Well, the PR people have found This Mommy Gig - that was fast! As a group, the moms here have given this a lot of thought and have decided on this as our policy for doing reviews and product contests when approached by companies and their PR firms (and we’re sharing with you in the name of full disclosure):

1. We will always fully disclose if we have been approached to write a review and what products we received to doing so
2. We will only do a maximum of 1 review or contest/product giveaway per week for products that we are “compensated” for - as in being given a product to review or being given product to give away to readers. (We decided on a max of 1 per week so it doesn’t in any way interfere with our main content about moms and juggling our crazy lives, but will still allow us to offer you great free stuff because honestly, we ALL love free stuff!).
3. We will be 100% honest in our reviews and will not review products that we would not recommend to our closest friends or family.

Tons of thanks goes out to Megan Jordan at The Velveteen Mind for creating Mommy Bloggers - The Resource, which gave me a lot of things to think about when creating this policy with the moms here. We’re here to write about our adventures in motherhood and connect with other working parents, that’s why I created the site. Now companies want to give us free stuff and then give YOU free stuff…….does this muddy the waters? Well, in my mind, no. A maximum of 1 post/week in which you get the chance to learn about products that we like and might make your life easier/more wonderful - and even better yet, FREE STUFF! If you love the rest of what we write and hate the entire IDEA of this, you only have to ignore at the very most 1 post a week - no big deal, right? We’d love to get your input on this - readers DO come first………….

With that being said, here’s the first item (a contest where the prize is free house cleaning service every other week for a year) that we were approached about, and it’s really just letting you know about something that I as a mother of 2 and a hater of cleaning would LOVE to win! I’m really just being nice posting it - I’m not getting ANYTHING out of this (nothing, nada, zip, zilch) and would love to hear about it if you win………..because then you’ll have time to come clean MY house!

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