Meet Our Latest Winners!

Despite being busy the past few months I’ve still managed a few small wins. I won two sets of Noroclear hygiene packs via a Rafflecopter competition on a blog. One was a home pack and one a travel pack full of wipes, sprays etc. Very handy with a baby in the house to keep things nice and clean.

On another blog I won a Nipper Clipper baby clippers and nail file set – also via Rafflecopter entry. A nice win as I was just about to buy one!

I love Rafflecopter competitions as it’s nice to see how many entries there are so you know if you are in with a good chance!

I also won a box of Shreddies via a Facebook app. Surprisingly they actually posted a box of cereal to me instead of providing a voucher! I also got a personalised razor from Gillette and finally a gradual tanning lotion via Magic Freebies on Facebook.

After 5 months of comping, I thought it was about time I actually listed what I had won. I knew I had done well for a beginner but I couldn't believe my eyes when looked at my list in total. I still haven't worked out its total value but all I know is I won't have much xmas shopping to do.

Prizes won-
1) 2 night luxury stay for two at Buckland manor, Cotswolds, including breakfast and 3 course meals on both days, valued at £1200 +
From smart shoppers for cleaning tip
2) 2 night stay for two at b&b, Moy House, Ireland, includes breakfast and one evening meal.
From Best Loved Hotels
3) 2x camping sets, includes 2 man pop up tent, junior sleeping bag and rucksack, head lamp, whistle, marshmallows and bottle of Persil small and mighty.
For mighty moment photo comp by Netmums
4) 4x liora sets of Swarovski jewellery, includes two sets of stud earings, one neclace and one mens bracelet, four separate wins worth over £100 in total
5) Indoor golf set in leather case from Smartshoppers
6) 500 Tesco club card points from Tesco Kitchen app.
7) Set of tickets for Place in the Sun show at Birmingham NEC
8) Box of various Tyrrells crisps and popcorn from instant win game
9) Vosene shampoo and detangle spray from Vosene's blog
10) Box of Shreddies cereal from knitting nana's instant win game
11) Neal and Wolf beauty products from Baobella
12) Box of salty dogs popcorn and crisps from salty dog twitter comp.
13) Cow and Gate coupon and set of two Tommee Tippee beakers from Cow and Gate beaker game.
14) Novelty bad egg, egg cup from a Facebook competition.
15) Costa £5 gift card from Costa Facebook instant win game
16) Bottle of Palmers moisturiser from Palmers fb comp
17) Palmers facial creams from Palmers fbcomp
18) Palmers bronzing cream from Palmers photograph comp
19) Moshi Monster cookie kit from fb comp
20) Florette apron from Florette fb comp
21) Bottle of champagne from Yourferries fb comp
22) Heineken glass from Heineken website, premier league comp
23) Set of 3 Twinings tea caddies full of tea, from Twinings fb daily comp
24) Box of Pipers crisps from Pipers, fb drawing comp
25) £10 cinema gift card from Birds Eye
26) 6 kilo's of Mexicana and Applewood cheese. From Mexicana fb
27) Thorntons £5 voucher from Thorntons website
28) 12 bottles of apple juice from Juiceburst, blipper
29) £3 of love to shop vouchers (cant remember what from)
30) Crazy Jack food hamper from Monstermummies fb
31) 2 x Crazy Jack food hampers from Crazy Jack for recipe of the month.
32) 24 cans of energy drink, fb comp
33) 4 boxes of oat granola from Dorset Cereals spin to win
34) Free Ristorante pizza voucher from Dr Oertka
35) 2 tickets to athletic games at Birmingham, Nec, 2x t-shirt , 2xwater bottle, 12 bottles of water from Saka fb comp
36) Erasable highlighter pen from pilot
37) Blemish cream from in my hand bag
38) 5x Ingraved chalices from Stella
39) Bio oil for winning story of the month on bio oil fb
40) Twinings goodie bag from Twinings fb daily comp
41) Owl tote bag from sweet and low instant win game
42) Special K cereal and bars from Special K instant win game
43) Stella cider coupon from Stella
44) 2 jars of Percol coffee from recipemideas
45) Cherry chapstick from fb comp
46) 6 frizz ease conditioning sachets from John Frieda
47) Personalised razor and coupon for blades from Wilkinson Sword fb comp
48) Sweet hamper from Sweet Shop fb group
49) Two tickets to a Smooth Radio music event with Lee Johnson.

After a poor start to month my wins are coming thick and fast!
And not just a month with lots of small ones some really big ones too and September aint over yet!

First my small ones! 

1) Nandos Voucher (Twitter)
2) Rapeseed oil (Twitter)
3) Foodie cooking stuff (Twitter)
4) A load of pens lol (Twitter)
5) Chopping board (Instagram)
All comes to about £50

Big Ones!

1) £500 B&Q vouchers (Facebook grand prize)

2) Lot Doggy stuff, treats, toys, dog photo shoot, Doggy spar day and £1000 donated to Battersea dogs and cats home on my behalf (Facebook pet photo competition grand prize)
Not sure on prize worth but prob around £1300 with what goes to charity! 

3) Style make over at Bodyshop, Complete outfit from Boohoo including shoes etc and lots of Body shop makeup!
( The body shop Instagram all thanks to a linky from Di on her blog)
Again not sure on prize worth but prob about £200?

4)Silver crystal cufflinks (Website competition) £50

5) Liberata and Caudalie tanning kit worth £50

Of everything the most special is knowing Battersea will get £1000 in my name! How amazing!

On September 25th this Month it will be my One year Comperversary!
What an amazingly year it's been all thanks to this site!
Yes there has been slow months but it's all worth it for those amazing wins when they come and they will! Not to mention all the wonderful new friends I've made from this hobby!

What a way to end of my first comping year with my best month to date!!

Thanks to ThePrizeFinder I have won some great prizes since the beginning of the year:

A Valentino Rossi hat (My boyfriend LOVED it as a huge Rossi Fan)
Some Palmer face products, some tattoo goodies, a three course dinner in a hotel, make up and some cinema tickets.

But the biggest win was a photo competition where I won a years supply of ice cream!! I'm so happy and it just shows the competitions where you have to do that bit extra really are worth the time!

I'm looking forward to December for all the advent comps! Thanks again Prizefinder! :) x

My latest competition win - train down to London on Saturday to stay in a Hotel in Paddington. Then on Sunday morning, we (my husband & I) watched the live filming of the Channel 4 TV programme 'Sunday Brunch' with Tim Lovejoy. Had a brilliant time. It was really interesting to see how the filming was done and meet Tim's guests. Hearing and seeing Charlotte Church sing her latest song was definitely a highlight of the trip. Then onto The White Horse in Parson's Green for a beautiful meal (with accompanying selected beer). This was all thanks to TV Extra magazine, and sending a postcard with a 2nd class stamp. Doing competitions gives Jack & I some wonderful experiences we wouldn't get any other way.

(The photo shows me in the middle in the white blouse)

On the 16th July I received an email to say that I had won a trip to Croatia for 2 to support the Great Britain Davis Cup Team! I was so shocked, I couldn't speak!
Well, on the 12th September my partner and I flew to Trieste in Italy and were then driven to Umag in Croatia. We attended a Lawn Tennis Association drinks reception to collect our tickets. We were also given t-shirts, a Union Jack Flag and lots of free wine! The following day we watched Andy Murray thrash his opponent 6-3 6-0 6-3, I also snuck down for an autograph and a picture! We didn't get to watch the final 2 matches due to our return flights but now GB have been promoted to the World Group after winning 4-1 I'll be trying to win a prize for their next encounter!

Me and my hubby Nick have just had a wonderful long weekend in Dorset staying in a luxury cottage at Greenwood Grange which I won from Dorset county council and entered online. We had an amazing time staying in beautiful accommodation and they had thought of everything. You could pick fruit and veg from the allotment , get fresh eggs from the chicken, we arrived to homemade biscuits, tea, coffee and milk. There were tennis courts, a lovely heated swimming pool, it was such a relaxing break and we even got to stay in the honeymoon cottage, it was so nice :)

A little while ago I was unlucky enough to suffer a slipped disc and pretty much immobile for over 2 weeks - however my mouse hand was still fine and I put it to good use entering comps on Prizefinder. Yesterday the most enormous box arrived and it turned out to be a computerized telescope! This is something I have always wanted but could never justify the expense of at over £300. So not only am I over the moon, but I will have a pretty darn good view of it as well :-)

I've been an avid comper for over a year now and in the last 6 months I have settled comfortably into using ThePrizeFinder.com to find and enjoy the latest and greatest competitions the interweb has to offer.

I have won all sorts of weird and wonderful things, most recently these Carl Zeiss Cinevision OLED glasses which RRP at almost £600 - From 11,000 entries on very.co.uk my name was randomly chosen...

I cannot believe it... I am already looking forward to play testing these beauties out with my laptop and PS3. I will then pop a review on the company website that provided me with them to see if this is a line of tech they want to go down in the future.

I am very blessed to have been lucky that day and when it comes down to it, it's all luck... some small skill might be used, but random luck is how we all win something.

So I say this to you all, keep comping, keep copying and pasting that rafflecopter twitter link in, keep using ROBOFORM and watching those funny field entries occur.. keep following each other on Facebook to like and share the comps you might miss... keep making the world smile with your antics and above all else remember the motto...

Keep Calm
and
Comp!

E x

Having got back from my luxury New York holiday and a 6 month dry spell comping I started to think about holidays for the next 12 months.
Not for long though, within the last few weeks I picked up a hot tub lodge break in Scotland, a Christmas time dinner bed and breakfast 2 night break in a manor house and a holiday to Israel.
To top it off I bagged a 40'' Smart TV too a few days ago.
The only problem I have at the moment is a lack of annual leave to take, its a shame I cant win days off work.
Over the last few years my hobby has netted me in excess of £70,000 in cash, holidays and goods and benefitted family, friends and charities too. I love it.