Congratulations to our winner, momof4aqfm!

It's time for the first giveaway of our birthday week! Today's chance to win comes from IKEA, the Life Improvement Store. We love IKEA because not only is it an awesome playground for kiddos, but it also has everything you could need (and want!) to spruce up your living space.

We also love IKEA for their huge array of lighting options including their LED lights, which can help improve your family's carbon footprint in a stylish way. Hey, Daylight Saving Time is as good of a time as any, right?

To enter for a chance to win $100 from IKEA, simply tell me:

So far on this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Yolanda Foster has been pretty much a non-player. She hasn't really done much but flaunt her fabulous figure, family, and lemons. Still, it was a scene in her house that has haunted me ever since it aired a few weeks back -- the one in which they showed her refrigerator.

Even if you couldn't care less about any housewives in any city, it truly is a thing of beauty that can be appreciated by all.

The front is glass, which gives you an uninterrupted view of everything inside. That might be a negative for some, but it would be a shame to hide the contents of hers, as everything is fresh, ripe, and color-coordinated. It makes you feel peaceful and healthy just looking at it, and it bests even the most beautiful grocery store display.

Ever since I saw it and its awesomeness, I've been left with a major case of refrigerator envy, and I've been feeling ashamed of mine ever since. 

If you've ever wanted to tell your boss to do as the song says and take this job and shove it, then you're going to love this story. Apparently there was an extremely unhappy Bed, Bath & Beyond worker out there somewhere, as Reddit user mastranios says he came across an angry and scathing message hanging from a NuWave Infrared Oven in one of the stores

While it did say the product was for "fat f*cks," his (or her?) harshest words were for his boss. There printed above the price of $119.99, he had typed in, "MY BOSS IS A PR*CK!" Clearly he wasn't worried about getting fired either, because he topped that off with, "I'M QUITTING TODAY."

Not exactly what you expect to see when you go looking for housewares, huh?

The thing is, it shouldn't be a problem. But it is ... in the scheme of first-world, non-imminent problems mind you, but still it's driving me crazy. "It" is my ridiculous inablity to decorate my house.

Not decorate well, just decorate as in choose a few paint colors, hang some curtains, and put together a "big girl" room for my nearly 4-year-old daughter who is still sleeping in her nursery (and in her crib -- if truth be told). But in the five years since we bought this house, I've yet to make any significant changes to make it our own, and thus we live in a world of beige. It's a lovely shade of beige, but still, we're not a beige kind of family.

Be careful what you post on Craigslist. And be sure you're very, very explicit about exactly what it is you're offering, or you could wind up like one poor Georgia family.

Facing foreclosure on their home of 20 years, Pam Hobbs and her son lost even more when a yard sale posting on Craigslist gave people the impression that it wasn't just the furniture in the driveway they were giving away for free. Folks were welcome to come into their home and take anything -- and everything -- they could get their hands on. Total. Chaos. 

Sofia Vergara has the whole "hot mom" thing down, doesn't she? Both in character as the very pregnant Gloria on Modern Family and off-screen with all those sexy va-va-va-voom clothes she wears, that wardrobe malfunction "slip" at the Emmys, the voluptuous, flirty way she talks and moves ... can you tell I have a mini girl crush?

So as a sex goddess foxy celebrity mamacita, it's only natural that she help us regular old moms out in the bedroom, now, isn't it?

Get your mind out of the gutter! I don't mean THAT way. Vergara, you may have heard, now has a home line at Kmart -- much of it inexpensive bedding in rich, bold, boudoir-style tones. She told me it was designed with moms in mind.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and while showing your support for the brave women who have battled the disease is important all year, now is definitely a great time to step things up a bit.

And while buying clothing and other products that donate a portion of their proceeds to breast cancer research is a great way to get behind the cause, stocking up on all things pink is a great way to spruce up your home decor as well.

Congratulations to our winner, Krysden!

Like many a woman, I love tchotchkes. You know, adorable little things that make the home warmer that, yeah yeah, I may not NEED, but I crave them for their adorable factor. You know the best place to get 'em? I'm gonna go with HomeGoods, for the win.

I adore HomeGoods because they have super distinctive, adorable home fashions for every single room in the house for SUPER cheap. Because really, if there's anything I love more than a good tchotchke, it's a good deal.

We're giving one lucky Stir reader a $75 HomeGoods gift card. To enter to win, simply tell me: