A while back I heard about a lady who won all kinds of things from “contesting”, and she entered sweepstakes for about an hour every night while her husband watched television. Well, I didn’t realize there was a whole new avenue of contests that I should be pursuing. So, I took an hour here and there and filled out bunches of contest entries on the web. What I got was a whole bunch of mail from chambers of commerce. “Thanks for your interest in visiting…Houston, Denver, ” and the like. hmmm. I just threw those into the trash and didn’t think much of it. <\/p>\n
This week I got a letter from Merrell Footwear. When I opened it, it said “Congratulations! Merrell Footwear and Hooked on the OUtdoors Magazine, thank you for your participation in the American Airlines Sweepstakes!<\/em>. yada yada yada….something about a GIFT CERTIFICATE! <\/p>\n Well, this could be some interesting sort of spam or trickery, so I went to their website, and yes, indeed, there are shoes. Expensive shoes. Hiking shoes. And I have a gift certificate for $110! I could buy one pair of shoes or boots for me (starting at $70) or a couple of pairs of shoes for the kids (they start at around $20). More shoes for your buck if you stay in the kids sizes, obviously, but where’s the fun in that? I think I’ll be doing a little online shoe shopping!<\/p>\n (Oh, and on a side note, they just mentioned on the radio that today is National Chocolate Day–so, let’s not let a good holiday go to waste! Bring on the chocolate!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A while back I heard about a lady who won all kinds of things from “contesting”, and she entered sweepstakes for about an hour every night while her husband watched television. Well, I didn’t realize there was a whole new avenue of contests that I should be pursuing. So, I took an hour here and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}