Something For The Weekend - WIN Cash With Butterkist's 100th Birthday

Hello again compers!  Well, how was your first week back at school or work?  Any tears, from adults or children?  My eldest started back at school last week (Year 4 now, big girl),  and my youngest started “big school” Reception class on Monday – today will be her first full day, so we shall see how she is when I pick her up at 3pm!  I am guessing I may have 2 very tired children on my hands this afternoon!  I think the first few weeks of September are meant to be spent just relaxing and recovering from a busy summer.  Whether you have children at home or not, chances are you have been busier than usual during the summer months, and it is sometimes just nice to sit in the autumn evenings and catch up with some good books or a movie or two.

Funds are often a little stretched after the long summer months too – gone are the days perhaps of spending large amounts of money on days out and attractions like cinemas and theme parks.  It can be just as nice though to enjoy a “movie night at home”.  We often do just this – I dim the lights in the lounge, print off some “movie tickets” for the children, extend the legs on the reclining sofa for them, show them to their seats with a torch and present them with bowls of sweets and popcorn and drinks in plastic cups with straws – voila, instant, low cost cinema experience at home!  When we next have one of these evenings, I will be making sure to look out for the current Butterkist promotional popcorn packs!  To celebrate their 100^th birthday, Butterkist are giving away 1000s of instant cash prizes ranging from £5 to £100!  To play, simply purchase a promotional bag, open it and see if it contains a golden birthday card!  If you have a winning card, pop online to claim your prize instantly.  Prizes will be sent out by cheque, and will arrive within 28 days of claiming.  The promotion is open from now until 31^st May 2015, so there are plenty of movie nights to be had before then!  Even if you don’t win, you can print off a £0.50 off your next purchase of Butterkist from the website, with a code from every promotional pack.  You can claim a maximum of 4 of these coupons during the promotion – yum yum!

If cash and vouchers are on your comping Wish List at the moment, here are a few others competitions you might like to try this weekend:

• Would £200 of M&S vouchers be helpful?  Of course it would!  You could be using these vouchers to update your wardrobe, buy groceries, or squirrel away Christmas gifts if you enter the Baby Swap or Shop competition by midnight on 15^th September 2014.  Register / login to the site and answer the question (Our advice - £200), and you could be winning!
• Do you enjoy Italian food in your house?  It is a firm family favourite here – pasta, pizza, meatballs, you name it!  Would you like to win a year’s supply of Sacla Pesto sauce, and £100 of supermarket vouchers?  I thought so!  Head over to the Good to Know website, register/login in and answer the question (Our advice – Green) by midnight on 28^th September 2014 to win.  You can even enter daily until the closing date!
• Are you a calm, careful driving, or are there certain things than enrage you and tick you off!  Play the Road Rage Gauge game on the Car Craft website and tweet your score over Twitter by midnight on 30^th September 2014, and you will be entered into the draw to win £250 cash!
• Have you been enjoying the Great British Bake-off again this year?  My eldest daughter can’t get enough of it!  I know she would love me to win the current Cookeen competition to win £200 of Love2Shop vouchers and a selection of Mary Berry Bakeware!  If you would like to enter too, pop over to the Cookeen website and answer the question (Our advice – Tiramisu) by midnight on 30^th September 2014. 
• What would you buy with a £50 John Lewis gift card?  Clothes, cosmetics, accessories, homewares?  Too difficult to choose isn’t it!  You could be in the enviable position of making that choice if you enter the competition being hosted on the Honest Mum blog.  Enter via the Rafflecopter form by midnight on 15^th October 2014 to be counted in the draw!

Happy weekend comping everyone, and lots of Lucky Dust to you all!

Kirsty x