Prizes From The Post For Pinching Your Pennies
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: contests, frugality
The weekend edition of The Washington Post announces Michelle Singletary’s Penny Pincher of the Year contest. If you have a unique way of saving every last one of those copper beauties, you could find yourself with a whole bunch more of them by sending in your story.
This is the perfect opportunity for you to show off your frugality for a nice reward. But be careful not to cross the line between frugal and miserly:
A miser is someone who wouldn’t spare a dime for his brother or anybody else in need. I know plenty of penny pinchers who are extremely generous. They just hate wasting money on stuff that doesn’t matter.
You can enter by e-mail or by putting pen to paper and tossing it into a big blue box on the street corner:
Send your entries by June 16 to colorofmoney@washpost.com. Please put “2006 Penny Pincher of the Year Contest” in the subject line. Please include your address and daytime and evening phone numbers. You can also mail entries to Michelle Singletary, Color of Money, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Please put on the front of the envelope “Penny Pincher of the Year Contest.”
Here’s what my entry looks like so far:
Dear Michelle,
http://www.punny.org/tag/frugality
Now where’s my prize?
Love,
Nick
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October 26th, 2011 at 6:58 am
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December 1st, 2011 at 6:13 am
I wish I had a sense of humor like your,great stuff dude!
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[...] A few months ago, I mentioned that Michelle Singletary and the Washington Post were conducting a search for the nation’s best penny pinchers. Well, the results of the contest will be announced in this morning’s edition of the Post, but here’s a sneak peak for all you Punny Money late-night readers. Michelle Schall of Fishers, Ind. … wrote that her father-in-law travels often to his company’s corporate headquarters and stays at the same little inn. For each night’s stay, he gets two tickets he can redeem for free drinks. Tabitha Plecker of Charlottesville wrote: “Everyone with small children knows how expensive those swimming diapers are… right? … My little ones can wear each diaper several times with washings before tossing it in the trash, as long as there are no major accidents, of course!” James Ricci of Wallingford, Conn. … was nominated by his wife, Nancy, who says her husband instituted a no-car day. At least one day a week (and sometimes more) he refuses to drive his car. Tom Hagaman of Denver… was nominated by his wife of two years, Emily, who says her husband cut[s] costs on vacation trips around Colorado by going to time-share presentations. “His money-saving idea has turned into my own private hell,” Hagaman said. [...]
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