The ScratchCard Challenge

End of Week One

Kev James — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:44:29 +0000

At the end of week one how did I do?

Well I bought three more scratchcards to use up my £5 weekly quota and admitedly they were bought in haste. Maybe this is a good reason why I won sod all on them.

Bad Karma!

Maybe this is an interesting development or maybe it’s just nothing. Perhaps the whole project will tell us nothing, but without trying we’ll never know.

Two of the above cards were bought from ASDA and the third was from the SPAR I previously won at. I figured it would be unlikely I would get two wins in the same week from the same place, but I didn’t think I would win on the first two cards bought either.

We’re into week two so let’s see how we get on with that.

Kev x

Off to a Good Start

Kev James — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:41:37 +0000

Well the ScratchCard Challenge is off to a positive start. On picking up my 3 years and 7 month old son from school today we wandered into the local SPAR to get some sweets and whilst waiting at the till he pointed at the scratch cards and said; “Daddy you will win on that”.

You probably think I’m making this up but I swear it’s the truth. The one thing I won’t do with this project is to lie to you or myself.

So I lifted him up and he pointed at one of the £2 scratch cards. “Typical” I thought. But this experiment isn’t about logical judgement so I bought it. I also bought another one which had caught my eye too. It was the first one my eyes fell on and had a jackpot of £4000.

As I have £5 per week to spend on scratch cards in the initial 4 weeks I went for it and it cost £3 in total for both scratch cards.

I sat in the car and scratched them both off and couldn’t believe it – not only did the first one win me £6 but the second one won me £2 as you can see from the photos.

So the challenge has so far bagged me £5 which means I have £95 to go to the first 4 weeks target of £100 and I’ve still got over 3 weeks to achieve it.

Fingers crossed.

Kev x

The Beginning

Kev James — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:24:17 +0000

Well it’s Monday the 23rd of March 2009 and today is the day I start my ScratchCard Challenge. If you’ve read what it’s about and the guidelines then you’ll know where I’m going with this.

Later today I will be drawing £20 from my bank and this will be the nucleus that will make me financially strong over the next 24 weeks.

I have 4 weeks to turn that £20 into £100+ using it to purchase only scratchcards totally at random. I’m quite excited by this new social experiment. There is the potential to make quite a bit of money but at the same time if it fails all I lose is £20. Any money I make is money I didn’t have in the first place so if I lose it all then it doesn’t matter.

That’s the theory anyway. Follow my progress as I chart in detail here the success or setback of each purchase.

Kev x