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20 Low entry competitions, May 2018

Low entry competitions (UK Competitions) As you'll all know I love entering competitions and enter quite a few during a week, when I get the time to enter. I enter via some websites and also hunt down my own by doing some internet searches. The competitions that are posted on most of the websites usually have quite high entries due to the amount of compers out there entering via the sites. Here are a few I have found with low entries, under 300 entries. You can also find your own competitions especially on social media sites by searching hashtags like: Win, UKgiveaway, giveaway, giveaways, winme, prize, prizes, lowentry etc. Posted in end date order, posted by End date / prize / entries and entry route. Under 100 entries 18/05 4pm Retro phone magnifier - 77 entries - Twitter 19/05 9pm Framed papercut of your choice - 79 entries - Facebook 20/05 Harry and Meghan Wedding Tray - 6 entries - Facebook 20/05 7pm 1 pair of bow socks and 1 pair of matching hair bows - 32 entri

My first Wasgij puzzle

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A Wasgij is jigsaw spelled backwards, they are puzzles that have an image on the cover/box which is a clue of what the puzzle will look like, but not the actual puzzles image itself. I recently won the Fast Food Frenzy! Wasgij, which on the box shown a busy restaurant in 1958. The idea of the puzzle is to imagine what the restaurant would look like today, for friends and families to enjoy their food and conversation. First of all we rummaged through the pieces to find the outside edges and corners and fitted them together. Once we had the outside pieces, we found out pieces that looked similar, with the same patterns and writing on them. We slotted those that we could find together or put them near each other, so we had an idea of where they went. The clever thing about this puzzle in particular and most of the Wasgijs is that some of the characters are the same, but around 50 years later. For example: There is a little scout at the counter on the box, but on the actual puz

Comping is one of my hobbies

What I love about comping is the community and chance of winning things a long the way. By no means is it a form of income and no way would I be able to quit the day job, to fund our life, through competitions. I've won a couple of big prizes, one being the first competition I ever entered when I was 16, of a large screen television from Heart Radio's website, I received a winning letter in the post and we arranged to get the television delivered to our house, at a small delivery cost. (FREE collection was available)  I was chuffed to pieces with that prize, especially as I just entered the competition on a whim, as I was passing their website. The real comping didn't begin until April 2016, when I fell ill and off work for awhile and had lots of time on my hands, but little energy to actually put into anything. My first month of coming I received three prizes, consisting of a pod holder, for our coffee pods, worth £30, some foundation also worth £30 and a candle worth £20