The following is a guest post from my good friend Lauren. While I would not normally use this blog to ask you to go vote for someone you don’t know ( I save that for my Facebook friends) I am making a special exception for Lauren.
- because I really, really like her
- because I *think* she might share her chocolate chip cookie recipe with the world if she wins
- because by voting you can win too
It takes less than a minute to register and vote, and by registering you are automatically entered to win your mortgage/ rent paid for, for an entire year!!! I’ll let her explain the rest…
What would you do if you won a year’s worth of mortgage payments?
I can think of plenty of answers to that question – some noble, some not so noble. Roll a giant debt snowball down the hill, Dave Ramsey-style. Enjoy weekly sushi dates with my husband. Give. Save. Get pedicures at a spa where people drink Evian and wear cucumbers on their eyelids. Replace the kitchen chairs that are currently held together with a product called Monkey Glue. Take a trip.
These were the thoughts that propelled me down the sidewalk with my video camera, looking like a regular Francis Ford Coppola with a baby on my hip as I shouted, “Good! Good! Now one more time around the block!” Only it wasn’t Al Pacino I was directing; it was my four-year-old son, Noah, and we were filming our entry for Taylor Morrison’s “Homemade Memories” video contest. The challenge was to create a short video about our most treasured memories of home, and the prize – $18,000 – was enough to make me suspend all normal household operations (laundry, cooking, showering, reading Happy Housewife) in order to capture my family on film. With a hope and a prayer, I submitted my entry into the contest.
And now – I AM ONE OF TEN FINALISTS COMPETING FOR THE BIG PRIZE.
Just the thought of it makes me need to sit down and put my head between my knees. The winner will be determined by vote – an agonizing process requiring me to bite my fingernails to the quick and ask everyone I’ve ever met (and their spouses, parents, friends, uncles, and second cousins twice removed) to PLEASE VOTE FOR THE WEEK 2 VIDEO: “Memories Made from Scratch.” At this rate, I am going to need to add manicures to my list of post-contest indulgences.
What’s in it for you, apart from the knowledge that you are helping keep a friend from hyperventilating? Every person who votes will be entered into a drawing to receive an identical prize: your mortgage or rent paid for one year. Which, my fellow Frugalistas, is a fabulous prize. If your debt snowball needs padding, this will turn Frosty the Debt Snowman into the Abominable Debt Snowman. Or, even better – the Abominable Frosty Debt Ninja Assassin. I think I might suggest that to Dave Ramsey for his next book.
Each voter must be age 21 or over and can vote one time. Click here and vote for “Week 2: Memories Made from Scratch” (the second from the left).
Thanks, friends! I hope to see you in the Winner’s Circle!
