourced from various Procter & Gamble sites & sources.  The opinions above are both honest and my own.  Prize and shipping are the responsibility of the sponsor.  Facebook is not involved in nor responsible for this giveaway in any fashion.