Holiday goodness was given, stories were created and shared, votes were cast, and now the results are in! While all of the story submissions tugged at the ol’ heart strings, you, the community, decided on the best holiday story.

Here’s a big shout out to The Goodest Story Ever Contest winners:

The Goodest Story Ever (1st place): Denise Lambert won a flight for 2 ($1,800 value) with 49 votes for her holiday story, “One Single Mom to Another”.

Instead of Cancun, Denise will be using her prize a little differently. She says,

I plan to take my 5 year-old daughter Gwendolyn to Paris, France for a couple of weeks in the summer. We are french, and I’m going to rent an apartment and spend my days playing in the parks with her, seeing the sites, and cooking with awesome french ingredients. (ok, ok, two weeks of pain o chocolate). [note: pain au chocolate means chocolate croissant in English]

I might also take her on the train to Vienna…

And of course, do my own good daily in FRANCE!

Runner Up: Casie Stewart won a Flip video Mino HD camcorder ($250 value) with 41 votes for her story, “This is How We Do It”.

Casie plans to,

I’m going to be using the camera to start video blogging! I’m really excited. It was a close race and we all did a great job. I’m going to be able to share my good deeds with others in video form now. Yay!

Third Place: Kelly Kruschel won a $100 Starbucks gift card for sharing her unique holiday story, “Craigslist OFFER: Free Holiday Dinner”.

Kelly is lovin’ the givin’ and just won’t stop,

I will be giving the gift card to a friend of mine.

If you haven’t already read these fantastic stories, we urge you to do so as they are truly heart-warming. Interestingly, all 3 winning stories described how the contestants began a new holiday tradition that involved helping others less fortunate than themselves.

Kudos to these wonderful Do Gooders for winning, and a huge congrats to everyone who submitted a holiday story to the contest. Not only did you do good but you also allowed readers to feel good through your story.

Thank you for sharing your Do Gooding and please do the world a favour: keep doing it!