It's a while since I wrote about comping but it's only a few hours since I was doing it.
"What is comping?" I don't hear you say, but if I did, I would tell you it's entering competitions. I do a lot of them. A very lot of them Anything from 3000 to 8000 per month. That includes a lot of competitions which allow an entry every day for several weeks and a lot of competitions which appear on multiple sites so it is considerably less than 3000 different competitions.
Comping is part of my routine. When I get up I check e mails, I check my finances, I read the news and then I settle to enter a few competitions. It's the time when I sit in front of my daylight lamp, have a cup of coffee and generally find the energy to meet the day.
I don't win many competitions, but I win considerably more than someone who doesn't enter competitions. That sounds obvious but so many people have said, "Oh, I never win" but then reveal that they never enter! Last year I had only three wins all year, but in 2019 I won eleven different prizes.
I never pay to enter competitions. I enter only on line and I never need to buy something to qualify. It is a frugal hobby in that it costs nothing. Most of the prizes are not high value and I give away a high proportion of them. For me the reward is just winning. When postie comes with a mug or a parcel of books, I feel that the universe is on my side. Giving away tickets for London shows or exhibitions at the National Exhibition Centre gives me pleasure.
And this week I have won this book. It was on a financial site which I use, Warren Shute and, unlike many competitions it needed a bit of effort as it was a quiz about decimalisation. That happened fifty years ago on 15th January 1971 but it wasn't very hard for an oldie like me who could remember it all happening!
Well done, we all love a parcel arriving and if it's one you have won even better.
ReplyDeleteI think Frugal hobbies are great. Mine is the Microsoft Rewards-I like the quizzes and if I keep up, I generally am guaranteed to earn $50 in gift card every couple months or so, which for something I enjo, not too bad.
ReplyDeleteWhat is decimalisation? Good job on winning. I, too, love to win even if I don't get a prize.
ReplyDeleteIn this case it refers to the time when we changed from a system based on twelve pennies make one shilling and twenty shillings make one pound which had been in use for hundreds of years, to a system based on 100 pennies make one pound. It happened on 15th January 1971 and new coinage was needed. 15th December became known as D Day. I've written more about it on my other blog at https://trundlingthroughlife.blogspot.com/2021/02/d-day.html
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DeleteI do the occasiona survey at IPSOS, and find that the points mount up quite quickly. I have just printed off three Tesco vouchers each for £5!
ReplyDeleteGood for you. I just might have to start looking for competitions like this, especially over the next 6 weeks. It would give me something different to do.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I'm always fascinated by those people you read about who win holidays and cars, how do they manage it? It seems the same people win all the big prizes. I enter a few competitions and have won the odd prize here and there and I agree, when I win something, however small, it makes my day.
ReplyDeleteThere's a girl I follow on Instagram who is a comper and she wins an astonishing amount of giveaways every month. I'd only enter a competition for things I actually want as I would prefer others who enter to win those prizes as I don't have time to redistribute things anyway but I have won a few little competitions on Instagram over the years which has been nice.
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