Can The Winner Take All?

I've often wondered whether one could make a living on the back of winning competitions. Obviously you would have to win cash prizes to pay for your accommodation – unless you were relentlessly winning holidays that conveniently butted up with each other.

For all the other stuff – food, drink, clothes, ornaments and stationery – it seems a viable option, especially now we have the internet at our disposal. It's a game of percentages. Enter a thousand competitions a day and surely you'll win something, even if it only happens to be a years supply of elastic bands. Every Little Helps.

Today I decided I would give it a go. The plan was the enter around 50 online competitions. However, I soon got sidetracked by a wasp and by the time I'd stopped chatting with him I was starving so had to venture to the Co-op where one thing lead to another and before I knew it I was sitting in the pub thinking what a damn stupid idea it was.