2014: You Win Some…

Well, that’s about it for 2014 – another comping year comes to an end, and who knows what lies ahead! Those of you who’ve read SuperLucky for a while will know that I like to look back on my creative comping successes (and failures!) each year and reflect on what a fantastic hobby we have.

WIN! At the end of the post you’ll find details of how YOU can win a £50 Amazon voucher in my #SuperLuckyStories prize draw!

So, how successful was I in 2014?

In 2014 I won a total of 149 prizes, worth a total of £12,780. Unlike previous years, I didn’t win a single prize worth more than £1000 – but I did win lots of wonderful things, including a £999 PC for my brother-in-law and an annual Legoland family pass (if you’re wondering how I keep track of my prizes, check my guide to keeping a spreadsheet of your wins). My favourite prize had to be Glastonbury tickets, which meant I had the most fabulous 40th birthday celebration – these were won in a Tuborg tiebreaker competition on Facebook.

I devoted much of this year to redesigning SuperLucky, blogging, and getting started on my comping book. As a result the amount of time I spent entering comps dropped considerably – bizarrely, being a ‘full-time comper’ didn’t involve as much comping as you’d think, much to the dismay of the press who kept hounding me with the same old questions! But still, I did have fun with my photos and videos, so let’s look at the successful entries I’m most proud of from this year…

For 2014 pancake day fun I created a Screamdelica pancake, which won me a £50 bar tab at our local Young’s pub – spent on a family Sunday lunch!

Ryland helped me win a £100 Asda voucher where you had to take a photo of any product in their frozen range…

Footlocker Europe launched an Instagram comp which had less than ten valid entries – there were three prizes of a weekend stay in London with two activities of the winner’s choice, plus travel and £300 expenses. You had to try on Adidas Approved Boost and have your photo taken in Footlocker with the special mat – I spotted the comp the day before it closed and rushed into town to get the photo! You can read about the fabulous prize in my Chocks Away blog post!

In March I spent a morning finding and entering Mothers Day comps and made three videos, two of which won prizes – a £50 Accessorize voucher, and a L’Oreal goody bag. My Mum was also really chuffed with my videos, so that was a prize in itself!

Ryland helped to win me a video competition with this Vine of a favourite joke – it won £100 Ticketmaster vouchers with Scottish Friendly, which we used to see Horrible Histories and go ice skating on Ry’s birthday!

Being a Graphic Designer I was pleased when Smint ran a few design comps on Facebook. My poster design won me a GoPro camera!

We won a £100 Love2Shop voucher in a Tots100 photo challenge with ten Instagram photos from Ryland’s walk to school…

Lots of SuperLucky readers won themselves Sennheiser Urbanite headphones after I shared details of their ‘ear selfie’ competition – here’s my winning entry!

In September, Gatwick Airport & Norwegian Airlines joined forces to give away three pairs of flights to the USA in their Instagram competition, where you had to upload a photo of Americana in the UK. I won with this photo, taken by a waitress at JBs Diner on Brighton seafront. We’re flying off to New York in February (me and the family that is, not me and the waitress!) Just after the work on our house was completed in September, I found out that our makeover photo won £500 of John Lewis vouchers in the Origin doors #CavetoCrib competition. Radley gave away a handbag every weekend throughout December – you needed to upload a selfie with your desired prize in a Radley store, and conveniently I walked past one whilst in Nottingham – my selfie won me a £200 Berkley bag! Morrisons asked us to upload photos featuring their Text Santa merchandise to win tickets to the live show, or Morrisons vouchers. I won top prize and took my friend Anya for an overnight stay in the lovely London Bridge hotel – and we had a great time at the show! KFC ran a fun #KFCSharesies competition with five challenges in December, and I had my eye on the VIP trip to London Fashion Week with Front Row tickets (a prize off my wishlist!). To enter, you had to upload a photo or video of your best catwalk pose, so I roped in my buddy Carmen to help me out – we were successful and are off to LFW in February (um, but what the hell do we wear?)

My final big win of the year was in the Cloggs Pinterest competition, with my board of favourite kids winter outfits. I won a year’s supply of kids shoes (£360 Cloggs credit) – another one off my wish list! Follow Di’s board #CloggsLittleWishList on Pinterest.

All in all, a lot of fab prizes, but I’ve not created as many silly photos and videos as I would have liked to in 2014. I left it to the last minute to enter a lot of comps, and then simply ran out of time (ah, that’s given me an idea for a New Year’s Resolution!)

How successful were you in 2014? Did you keep a spreadsheet of your wins? Leave a comment and let me know!

WIN a £50 Amazon voucher!

Last year I had a bumper crop of entries for my SuperLucky Stories series, and I hope to see the same again this year! I’ll be publishing posts about YOUR 2014 creative wins (videos, photos, tiebreakers, Pinterest etc.) – and I’ll be picking one contributor at random to win a £50 Amazon voucher.

To take part, send your photo, video or link along with your postal address to di@superlucky.me before 31st January 2015 – I’ll only publish your first name with your contribution, and you can tell me about just one prize, or as many of your wins as you like!

Once again, thankyou so much for reading and contributing to my SuperLucky blog – and best of luck with your comping in 2015. Oh, and if you’ve not had chance to complete my reader survey, it’s not too late – check it out here!

Terms & Conditions: SuperLucky Stories prize draw

1. Open to SuperLucky readers worldwide aged 16 or over

2. Entrants can send as many emails, photos and stories as they like, but each person will only get one entry in the draw

3. Winner will be chosen at random from every entry received by 31st January 2015, and notified after the final SuperLucky Stories blog post of 2015 (date TBC dependent on number of entries received).

4. The winner will receive a £50 Amazon e-voucher (or, if the entrant lives outside the UK, the equivalent amount as a PayPal transfer)

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