A Prize Per Week

Have you ever known someone who seems to be almost chronically lucky? You know, like your college buddy who won nearly every radio contest he entered. Or your best friend who manages to find the best steals--every time she shops. Or your Great-Uncle Lou who narrowly avoided being struck by lighting--multiple times. Or (the most jealousy-inducing one of all) the guy on the news who won the lottery--twice!

Well, just to be clear, we're not like those people at all. We're just a normal couple with a couple of kids and a cat, living in a modest home in Tennessee. We've won the occasional free Diet Coke or movie schwag from the latest flick but we aren't what most people would consider lucky--at least not in the prize-winning sense of the word.

With that in mind, we realized that the one thing all those "lucky" people have in common is persistence. Your college buddy? He won all those radio contests because he called in so many times. Your best friend? She finds the greatest steals and deals because she doesn't mind spending hours rifling through the clearance racks. The guy on T.V.? He won the lottery twice because he enters so frequently! As for Great-Uncle Lou...well, maybe he really is lucky.

It was with this realization that we asked ourselves, "Why not us?" Why couldn't we be the lucky recipients of all these prizes? We decided that we could--and we would. So we are setting out to do just that. Our goal is simple. We are going to attempt to win at least 52 prizes over the next year. Any tangible item or service provided in real life counts toward this goal (so a free massage counts but free web hosting does not). And, multiple prizes of the same item only count once. That means, even if we win 30 free Diet Cokes, we can only count them one time. After all, while we would appreciate 30 free Diet Cokes, we're trying to set our goal a bit higher.

Along the way, we'll keep you updated on what we're entering and what we've won. That way, you can play our game right along with us if you want. So good luck and let's get ready to win!