Vintage store window by Karen Horton, used under CC.

Welcome to our second monthly Nuffnang Blogger Challenge! Each month we’ll try to inspire you to get your creative freak on with our Blogger Challenge topics – which will hopefully result in great blog post ideas for YOU and sometimes cool prizes too!

So, without further delay, here’s the challenge for this month! Create a blog post in response to this question:

September Blogger Challenge: What are your shopping secrets? Take us on your favourite shopping trip!

How to participate:

All you need to do is create a blog post in response to the challenge question. The whole point of it is to encourage you to get creative and do a great post revealing your secret shopping loves. Be as creative as possible! Include photos to really illustrate why this is your favourite shopping experience –  maybe photos of yourself trying on clothes, the gorgeous window display of your favourite shop, or even your favourite cafe for a post shopping tea break!

Acland St Art by Bernard Oh, used under CC.

Your post should bring to life your favourite shopping experience – whether it’s hunting through your local market for second hand or vintage lovelies, disappearing down one of your city’s little back alleys into a little known shopping strip, or even visiting a farmers market to buy your favourite locally produced cheese, or produce (or cake, mmm cake). Whatever your passion, we know you have some shopping secrets to share!

Sugardough window display by avlxyz, used under CC.

If you want to be in the running to win one of the Blogger Challenge prizes, you’ll need to do a couple of extra things to enter the competition (see the Rules, below). Of course, if you just want to write a post for the challenge, and don’t want to enter the competition, that’s fine.

The Prize: The best, most creative entry will win $250 cash to make your dream shopping experience come true!

The most creative entry in this month’s challenge will get the chance to turn their shopping dream into a reality! We’re offering $250 cash for the Nuffnang blogger who comes up with the most creative blog post in response to this challenge.

The Rules:

Create a blog post any day between now and September 30, and make sure that you include the words “Nuffnang September Blogger Challenge” and a link to this post. Then come back to this post and leave a comment with a link to your post, to let us know you’re entering! The most creative entry (as judged by the Nuffnang team) will win the $250 cash prize!

This competition is open to Nuffnang bloggers only – so if you haven’t joined yet, sign up to Nuffnang now! :)

Shopping Laneway by Jon & Alison, used under CC.

Here are some blog posts to inspire you!

Whether you blog about food, fashion, beauty, even tech gadgets, we know you get a thrill from finding a treasure or a bargain from your favourite secret shopping place. Here are some examples sent through by our bloggers just for this post (thanks guys!):

Accessories & more - ASOS Haul + Purple Paradise FOTD V2 from Through Beauty Eyes

Fresh herbs - A Little Lamb for my Mint Sauce – from Dirty Ice Cream in Your Lunchbox

Grocery shopping - Spending money wisely – buying in bulk from Hear Mum Roar

Accessories - Not just any headbands from Cecilia Yong

Good luck and enjoy your September!