We have a winner!
It was a close race between Pug-ly Lamp, Deerly Departed and Broken Leg Lamp, with each contestant averaging 25% of the votes, but it came down to only one. The final, grand-prize winner and recipient of a $75 gift card to
LightingDirect.com is ....
Broken Leg Lamp!
Congratulations on your utter ugliness, Broken Leg Lamp! (And yes, Broken Leg Lamp is indeed a lamp, as someone conspiratorially whispered in the comments that it might not be so). This lamp was a memento made for by Brittany's father-in-law, for her husband Jared after he broke his leg over a decade ago! Ew! Well, give your in-laws a hug tonight Brittany, because they just helped you win the coveted title of Ugliest Lamp!
Second Place was just way too close to call, it changed every minute. My personal vote was for Raging Man, I laughed out loud every time I looked at him, but dang, it was so hard to choose. Thanks so much everyone for participating! I can't wait til next year!
***GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED***
And now it's YOUR chance to win something! The nice people at HomeTalk.com are giving away a $100 Target gift card to one Better After reader! BUT wait!
If we receive over 1,000 comments, they will bump the prize up to a $200 Target gift card!
Woo! Enter now and spread the word!
To Enter Once:
Just leave a comment here!
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Winner will be randomly selected Monday, Sept. 12th.
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655 comments:
My lamps for never looked so good! Hard to understand what some people are thinking but fun contest!
Awesomeness!!!! And.. I love love love contests! lol
The broken leg lamp is like the Leg Lamp from a Christmas Story gone wrong. Congrats!
I had a hard time choosing between the deer legs lamp and the broken leg lamp. Both are really, really ugly! I have to say, it was fun seeing all these lamps. Great contest!
Oh my lordie, that lamp was UGLY! And I thought my great-grandma had some winner in her house. She had a fiber-optic lamp in a melamine box. It was hideous, but nothing compares to these guys...
Oooh! I wanna win the Target gift card. There are so many fun things there I could decorate my house with.
I just liked HomeTalk on FB too.
I just liked HomeTalk on FB too.
Nice! I am definitely interested! mallorywatkins@gmail.com
That lamp... wow. And a target gift card? Yes please! My email is erinelizp@aol.com. Crossing my fingers!
I think the ugly lamp contest is brilliant. It makes me feel so much better about my own lamps!
I officially "like" hometalk, by the way. :)
This is why I stick to easy, space-saving candlestick lamps.
I would love a Target gift card, too -- I have bought many of said candlestick lamps from there!
My email address is my username, above, with no space, at Gmail.
Those were all ugly lamps, but the cast really takes "ugly lamp" to the next level of ugliness!
These were the most hideous lamps I've ever seen. Thanks for all the fun! (And the great giveaway!)
I can't believe that you had two ugly AND disgusting entries this year. A used cast? Deer feet?? What were these people THINKING?!?
haha the broken leg cast is so gross!
rwvanvoorhis at gmail dot com
There were certainly some butt-ugly lamps in that little collection!
I voted for all three of the top ugly lamps. I don't know if that means I have good taste or if I'm just an accidental lemming. I painted my room grey like 2 months before it became the new neutral, but no one knows that. They think I can't do anything of my own originality! Anyway, a Target gift card would be awesome. I saw some throw pillows there that would match my room perfectly... dang it.
Julia
beanandsean@yahoo.com
I voted for the leg lamp, what a champ. I think it was your description of running your hand up it to switch it on and off that made me cringe that did it.
I'm sure I could come up with about a million uses for an awesome target giftcard!
I love the ugly lamp contest. I would LOVE to win the target gift card!! i could buy so many things there I need!!
I also love your blog. Very inspiring.
Klhenley86@gmail.com
I "like" hometalk on facebook!!!
Liked hometalk on facebook.
oh and if I win, yeah right,: ellendavenport@ymail.com
Man, is that cast lamp uglt.
Congrats to the winner!
Loved the ugly lamp contest, some hideous lamps!
ljyoung85 at gmail.com
I already spend too much time at Target, but a gift card would be GREAT!!! Thanks for the fun lamp memories!
I would love the gift card. I am in Canada, but I shop over the border all the time!
Congratulations Brittany!! And here I am to enter for the Target gift card!! Good luck to everyone!
Oops! Forgot my email. dhunters@accesswest.com
So...Target gift card+college student=perfect harmony. Haha. No, really, I'd love a Target giftcard.
I agree with sarah.jean!!!
Maybe if she spray painted that leg cast lamp white it would look better!............No there is no helping that thing!
Who doesn't love contests!! mommy12104@yahoo.com
Deserving winner! Fingers crossed I'll be shopping at Target soon.
I like home talk on facebook too!! mommy12104@yahoo.com
I'm so excited to FINALLY have it set in stone that the cast lamp is indeed a monstrosity! I think my husband might finally believe me now that I'm not crazy for thinking his precious cast lamp is so disgusting. THANKS for such a fun contest! P.S. Raging Man got my vote in the end...oh the horror!! Thanks again!
Would love a Target gift card! jbyearsley@gmail.com
P.S.S. Good luck to everyone in the Target Gift card contest! As much as I'd love to I won't be entering it. ALSO, I forgot to mention that when I excitedly told my husband that we had won the contest he grinned and said, "Does this mean we get to take the lamp home to our house now?" NOOOOOOOO! Never gonna happen babe. :)
love the blog! scg00387 at yahoo dot com
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It's been great fun following the voting on the UGLY lamps! I personally liked "Pugly"! ...so wrong! kara_clark@msn.com
This was so fun to watch -- all those lamps were horrible, what a dubious honor for the winner!
lgatlin at csulb.edu
The ugly lamp contest is certainly a lot of fun, I can't believe what kinds of lamps some folks will actually make or buy! The hometalk giveaway sounds like a great opportunity. I really enjoy your blog and check it 2-3 times a day for great ideas, thanks!
Horrible, nasty, fun lamps :) I still think the dog one was horrible, but the cast one is pretty bad!
target gift card!! mrsbeccasjones@gmail.com
Target is my happy place.
I so enjoyed seeing the ugly lamps and voting. . and I would enjoy even more a Target gift card!!
This is me leaving a comment because a Target gift card (in any amount) would be really awesome right about now!
That lamp is so ugly!! Glad it won. A Target gift card would be really nice right now.
lisastassforth at sbcglobal dot net
What a great contest -- I laughed and laughed! Signed up at Hometalk too.
I love the lamp contest!! I cracked up every day looking at the new totally hideous lamps!! Target is the best :)
thefaverofour@gmail.com
Ooh...I would love to win a Target gift card!
emilystevens03 at yahoo dot com
I "like" Hometalk on Facebook.
emilystevens03 at yahoo dot com
I have signed up to be a member of Hometalk, I love what they have going on over there!
emilystevens03 at yahoo dot com
Cool giveaway. Awesome lamps. Fantastic website!
This contest just made my week. Every time I looked at these lamps it made me giggle. Let's just hope that this wont spark a new trend. Can you just imagine a room dedicated to casts and deer parts....(as I shudder)
What a lamp hope i win!
That lamp is nasty ugly! My fave was the deer leg lamp....
That was an amazing ugly lamp roundup. Seriously you do begin to wonder who gave the okay for things like that to be manufactured -- like the angry man... in what situation would that work?!
So glad the broken leg lamp won. That was truly amazing!
Free money at my favorite store?!?! Oh how fabulous would that be...
Like so many others have said, I appreciate my lamps now! haha I really wanted Pug-ly to win, though. But congrats to the winner!
On another not, I'd really like that $100 gift card! My email is panamasarah91@gmail.com
Well congrats to the winner! That was indeed an 'interesting' lamp...
I really thought the pug lamp would win as it was 'super interesting'....LOL!
Thanks for the chance to win ;0)
Erika
So many to choose from, indeed a worthy winner. Congrats to ugly leg lamp!
That was really fun...and funny! And I would love to win a gift card! Thanks! ♥
Haha! What a fun contest. I voted for the pugly dog...
Thanks for the creative ideas... and the laughs too!
freckle40 at hotmail dot com
So exciting--this sounds like fun and would love me some Target spending!
LINDSEY PICK ME!!!! I shop to much at Target and it would be more fun if $100 of it was free! You know where to find me!
I love your site and especially your comentary on the pics - keep up the good work!
I love me some Target!
Yay for broken leg lamp, I totally voted for that one! Mostly because it is so ugly AND it grossed me out...
Have been enjoying your blog for several months. It helped give me the confidence (or gumption) to try three furniture makeovers myself. Love the ugly lamp contest. So funny. Would love to win that GC. Thanks for blogging.
I would love to have money to spend at target that didn't come from my own pockets.
I'm glad there is no smell-o-blog for that lamp.
This one is so gross. so gross. lol
With my first baby comng, I would LOVE to win a Target gift card! Love your blog! Thanks for the opportunity...
Ashleyfsaunders at gee mail dot com
I never knew lamps could be so ugly! Poor little ugly lamps, I hope someone out there can love these unfortunate pieces!
I was voting for Raging Man also! But all really ugly...
Becky at
ebmusser@hotmail.com
I can't believe they've had that lamp for 10 years!!
I want to win!
mcleskeys@yahoo.com
I liked hometalk on FB!
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I forgot to leave my email the first time I posted: If I win the giftcard it will help me get over the disappointment of pugly coming in 2nd place. trishasorber@gmail.com
This was awesome! I wonder if it smells a bit too...
kyliekelley@hotmail.com
I love your site, and I especially love Target!
juliearndt@me.com
Love your site - and those lamps were hysterical!
Kristen
http://mycoveredbridge.blogspot.com/
I want this gift card! I heart Target!
I was torn between the pugly lamp and deerly departed! I asked my 6-year-old his opinion, and we ended up flipping a coin (heads, pugly; tails, deer). :) So much fun!
I just joined HomeTalk!
I am hoping you get 1000 comments... thanks
This was such a great contest!!!! Very creative...the lamps that some people made and/or put in their home, well, make you wonder what the rest of their homes looked like :) I love your blog!
I can't believe dearly departed lost, LOLOLOL
And, I liked Hometalk on FB
I LOVE target! chelsthornton at gmail.com
Who in their right mind would think to save their cast and then display in lamp form?! Hysterical! I hope they enjoy their gift. I would like to go shopping at Target soon so please consider my wish.
{thanks for the giveaway!}
I could hardly decide which of the disembodied leg lamps to vote for, but human disembodied leg is more creepy, so I'm glad it won!
God bless fathers-in-law. This is spectacularly hideous. Also, yay contest!
I never knew there were so many ugly lamps. Crazy! (and so much fun to see.)
I love the ugly lamp contest! It keeps me laughing all week! Thanks for the giveaway!
feathersflights at gmail.com
I looked forward to ugly lamp time and it did not disappoint!! Excited about the Target giveaway!!
Please, please, please, please use your gift certificate and throw away that nasty broken leg lamp! It's giving us all nightmares ... What a fun contest!
Does that lamp stink? LOL. When my son got his cast off we had to tie it in a plastic bag before we threw it in the garbage!!
I wondered about the smelliness of the lamp, also, lol. i was pulling for Deerly Departed- but I suppose the best leg won... *insert groan*
I was kind of rooting for the phantom dancers. Too bad they were knocked out of the competition... so many hideous contenders! :)
Love Target & now ugly lamps! Thanks for the entertainment =D Can't wait until next year!!
Just joined Home Talk. jodyrae01@yahoo.com
And I like them on Facebook too. Big blue thumbs up!
This was the best contest ever! Loved it...and I'd also love to win!
Brie from darlingdoodles.blogspot.com
I'd be so thrilled to win that Target gift card I'd even spring for a sock to put on the world's ugliest lamp! Great contest again! leigh.barnette@yahoo.com
To bad that lamp is not for sale at Target!
threfty.blogspot.com
Super ugly!
I love target! And Ugly lamps!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loved seeing all the ugly lamps! :) That Target card sure does sound nice.
davis.ashleyb@gmail.com
I love me some Target - hope I win!
p.s. I 'liked' Hometalk on Facebook.
lemondrop41@hotmail.com
Target is just about to get Missoni! Yay! Hope to win. :)
Target's great!
www.iheartmygluegun.com
Wow! That's truly a nice giveaway.
hernandez26stan@aol.com
My sad lamp lost! I need a target giftcard! :)
caits21@hotmail.com
Thanks for all your makeovers and for sponsoring giveaways. I am a member of HomeTalk.
I love your blog! My email is keeta_west@hotmail.com
I kinda want raging mad man. He made me laugh so much. Well, seductive bunny did too, but in a nervous, where's the closest exit, kinda way...
I luvre me some Tarjay...thanks for the lamp contest it was hysterical! Who knew there was so much hideousness out there?
Pick me pick me! My email is incahgneeto@gmail.com.
Also, I liked Hometalk on Facebook! :)
My son has saved his leg cast for 6 yrs. When cleaning out his closet to paint I ask him if I could throw it away. He said "not yet", guess I could make him a lamp!!
I am a member of Hometalk.
Target Gift Card? YES PLEASE!
mccallrandall@gmail dot com
I loved the lamp thing. I would now love to win. The end.
I never imagined there were so many ugly lamps in the world! Thanks for sharing such a generous giveaway.
I liked Hometalk on Facebook.
But that creepy baby was so creepy... I mean, in the middle of the night, the broken leg might be a little gross, but that baby would be downright terrifying!
They were all horrible, but I had to vote for Deerly Departed out of respect for the deer that gave its life for our illumination.
emmtee99@gmail.com
Wow. My ugly lamps are pathetically good-looking in comparison. Congrats to the broken leg lamp owner--honestly? kinda hope you win the Target gift card so you can buy something new. :)
Oooh, I'm heart broken the baby zombies didn't win but equally creeped out by the cast lamp. Well played smelly cast. Well played.
I loved the Ugly Puggly lamp but the cast was a close second for me.
Those were some seriously hideous lamps! I was a bit surprised that the leg cast won; I thought for sure it would be the deer or the pug. Speaking of winning, I'd love to win a Target gift card!
What a great contest! The cast lamp was truly awful, even if the headless dog was my favorite.
I haven't enjoyed a contest as much as this in ages! More please!
Those were horrible and hilarious. I may have cast lamps and lightbulby dog heads floating around in my dreams tonight :) Thanks for the fun though! Usually I to come here to be inspired, this time it was good just to laugh (and fear whatever else the makers of any of those lamps made)!
Cant wait till next years contest! I am liking hometalk on facebook. But have no idea if i can enter this contest. But here I am ;) Its all so much fun so i decided to take the long shot.
mskaale@hotmail.com
hellohellobaby1.blogspot.com
I just showed the contestants to my mum. She said: "Oh! Thats a nice one. I like that lamp!" when she saw the Deerly Departed! Hahahaa!
It kind of makes me wonder what people would think of my white pig lamp but I happen to love it.
I bet that leg lamp smells! That was the one I totally voted for too! LOL!!
Oh, and you can tell me I've won the Target gift card at mookytanooky@gmail.com
:D
I was rooting for the Broken Leg lamp. Wonder if it still has that horrible sweaty cast smell when you turn on the light...ewwwwwww
I don't live in the US anymore, so please don't enter me. I'm just here to try to bump your comments up for the rest of your readers. ;)
I was so rooting for the pugly lamp! I'm devastated.
I love (hate) that broken leg lamp! It's like the gross version of that leg lamp on A Christmas Story. Of course I see I'm not the only one who thinks so! Love your blog!
You always inspire me... hmmm.. should I dig out my childhood leg cast? I'm sure my mom has it somewhere! lazygreenmama at gmail
member of hometalk!
Great contest!
Lol the broken leg lamp is just too good. Like really, who would even think to create such a thing? congrats to whomever would read by that lamp! :)
I kinda liked the broken leg lamp it was a great way to show off that cast...although I probably would've redone it to make it more mordern looking... A little spray paint can go a loooong way! ;)
A Target gift card would help as I'm in the process of creating my very own "better after" house. steph4011@gmail.com
Ugliest lamp ever!!
Just found your site & am addicted. Thanks for the great before & afters!
rebmiller4atyahoodotcom
That lamp is so grose! Definitely deserved to win!
"Liked" HomeTalk on FB!
Wow loved seeing all the lamps! Crazy stuff out there!
ericawsmith@gmail.com
Bummer for deerly departed... that one can't even be helped with paint like some of the others...
As for the contest... after random dot com picks me, I'm at eebognar at gmail dot com! (just wishful thinking) :) Thanks Lindsay!
This was such a fun contest! My pick didn't win, but you really couldn't go wrong(or right, really) with any of the choices.
I love me some Tar-jay, and could totally do some damage with $100. Thanks for hosting this terrific giveaway!
Oh, and I'm a member at HomeTalk, too.
Congrats to the lamp? LOL
Would love a gift card!
amyjbennett@gmail.com
some crazy entries this year. I can't believe some of those lamps were sold in stores. andy8jyl(at)verizon(dot)net
What a fun contest! I DID pick the cast lamp too!!! Mostly because of the horrendousness of the smell of an old cast..I cannot imagine!!!! Rosie at nik2dr2@comcast.net
I'd love to win that Target gift card. Here's my entry.
I liked HomeTalk on Facebook.
Love the Ugly Lamp Contest - I liked Raging Man but they were all great and UGLY! Signed up for access to HomeTalk - they have some awesome things.
e-mail is MartiLo@cox.net
Love the Ugly Lamp Contest - I liked Raging Man but they were all great and UGLY! Signed up for access to HomeTalk - they have some awesome things.
e-mail is MartiLo@cox.net
my question is who get to redo all these ugly lamps?
I just have to tell you that I have just found your blog and I am in love with it. OMGosh! It is the coolest. You will see me regularly now! haha...
Thank you so much,
Heather Mullin
heatherdmullin@gmail.com
I love your blog and would love to win a target gift card!
jova362002@yahoo.com
Love your blog. Love Target. Most of all, love free Target money! lol.
kileybee@yahoo.com
I agree that it is like the leg lamp from a Christmas Story gone wrong! LOL
I love giveaways and your contest was so much fun!
Joined hometalk. So want Target gift card.
kileybee@yahoo.com
I still think Raging Man was the ugliest. There was just something about his expression that said it all.
That lamp deserved the honor of winning!
Love your site!
This was just great!! I personally loved both leg lamps- by love I mean they could never enter this house.
Woo! Those were some ugly lamps. Congrats those crazies who built the ugliest of them all!
"Liked" Hometalk on Facebook!
And I am now also a member of Hometalk! Hope I win. I love Target gift cars. :) Who wouldn't?
What a fun contest.. Love the ugly lamps!!
I would love a Target giftcard!
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I "liked" Hometalk on FB.
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I can always use a $100 gift card (or $200)! My personal vote was for Deerly Departed, it just reminded me of something my brother would have made back in the day! joyinthemorning3@hotmail.com
lindsey...love your site...always have....always will...
Casts are so ugly. but target gift cards are not.
I stopped in to visit HOMETALK. Cool. I will be visiting them a lot! Thanks for the tip!
That is one ugly lamp. Thanks for the chance to win.
pressed24petals at yahoo dot com
i also liked hometalk on FB.
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Come on, big 1,000!! makjell at hotmail dot com.
Awww - I was pulling for Pugly. They leg lamp is awful though, you might get some sort of infection trying to turn it on.
heidi@franticallysimple[dot]com
I loved that contest! So funny... and scary! Glad I don't own one of those!
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