Bag Yourself A Budda Blag!
Our New Micro-blag Format on Twitter!
We're moving our Budda Blags on to Twitter, so you'll have to be really sharp and to the point to enter this way:
1. Sign up for Twitter,
2. Follow buddabag,
3. Tweet your blag starting with @buddabag (keep it as short as you can) use this link
We'll follow you back and retweet your blag to our other followers - please do the same if you get a blag from us which tickles your funny bone!
Or, Blag Away to Your Heart's Content the Traditional Way:
So you want your very own Budda Bag? Then you'll have to blag one!! Just fill in the form below and tell us why you're special and why you over everybody else deserves a Budda bag. It's that simple!
We've a bag to give away every month!!
If you're not sure what to write, here are a couple of our favourite examples:
"Well who needs a man when you have a Budda Bag no arguments just relaxation & comfort" Moira Ferguson
"My Budda Bag : to read, to sleep, to drink, to fight, to jump, to show off, to love...to live !" Yohann
"Because I totally love them, I saw a mega budda it was like a bag that hugged you back !" Corinna Winch
"Love @ First Sit!" Nick Banks (Winner, September 2008)
Best of Luck!
This Month's Budda Blag Winner:
Me: Mirror, Mirror, on the wall,
Who's the comfiest of them all?
Mirror: Why haven't you heard,
who wins hands down?
It's the Budda Bag,
and its talk of the town!
Me: A Budda Bag, huh?
It sounds pretty cool!
Mirror: Yes, it makes the sofa
look like a fool.
Me: So where can i get one?
Mirror: Ah i know just the place.
Me: A magical galaxy,
far out of space?
Mirror: No, the shop or the website,
Buddabag.com,
Go and blag yourself a budda!
(10 days later)
Me: YES, YES I'VE WON!!!!
Amelia Crookall
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
Those who say it is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all do not know what they are talking about. I have loved a budda bag (if only for a few minutes in the shop) and now I know what I am missing out on every time I sit on a couch or go to sleep on my bed. Please relieve this agony and heartbreak by awarding me a budda bag!
Christopher Hesketh
BEANBAG - One small step for man.
BUDDA BAG - One GIANT leap for mankind!!!!
Owen Evans
If a Budda Bag ruled the world wouldn't it be a lovely place to live!
Everybody would be so relaxed and comfy nobody would be able to even think
about fighting and wars, only fluffy clouds and soothing music.
"Budda Bag for World President"
James Aston
I love them, I think they are great, they are that missing thing that every real comfy, cosy home should have!!!! Once you see them and have a sit in one of them the only thing you can think is: Where you've been all my life!!!!
Tatiana Quintero
Gandhi said you have to be the change you wish to see in the world. Make my quest complete, a much more chilled out world starting from my living room. Don't just do it for me, do it for the planet.
Rob Auden
May's Budda Blag Winner:
Two Friends:
Man #1: so how did the divorce turn out?
Man #2: I'm so glad it's finished with. it really was long and drawn out.
She fought me for everything. She almost got my Budda Bag!
Man #1: Really?!
Man #2: I know! I couldn't believe it myself. She tried to take the one
thing that meant something to me. That bag defines who I am man! I would've
fought her to the ends of the earth to get it back if she'd won it.
Man #1: I know what you mean. I have one and I could never let it go. It
just wouldn't be an option. So who got the kids?
Man #2: she did.
Elliot Hunter
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
I deserve a budda bag because I managed to sleep in one in a recording studio while there was a 100 watt guitar amplifier being played for 3 hours about a metre from my head. I have never known comfort like it and I need that feeling again. NEED, NEED, NEED!
Richie Bohan
Stuff the dog! A budda bag is definetely a mans best friend, and a friend is for life.
mimi c
Budda Bag...more like Emzy Bag! My life is one big colourful lazy ass party with hours of contemplating how to make life even easier without working my ass off yet still having fun doing what i Luuuururrrrrrvvve! Whats missing i here u ask......A Budda Bag!! Being a Graphic Designer clearly i keep my days full of creativity and moments of insanity. Us creative people do need to feed our creativity and to do this we need Budda Bags of pure goodness to let us roll out our creative brain waves, listen to good music and be inspired by the mouse running across the floor, stopping in its tracks to look at me....in envy.....why hear u ask....cos im sittin n chllin in my the most comfy of bum cushions ever.... My Budda Bag AKA Emzy bag!
Emma Inglis
What you can do with your budda bag!
(Please DO try this at home!)
Ascend the mighty side of it
Budda Blag on buddabag.com whilst on it
Carry it (everywhere)
Dance around it
Eat whilst on it (don't spill any!)
Fall into it
Grumble privately to it
Hug it
Invent a new game using it
Jump onto it
Kiss it
Love it
Melt inside it
Name it (mine's called Bella!)
Open up your soul to it
Ponder interesting thoughts on it
Question why you can't get up from it
Read a good book on it
Snuggle it it
Talk to your friends about it
Understand it (it has feelings too)
Vanquish normal chairs with it
Wash it (very carefully)
Xtra time needed for it
Yawn on it
then...
Zzzzzzzzzz - fall asleep on it!
Emma Inglis
Legend has it that the original Buddabag (Baggus Relaxis) dates back to the
time of Caesar. Anthropologists now believe that this a keystone event when
modern civilization started to get more out of their day: work hard then
rest hard!
In fairness, with all that busy empire-ing he was up to, there's only one
thing that could make Caesar chill out at the end of a long conquest... the
legendary, iconic buddabag.
You must give me a buddabag before I can start my own conquests!!
kevin shaughs
April's Budda Blag Winner:
Having experienced the comfort of a Budda Bag, I joined the ever expanding
group of "them what want one". In fact I might go as far as to say it is
one of my favourite things! Which gets me thinking! Julie Andrews, when she
sang of her favourite things, strangely limited herself to such inane things
as schnitzel with noodles and parcels tied up with string.
Just suppose how different it would have been if the Von Trapps had a Buddha
bag .....
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens;
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens;
They're smelly and scratchy, just metal and rags;
None can compare to my big Budda Bag
Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels;
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles;
All to be banished from my stately home;
Now all that I need is a big bag of foam!
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes;
Know not to mess with my big comfy precious;
Captain Von Trapp, he went flat on his back;
as he sat on my Budda, and I gave him a smack!
With no dust mites,
With no draw stings,
when I'm feeling Flaaaaaed,
I simply fall onto my favorite thing,
And then I don't feel so bad.
.... she would have won an oscar!! :) (and the Budda bag would undoubtedly
have gotten best supporting (of an) actress!!
Alan Woods
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
I deserve one because me and my new wife have moved to our first house 200 miles from home. We believe its the closest thing to a mothers touch that we are going to get for a long time!
Neil Campbell
We were told by an aged soothsayer of Stepney that our beloved cat is the
reincarnated soul of an ancient Egyptian princess and that she should be in
possession of a throne befitting of such a figure.
She's just a nutty old crow but tiddles would love a budda bag!
Ellie
Ooooooh! Budda Bags! I had never known about the comfort, bliss, heaven and pure delight of the Budda Bag! And then one day while lost in Dublin (I'm a Culchie, me) I found my paradise in the form of a Budda Bag shop! Who knew that such ecstasy existed in the middle of the scary city!! It was fate that I came across the shop, the Budda Bags just calling to me! They are still calling from afar and they will continue to talk to me until I again sit in their divine surroundings! Cloud Nine means nothing anymore! Budda Bag is everything
Helen Ryan
Budda bags are one of a kind
So many copies come to mind
Sitting up or lying down
There is no chance of seeing a frown
Budda bags are the only one,
Like cotton wool on your big or small bum!
Gráinne
March's Budda Blag Winner:
"Confucius: "The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
Budda: "Shut up Confucius and sit down in that bag there"
Confucius: "Jaysus Budda, yer dead right, I am one comfy scholar now!"
Claire F
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"I have coveted a Budda Bag for so many years, but now I really, really NEED
one.
My beautiful little girl is 8 months old and very independent. She doesn't
'do' cuddles... until we visited the Budda Bag shop in Dublin. The minute
we sat into a Budda Bag, she snuggled right into me and cooed away in my
arms - squishy, snuggly, cuddly bliss!
Please make us the perfect family unit - me, mini me and our new Budda Bag!" Carol Butler
"I met a Budda Bag only a couple of weeks ago and it was love at first sit!
Or perhaps more love at first "lie down and never want to get up ever
again!" I couldnt get up after sinking my ample backside into the even more
ample memory foam bag that I'm sure was a cloud sent from heaven. I would
love to have one as a friend in my home" caroline pomfret
"Ever since I drove past your shop last year, Budda bags have pleasured my
dreams. I wake up every morning still imagening how the fabric felt against
my skin. I now find myself looking at your website every day drifting off
into a dream world full of Budda bags an me. Where ever I go I see them,
hiding round corners, in the back of cars, everywhwere! My obsession is
growing stronger, my life has no meaning without a Budda bag in it!" Nicola Daley
"We deserve a Budda Bag because:
1. I have fibromyalgia and it could be a daybed in the lounge to comfort me.
2. My daughter is in love with Budda Bags, and she wants to have a sleepover
with her BFF on it?!
3. When my hubby is snoring too loudly I can chuck him out of bed knowing he
has somewhere to go.
4. We can all snuggle up together for family nights.
5. Basically we just LOVE LOVE LOVE Budda bags." Samantha
"it will liberate my living room from the tyranny of couch+TV! viva el
revolucion! viva buddabag!" kev
February's Budda Blag Winner:
" It's not easy being single these days. Getting ready for a night out can be a real chore...hair, nails, make-up & fake tan. I'm giving up on my quest to bag a man because now i'm on a quest to BAG a BUDDA. Give me an exuse to stay in on a Saturday night. I want to be a BUDDA WAG!! " Emma Cullinane
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"I would love my own budda bag to brighten up the cold winter days with the
stupidly fun leaping budda bag game - devised at my mate's house (lucky
owner of mega budda) ...it works like this.... (1) leap into the air moving
towards budda bag (pulling amusing stance if possible), (2) friend snaps
photo (3) you land softly and oh so comfily on the mega budda...repeat till
exhausted/unable to move from laughing then crash out on lovely comfy budda
bag." Rebecca Coleman
"Who doesn't need recession beating comfort???" Lisa Deery
" I definitely deserve a Buddha bag as I can guarantee that I will love and cherish it till the day I am found dead in it. My love affair began at Electric Picnic when tired and emotional I took a break in the comforting cocoon of a blue bag-revived and refreshed after a snooze in this majestic piece of comfort heaven I carried on my journey but I've held it in my heart and memories since then...I vowed to be united! You can make this dream come true.." blathnaid
" I deserve a budda bag because I've just started working as a psychiatrist and I need to get going on my campaign for the prescription of budda bags as the worlds strongest and safest sedative!" Claire F
" If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for
comfort you will find.... Budd Bags!" Ian Kehoe
January's Budda Blag Winner:
"I remeber walking past the shop and seeing a Budda Bag roll to the window and press it's foam up against the glass, is' sorrowful expression said buy me, but I couldn't. However now, I can offer a very good home to a Budda Bag, I know that they are not just for Christmas, and I promise to love it forever and ever." Samantha Short
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"It's the best, coolest comfortablest thing ever!!!! You guys are geniuses!!" Philip Kagalovsky
"I am a bubbly, happy, friendly, magical, fairy student who lives in bristol.I have wanted a budda bag for 3 years now, since my boyfriend took my to your shop in london, who regreted doing so as he had to drag and carry me out!(can you blame me? ;p )
I deserve a budda bag because i like to spread a lot of love and joy to the world, and should be able to come home and pamper myself by jumping onto a budda bag of joy. That and if you choose me i shall wave my magic wand and grant you 3 wishes ;D" Jade Hallie
"A teacher they call Mr Frost Has a chair in repair but that costs So thinking began and a big blagging plan Without Buddabag he'd simply be lost. His students thought he was quite right To be looking at the Buddabag site So blagging began and this confident man Went to work in his classroom that night. So here ends the tale of the teacher Who was mocked and called a blagging creature He thought, What the hell, I'll try not to dwell, When my Buddabags a whole school feature!" Marcus Frost
"From the moment I saw you, touched you...sat on you, I had to have you my Budda Bag. I have dreamt about you every night, to caress you, to stroke your smooth fabric. I want to fall asleep with you holding me, my body fitting perfectly alongside yours. Budda Bag, please be mine.." Danielle Palmer
"A mish mash of Budda Bag nursery rhymes!
I really need a Budda Bag,
With fleece a flaming red,
Because you see in my house,
I haven't got a bed!
So hey there Budda peeps,
Have you any foam,
Why yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags to take home
One for a blagger
who'll jump around with glee,
I just hope that the winner
is little blagger me!
I'd sit upon my Budda Bag
with a smile from ear to ear,
But what'd be most happy,
is my lovely comfy rear!
So please do me a favour,
and let me blag a bag,
So i can tell all my friends,
and be a Budda Brag!
:o)" Caoimhe Mooney
December's Budda Blag Winner:
"Sometimes you just need a soft landing!" Sarah Shaw
"I really need a budda bag because ny bum is so big, armchairs are like bear traps.i spend all my money on vaseline so i can break free." Eddie Siggins
Twas the night before Christmas, and tucked up in bed,
dreams of BUDDA BAG presents ran through my head.
I'd written my list, up the chimney it flew.
- A BUDDA BAG please in Microsuade Blue.
And as I dreamed on, on this cold winters night,
little did I know St Nick was in flight.
As quick as a flash, like lightening he came,
and as he rode by, each present he'd name.
'A Mega! A Maxi! A Brown Corduroy Midi!
A Mini! A Baby! A Faux Fur Cow Didi!'
The bag with the slogan 'Beans are for Toast!'
Was as popular now as the Christmas day roast.
A BUDDA BAG made every boy and girls' list.
And even St Nicholas couldn't resist.
Back in the North Pole, the place he called home
Was a belly shaped mould in his BUDDA BAGs' foam.
So he finished his rounds and went on his way
With a brilliant idea. a BUDDA BAG sleigh!
And he yelled to the world as he drove out of sight
'Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight..'Victoria Hooker
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"I would swap my first born for a Budda Bag! Now that's dedication!" Becky Lambert
"A Budda bag full of foam is great
That is why i will participate.
Without a budda bag my lifes incomplete
Like a pair of legs without any feet.
I'll fight hatton and go all 12 rounds
Or fight the best pound for pound
I will swim the entire, English channel
To win you over on that budda bag panel.
I'll parachute from 10,000 feet,
Or run a marathon in the boiling heat,
I beg of you, i'm on my knees.
Can i have a budda bag, please ,please, please" Christopher Hesketh
"My story is simple - one evening, hanging out in town with a guy who was 'just a friend', we were wandering around Jervis Street, a little aimlessly. I think we both had feelings for one another - but we weren't sure how to break the ice, neither of us wanted to blow it. After some time we stumbled across a shop called 'Budda Bag'. I was struck by the sight of all the giant, comfy, bum-friendly objects in the store and insisted we go inside - having spent half the afternoon sitting awkwardly with him on a freezing bench in Stephen's Green. Like children, the two of us fell into a cow-patterned faux-fur midi-budda. I don't know if it was the softness of the fur or the squishiness of the bag, but we looked in one another eyes, and... well, it was a life-changing moment; the shop assistant didn't know where to look! A year on and we're still madly in love and madly hoping for a budda bag! Even if we don't get a bag, you're still Saints to me - you united me with the love of my life! Thanks guys!" Kerri Ward
November's Budda Blag Winner:
(To the tune of Lady in Red, Chris De Burgh)
I've never seen you looking so comfy as you did tonight
I've never felt your foam so light
I've never seen so many men falling in love at first glance
You've put them in a BUDDA BAG trance, your memory foam does enhance
I have never seen that cover you're wearing
With the denim, cord or fur that caught my eyes, I must have been blind
Chorus:
BUDDA BAG in red, is moulding round me, seat to cheeks
There's nobody here, it's just you and me, you're such a spongy seat
But I hardly know, with OOBI-DOOBI by my spine
I'm glad that we met, I'll snooze on you all night
I've never seen you look so flam-ing red as you did tonight
I'll never feed you after midnight, you WEREN'T a bean bag
I've never seen so many people fighting just to sit on you side
And when I sat on you I smiled, my bum was numb no more!
I have never had utter contentment, so much so that you inspired my BUDDA BLAG
You are my BUDDA BAG!
(Chorus Again)
I'll snooze on you all night
I'm glad that we met, I'll snooze on you all night.
The BUDDA BAG in red
The BUDDA BAG in red
The BUDDA BAG in red
My BUDDA BAG in red
" David Parker
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"One ordinary day, I sat on a massive budda bag. I was overwhelmed with an all encompassing sense of belonging! It was as though my very soul had left my body and cradled me in its arms! I fell in love that day... and every time my ass sits on something else, it feels cheated and I am ashamed. Please, please... consider my plight!!! x lili.... ps you guys are rocket scientists - it really is the best thing ever!!!" Leigh Wienburg
"I deserve a Budda Bag because I'm sick of Bean Bags! Who has time to pick up little beans all the time!! No matter what you do they always manage to escape! And they lose their shape when the beans get squished, I don't have time for them!! GGGrrrrrr. This is why I want a budda bag, ;-)" Karen O'Hara
"On a rainy Saturday afternoon.
We went to your shop to escape the gloom.
Lying on a budda bag filled with bliss
We exchanged a long and meaningful kiss
And knew we couldn't continue on
Without a budda bag of our own ;-)" Fiona Flynn
"Along side everything else the Budda Bag offers, love, warmth, stability and so on, BB can also help monitor my chocolate intake, as each time i rise to the fridge i can reflect on the size of the bum shaped imprint left in the super comfy memory foam!" Emma Bettridge
"Budda Bag [boo-duh bag] - noun
a religion, originated in Dublin by BuddaBag Ltd. and later spreading to
Galway, London, Oslo, Italy, and other parts of Europe, holding that life is
full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is
through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of
uncomfortable chairs, sofas & bean bags to which one is otherwise subject." Mike Brennan
October's Budda Blag Winner:
"Shaw once wrote that: 'there are two tragedies in life, one is to lose your hearts desire, the other is to gain it...' Shaw clearly never sat on a Budda Bag!" Gavin Redmond
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"B rilliant,
U ndeniably
D ifferent,
D efinitely an
A sset,
B udda Bags
A re just
G reat,
S o...I should have one!" Michelle Carey
"Because the path to cosmic comfyness should end in my loft." Ben Edwards
"The rain is biblical and the economy is glum,
Yet all's well with somewhere comfy for your bum." Brian Sammon
"I think I deserve a Buddha bag because After working hard and in my chill out times I usually only love to flop down into my usual sized bean bag (sofa's just don't cut it) After trying a friends buddha bag, I realised i'm being short changed in the comfy stakes, Getting one would be like winning the squishy comfort lottery." James Richardson
"When I win the lottery I'm going to change every seat in my house with a budda bag, the dining table will have 4 around, my bed will be out the window for a mega budda, my dog can have a mini budda, if you did a water-proof one I would get my goldfish a water-budda. But if you gave me one to start the collection, I'm going to change my car seat with a budda so I can have a speedy-budda!" Hayley
"We have a few at work.. and I LOVE them. They just don't fit into my
bicycle basket.. and on my way home I start reminiscing:
You feel like a fluffy cloud to me
so tender and caring.
Every time I have to leave you behind
it is so sad and despairing.
And I wonder every time
how can I make you mine..?" Silke Baeuerle
"Because I have created this poem in awe of the Bag and my desire for it:
Beautiful you are:
Utterly snuggly,
Delightfully cuddly,
Divinely comfy,
And yet I must long from afar.
But if your makers think kindly,
And should luck smile upon me,
Gratefully you could be mine!" Helen Marshall
"I'd really appreciate a bag with foam,
A budda bag to fill my home,
A couch or chair does not compare,
To the comfort that would fill my lair,
I simply want a budda bag,
I ask, I beg, I plead, I nag,
I've grown to hate sitting on the floor,
But I fell in love with a budda bag I saw,
I ask of you to make my life bliss,
And send a budda bag to your good pal Chris." Christopher Hesketh
"I deserve the buddabag because: From the second I entered the shop at sat on the buddabag I knew it was meant to be. To sit down on that buddabag just lets my worries flow out of me. A Buddabag is true to name. It is the bag of the gods. Please, I need this. If I were to win it I would tell everyone of my friends how heavenly it is." James Connaughton
September's Budda Blag Winner:
Runners-Up - Close, But Keep Trying!
"Cause my bum is getting really sore
From havng to sit on the floor
I live with my love you see
and he`s only gone and got a leather setee
So as and animal lover I`m waving the white flag
I need help from Mr Budda Bag" Kathrina
"I deserve a Budda Bag because I need it for Health and Safety reasons. I keep falling asleep without warning and if I could carry a BB around with me I wouldn`t keep bumping my head when I go to Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Ouch! Did it again! Please give me a Zzzzzzzz ouch!" Jeremy Brookes
"Like a budda bag Im a soft , loveable, large, cuddly, squishy kinda guy and my wife says"whilst im comfy to lay on im no budda bag." Simon Rowe
"Well who needs a man when you have a Budda Bag no arguments just relaxation & comfort" Moira Ferguson
"My Budda Bag : to read, to sleep, to drink, to fight, to jump, to show off, to love...to live !" Yohann
"Because I totally love them, I saw a mega budda it was like a bag that hugged you back !" Corinna Winch
"You should listen to me blag,
About why I love the Budda Bag..
Fit for a bear,
Its not just a chair,
So comfortable and soft,
It will go well in my loft,
Great for a party, or even a sleep,
Outside in the cold I would not even peep,
The hippo, the mum, the atom or ball,
A Budda Bag is fun for all,
Foam over beans is definitely my preference,
I vehemently say this..without any defference.
I pledge to spread the word of the Budda Bag..
So you really would be mad,
To pass up such an ad!" Susan Breslin
We have some great new surprises coming up for all you blaggers soon , so keep them coming in and hopefully you will all win the coveted Budda Bag and join in the ever growing Budda Bag Family.
Again we would like to thank you all for all your great entries and it is so difficult for us to choose a winner under all your great Blags. Watch this space for more ......... And keep Blagging
YOUR BUDDA BAG TEAM