Announcing a ZRecs Network Newsletter, and big prizes for subscribers

We're starting up a newsletter for what we're calling the ZRecs Network, which will offer a recap of the best content of the month on all ZRecs sites, offers and discounts from ZRecs advertisers, and news about what we're up to. Every month we'll also be giving away a pretty awesome prize to a U.S.-based subscriber over the age of 18, drawn at random from our subscription list.

This month's prize is a Britax Frontier car seat and booster, which we reviewed (and loved) a little over a month ago. See the Z Recommends review of the Frontier to learn why we're so fond of this seat and of what Britax is doing generally in advancing car seat safety.

On September 1 we'll draw a winner at random and contact them via the email they signed up with. You can sign up for the ZRecs Network newsletter here. You'll be able to unsubscribe easily at any time, and will receive one email from us each month. And if you live in the U.S. and are 18 or older, you'll have a chance to win a great prize every month without lifting a finger!

If you are a ZRecs advertiser or have a product that has been reviewed on one of our blogs and would like to be a part of our newsletter, contact us at editors@zrecs.com.

Stay tuned for more exciting news about the ZRecs Network in the days to come!

Water Bottle Giveaway, Week 2: BPA-Free Nalgene

This week we're giving away a pair of BPA-free Nalgene bottles - one On The Go Tritan bottle (24 oz., $9, reviewed in our Water Bottle Showdown) and one classic 32-oz. HDPE bottle ($6) - to two winners!

One winner will be drawn from the comments on this post. To enter to win, comment here with your favorite non-water, non-alcoholic liquid refreshment for hot summer days.

The other winner will be drawn from fans of Gardenaut on Facebook. We'll contact the winner directly through Facebook's messaging system. If you have a Facebook account, take note: We'll be occasionally offering giveaways through our Facebook fan base, either announcing giveaways exclusively through the site or randomly contacting a winner to see if they want a prize. Become a fan now and you could be our second winner this week! Already a fan? Then you're already entered!

No purchase is necessary for either entry; every entrant can enter using both methods, Facebook and these comments, which means that there is a snowball's chance in hell that one individual could win both prizes! U.S. residents and addresses only, please, and we'll accept entries through Friday, June 13 at 5 p.m. CT. If you leave an email address, we'll contact you using it, but we won't follow links to blogs or profiles looking for one; we will be announcing winners on this blog, as well as sending the names to PRIZEY.

Twelve Weeks of Water Bottle Giveaways

The generous folks at Camelbak, Nalgene, and ThinkSport have each agreed to four weeks of giveaways of the bottles we reviewed in Gardenaut's BPA-Free Water Bottle Showdown last month. We'll run giveaways in rotation, which means we have twelve weeks of prizes for Gardenaut readers!

For this week's giveaway, we're thinking about the searing heat of summer, which is well on its way in Central Texas.

Comment on this post with a short poem about water for a chance to win a ThinkSport stainless-steel water bottle of your choice, a $22 value shipped free to any U.S. resident 18 or over.

No purchase is necessary to enter, and we don't care if your entry is an ode, a haiku, a limerick, a sonnet, or just a little free verse - just ruminate for a few seconds on the glory of H2O and you'll be in the running for this sleek, portable, chilled-H2O delivery system!

We'll accept entries until 5 p.m. CT Friday, June 6, and will select a winner at random, posting it here on Gardenaut and sending in winner info to PRIZEYWinners. The winner will have five days to claim their prize by emailing us with their mailing address and prize preference.