Greetings! and welcome to my weekly giveaway!
Did you know that you can always see last week’s winner by clicking on the colorful “Giveaway Info” button on the right side of this page? 😀
In the very early days of my giveaways, when there were just a small number of entries, I used to write the names on slips of paper and then draw one out of a hat. Within a few months, there were a lot more entries, so I switched to using the random number generator, and I have been using it ever since!
I like the fact that winning here is just a matter of luck. It’s very fair that way. Although I really do wish I had enough prizes each week so that everyone who enters could win – I’m afraid my budget could never support that. 😉
But don’t give up – there’s one winner every week and you could be next! 🙂
For this week’s giveaway, I have a very chic pair of earrings!
These earrings feature Vintage Lucite beads in a beautiful, rich, cobalt blue with elegant little splashes of gold paint, which gives them a royal look.
For accents, I’ve used Swarovski Tanzanite Aurora Borealis crystals, and 14K gold-filled beads with a fluted design. The artisan-crafted earwires are 14K gold filled.
MEASUREMENTS: just under 2″ in length.
Contest Rules and How To Enter
Any day you leave a comment on this blog – it is counted as a chance to enter that week’s giveaway.
For example, if you answer today’s question (you’ll find it below!) that will give you one chance.
But if you then come back another day this week and comment on a different post – you will have earned another chance in this week’s giveaway! There are usually 5 posts per week – Monday through Friday – so you can have up to 5 chances to enter!
When you comment you do not have to mention that it’s an entry in the giveaway. My blog program shows me all of the “comments” as they come in – so I do not miss any of them, and all will count to be entered into the drawing! 😀
Today’s question is:
Are you the oldest, the middle, the youngest, or an only child in your family – and do you think “birth order” affects our future personalities?
The Boring Stuff . . .
You must be 18 yrs. old. After the completion of the contest, the name of the winner will be listed here. The winner will also be notified by email. If the winner fails to respond to email within 3 days from the time notification email has been sent, the win will be null and void and a new winner will be chosen. The prize will be mailed via USPS First Class Mail
All entries must be received by 9:00 p.m. EST on 01/31/10, and the winner will be selected on or about 02/01/10.
Oh Boy, I’m first to comment today! Hello Sweet Crystal! All of your jewelry is so beautiful, and these lovely earrings are no exception! They are sooo pretty!!!
I’m the oldest. It’s just my sister and me, and everyone thinks I’m the younger one because I’m sillier than she is! I think birth order could affect our future personalities if there are many siblings, and a wide age range. The two year difference between Michele and me made no difference though.
You think up such fun questions! ;D
Sending a big hug,
Paulette xoxo
I’m an only child, because my mother was an oldest child- and decided she’d never be able to be fair to any younger siblings of mine;).
I think birth order matters as much as other people make it matter. I’ve known older kids who were forced to be surrogate parents at age 6, and yeah, they were much more mature and responsible than a kid should have been, and I bet that stuck with them. Same for younger and middle kids.
But one thing I have noted, quite distinctly, about kids with sibs- they none of them have any sense of private property. I was always so appalled by the way multipack kids would just grab each other’s stuff, not even asking permission–so rude, I thought!–because of course everything in my house was (a)mine, of no interest to my parents or (b) theirs, and I was of course not going to infringe. I am still horrified by the way people from big families just grab each other’s stuff! Even as adults! Savages! Communists! People who lose books constantly!;)
I’m the oldest of 2 and I definitely think birth order affects personalities. I was more focused on achievement in school and my sister is so much more laid back. She is more socially outgoing, and I’m more of the homebody.
I don’t know if it has more to do with birth order or just the fact that my parents relaxed quite a bit before she came along 8 years later.
OMG!! Those earrings have my name on them!! They look like little world globes. Love, love, love the ear wires.
I am the baby of the family. Older sister, older brother. I had nothing to do with me being a spoiled little girl. However I do take credit for developing into a spoiled brat. When I didn’t get my way. LOL!! But my siblings loved me just the same. 😀
Beautiful earrings!! As Always!
I think they have proven scientifically that birth order does effect your personality. Since I was not raised with my brothers, and my cousins were way older than me, I was essentially an only child. I know that my family situation made me the independent person that I am today. In many ways, it contributed to my insecurities which I strive to overcome everyday. However, I do think that birth order effects our personalities in only a small way. So many other factors play into who we are, we become a combination of everything.
Good question, Crissy!
I am the youngest of 3 and I think that birth order seems to have affect on kids growing up, I think often the eldest is treated the hardest as the parents are still finding their way and by the time the third comes along they can get away with murder, well that is at least what the other two think! But I think it is also a bit lonely for the 3rd if there is a big age gap as the first won’t want to play the games you are interested in, lucky we had the dogs to play with me!
However I think personalities are something you are born with as much as something that develops over time. I can tell you my daughter is a extrovert! The cheeky little monkey! and my Nephew is a introvert and they have both been this way since birth.
Thanks for great questions Crystal, love visiting!
Beautiful, lovely earrings!!! I love them! I’ll be sure to comment every day! 🙂
I am the oldest of 2 & definitely the bossiest. I’m not sure that birth order affects personality, though. My husband is the youngest of 2 and is more dominant than his brother. I think it has more to do with an individual’s innate personality rather than birth order. Although…..my tween is an only child (so far) and she certainly acts as if the world revolves around her. (But I guess that is my fault, not because of her birth order!)
Great question! I check back for other answers.
Happy Monday,
Allison
More pretty jewelry! I love your giveaways, not only because of the prizes but also because of the questions.
I’m the oldest of 2 girls, and there are 6 years between me and my sister. In our case I think it did make a difference in our personalities. I’m much more maternal than she is. I was very excited about having a little sister and I used to play with her and take care of her. That has carried over to my adult life. I married a man who was the youngest child, and I take care of him and our 2 daughters.
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m the oldest. I do think it makes a difference–I think I felt more responsibility and pressure as the oldest child, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. As an adult now, I’m driven and motivated. Unfortunately, I can also be a perfectionist and very critical, which I’m trying to change. Sometimes I envy my little bro who is so much more laidback and happy go lucky. 🙂
Such lovely earings!
I am the youngest & I think it may affect one’s future personality since I do notice similarities in other people I know who are also the “youngest”.
Beautiful earrings! 🙂 Love the color and sparkle to them!
I’m the oldest of 5, and I think it definitely affected my personality. I can be very motherly and overprotective at times, and I’ve always been very responsible, organized, and put everyone else’s needs before my own.
I’m the middle and I totally think birth order determines parts of our personalities. I’ve always been the needy one who feels left out. My big sis is the bossy one ..and my little bro is the baby in every sense of the word.
This is sort of a hard question for me to answer. I am my Mom’s only child and my Dad’s youngest child. My brothers only lived with us on the weekends when I was very small so it did not really effect me all that much. I do however think that birth order shapes a person. The first child gets a lot of attention and is also “experimented” on the middle child gets less attention because this becomes old news to the parents and the youngest child tends to be spoiled because the parents realize that this is their last chance to have a young child 😀
I’m the eldest and I definately think that the order affects future personalities! The younger one is always more rambuncious – I think also because the parents are usually more strict with the first born.
I am the middle. I think that there is a lot to birth order. I can see it in my family and I can see it in my own kids. I can not say it is 100% birth order but it sure plays a role.
I’m an only child, which is great as a child because you have your parents full attention. However, it is less fun as an adult because your all on your own.
These earrings are lovely!
I’m the oldest of two, so I don’t think I can say much about middle siblings. However, I do think birth order has something of an effect on future personalities, if only because of the way children are treated. All the friends I have who were born first (and myself) had to act the most responsible growing up, which is reflected in a lot of their (and my) personalities now. Many of my friends who were born last in their families tend to act younger because they were the “babies”.
I’m the oldest and I do think it has an impact on your personality!
First of all, I want to say that I don’t know how you make jewelry so gorgeous- you truly have a gift.
As for the question: I’m the oldest child of two. I don’t know if it really affected my upbringing- I know that my parents were always really overprotective of me and really permissive with my brother, and I turned out to be the good kid…
I’m the youngest, and I think personality affects life more than order. For example, I wasn’t spoiled as the youngest. I actually had to do more work and chores than my older sibling!
The middle child, and no, I don’t think birth order has much to do with how one’s life turns out.
I am the youngest of 3, my oldest brother being 8 years older than I am and the other 7 years. I think being the only girl had a lot to do with my personality. I was a tomboy since my brothers and their friends were so much older and ended up going into engineering (I graduated from college in 1978 and was usually the only girl in my classes.)
I’m a middle kid, and I kind of do see that I’m more of a mediator, laid-back type. I definitely see the birth order influence in my kids. My oldest is very studious and a perfectionist. I try not to put labels on them though.
Beautiful earrings interesting question.
I do think birth order has an effect on personalities and the way people behave. I can see the effect clearly with family and friends.
I am an only child (and I like being one). I think ‘common wisdom’ has a boatload of misconceptions about what it means to be an only child but the experts mostly seem to get it right.
I am a middle child.
I agree with Rachel about being
the mediator.
Thank you for a chance to win.
well im the eldest of 2 but it was unique because my sister was disabled so i had to help out even more.
The earings are lovely!!So glad i found your site.
I’m the youngest of two girls, but there is a 10 year age difference. I think the age difference was a bigger factor for personality traits than the younger/older factor. Reason I say that, I think maybe it was a bit tough for my Sis to have to deal with a new sibling in the house at age 10. She’d had all of those years to herself and then dun dun dun…here comes little ‘ole me to rain on her parade. Maybe if she had been younger, we could have played together and became friends. About the time I was 5 (and getting into everything) she was turning 15 and wanting everyone to stay out of her things. Not a good combination. It didn’t help that I used to sneak in her room and play with her Kiddle dolls. It would drive her nuts to know that . LOL
I am the youngest of two – I have an older brother. But he is 5 years older than me, so it was almost like being an only child. I was determined not to do that to my kids. So I had three children, wanted four but it didn’t work out that way. I love family and love having them all around me.
I do think birth order effects personalities if the children are somewhat close in age (2 or three years apart). As a teacher, I could often identify kids by their birth order – I could also tell if I had a parent of a “first time middle schooler” – much harder on the parents, than the kids.
First of all, those are seriously gorgeous earrings. Wow.
As for the question . . . I am sort of a middle child. 2nd out of 4. I absolutely think birth order affects personality. Especially now that I am a mom. No matter how hard to try you treat your first child differently than your subsequent ones. You only have the one for however long (2 years in my case) and when the second one comes you just flat out don’t get as much one on one time with them. I don’t know that there’s a hard and fast rule about it, but I am a believer in birth order having an effect on personality traits.
Good day to you!!!! I am the oldest of four. I have two Sisters and a Brother. I “grew up” very early. I started working when I was 12, got married at 22, have two kids and a mortgage at 28!!!! My Brother (next to be born) has not moved out of my parents house yet (he is 27) My Sister (3rd to be born) moved out early, but is relying on my parents for financial support more then my Brother. My second Sister (4th to be born) moved out early, lives an hour away, and only comes to see my parents once a month or so. My youngest Sister and I have the most in common. I dont think order really says much.
Beautiful giveaway my fingers are crossed. I am the baby of the family and I was definately spoiled by my parents and babied….so I do think it effects personalities.Thanks Marian
I am the oldest. I definitely have the personality of an oldest child. I’m not sure if birth order affects us too much, my mom said that even as a little one I was able to handle more responsibility than my wild little brother.
I’m the youngest and although I do think my parents were not as strict with me as with my siblings, I don’t think it’s affected my personality. Maybe only my relationship to my parents and siblings. I’m now mom to an almost 3 yo and the more I look I her, the more I think personality is to a great extent innate, to a lesser extent hereditary…
I’m the oldest. I think that birth order does affect personality somewhat. I helped in the raising of my two younger brothers, which left me with a huge sense of responsibility. My hubby was the youngest and he is my polar opposite 😉
I am the oldest child in my family, and don’t think that birth order plays any role in how people act as adults. Everyone always thinks my younger sister must be the oldest sister.
I am the oldest of two children–we’re 10 years apart. Most of my childhood I was an only child, so I sort of have that mentality-a sense of independence. I can amuse myself for hours.. since I didn’t grow up with siblings… I do think birth order affects our personalities to some degree, if not just because of other people’s assumptions or expectations for later siblings. My younger brother (by 10 yrs) was ALWAYS compared to me in school and he hated it.. At times he became very motivated to “out do” me, then I think later in his high school years he decided it wasn’t worth it.
I am the middle child…and I definately believe that birth order plays a role in adulthood. I am incredibly competetive, and tend to get my point across by talking louder 🙂
I am the oldest and I do think to some extent birth order makes a difference. My parents were stricter with me, but naturally spent more time with me.
I’m the oldest, and birth order definity affects families; I was always the one who was most responsible for anything that was going on, including the raising of my two younger brothers!
I’m the youngest. Definitely, birth orders plays an important role on how we are as a person in the future ( :
I’m the eldest of 2 daughters, but mine and my sister’s ages are only a year in difference, we grew up together at the same time, so I guess there’s not much difference between us, though she had the advantage of seeing me doing the scary bits – starting a school, taking my final exams, entering to study at a university – first.
Our parents are both first-born, but while my mom is the eldest of 4 children, my father is the only child, and they definitely have distinct differences in their personalities: my mom tends to treat her siblings (and occasionally other people) motherly, because she had to look after them from very early age, and she’s very social; and my father is quite egocentric and needs a constant reminder to care about other people too:)
I’m the middle child, but I have all the stereotypical oldest child attributes, so while I think birth order has an effect, I don’t think it is very easy to predict or quantify.
I am the younger of two. My sister was way more bossy and domineering than I. I was always better at obeying and helping but I don’t think it had to do with birth order at all.
I am the youngest of 6. I had to work since I was 14 to buy things, car, college, ect. My two oldest sisters got anything they wanted since they are the favorites,
I’m the oldest of 2. Actually I didn’t think about it before, but birth order may affect the personality as there is a generation difference.
I’m the youngest of two. I think “birth order” does play some role in personality, however I think my brother and I are really similar.
i’m the youngest and yes I’m a bit more daring because I can get away with it… even now at the age of 28
Hi! I am the oldest of two, and I absolutely believe in birth order theory! It’s not destiny, and there are a lot of other factors that can shape a personality, but birth order is one of the most significant conditions of our early life environment. It can’t help but have a major effect (in a general sense) on our development.
Cool question…I like this game! 🙂 Love the earrings, too!
I am the eldest of 2 and I do think it has made mine and my sisters personalities very different. I am the stronger of us, emotionally and I have always been more mature even at the same respective ages! It has to make some affect on us really, doesn’t it.
Love the earrings!
I was the middle of 3 in my moms first marriage but I never really thought of it before and it’s been 33 years. I am still the middle child after my moms second marriage because I am the middle of 5 all together. If you count my father having 3 in the first and then one with his g/f then I’m his 3rd. Not sure if the birth order affects personalities. Sometimes the first is spoiled but then again sometime the last is. Sometimes the first has all the pressure of looking out for the rest or is the one that has to be used to set the example for the rest and then the youngest get away with everythng because the parents are just so burnt out from it all. It also depends on the years between them all. My mom had her last at 38 and by the time she got older she was too tired to keep up with the younger ones but passed away @ 60 when they were 25 and 23. Who knows.