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Spring Has Arrived!

    A pinch and a punch it’s the first day of the month! Happy Spring Everyone. Winter is officially gone! No more sneaking under the covers trying to comp on the phone because it’s just too cold to get on the computer. No more cold fingers typing and clicking away. Throw away your jacket…

8 Ways you can attract prizes to you

  As a competition fanatic I’m open to anything that can give me an edge. I’m also a big believer in your mindset playing a big role in what you attract in life. Have you ever met one of those happy go lucky people where everything just falls into place for them? Or what about…

Why You Should Always Keep Your 25 Word or Less Answers

    This is a Guest Post by Nicole Cappelleri. Recently I was doing some housekeeping on my computer.  I had been getting that horrible pop up ‘Disk is Full’.  Looking at my desktop it was a sea of folder’s. It looks tidy but looks can be deceiving. I have folders for blogging, books I’m…

A Day in the Life

    Just before dawn I am wrestling with the idea of opening my eyes as I listen to the hum of early morning traffic in the street outside my bedroom window. Beside my bed is a small notebook packed with night-time scribbles – you know, those amazingly creative WOL answers that come to you…

Luck, Chance and Probability

    ‘You know Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help’ Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes  What exactly is luck? Can we attract luck? Can we share luck? When an event in our life has been influenced by luck or we wish someone ‘good luck’ what do we mean? It is…

Creative Comping

    I just love creative competitions; they are my all-time favourites. So I was elated when I found a colouring-in competition in a recent That’s Life magazine: a colouring-in competition for adults! It was just my cup of tea, so I enthusiastically coloured away for an hour or so and sent it off with the required entry coupon…

Some Interesting Facts, Figures and Statistics

    If you, like so many others, continue with the dream to win Lotto, did you know you have more chance of being struck by lightning than winning Lotto?  Well, it’s true. According to the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing the odds of winning the NSW Lotto is about 1 in 8,145,060 with a single ticket….

The Travel Prize King

    Are you constantly dreaming of winning that elusive overseas holiday or maybe just a free trip in Australia? Well, here is an inspiring story to keep you trying. Surferboy 83from the forum has won four amazing trips over the last four years. The first one, he tells me, was through Billabong: a trip for two to…

Zen and the Art of Day-to-Day Comping

    It was roughly a year and a half ago that I came up with the bright, if not slightly insane, idea of writing this weekly blog. And so, it began and continues. Although I have been entering competitions (or ‘comping’) for most of my life, it has only been fairly recently that I…

Winter Comping…Brr…

    It’s almost June and June heralds the start of winter and the start of many winter-themed competitions. Prizes such as holidays in the snow as well as gas heaters, slow cookers, winter recipe books, Ugg boots and the usual books, DVDs, movie and theatre tickets will probably continue to appear over the next…


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