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Is there such a thing as luck ? (comping wise)

How does the comping fairy know where to strike.


Is there such a thing as (comping) luck & what makes people luckier than others?

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  • CheCazzo
    CheCazzo Posts: 559 Forumite
    Is there such a thing as (comping) luck & what makes people luckier than others?

    Well :rotfl::rotfl:If I knew that I'd have found out where they lived, shot them at dawn and sat back waiting for some luck to strike me! I couldn't win an argument at the moment but I know that sooner or later that will change so I'm sticking with it!
  • BlueBella
    BlueBella Posts: 10,374 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 16 July 2014 at 8:50PM
    Thoroughout my life I was always unlucky - nothing ever seemed to go right and things happened to me that most people would not want to wish on their worst enemies. Anyway about five years ago I hit rock bottom and ended up having a nervous breakdown and became too ill to work. It was then that I was referred to counsellor/nurse and she enrolled me in a local support group - and it was at that support group that I was introduced to the wonderful world of comping! Yes, one of the members of the group said she had joined a site called MSE and had started to enter a few competitions, to which she had won a few prizes. She said she had never won a thing in her life, and even though the prizes were small, they had really boosted her confidence and gave her something to look forward to! So I went home and googled 'MSE' and here I am still - five years later.

    So all I want to say is - yes, I have turned out to be quite lucky in the world of comping, but in other areas of my life, I am probably one of the unluckiest people around - having had (and actually still having) more 'downs' than 'ups' in my rollercoaster of a life!! shy-penguin-smiley-emoticon.gif So I don't think there are any people who are completely unlucky or completely lucky - luck can maybe be more prevalent in certain areas of a person's life or come and go (like a fluttering comping fairy!) So yes I do believe in the comping fairy and other fairies that flutter around us - like the love fairy, employment fairy and the tooth fairy - and I am sure they all visit us at some point in our lives!!
    :TA big thanks to all who post and sprinkling lucky dust to all who enter :smileyhea
  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 36,346 Forumite
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    If there is, I don't have it.
    It's all down to the odds and how many you enter. Which in my case is clearly not enough.
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • compsalex
    compsalex Posts: 770 Forumite
    There is good luck and there also is bad luck.

    It is beyond our control and there is nothing we can do to influence which which one is sprinkled upon us.
    2014 Losses - Front Door Key, Premier League, Luis Suarez
  • sax11
    sax11 Posts: 3,250 Forumite
    Home Insurance Hacker!
    comping fairy is a real as santa and the easter bunny

    if not they should be kidnapped and held here while i enter a few high value competitions
  • StrayCat
    StrayCat Posts: 551 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Photogenic Combo Breaker
    The harder I work the luckier I get ... !
    A closed mouth gathers no feet.
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