In a weeks time, I will be waking up on the south coast of France, where it is piping hot and the women walk around in bikinis for my first day in Monaco. Monaco, home of the Grand Prix and massive, James Bond esque casinos, looks like it could be the most fun on my excursion. Unofortunately, I think it could also be the most expensive, so I am consoloidating all my funds into one, single, manageable beer fund.
I was boosted last week with a win on the Premium Bonds, £50! That’s twice in a year I’ve won, £100 year “interest” on about £500? Thank you very much. However, I need the bonds for beer money, so they’re coming out.
As well as cashing in my bonds, I am also cashing in money that has been sat in my paypal account that has come from advertising on my blog and Text Link Ads. It’s a rather nice amount so am very happy with it, even if the exchange rate crippled me.
The final source of income is my coin jar, so here’s a little competition.
The Great Coin Jar Competition
How To Enter
What you have to do is predict how much money in pounds is in the coin jar pictured above. To enter, all you have to do is within a blog post write something like this, linking to this post.
“Rhys is going on holiday and he’s counting up his coin jar for a competition. I think there is 20p in it”
Simple, n’est pas?
Well, for another entry, if you subscribe to my rss feed, you may see a method described on how to recieve a bonus entry!
What You Win
To quote Simply Red – “Money’s too tight to mention”, so instead you will recieve a two month stint amongst the 125 x 125 buttons. These buttons actually recieve quite a high click through ratio, and the prize is worth about $20.
Second prize (the person who is second closest) will recieve a free Adicon for two months (worth $4), whereas the person who is third closest will win an Adicon place for a month (worth $2). You will also get mentioned in a congratulatory post when the competition is over.
When Does The Competition End?
The competition ends on October 1st 2007, the winner will be announced a week or so later when I get back from my holidays.
Tips
- The coins are in denominations of 50ps, 20ps, 10ps and 5ps (100p = £1), but there could be the odd £1, 2ps and 1ps
- I’ve done this a couple of times, and the red line usually is around the £70-£100 mark.
Other Rules
- Blogs must be written in English and not be spammy blogs (i.e. pr0n, warez, illegal shinanegans, full of pictures of kittens – actually it can be full of kittens).
- Only two entries per person (one in the super secret RSS Method, the other the standard linkback).
Questions?
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments so I can answer them. Good luck!
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Comments: 22 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Hahaha, nobody can stay away from the jars. They are just way to interesting! Cool contest. Theres no way I can NOT do this one!
I can’t do pingbacks on my blog, so my entry is here…
Monaco is very expensive (about 5euros a pint) but well worth the visit especially walking around the track. When we were there they were just setting it up for the following weekends racing and the atmosphere was great. Casino is well worth a look to, just don’t loose all your beer fund in there!!
I’d enter, but I don’t know what the conversion rate is….I am subscribed to your feed, though
Don’t forget to post your blog contest information at MyBlogContest.com let more people know it.
Don’t worry about the conversion rate, just enter it in pounds
heya, have fun in monaco, we did a tour there on our cruise. v cool place. good luck at the monte carlo casino (can u believe u have to pay to get in there just to lose all ur money! lol) ooh and if u get homesick check out the changing of the guards at the palace. all a bit english if u ask me. xxxx
Hi there
I blogged about your contest on Contest Beat here – http://www.contestbeat.com/guess-how-much-is-in-the-jar/
All we do is write about contests in the blogosphere so hopefully we can send you a few more entries too!
Regards, Matt.
Great Contest!! I Just wanted to let you know that my subscribers are wanting Blog contest updates so I have now added a section dedicated to this type of contest on my website MrPrizes.com (http://www.mrprizes.com). I have added this listing and will also add any new ones that you let me know about. Have a great day!
i guess 3888p
http://myblogcontest.com/the-great-coin-jar-competition/
I had to have a guess and made a quick post.
Nice contest. I m in. Subscribed to the feeds and posted here: http://internetcashforyou.blogspot.com/2007/09/guess-money-and-win-20-prize.html
Cheers..