Advent Competitions 2014 - Chat

Smamfer

maypole18 wrote: »

I love the advents this year, i haven't won but im going to try and do every single one, there must be 200 on the thread!

Only 200? Id say there was more than that or am i duplicating, I know there's loads on fb we havent got listed but i just dont have the hours in the day to get them all on here,.,, come on people /fb users/... do your bit for the boards and get adding comps!

BlueBella

Well, five days into the Advents....how are you all coping?

After a manic first day, when loads of Advents were posted, than two days spent weeding out the good from the bad, I am quite calm now and have quite a canny little routine going

I am tired though as I rushed around last weekend decorating the tree, doing the weekly shop etc before the Advents started and I have been going to bed later and waking earlier than usual too. I am planning for a more relaxed weekend

hamsterfan1

I'm not sure if I'm getting jaded but I think this years are a lot worse than lthe last few years, yesterday I had entered all the one I wanted to by noon - today I've nearly finished again - just mopping up stragglers. there seem a lot more offers than in previous years

claire21

Example of holiday in an advent https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5128330

BlueBella

Hamsterfan, I defo agree with you with regard to there being more offers this year. There are some companies, who in the past, offered a prize a day but this year they have a mixture of offers. It wastes time having to check their Advents each day as I am not usually interested in their offers!

lynwestie

Some of these prizes are absolute crap

Who puts a plastic flamingo on top of their Christmas Tree

One of the advents (mollymaids or something) were giving away a bag for life ( A quality carrier bag) and a pair of bob standard yellow rubber gloves today.

I decided that was going too far and refused to enter on principle :rotfl::rotfl:

PlymouthMaid

I have been doing the web based ones mainly as I don't like covering my Facebook wall with it all and Twitter winds me up too much so I do very few of those. No wins yet. Most prizes are unexciting to say the least. This is my first time doing the Advents and I seem to be spending about 3 hours a day entering the ones I like. Not sure I can keep ir up all month though as on a work day it means I am computing all the way to bedtime which doesn't lead to a good night's sleep.

hertzyabazas

Not overly impressed with this years lot but this makes it easier to red X the dross.
The usual suspect pulling through with decent prizes, a few have dumped their web based advent and moved it to FB.

Missing the likes of Classic FM, NEOM Organics, Hugo Boss and a few others.

happysaz133

I've enjoyed the ones I've seen/done so far. I'm doing about 120 a day, takes about an hour and a half - 2 hours. Mostly I'd like to win pet stuff.

So far I've won some cat toys from Day 2 of PetSafeUK advent.

The only thing I'm stressing about the advents is missing an announcement that I've won.

Moneybot

This years advents are really dull.

I'm not hunting for haggi, dressing and feeding reindeer nor wondering if all 5,000,000,000 winners of a pringles speaker are going to post on a thread.

On the upside I might not need a therapist in 2015...