I Hate Blog Awards

I hate blog awards!

There, I said it.

Hate is a strong word.

I abhor, despise, detest, and loathe blog awards.

I realize I have just lost half my readers with that statement.

I never realized how much I strongly disliked blog awards until last week when I received about a hundred of them.

Okay, it was more like three but it felt like a hundred.

It was the Sunshine Award from Linda that pushed me over the edge.

The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspire others in the blogging world.

Positivity.

Linda, you know I love you like the mother I always wished I’d had (oh, the shopping we could do), but if you give me one more fucking award I will, I will… I don’t know what I will do but it will be bad. Mark my words.

There was actually a time I liked blog awards. It was probably a month after I started blogging and I actually had a reader or two. I was given an award, I don’t remember which one because there are so many of them, and I was thrilled. I followed all the rules. I divulged 25 things about me and then dutifully passed it on to bloggers I thought were great. And then I was inundated with emails from bloggers who asked me, not so very politely, to never give them an award again.

I learned an important lesson that day. If you want to make friends in the blogosphere don’t give them awards.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the recognition and I appreciate that someone thought of me. However, I am not convinced receiving an award is a sign that someone likes you, in fact I would hazard a guess that getting a whole bunch of awards means that people don’t like what I have to say and want to potentially stop me from writing my stuff. If I have ten billion awards that I have to write about I can’t possibly find the time to talk about my squirrel problem or the blogs I hate. I’m pretty sure I am winning these awards because some people want me to shut up.

Here’s the problem with blog awards. You get one and then you have to do something with it. First of all you have to go get the award, that part is easy. But then you have to copy and paste the award into a blog post, publicly acknowledge the award (again, not difficult) and often reveal something about yourself. Something like which celebrity you’d shtup if the stars aligned and your significant other was okay with it, or 10 things about you that nobody knows. We’re bloggers for crying out loud, we reveal everything about ourselves, what don’t people already know? Nothing, that’s what.  After the tell all part we are then required to pass the horror on to 7 or 10 unsuspecting blogging friends.

When I stop at a blog and see the award at the beginning of a post I start to pray that they didn’t give it to me.

Please don’t let me be a recipient, please don’t let me be a recipient.

I suppose I could just leave the site, before anyone notices that I have been there, but that is bad form, and besides, most people know how to read their stats and can tell if I have been to their site.

Once you pass the award on to your dearest friends, and thus severed ties with them, you are required to visit their blog and make it official:

“Hey, just stopped by to let you know there’s something over at my blog for you”

(Oh, what could it be? Cookies? I fell for this the first time. I actually thought there was something over at their blog for me. It wasn’t cookies.)

You aren’t supposed to comment on the actual post, just leave the annoying comment which officially and publicly passes the burden and responsibility of the damn blog award to someone else, anyone else. It’s like a hot potato.

At least that is the right way to win a coveted blog award.

You can do what some bloggers like JD from I Do Things does and just make a page with all the awards she has won. I have to give props to JD for this, she doesn’t bother to copy and paste the actual awards, she just lists them and the giver. Of course she did an awful lot of linking and that takes some time.

Alternatively you can acknowledge the award, state how happy you are to receive it and then never do anything with it. Which is what I usually do. Though I did try to be a little honest over at How Much Longer Friday:

Thank you so much for the award! I didn’t know I was your first. I feel all proud about that. I know a lot of the bloggers you picked like Buggys and Linda, who both rock, but I don’t know the others. I’m excited about going over there and meeting them. Thanks again for the award. This is where I lie to you and tell you I will get right on giving it out but we both know I won’t get around to it because I am really very forgetful and unorganized. I mean to, I really do, I just don’t follow through. You should see the pile of library books that are way overdue that are sitting on the table waiting so patiently to be returned.

Of course what I really wanted to say was:

Thanks for the fucking award, now I have to remember that I got the award, write a cute and wonderfully grateful post about the award which incidentally other bloggers will read and then think I actually like to get these damn awards thus causing me to get more and more of these horribly wicked things. Do you hate me?

But I would never say something like that.

So from now on I am going to donate all my blog awards to less fortunate bloggers.  Bloggers like Dooce and The Bloggess who aren’t getting nearly as much recognition and blog love as they deserve.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Wow, I've never had anyone ask me to give them an award. The first emails I got almost made me cry because I thought I had lost them as blogging friends, which I totally did.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Thanks Jen, I appreciate you putting me on that list, when you get around to it of course.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Isn't that how all of them started out? And yes that is tacky.
    BTW, I wasn't suggesting your blog was tacky, just so you know.

  • http://idothings.info JD at I Do Things

    Oh, no, I know. But I do feel a little tackiness from the Arte y Pico award rubbed off. I think it's time for me to do a little pruning on my Awards page.

  • http://beetle-blog.com/ babs (beetle)

    I will happily do a glass poo for you……. er…… I mean draw a glass poo for you ;)

  • http://beetle-blog.com/ babs (beetle)

    I am the typical 'Jack of all trades, master of none'

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    You are definitely a master craftswoman with both the poo and the furniture.

  • http://www.sparklecat.com Sparkle

    OMC (for you non-felines, that means “Oh, My Cod!”) – ***paws clapping fervently***

    Even though this is not about cats, I am going to make it my first Digg!

  • http://www.junkdrawerblog.com JunkDrawer

    No, it does not. It makes you a rebel!

    You're right. It is nice to get these when you're a new blogger. It really helps keep you going. But after a while, they seem like work and there are plenty of other ways to honor bloggers who you like. I say just mention them, link to them normally and don't make them do a homework assignment.

  • http://www.fourthgradenothing.com ally@fourthgradenothing.com

    please do NOT tell anyone i said this, but i kinda don't like the awards either. it doesn't fit my theme to post about the awards, so i can't pass them on, all i can do is a link exchange really. at first, when i got into the blog thing, i thought they were cool then realized there was way too many of them. i even deleted most of them off my page. i think it's just like a way to get their button on your page and does anyone really click on them, i dunno…

  • http://mrsblogalot.com mrsblogalot

    HAAAAAAAA!!!!!! OMG Jen. You rule.

    Period.

  • sheilasultani

    I hate awards too – HATE them! If someone leaves a comment about an award I click off the page really fast like it's a virus and I'll get contaminated if I look at it to long. Then I just whistle and move on, pretend I never saw a thing. No one can prove I saw it right? God, Babs is making my ass hurt with all her glass poo rhymes. I'm now walking around the house singing “Glass poo, glass poo, glass poo – I can draw a glass poo for you” thanks a lot!

  • http://thesocialjoint.com/ Lucretia M Pruitt

    Love.

    Lovelovelove.

    From someone who will nevereverevereverever give you a blog award (as I know that they were originally started as SEO bait no matter what the givers' intentions now are.)

  • themother

    I ignore blog awards. They're popularity contests, just like prom queen and senior class president. And I hated those, too.

  • http://www.duckandwheelwithstring.blogspot.com Lin

    Amen, sister. I promise never to give you one if you do the same for me.

  • http://twitter.com/shootmenowblog Katherine Murray

    Holy CRAP Jen, you have about a BILLION comments on this post! I am going to give you a freaking award for that! Cause I love you thatttttmuch! ha ha! I can't wait to see if you get any awards after this!

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Deal!

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I never stood a chance with either of those, but they always looked like a lot of work.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    That's the dirty little secret isn't it? And we have all been pawns.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I've been laughing my ass off about Babs and her poo too. She just sent me one and I will display it with pride. I'll award it to you if you like.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I won't tell a soul. Promise.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Thank you Sparkle, that means a lot to be your first Digg.

  • http://www.ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy O'Connor

    That reminds me of my very, very early days of blogging I got a notification
    that I'd one a very prestigious award from some company and I was so excited
    that I dutifully put the little banner they gave me up and everything.

    Once I realized that it was just linkbait I was very embarrassed.

    Of course, the first two weeks I was on Twitter I sent cheery thank yous for
    the warm welcomes to all the auto DMs and thought you were supposed to send
    everyone who followed you a nice thank you note.

    What can I say, I was raised with values and manners. Harrumph.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I have been laughing my ass off to you and your poo all day. I got the poo you sent me, thank you so much! I will proudly display it on my sidebar. I am honestly honored to receive it even if I didn't doo anything to get it. (did you notice the 'doo' in there?)

  • http://www.erinamundsen.blogspot.com Amundsen House of Chaos

    Hysterical! I was so honored when I received three in one week. Then I started to do the requirements and I wasn't so honored. The next time I got one it took me a month to post it. Then the third time I said Thanks but I'm busy and can't post it. I am a pretty gullible person but then someone gave me the sunshine award on a post that was ranting and raving about doctors. I wasn't very sunny so I figured they didn't even read it. Oh well.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I do bow to your AWESOMENESS! Every time I read you blog I bow to your awesomeness. Hulk is pure genius.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I tried to thank and explain but I felt guilty doing it. How long could it take to give the award to some other people? It does take a long time and it takes up space on the blog when there are other more important things to talk about. The thing about the award is that suddenly the burden is on the recipients shoulders and if you don't do it you are one of those people who don't play well with others. It really isn't a gift if there are strings attached.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I'm pretty sure I won't but if I do it will be fun to see the reaction of people who read this post.

  • http://beetle-blog.com/ babs (beetle)

    Oh I noticed the 'doo' At first I thought it was one of these
    American spellings, like so many use the word 'to' instead of 'too'

    You don't have to do anything for this award, except be a tad mad.
    You know, I can't even remember why I made it for JD now. Maybe she
    remembers. I think it was to do with yet another poo post she'd
    written. After commenting about the poo award, I went to JD's blog
    and what did I see? A POO POST!

    Babs x
    http://beetle-blog.com

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Well, you know, #FecalFriday is coming up soon.

    'to' instead of 'too' is just wrong, that's not an American thing (well, the
    wrong part might be).

  • http://beetle-blog.com/ babs (beetle)

    Fecal Friday? :)

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    It's on Twitter, we have been trying to get one phrase *trending* on
    Twitter. It hasn't really caught on like we had hoped it would. Basically
    you promote your poo stories using the hash tag #FecalFriday or just talk
    about poo, it really doesn't matter, there aren't any rules except to use
    the hash tag.

  • http://www.brandonconnell.com Brandon Connell

    I hate blog awards too, but I am sure that will change once I receive one ;)

  • http://zivainferno.blogspot.com Ziva

    Sorry, my mistake, I don't hate you. ;) In the future I'll try to show my appreciation for your blog in less annoying and hateful ways than by giving you awards.

  • cardiogirl

    Amen sister. Oy. I also feel the stench of having my head thrown in the toilet for a shut-your-mouth-betch warning. But I feel the same way.

    When I do the meme (cringes) or the award I always throw out a disclaimer that I'm a cyber bad ass and I don't follow the rules. So I don't pick the next five recipients of the <del>chain letter</del> award.

    And sometimes, when I want to be a real ruffian punk, I only list five things about me when they want seven. That's right. I'm a rebel.

    Lastly, I also was given some sort of blog award that said the same thing — I'm an upbeat person who turns a frown upside down. And I thought, 'What the hell? Have you read my stuff?'

  • http://twitter.com/ShoreBookworm Marie Cooper

    Oh I dread getting awards!! Usually the person is so, so sweet. But there are a billion rules that go along with it. I hate rules!!! And they are so complicated and confusing to my feeble little brain! We need to invent the Un-Award. Something like Let's Not Give an Award but Say We Did. And the rules are: absolutely no rules.

  • daisythecurlycat

    When I first started blogging, I loved blog awards and posted them all in my sidebar. Then I moved the badges into a “click here to open” widget. Then I removed them altogether. I don't think people are interested in reading a hundred blog posts about the same award/meme. And notice how the rules always include “link back to xxxxx”?

    I have concluded that blog awards are just not curly.

  • http://www.weworkforcheese.com mike

    I reached my saturation point with the last one because it stops being fun when it starts feeling like a chain letter.

    That said, the recognition is nice, and there's no obligation to do anything with the award if you don't want to, although some take it more seriously than others.

  • suzicate

    You know I am LMAO!!!!! I have stopped passing them on because it so so time consuming to pass and link!!!! I finally took them off my sidebar and put them on another section. And now when I add one I lose about ten each time…seriously, it has done something to my blog!!!!!! (Or maybe I've done something to my blog but not saavy enough to know!) I am seriously thinking of deleting that whole thing! Now, I just thank people but the only ones I post are the ones that have to go on my poetry thing I do. So anyway, I have about fifty nonpassed if you'd like me to pass them to you…I'd only have to link one person, and I just KNOW you wouldn't mind linking up like ten blogs to each one and…………………..

  • http://twitter.com/roses2rainbows Linda R.

    Not having been a recipient of one of these awards, I had no idea that there was more to it than just graciously accepting it, that there was a protocol to be followed. I didn't mean for my previous comment to sound harsh. Yeah, I'm the kind of person who, even though I think about what I'm writing at the time, I still sometimes come back and wish to rephrase it.

  • http://www.113tidbits.com tonyknuckles

    I hate blogging awards more than you do!! So there!!…lol

  • desertson

    I say we send them all to Obama and the White House who are doing such a “wonderful” job!

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Let's box 'em up and ship 'em out!

  • http://www.stacysrandomthoughts.com Stacy (the Random Cool Chick)

    You are truly a girl after my own heart! You've put into words my exact feelings. Amen sister! ;)

    On a totally unrelated topic – did your feed change? I used to get an email when you posted something new, but obviously now I'm way behind because I'm not getting those emails any more!

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I occasionally send out an email when I think of it, I just haven't in a
    while. Nothing has changed.

  • JoyACookin

    Love your style! As a one who was born yesterday to blogging, I appreciate the lowdown on the award thing. Glad I no longer have to feel sad at not having received any. Sounds like a gigantic waste of time for those just out to get get get with little to give, giving an award and then asking you to pay them for it. Maybe we start a Boycott Awards movement. Content rules, not shameless self-promotion.

    You can tell I'm a newbie because, even though I've registered with Disqus, my url hasn't been showing up in your comments. So here it is: http://www.StopBloggingAndCook.com. Just my luck it will show up this time making me look even more the Dork from NY.

  • http://www.heathersviewfromtheshoe.blogspot.com Heather

    This is funny. I was so happy to get my first award. I mean SOMEONE was reading my blog. Someone not in my family who I hadn't forced. Then when it was time to pass it on, I didn't KNOW 15 bloggers. So I felt guilty. Basically my award gave me guilt.

    Now I won't feel so bad about just saying, “Thank you” and just moving on.

  • shellthings

    Just for you, I actually signed into disqus.

    I don't do blog awards any more. I do like to find time to talk about blogs that I love, but not in the form of an award.

    Um, is it bad that I didn't even know who Dooce was until recently? LOL

  • http://freakyfrugalite.com Rebecca

    Well. I guess you don't want that Cheeriest and Happiest Blogger of the Year award that I had intentions of giving… someday… lol.

    I usually don't do blog awards anymore. No time. The hardest part was saving the award graphic to my computer, uploading it to *somewhere*, getting the html, and pasting it into the post. WHAT a CHORE.

    Like Daisy, I also disliked that the blog awards always had a “link to xxxx site.” :-p

  • http://drfaustrollwritesthewrongs.com doctor faustroll

    What a negittude you have.

  • http://afcsoac.blogspot.com/ lisleman

    this post is so good it deserves an award.
    Most of the awards are really blog games to spread connections.
    Is there a WTF FML award? That would be a fun one to pass along.

  • rieshy

    I enjoyed this post. I only wanted to add that I have grown to particularly dislike the Lemonade award. Not just because of the washed-out graphic but because after having received it several times I've decided that it means, “Wow, I'm glad I'm not living your life, but I hope by giving you this award I'll boost my traffic.”

    To be honest- I'm just too unorganized and busy to respond to awards- even the ones that are sincere. The sincere ones just add to my guilt in/box- which is currently full.

  • http://www.stirfryawesomeness.com/ Tracie

    I did blog awards when I first started out because I thought I had to. I haven't done them in a looooong time because I don't have time to fool with them and I don't want to burden everyone. They really stressed me out and nobody reads those blog award posts either. I'm tweeting this post.

  • TamingInsanity

    Oh, you don't like chain letters either I bet.

  • http://abbyandizzysmom.blogspot.com erin

    AMEN!!!!

    I was the same way at first—-loved getting them when I had all of 6 followers or even 40. Then I started to get annoyed. And I couldn't remember who had given me what, and when, and who I'd already passed awards on to….

  • http://www.ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy O'Connor

    Heather, I can so relate to that!

    It's also the reason why I hate the host a party push at the end of Pampered
    Chef style parties. Even if I wanted to host a party, I don't know that many
    people I'd feel comfortable asking.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    That was the hardest part for me too. I'd want to save the graphic but I'd
    get distracted and forget and then I'd forget where the award was and it
    just causes so much anxiety.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Thank you for signing in, I know it's difficult and time consuming, I really
    do appreciate it. I like to talk about blogs I love on my blog too and I
    think they might get more traffic from a mention rather than from an award.

    It's not bad that you didn't know who Dooce is but it is strange that you
    don't. I bet there are only three people who don't know who she is.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I do that too all the time. I even wrote a post about my wish to be able to
    edit my comments. Did you notice that little edit button? Me neither.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I was tickled the first time too and I had guilt. It's not even a real
    award. It's not like I can place it on my mantle.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Send them to Dooce and the Bloggess, they need them more than I do, no one
    ever shows them any love.

  • http://man-over-board.com Man Over Board

    I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know you have been awarded the Redhead's who Rant Award, giving once a year to the most deserving Redhead that loves to rant. This year the award is most sincerely and with much appreciation being presented to you, for all your fine work and most of all your thoughtful insights.

    Because this award is only giving once a year and to a very specific niche, we do not give out an actual silly picture of an award, that we ask you to post. But it is necessary, that all recipients of this prestigious award must adhere to the century old tradition, which includes the following three points:

    1, On the first full moon after the award, you must run stark nekid through your neighborhood singing “Single Ladies” by Beyounce preferably with 4 of your closet friends harmonizing.

    2. Supplying one keg of beer to your favorite nursing home and having as many of the residents participate in doing “keg stands”.

    3. And finally becoming a guest blogger on one of your favorite blogs, oh say Man Over Board and writing a dissertation on why bloggers who receive awards should refrain from trying to sell them on Ebay. Or any other subject you freaking want to so I can get 160 comments on one of my posts damn it. :-)

    I kid I kid (but not about the guest post)

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    There is the Glass Poo award which I will be displaying proudly on my blog
    soon. I don't really know why you get it. I had to ask for it.
    What is FML?

  • jerseygirl89

    Please stop stealing my thoughts. Maybe I should create an award for doing so? :)

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    *”Wow, I'm glad I'm not living your life, but I hope by giving you this
    award I'll boost my traffic.”* I love that!

    I'm surprised I haven't gotten the lemonade award. The honest scrap one
    doesn't thrill me much either simply because of the graphic. However the
    Chuck Norris one was pretty fabulous to get.

  • http://wovenbywords.blogspot.com Mimi

    So, maybe everyone in the blogosphere will read your Ranting and see all of us who'd rather NOT get another award as long as we blog. Then they can make a list and never give one out to us. I saw a button at the top left of someone's blog recently that stated their site was Award-free!! LOL And for people to give you the cheeriest, bubbliest, blah blah blah award apparently don't understand the word “ranting”!! You should create a button with Oscar the Grouch on it and state that “Blog Awards Stink” on it!!

  • http://afcsoac.blogspot.com/ lisleman

    I learned that one from my kids on Facebook – it stands for F— My Life used for those memorable moments like getting a flat tire on the way to an appointment and things like that.

  • http://www.mom-zombie.com MomZombie

    I'm happy to receive blog awards but always hesitant to pass them on to anyone unless I know they kind of like getting them. Blog awards lately are kind of like those “Best Use of Chalk” awards they hand out in elementary schools to the kids who do nothing so they don't feel bad about themselves.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    You said it, I didn't! Bingo.

  • http://queenofthedogs.blogspot.com/ peedee

    Holy shit! You obviously hit a nerve with this post. lmao!! And not only am I late to this party, NO, I'm not reading 169 comments to see if what I say is a repeat. Deal.
    Umm, there's a drink waiting for you over at my blog.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    A drink is much better than an award. I will come by and pick it up as long
    as I don't have to do anything but enjoy it.

  • http://www.junecleavernirvana.com/ Texasholly

    I think you are on to something with the cookies. I would really like one right now.

    This was genius btw.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    Wouldn't cookies be awesome? If awards came with cookies I'd probably so
    them… no, probably not. I'd go and get the cookies, enjoy them and then
    forget about the award. But I would be very grateful.

  • http://mommamiameaculpa.com meleahrebeccah

    You rock Jennifer.

  • mike1144

    quite interesting post
    :P
    cheers

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  • Loukiazigoumis

    You're awesome! Finally, someone said the thing we're all too scared to talk about in bloggy land – the hated and dreaded blog awards! Now, do you know what I do with the dozens I received from other bloggers I usually like? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. And you know what? These same bloggers? They still come back to my blog, so thank the LORD! Seriously, maybe once I posted an award? When I was new at blogging 3 years ago? But now, I can't. I can hardly keep up with things as they are!
    You're wicked! Thanks for this post!

  • http://mixedmamaproject.com Erin

    Lol. I realize this sounds hypocritical as my most recent post has an award on it, but I too hate blog awards. Is an award really an award if it basically works the same way as a chain email? No, I didn't pass on the award to seven of my friends.

  • http://twitter.com/jennyonthespot jennyonthespot

    Dude. Preach it sista.

    This is also why I don't host at-home parties. You invite 16, 3 show up… but then you are on “THE LIST” for the 16 the you invited… They invite you to their 4 parties… 16 x 4= 64 party invites (give or take). And suddenly the 20% you saved… costs your retirement…

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    This cracked me up but the math hurt my head. I don't do these kinds of parties either, all my friends know I have a blog and well, they know better.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    See, don't you feel better for having admitted it? The next step is to refuse to pass it along.

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    It's the newbie bloggers that cause all the havoc and why we can't fully extract ourselves from the blog award snowball effect. You don't want to tell them you don't like them (the awards, not the bloggers) right after they gave you one, and you certainly don't want to hurt their feelings and we all know that anyone who has been blogging for only a couple of months is as raw emotionally as anyone can possibly get. Nope, it's best to nip it in the bud.

  • ezmomm

    Sorry…and just when I was about to share an award with you….geesh….what a way to crush a blogger trying to rid herself of yet another award she's received….
    This was too funny! Love your honesty!!

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ redheadranting

    I don't know where to find you, please send me your blog URL.

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  • Lori

    I know this post is super old, but can I just say –
    thank you!
    I’ve felt this starting with the second award I got, but never had the guts to say it.
    I’m a follower and I promise never to give you an award.

  • Susan

    I too, have been getting lots of these awards which being a southerner I have to be polite and say they are sort of sweet BUT I also don’t like getting them. I have NEVER passed one on…I once wrote thanks to so and so and so and so for all giving me the same award but that’s all I did.  I never passed them on!  So just now I googled “I hate blog awards” and your post popped up first! LOL!!!
    Sometimes I’ll go to the giver’s site and thank them but I NEVER do anything with them and they don’t match my wallpaper or background on my blog so I don’t ever post them! LOL!

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