Big Cash Prizes

I've just logged on quickly to do my daily coffeebreak comps and have entered £52,500 worth of cash prizes, as follows:

Loose Women £15k
This Morning £25k plus £3k Matalan couchers
The Chase £7.5k
Real Deal £2k

There is a so called "big 3" in the comping world, namely Cars, Cash, Holidays. I've ticked one of them off having won a couple of big holidays - the plushest having a potential value of £9,400.

I've won lots of vouchers and small cash prizes over the years but nothing significant yet. Friends often ask me if it would be possible to give up work and become a full time comper - to be honest given the lack of cash winnings and randomness I don't think it would be possible to be a comper without any other source of income.

However, having said that it is an interesting and rewarding hobby.........not a job!

good luck!

compingking

Prizes entered 976
Prizes won 1
Approx value £15

Lunchtime update

I'm working at home today - really busy, which is great, I do a job that I love and work with some wonderful people, and, given the current economic climate it's a big bonus not only to have a job but to have a great one too.

Anyway, I'm just taking a few minutes at lunchtime to do an update - I'm always a bit paranoid about working at home and feel that I always have to show that I'm working, so I'm doubly active - going so far as to take my work mobile to the loo with me so that I'm always contactable.

I'm going through a bit of a prizewinning drought at the moment as the stats at the bottom of the page show. Funny old thing this comping lark - sometimes it seems that you're winning all the time and at times like this you're tempted to knock it on the head and pack it all in.

I remember one particular month not so long ago when I won; a luxury New York holiday, a week in a log cabin in the Lake District, a years supply of wine (72 bottles) and numerous smaller prizes.

I've entered a further 201 competitions since my last update and notably the world cup entries have dried up now! As hard as I try not to be I am thoroughly miserable............my fantasy prize win to South Africa watching England win the world cup is in tatters. The recent glut of Sex and the City competitions are continuing - fingers crossed I would love to go back to New York.

good luck!

compingking

Prizes entered 972
Prizes won 1
Approx value £15

Another comping session

I've just looked back to my last post, gadzooks - it's been a week since I've done an update.

Quite a lot has happened since my last post, I was pretty whacked after the mountaineering extravaganza last week but still managed to play an evening cricket match, do some long days at work (including a 14 hour day!).

At the weekend my wife was away on a girlie weekend so I spent the whole weekend as taxi driver for the children - as well as managing to be persuaded to have a fathers day lunch in Pizza Hut - not my favourite I admit but the endless ice cream fountain is a real winner for my 10 and 6 year old daughters.

So it came as a bit of a surprise when I added up the number of competitions I've managed to enter - a huge 312 in just over a week. This includes all of the puzzle magazines (Take a Break, That's Life and Chat) - must admit I've been entering them for years and haven't won anything from them - but I'll persevere as there are some great prizes every week, lots of cars and holidays for example.

Oh, thought I might mention that my big parcel contained a Rubiks Cube and a Rubiks Cube Keyring - a prize from Girltalk magazine. Hey, not much but my first prize since I started this blog.

good luck!

Compingking

Prizes entered 771
Prizes won 1
Approx value £15

Hurray

Just back from the Scottish Highlands - took part in the Wateraid Munro Challenge, I love doing things for Wateraid, it's a great charity. There were 26 of us in our group and we climbed the Aonachs (Aonach Mor and Aonach Beag) which are the 7th and 8th highest mountains in Britain.

I must admit to being pretty shattered, but I reckon we will have raised more than £3,000 - enough to save the lives of some 200 children who don't have access to clean water and sanitation.

Anyway, while I was away I got an excited phone call from home that a big brown package arrived - my first win since starting this blog.............. I'll update again on Wednesday, really really shattered and need my beauty sleep.

good luck

Compingking

Day 8 - another prize free day

Really busy day at work today - early start and 100 mile round trip commute from Swindon to Bristol - I try to work at home a couple of days per week to save on the commute - and to be honest I can get far more work done.

Anyway, I've just whizzed off about 25 entries including holidays to the Cook Islands, Malta, Butlins, Pontins and Zanzibar (where Freddie Mercury was born). There was also a rather tasty BMW convertible - cor!

Another prize free day today - but to be frank it's only day 8, which is no time at all...........

good luck!

Compingking

Prizes entered 459
Prizes won 0
Approx value 0

Phew - major competition marathon completed

I've just completed a marathon session, c. 90 minutes.

About 165 entries (c. 150 from this weeks Mycomps and 15 from today's Coffeebreak Winner). As usual there are some lovely prizes e.g. cars, holidays and wheelbarrows full of cash - deuced difficult to win though.

No prizes in June yet or indeed since I started this blog - fingers crossed that I get something from the huge number that finished on 31st May.

I introduced my childminder Jane to the joys of comping about 2 months ago - she has yet to win anything, it will happen - just need to persevere!

I need to get a wiggle on this week, I'll get my Simply Prizes magazine with, usually, about 150 competitions to enter. I'm off to Scotland to do a charity walk for Wateraid (the Munro Challenge) - so I expect I'll have withdrawl symptoms from Thursday to Sunday.

Prizes entered 434

Prizes won 0
Approx value 0

good luck!

compingking

Snuck a few competition entries in!

Just spent a swift 20 minutes getting some competition entries submitted!

Entered 24 Coffeebreak comps from Thursday and Friday as well as 4 cash and 12 holiday competitions from Mycomps.

I've got a big backlog of entries to do this week, might get up a bit early tomorrow.

The holiday competitions included 3 trips to New York (all Sex and the City promotions) as well as trips to Australia and the Cayman Islands........so big fingers crossed.

Prizes entered 269

Prizes won 0

Approx value 0

good luck!

compingking