The "One win a month" challenge...

littledutchboy

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
Jul - Signed Orson CD
Aug - Top five albums CDs


Phew! I was starting to get worried as I hadn't won anything for ages. Thought I'd used up all my luck...

comicmankev

I thought that would be hard to do, but if I add them all up, I've probably averaged at 1 per month too!
Last month I even emailed Heart 106.2 with a play list JUST to win 4 tickets to chessington (which we were going to a few weeks later anyway) AND I WON! I was so excited, I didnt even hear my songs played, just got an answerphone message.

I agree with the above too, I only enter what I want to win. When the ideal home show was on I entered as many comps as I could to get tickets, I ended up winning 3 out of 5 of the comps and 6 tix!

littledutchboy

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
Jul - Signed Orson CD
Aug - Top five albums CDs
Sep - 4 Tickets to Great Ormond St Peter Pan Treasure Hunt Event

I was going to buy tickets to this last night and forgot to do it. Spooky!

martfox

hi littledutchboy, it was your post that inspired me to start entering online competitions

if you see my post - competitions blog - one twice already. you can see my little blog telling everyone of my plans. i have won twice already, not much as you can see but im sooo happy. and i gess i owe it to you because it was you that made me think to do it. lets see if i can win one a month like you???

littledutchboy

martfox wrote:

hi littledutchboy, it was your post that inspired me to start entering online competitions

if you see my post - competitions blog - one twice already. you can see my little blog telling everyone of my plans. i have won twice already, not much as you can see but im sooo happy. and i gess i owe it to you because it was you that made me think to do it. lets see if i can win one a month like you???

I'd seen your blog - happy to have inspired you! Just remember it can come in fits and starts. I had three in one month and then nowt for seven weeks, so don't give up if you hit a lean spell...

littledutchboy

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
Jul - Signed Orson CD
Aug - Top five albums CDs
Sep - 4 Tickets to Great Ormond St Peter Pan Treasure Hunt Event
October - World cup face paints, Nescafe Feel Good set and an Adidas T shirt

Three rather saddo prizes (all consolation prizes) so I lumped them altogether out of emabrrassment. That sound you hear is the bottom of a barrel being scraped :-)

Gyarados

I won 2 day a brand new xbox and a manchester united wash bag with wilkinson Quattro and everything inside it
*so its true, entering all these competitions does actually win you quite a lot of stuff *

littledutchboy

Simcity1984 wrote:

I won 2 day a brand new xbox and a manchester united wash bag with wilkinson Quattro and everything inside it
*so its true, entering all these competitions does actually win you quite a lot of stuff *

Congrats on the xbox. I got home to find a Man United washbag as well. Oh the horror (I'm a Spurs fan - i wish I could remember what the heck I was trying to win)...

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
Jul - Signed Orson CD
Aug - Top five albums CDs
Sep - 4 Tickets to Great Ormond St Peter Pan Treasure Hunt Event
October - World cup face paints, Nescafe Feel Good set, an Adidas T shirt and a Manchester United washbag

littledutchboy

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
Jul - Signed Orson CD
Aug - Top five albums CDs
Sep - 4 Tickets to Great Ormond St Peter Pan Treasure Hunt Event
October - World cup face paints, Nescafe Feel Good set, an Adidas T shirt and a Manchester United washbag
November - Tickets to Guess Watch launch

Doesn't sound so great but daughter got to meet the band (Frank - big on T4), go onstage with them, and got a great Guess goody bag with sunglasses and girly stuff. And I enhanced my reputation as the world's coolest dad...

littledutchboy

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
Jul - Signed Orson CD
Aug - Top five albums CDs
Sep - 4 Tickets to Great Ormond St Peter Pan Treasure Hunt Event
October - World cup face paints, Nescafe Feel Good set, an Adidas T shirt and a Manchester United washbag
November - Tickets to Guess Watch launch
December - London night out, including theatre tickets, dinner for two and VIP club entrance (junior also won a book and a t shirt in two other comps)

My challenge is now complete. What have I learnt?

1. I reckon I enter about 200 comps online a month and you can see what I've won.

2. I've never won anything via a postal entry.

3. Or a text or phone in comp.

4. I need to get out more.