The "One win a month" challenge...

littledutchboy

After we won a fab holiday to New Zealand last year, this year my 10 year old daughter set me the challenge of averaging a competition win a month for a laugh. So far...

Jan - £100 voucher from House of Fraser Bluewater
Feb - Radio controlled toy
Mar - XBox 360
Apr - Interview a CITV presenter for TV Hits Magazine
May - Tickets to Soccer Six celeb soccer match in Birmingham

I'm starting to feel the pressure now...

pavlovs_dog

crikey, i wish i had your luck!

littledutchboy

I'm ahead of schedule now, hee hee

Jan - £100 voucher from House of Fraser Bluewater
Feb - Radio controlled toy
Mar - XBox 360
Apr - Interview a CITV presenter for TV Hits Magazine
May - Tickets to Soccer Six celeb soccer match in Birmingham
Jun - Ipod Shuffle 1Gb

Frugal_Fox

Wow - just out of interest - how many competitions do you enter each month!!!!

Hope the holiday to New Zealand was amazing too.

auditbabe

littledutchboy wrote:

After we won a fab holiday to New Zealand last year, this year my 10 year old daughter set me the challenge of averaging a competition win a month for a laugh. So far...

Jan - £100 voucher from House of Fraser Bluewater
Feb - Radio controlled toy
Mar - XBox 360
Apr - Interview a CITV presenter for TV Hits Magazine
May - Tickets to Soccer Six celeb soccer match in Birmingham

I'm starting to feel the pressure now...

I set my self the same same challedge in the new year I have also been successful but not in your leaque. Congratulations and hope you have a great :beer: time

perc

I've not won anything so far but seeing this gives me a new resolve Congrats!

jo_b_2

Frugal_Fox wrote:

Wow - just out of interest - how many competitions do you enter each month!!!!

I'd like to know this as well! Well done and hope your luck holds out! :T

sandhabibi

What sort of comps do you enter? i.e on line draws or send away ones?

cheesylou

jo_b wrote:

I'd like to know this as well! Well done and hope your luck holds out! :T

Please tell us!!! Some people have all the luck! But good on you i hope you enjoy your prizes!

oooh but to win one prize would be nice...!:T

littledutchboy

Oooh, I'm pumped up with self-importance now, haha!

I guess I enter about half a dozen online comps a day via loquax.co.uk - it only takes about ten minutes to pick out the prizes I'm most interested in (I'm superstitious, and don't enter competitions unless I really want the prize as I don't want to use up my share of luck on a crappy prize. Hmm, now I've written that down I've realised that I'm a bit of a saddo). I enter the supermarket mag comps and my daughter's pop mag ones as well, and the odd postcard comp I find on here and in other mags, but almost all the prizes I've won have come from the internet. I've never won anything from sites like Puzzler or MyOffers and I suspect they're a waste of time. I've also never won anything via text or premium rate phone line but I still do them if the prize is worth it (it's my alternative to doing the National Lottery).

You have to be prepared to put up with loads of spam, but what the heck, the holiday to New Zealand alone makes up for it (I took my Dad as well, as his brother lives out there and he'd never been over to see him before).

As far as luck goes, I just think the more comps you enter the more likely you are to win, so if you haven't won anything yet, just keep plugging away, remember it costs nothing (online, at least) and that a biggie (or a bunch of smallies) could be just around the corner... :-)

Chell

https://www.loquax.co.uk - a good place to find online comps which are free to enter. I haven't done any comping for a while as I spend too much time on here. I had about 3 wins a month when I was entering some closing comps each day.