What Would You Spend On A Pair Of Jeans To End Breast Cancer?

What would you spend on a new pair of jeans? That’s how much it costs to fight breast cancer.

Did you know that one in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime? That’s one every three minutes. With your help, we could change that number.

Mike & Peggy Rowe

So what would you spend on a new pair of jeans?

$300, $200, $120, $100, $75, $20, $10? 

Maybe $5? 

That’s all it costs to help fight breast cancer.

I didn’t make up that catchy slogan…  It’s the official 2011 Lee National Denim Day Campaign motto.

This year, one of my FAVORITE people on this planet (not exagerating here), Mike Rowe is the Ambassador for Lee Jeans along with his mom Peggy, a breast cancer survivor. Mike and his super sexy voice are asking us to donate what you’d spend on a pair of jeans to help fight against breast cancer.

Easy right?

(By the way, LOOOOOOVE him!) More about my secret crush on Mike later.

When Lee Jeans asked me if I’d me to participate in this mini blogging contest they are hosting I jumped at the chance. Breast cancer awareness and helping in the fight against breast cancer are two of my greatest passions and as you may know a cause very close to my heart (or boob depending on how you look at it).

Eleven years ago I lost my Mom and best friend to the disease and I’m determined to find a cure in my lifetime.

Full stop.

This is my beautiful mother:

Mom & Me. Post stem-cell transplant for 2nd breast cancer, before the final diagnosis. She passed away in 2000. Miss her everyday.

I’ve walked 60 miles in 3 days to help fight breast cancer and now I’m blogging and going to host a couple of contests to try to help raise more awareness and money to fight it. I really hope you will join me.

The Lee National Denim Day contest is to see which blogger can raise the most $ between now and October 7th.

By participating they are sending me some SWEET stuff to give away as well as two pairs of jeans for myself (full disclosure here).   The winner of the blogging contest gets a $250 shopping spree to the Lee Jeans online store. But if I win, I’m not going to keep that prize – I’m going to donate it back.

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE click this button and donate what you would pay for a pair of jeans.

 
Support Periwinkle Papillon & Lee National Denim Day
in their campaign to fight breast cancer.

And here to refresh your memory are some cold hard facts about breast cancer:

• One in every eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.
• One person is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes in the
• United States.
• In the U.S., there were 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer and
• 39,840 deaths from breast cancer in 2010.
• There are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors alive in the U.S. today.
• About 10-15% of breast cancers are found in women under 45 years of age

So get ready… I’m starting this Lee Denim Day campaign now and get ready to win some seriously great jeans. (Just a hint, you will have extra entries if you donate and help me promote this!)

xo,

Sara

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