So...this morning we were all rocking out to the radio while we were doing our Saturday morning chores. Then the DJ guy comes on and says, "Come on over to the Hubble Homes neighborhood! We are giving away a FREE house(valued at $200,000), a new Ford Avenger (valued at $25,000) and $25,000 cash."
I'm thinking to myself..."Whoa...that's the neighborhood right next to ours!"
I told Nate to get dressed and go over there to see whats going on. He decides that I am crazy and that I need to be the one to go over and check it out.
I hopped in the car and went to see what the deal was. There were cars EVERYWHERE! I go up to the radio desk and ask where/how to enter this contest. They tell me that you have had to be"pre-registered" in order to win the house/car/cash combo. Apparently the people who just show up have to be "selected" to be pre-drawn. I pretty much figured I was wasting my time but I filled out the little paper ballot and went on with my day.
I ended up running some errands when Nate calls me on my cell phone. He's like, "THEY CHOSE YOU!!! GET OVER THERE NOW!!!" I was totally freaking out. Honestly...I can't even imagine how AWESOME it would be to win all of those prizes. Nate totally needs a new car and I am just picturing how SWEET it would be to get this house and sell it to pay off all of our student loans.
I was in the "last chance" group and there were only about 40 of us who had a shot at the prizes. In order to win them all you had to roll 6 dice and spell the word, "HUBBLE." The first person to spell HUBBLE automatically wins all the prizes and the game is over. My heart was pounding to say the least......these 6 little dice could honestly change our lives. I opted to roll the dice from the cup instead of from my hands since I always KILL Nate at Yahtzee. There were cameras and people everywhere. You only get 1 single roll so I shook the dice in my cup and let 'em roll.........
AND...........
I only got a H and a B. It was still fun though and it was fun to dream big for a day....especially since I wasn't technically gambling because I didn't have to pay anything to enter the contest. No one ended up winning. I guess the odds are about 1 in 47,000 but man..that would have been REALLY cool.
6 comments:
:) I'm disappointed for you! That would have been really cool-and I would have been really jealous...believe me that idea of putting a few dollars into a machine down here does cross my mind once in awhile!
That is so crazy! Being debt free would be awesome! Joe and I always kick ourselves for not buying a house when we moved to Spokane. A house a block away from where we lived went up $100,00in value over the course of the three years we were there. We could have paid off our debt with that profit!
oh too sad, i want to win a house too, i alwasy think of how pathetic my life is lately and wonder if i would qualify to go on Extreme Makeover home edition.............and then i remember that i don't even own this little house i'm in, im just a renter, sorry you didn't win, keep playing the odds, eventually you will win. =)
Dang! That would've been sweet if you had won. I was totally rooting for you.
Being debt free is so far away, but it would be so nice.
That would have been nice, but right now if I saw a new house that was only $200,000 I would pay someone $100,000 just to sell it to me!
It sounds like we're all dreaming of that day when those lovely loans will be paid in full...but the memories are priceless.
Like Allison, we wonder what we were or weren't thinking about buying a house up there. The new homes behind Adirondack went from 114,000 to 170,000 within a matter of 6 months to a year. Darn!
my heart was pounding just reading about it... I can't imagine what you were feeling.
sometimes I get emotional watching the Price is Right... when someone ALMOST wins, but they don't by just a single number or dollar. And sometimes I cry when they do win.
great story.
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