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Need resolution motivation? Jewelers Mutual can help
Knowing how hard it can be to stick to a New Year’s resolution, Jewelers Mutual is partnering with the Stacked New York brand for a sweepstakes to provide a little inspiration this year.

Neenah, Wis.--While New Year’s resolutions are made with good intentions, everyone knows how hard it can be stay on top of them as the year moves forward.
So Jewelers Mutual is partnering with Stacked New York to help provide consumers with some extra motivation and inspiration to reach their goals in 2015.
Through Feb. 11, the “Stacked4Success” sweepstakes is offering consumers the chance to enter daily on Jewelers Mutual’s Perfect Circle personal jewelry insurance brand Facebook page or on its website.
The contest asks them to select their “motivational number”--the number they feel best sums up the strengths they will need during the year to achieve their goals--for a chance to win an Argentium silver bracelet stack from Stacked NY.
For example, No. 1 is “Optimism. Willpower. Energy.” and No. 2 is “Balance. Stability. Challenge.” There are nine available options.
Stacked New York’s tagline is “Strength in Numbers,” and it’s based on the idea that wearing a certain number of bangles and bands can symbolize a hope, dream, challenge or circumstance in a woman’s life.
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The grand-prize winner in the Jewelers Mutual contest will receive their choice of any three silver stackable bangles valued at $750 retail. A runner-up also will be selected to choose two silver stackable bands with a retail value of $300.
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