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I love winning tickets to anything in London because most things are so expense these days. I won a family ticket to Madame Tussauds online and we had such a laugh in there. Fancy singing with Freddie Mercury or playing the drums with the Beetles, seeing William and Kate or walking on the moon. Its all here. As I blog about London its all usefull stuff to write about too.
My next win was three bottles of wine as a runner up prize in the recent Black Tower Comp. In this comp you had to write about what your perfect day would be with £10,000. First prize was whatever you had chosen worth £10,000. Maybe next time I will get first prize, you never know with comping.
Then I got an email about a review I had written this won me a VIP Ferry Crossing to France for a car and four people. This is worth over £150.00 so a good win.
If you haven`t won anything yet just keep entering and following all the advice on prizefinder.

I thought I would give comping a go as I have been home for a few months unwell and have had an operation. Last week I started in earnest and entered quite a few. I entered one small competition for some sherbert straws and won it and then I entered a Facebook competition for some Peppa Pig toys and won that too! They left a comment on their page that I then read saying I had won! Very easy to miss! But I am delighted that in less than a week of trying I have had two little wins!

In February I saw a lovely lady on the breakfast news who seemed to have won practically everything under the sun. That is how Di Coke got me into the world of comping. I seriously comped for the whole of March to see if I had got the Di-factor. So far, I got many freebies and prizes. I won around £100 worth of cinema vouchers. A biggie was a 100ml bottle of the latest Hugo Boss perfume which I won just in time for my wedding anniversary. But by far, the greatest prize was my garden photo being selected as the top 4 in Inamo tablecloth comp. The winner is not yet announced but I have already got my reward knowing that my talent was appreciated by a panel of judges and they compared my work to that of a ‘still from a BBC wildlife epic’! So here are some things I learned along the way:
1 – Play instant win comps to get instant but small prizes. They will keep your spirits up.
2 – Register with useful comping websites like ThePrizeFinder and CompersNews to get into obscure comps.
3 – Greater effort, greater rewards. For those wondering how Di manages to get all the big wins, I suggest please look at her entries and observe the tremendous amount of effort and creativity behind them.
4 – Do a cost-benefit analysis. I comped for a month and kept an account of how much I had won; believe me, it was worth my monthly mortgage!
5 – Be fair and honest while you comp. Cheating can make you a fortune, but then so can drug dealing! Have a conscience!
6 – Look at comping as something to explore your creative talents. Who knows, it could lead to a career change and a promising future!

I have been entering competitions on ThePrizeFinder for over a year and up until recently have not won anything.
I'm happy to say that I have now joined the winners circle and have just received a lovely pair of trousers worth £260 through a Stylist competition.
I am over the moon just to have won something and to top it off the trousers fit perfectly.
This will spur me on to keep comping as I was starting to doubt if I'd ever win!

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!