The 2012 Giftees Awards – Honoring the 10 Best Gifts in 10 Fun Categories PLUS BIG NEWS!

Have you ever heard of the Giftee Awards? Some of my readers may have. If not you will get to know more about them now.

The Giftee Awards started last year on the website Gifts.com. I’m sure if you’ve ever Googled gift ideas you found your way to Gifts.com. Personally when I have Googled “gifts for girls”, “gifts for men”, “gifts for teenage boys” I have seen Gifts.com come up as the #1 site in almost all the searches I have done. That is why Gifts.com is your number one source for gifts and gift ideas for everyone on your shopping list, not only during the holidays but year round too.

The Giftee Awards is looking for THE BEST gift ideas in 10 different categories;

Best Gift for Him
Best Gift for Her
Best Gift Under $25
Best Toy of 2012
Best Gift Made in the U.S.A.
Best Eco-Friendly Gift
Best Gadget Gift
Best Gift for the Host
Most Unusual Gift
Best Gift for Baby

In addition, one lucky person is going to win a $1,000 holiday shopping spree and another person will win an iPad 2. All you have to do to enter is nominate the best gifts you can purchase online. Each nomination gets you one entry into the contest for either the shopping spree or iPad 2. You can get a maximum of 10 entries, however you can nominate as many gifts as you want. Although anyone world wide can nominate a gift, only residents of the US are eligible to win the shopping spree or iPad 2.

Nominate your favorite gifts from now until October 5, 2012.

It’s super easy to nominate a gift. Simply find your favorite gift idea for any of the above listed categories and enter it in the easy nomination form. It must be a gift that you can purchase online. You can also share your nomination using the simple share buttons with friends and family on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest for added chances to win.

The more nominations a gift gets the better chance it has of being selected as a finalist my a panel of judges. After the judges determine the Top 10 gifts for each category you get to vote for the winner. The winners receiving bragging rights and a special award they can add to their packaging.

“The Giftee Awards give us the unique opportunity to see what America really wants for Christmas. We believe that thoughtful gift giving brings us closer to the people we care about most. We hope the Giftee Awards will show that great gifts don’t have to be hard to find,” said Dana Holmes, Editor-in-Chief of Gifts.com. “The Giftee Awards are a natural extension of Gifts.com as the #1 authority on gifts. After the success of its first year, Gifts.com is thrilled to launch the Giftee Awards for the second year in a row.”

Guess who is one of the judges for the Giftee Awards? You probably guessed it, yours truly – ME!!!! That’s right. I’m one of the Giftee Awards judges. I get to help select the Top 10 gifts in each category along side other judges which include Party Bluprints Blog, Toy Insider, Foodie City Mom, Married My Sugardaddy, eVite, Red Tricycle, Scary Mommy, Retail Me Not Insider, Green Gifts Guide, the Gifts.com Gift Gurus. I’ve included a link to all of their sites if you want to check them out.

The finalists will be announced on October 22, 2012. The winners will be announced on November 26, 2012.

The great thing about the Giftee Awards is that you not only get a chance to win great prizes but it’s also a resource to help YOU find great gifts for family and friends. This holiday season I’m going referencing the Giftee Award nominees to find gifts for those on my holiday shopping list.

For more information the Giftees site. To start nominationg gifts visit http://giftees.gifts.com.

You can also keep up with the competition by following Gifts.com on the following social network sites.

Gifts.com on Facebook

Giftees Awards on Twitter

Giftees Awards on Pinterest

Gifts.com gets over EIGHT MILLION unique visitors PER MONTH. Wow! That is amazing!

Gifts.com is best known for helping consumers find great gifts as well as inspired gift ideas, advice and interactive shopping services that enable them to become better, more organized gift givers.

The site also offers consumers a Personality Profiler where gift seekers answer a few fun questions about who they’re shopping for to reveal customized gift ideas, perfectly tailored to their personality. That is a cool feature. I’ve already played around with it and found some gift ideas for my husband.

Gifts.com was founded in 2005 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: LINTA).

Do you have a great gift idea? Make sure to nominate it for the Giftee Awards for your chance to win a $1,000 shopping spree or iPad 2!