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I was just browsing the internet when i came across ThePrizeFinder, the best thing I ever found. I started comping 3 weeks ago. At first nothing came and I got the usual feeling that I was wasting my time but I was proven very wrong. In the past three weeks I have won a massive box of Jordans cereals, a bottle for my daughter, a Missguided dress to the value of £30, £20 of blue inc vouches, a book, panda liquorice, a golf club, a personal style download worth £30, etc.. and this is all thanks to ThePrizeFinder. I enjoy my new hobby and it doesn't matter if my win is small, I feel lucky and still get that buzz. So before anyone thinks of giving I'd suggest waiting a few weeks because the outcome is very good. Most of the things that I won I would not be able to purchase myself due to costs.

I have a reminder set up to enter some competitions. One of them is the Debenhams Beauty Club on facebook. A couple of weeks ago the prize was Elizabeth Arden Red Door. I filled in the form as usual. A few days later I had an email to say I had won!
I had no idea what it smelled like or whether I'd like it!
It came yesterday and I hurriedly opened the box. Oops it was a bit strong... but after the initial blast it settles into a lovely long lasting fragrance. It's a bit woody and flowery, hints of ylang ylang that takes me back to my youth!!
It's a lovely fragrance for special occasions.

I've been a comper on and off for a number of years ever since I won my first competition at the age of 15 with Rimmell and Boots, concert tickets to see King - remember them? Anyway just after Christmas 2010 I started comping more seriously. In that time I have been lucky to have won lots on twitter and Facebook including a spa stay, a Blackberry phone, 5 hampers, a racing day, a years supply of bread and a years supply of washing powder.
I have yet to win a holiday, although I have been lucky that on my recent trip to Paris I won the flights and a day of tours. I have also won flights to Nice with a poem I wrote and which I have yet to take.
I particularly enjoy effort competitions and tiebreakers and avidly ready Di Coke's blog every week, which inspired me to enter my first video competition recently. Myself and my son produced an animation based on the Golden Globes with character 'Micky Gervais' comparing! I was in Paris when I found out we had come second and had some strange looks when I started jumping up and down! We have won a Smart TV and a year's subscription to Love Film!
I think the longer you enter competitions the more selective you become and the more organised you become too. You could literally enter competitions 24 hours a day so my top tips would concentrate your efforts on what you would really like to win, don't enter everything as some people may really want the prize more than you. My other tip would be find what you are good at, be it, art and craft competitions, videos, captions, recipe competitions, slogans, or if you don't mind entering lots of random competitions and will put the time and effort in, and stick at it!
Happy comping!

I'm still loving my comps and at present I use ThePrizeFinder and Facebook as the source of most of my competitions. Last month we went on holiday for the week, to Yorkshire, and came home to all this in the photo! Plus a bib that i forgot to put in the pic! While we were away I even had a dozen red roses delivered to the holiday cottage that I had won! We have been on a spa break, a weekend in Somerset with Best Western and a trip to a posh bar with cocktails and nibbles in Mayfair, all comp wins, all since the last time I wrote here. On Friday, we are going on the skiing holiday I won too. I have won DVDs, Mothers Day comps (smellies, a t-shirt etc), Lacoste perfume, toys, books, jewellery, boxes of crisps, organic kids snacks and a beautiful vintage handbag all in the last month.
My dream win (other than more holidsys, breaks, tickets etc) is a nice, shiny, new pushchair for my youngest, Flynn.

I started entering competitions because my hours had been cut in work and I was really bored at home. I never thought I'd win anything. I entered the clean campaign daily and after winning 4 prizes I got a little excited. I then thought I'd have a go at winning a year's supply of yorkshire tea, and to my surprise I WON!!! I couldnt believe it! I really have now caught the comp bug. The thrill is amazing, even if you dont win!

Back in January I was entering loads of comps to win a driving experience for my OH's birthday and I entered the What Would You Do competition run by the National Lottery on Facebook. I entered so many and such a time passed that I thought I had not won. Towards the end of February, I had a call from a lovely lady who started asking me really odd questions... Can you confirm you are not taller than 6'2" and you are a resident of the UK and you do not live on the Isle of Wight or Jersey or Gurnsey. Yes, I said and can you tell me why you're asking? I was puzzled, I'd never had a call like this before! She laughed and said she forgot to tell me I had won the competition to win a Ferrari f430 Spider supercar for a week with £500 fuel allowance and all insurance paid for. (Worth almost £4,500) I laughed, asked if she was serious and then laughed again, did a little bit of a scream and danced about the room. The car was delivered a week ago to our house on my OH's birthday and he was overjoyed with his pressie and I am living on best GF ever status. We had an amazing week of travelling in complete style, taking the kids to school one at a time, going to the drive thru and taking some amazing pictures and videos that we can keep forever! It was truely a once in a lifetime opportunity and now the car is gone, my OH says it is better to have Ferrari and lost, than never to have Ferrari'd at all! And it's all thanks to Superlucky Di sharing the comp on her facebook page!

My husband and I both entered the Yorkshire Tea draw to win a new kettle and a year's supply of tea! We had to submit photographs of ourselves holding our old kettle. I got my son to hold his toy kettle in our photograph as well. They say it was drawn at random, but I like to think they couldn't resist his cute face!

I had forgotten all about the prize, so it was a lovely surprise! We opened the box to find a really great new kettle but also 30 boxes of tea (80 bags per box) so that's 2400 tea bags! I'm the only one in our house that drinks it! Even giving a few boxes away to family, we won't be needing to buy tea for a good long while!

I only enter competitions occasionally when I have a bit of time in the evenings. I usually go for the creative comps as I feel there is a better chance of winning those. I entered the viking doodle contest in Facebook three weeks running, and was lucky enough to win a Samsung netbook for my doodle of Chris Evans (the voice of the Viking Direct adverts).

I gave the netbook to my two year old son, to give to my wife for mothers day, as her laptop was second hand and literally falling to pieces. Just before Christmas I came second in a flash game on Top Fruit (sadly no prize for second place! I missed out on an iPad by a few points!) but I can't really complain as I won £250 as runner up in their slogan competition last year!

Also this month I won a £50 voucher but then found out I had to go and collect it in person (80 miles away) so I had to decline! I'll read the small print next time!

I have been comping now for about 2 years. I didn't really win too much in the early days but I have been increasing the amount that I enter and yes... I have been winning. Some big prizes, some little ones (but they are the ones that spur you on and keep your going). Recently I won a week's all inclusive holiday to Egypt for 2 people with Hotels4U.com through Theprizefinder.com - after a lot of organising to sort childcare my husband and I went last week .... and it was amazing! Only problem was I had a week of not entering comps whilst I was away and I did miss it :O

I started comping about a year ago but didn't win anything so stopped for a few months. I started again around 6 months ago and have won various small prizes including cook books, a crate of cider, lunchboxes, and DVDs.

My biggest win has been a laptop with a value of around £1000!

Other wins include a years supply of Geobars, won by naming the 'Berry Buddies' as the characters for their new flavour of bar, tickets to The X Factor Final and Digital Music Awards, and my kid's favourite - £200 of Disney Toys!

Most of these have been comps I've seen on the Prizefinder, so thank you very much!