Between full-time work and a work-study internship, most of my time this year is gone. I am finally down to working six days a week for a few more weeks, then freedom! Until then, I have little time to scour the internet for contests and no time to visit places that have contests. In the last few days, here’s what I did enter:
It’s been a while since I had time to work on this project, but now that my work schedule is lessening a bit, I suspect I’ll have to catch up with R’s record of five wins.
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On March 21 my competitor announced that she won her third contest. Now she is not only the winner of one more contest than I am, she is also at around $190, while I am about $150 behind her.
This morning, I had a great dream where I won a prize – a trip for two to the Maldives, worth $2500. During my whole dream, I was trying to get the tickets and answering last minute questions from the company giving away the tickets. As my dream progressed, it turned out that the tickets were for a 48-hour trip to the Maldives, with Matt and I set to fly directly there and on the way back with a stopover in Hawaii. Not sure how much of the Maldives I would have seen on my dream trip, but the dream me was very excited. I remember thinking in my dream, too, that I would finally be ahead of Rsaloust in the amount of winnings. I was choked up when I awoke and realized that I was not going to the Maldives after all.
Obviously this is a sign that I will win again soon and that I just need to get busy entering more contests!
Thus, here are my latest entries. On March 21:
On April 4:
On April 13:
On June 13:
Having had bad luck with my first contest, I was not going to let my second prize winning go to waste. To make sure I made it to the Georgia Straight office (everything about them is geared for Vancouverites – they are only open Monday to Friday during office hours), I changed my work schedule to arrive at 8 am and leave at 4 pm, then I drove across town to make it to their office a mere 15 minutes before they closed. (Lest you think I polluted the air with needless driving, I made sure to be at least somewhat environmentally responsible and combined my trip wtih a couple of errands. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any more contests.)
Not wanting to squander my winnings, I also made plans to see Unknown the next day. My husband and I made it just in time…to take our pick of seats. I don’t know how movie theatres survive today. I like going out and I like seeing movies on the big screen. Probably most people now have large TVs so they have no desire to go out anymore.
The movie turned out to be pretty fun. After a car accident, Liam Neeson’s character comes out of a coma to find out his wife no longer recognizes him and some other guy is pretending to be him. Anyhow, you most likely know this – I don’t have cable or read entertainment news anymore, so I have no idea what movies are playing. If not, let me tell you the best part.
The movie is set in Berlin.
There you go. You’ll enjoy the movie, too, if you like car chases.
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My contest contest winnings now amount to:
RV Show tickets $16
+
Unknown movie tickets $25
= $41
So I am behind R, but gaining! I am sure with my next few contests I should catch up:
March 7:
March 12:
March 13:
Another win! This time it’s two movie tickets for Unknown from the Georgia Straight. It sounded like a plot-twister of a movie and I rarely even have a chance to read up about movies these days, never mind actually seeing them. Aside from The King’s Speech, which my coworker saw and recommended, I didn’t recognize any of the nominated movies. I discover movies these days from the trailers on the DVDs I borrow from the library. Thus, my wonderful husband and I will be off to see this psychological thriller.
I hope.
I never did get my winning tickets in the mail from the first contest.
Meanwhile, the contest entries continue:
January 31
February 4
February 8
February 9
February 10
February 11
February 13
February 20
March 1
Two tickets to the Earlybird RV Show and Sale through the Fraser Valley Pulse website! I am really excited to have won my first contest!
As I said in my entry, I hope to one day drive across Canada to Newfoundland, then back across North America through the US, then up the Dempster Highway to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. Certainly that will be when I retire as I have no time now, but I can start planning now with the RV show. (Check out the snazzy models.)
My winnings come to $16 so far, below R’s $64.50. Yet I think my luck is finally showing its face. Like a hedgehog that’s finally removed the toilet paper roll off its head. The RV show is just the start.
Thank you very much to the Fraser Valley Pulse!
And I hope my worthy opponent had a lovely evening with her prize of tickets to the Talking Stick Festival opening!
One of my worries with this contest contest R and I are doing is that I will end up winning so many trips that I may have to quit my job to go on them all. Luckily, my coworkers still have me around for a little while. But soon I will be going to the following places:
I also entered contests for:
Phew! 23 contests in one day and I had a busy day of errands and social activities cut short because the play tonight was sold out by the time I got to the box office.
Congratulations to R on the first winning!
Now that we clarified the rule that the contests we enter must be for prizes we want for ourselves or to give away to people we know would appreciate them, I almost wish I could retract some of the contests I entered. Hence, from now on, I will only enter for contests that will enrich my life. Thus:
Friday January 21:
Sunday January 23:
Tuesday January 25:
Saturday January 29:
As for winnings, so far I have nothing to report except frequent calls from a persistent automated telemarketing answering machine.
Leave it to the Dutch and their weird humour to make a contest really fun to enter. Since this one depends on more friends entering, let me know if you want an invitation and I’ll send you the link to the jokiest contest.
I took a break from contests last night, after the shock of seeing how far R was ahead of me. But today, I gritted my teeth and entered a few more contests and entered:
Apprently R and I have inspired my sister and she has already entered three contests as well. I asked her if she wanted to blog here too, but she declined. I suspect she just doesn’t want other people to know about her contests and become competition.
On my to-do list for the day: more contests!
My plan was to enter all of the Georgia Straight’s contests. These are the ones I entered:
Matt also sent me a link to a Boardgame Geek contest: winning the Alvin & Dexter Ticket to Ride Monster Expansion.
And then I ran out of steam on this project for the night.