Money for nothin’
I always fold the slip of paper at an angle before dropping it in the box when entering raffles or contests. The reasoning I was told many years ago by a professional prize winner was that the “pretty girl” who pulled the prize out of the hopper would grab onto the pointed-end sticking out of the pile so she wouldn’t break her nail. It never worked for me, but I have had a teensy bit of luck entering contests online. A word to the wise: set up a free email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) that way your inbox isn’t inundated with SPAM. I am a habitual player of and have come close several times (you have to be quick and current with USWeekly photos), but my only win online so far has been the
and
. I recently entered
contest for heel protectors. I love high heels but I am deathly afraid of wearing them to games for fear of scarfing them up in a gravel parking lot. As I come across other contests, I will post them here.
