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!
