Karen B. has won a large print copy of Dolly Departed from my post last week. Congrats, Karen.
Her win got me thinking about contests and winners. It's been a mixed bag for me. When I was a girl scout we had an Easter egg hunt in the park. Everyone was running around like crazy, finding eggs, filling their baskets, and when the madness was over, I didn't have a single egg in my basket. I sat on an old stump, pouting and feeling sorry for myself.
Then our leader announced that one egg was still missing. The gold egg, the one that came with a prize. Back to scrambling around for the rest of the troop. Not me. I sat on my stump, miserable. For no reason that I can recall, I stuck my hand in some brush next to the stump and came up with the gold egg. I won a necklace and had my picture in the local paper.
Wow! That was so cool!
Since then, not much has happened in the way of luck. I still haven't won the lottery. How about you? Have you ever won anything?
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One contest, once. I was a freshman in college and for some reason that escapes me now I sent in a form from a magazine on which I was supposed to match china and silver patterns. (I can't believe such a thing existed!) A few months later I received a check, out of the blue. No purchase required, no promotional tie-in, just the money--$300, as I recall, which wasn't too shabby in those days.
Still waiting for the next win.
We have to find more time in our lives to enter contests. It's a numbers game.
The first time I ever won anything was in college, and I won tickets to a folk group concert!
But over the last few years, I've entered a number of blog contests (knitting blogs), and have won at least 3 prizes! It's always fun to win!
I have never won any contest, ever, ever, never, in my entire life. Not even the drawing for a white elephant prize at a potluck with a bunch of hillbillies. I always draw the short straw. I never guess the number between one and a hundred that someone is thinking of. I've never won anything worth having, or not worth having. I've never won any of the contests I've entered and probably won't. And obviously I've never won the lottery. But there's a chance that anything can happen, including the improbable scenario of me winning something. So, I'll keep entering.
LOL. But you are rich in other ways, Dave. If I have to pick one of two, I pick wrong!
I've won a couple of books through the Giveaways on Goodreads. Aside from that, I won a drawing for a raffle at work one time - it was for a fundraiser for Race for the Cure. Many folks created baskets of goodies from items that employees donated and I won my favorite of them all - a large basket of scrapbooking supplies!
I've become a sweepstakes junkie since I've retired. I've done quite well - no cars or vacations - but lots of stuff for the kids/grand/greatgrandkids. Mostly small GCs, DVDs, books, movie tickets but I did win $10,000 several years ago! That's enough to keep me entering.
Book wins are a favorite - that's how I discovered the Cozy Chicks!
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