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Our 12 Days of Giveaways promo continues with a great prize package combo that aims to start up your week with both organization and energy. Idea Cafe and Ethical Coffee Chain have given us quite the packages to offer one lucky Lifehack.org reader!

But before we get to that, we had 10 Lifehack.org readers who won ToodleDo licenses from the second day of our 12 Days of Giveaways promo. We’ve left comments on the post highlighting our winners, as well as on our Facebook wall to indicate who won – check them out when you’ve got a moment.

Now…on to today’s giveaway!

About Idea Cafe

Idea Cafe is a great-looking shop and website that offers high quality paper products such as notebooks, notepads and sketchbooks – among other paper-based creativity and productivity tools. Here’s the reason behind Idea Cafe’s creation from its founder, Chris Bowler:

“In this age of digital communication, smart phones, and touch computing, there is still a yearning for the simple. Despite the blood curdling pace at which technology inexorably advances, many people prefer to capture ideas and thoughts on an age old device — paper.”

Idea Cafe has offered one of its beundles called The Espresso, which consists of the following:

  • 1 Action Book
  • 1 Rhodia Classic 4 Colors notebook
  • 1 Large square Moleskine notebook

This package is ideal for those who are either just getting into productivity or are already well into it and simply need a new set of tools to keep it up.

About Ethical Coffee Chain

I’ve just started using the services provided by Ethical Coffee Chain, and I’m not only drinking good – I’m feeling good while doing so.

Ethical Coffee Chain helps you out by delivering coffee to your door, but also helps a Central American coffee farm out by giving them a chance at a better life in their homeland. But the folks behind ECC explain their story far better on the company’s website:

“In 2008, Adam King and Yoani Kuiper travelled to Nicaragua on a mission to find out the truth about the coffee industry. There they saw things they couldn’t understand. All for the sake of a few cents spared for our cup of coffee, they saw coffee worker families packed like animals in tiny stalls; preventable disease rampant because workers couldn’t afford the simplest of medicines; malnourished kids; poor sanitation; child labour; depression; addictions; and needless tragedy. They came back knowing that if they could buy farmers’ coffee directly, they could take all the profits wasted on middlemen and instead, both, give coffee workers a better future and coffee drinkers greater value. They knew that if only they could create a system to connect you to the people on these farms, you would feel the same way they do. It’s been a long, hard journey since then, but finally, with the help of many, it’s becoming reality.”

The winner of today’s 12 Days of Giveaways will receive a 3-month subscription to Ethical Coffee Chain (the Occasional Drinker’s package – 1 lb per month), which, like all their subscriptions, includes a share of ownership in the company.

How to Enter

In order to enter to win this joint prize pack, you need to leave a comment below or on our Facebook fan page that answers the following:

“What is your drink of choice – coffee or otherwise – AND why?”

Leaving a comment on both our Facebook fan page and here at Lifehack.org will get you 2 entries, so but you need to give us two items that you like the most – no copying and pasting!

The Fine Print

Employees of Idea Cafe, Ethical Coffee Chain and of Stepcase (including current independent contractors of both) are not eligible for this contest. The prize can only be shipped to addresses within the continental United States and Canada (in other words, Alaska and Hawaii don’t count), so keep that in mind when entering. The winning entry will be judged by the Stepcase Lifehack editing team and winners will be notified on the platform in which their winning entry was placed (either on the Lifehack.org Facebook wall or by email through our commenting system here the website). For those entering contest with a comment on our site, in order to be considered eligible, you MUST leave a contact email when leaving a comment (it’s the only way we’ll know how to contact you). Entries must be submitted by 10 am Eastern the following weekday and winners will be chosen by 12 pm Eastern time on the same day. The winner will be announced the same day on Lifehack.org, and will be notified beforehand.

Good luck!

(Photo credit: A Perfect White Cup from Shutterstock)