Last week Amazon had my book, The Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero, on sale for a great deal…3% off! I was so excited with the
prospect of my beloved fans saving $.27 that I decided to give away a copy of
the book (the full retail version).
I asked everyone to leave a comment on The Facebook telling me
what they would do with an extra 27 cents. The answers were amazing, to say the
least. I decided to list the honorable mentions here, since they technically
should be mentioned to be an honorable mention. And while this may not be
honorable, here it goes:
Honorable Mentions
“I'd convert it to
British Pounds Sterling, and look forward to spending that 18p in England this
summer.” – Sara R.
Sara, this is a great response. I love the creativity, the
forward thinking, and the great knowledge of foreign currency exchange rates. I
think that since the museums in London are free, 18p would be a nice addition
to the little collection cubes in the front. But alas, this response made me so
upset that I wasn’t going to England this summer that I put it in the honorable…er…honourable mention category.
“According to
www.arizonagasprices.com - the price of 1 gallon of regular gas is around $3.
$.27 will get me about 0.09 gallons of gas. My truck gets about 15 miles per
gallon. That means I can drive about 1.35 miles - just enough to pick up the
Teachers in our Teachers Quorum for our campout this weekend.” – Jordan H.
Wow. Great job Jordan. You were astute to site your source,
albeit errant information. If gas is supposed to be around $3.00, I’ve been
getting ripped off for a good 7 months. But I love that you thought about your
Teachers Quorum and the upcoming campout. I’m glad that the $.27 would allow
you to pick them up, and no doubt that is money well spent. But I’m concerned
that you’ll reconsider things when you’re actually on the campout and nobody is
sleeping at 3am. For that, you get an honorable mention.
“I saw some leftover
Valentine's day candy at Bashas yesterday for 14 cents. If I looked real hard
for an extra penny I could get two.” – Camille R.
This is a great example of not thinking like a victim. Need
an extra penny? “Look real hard.” That’s the kind of hard work and ingenuity I
like to see! And heaven knows I’m all for Valentine’s candy. The only thing
keeping Camille from the finals is that the candy was “leftover.” Had it been
February 13th, things might have looked differently.
“I would donate it to
charity. That means that along with Mr. Bill Gates, we will have donated
$48,000,000,000.27 to charity since 2007.” – Francis J.
Very classy, Francis. This is a great way to give back to
the children. I am a big fan of what two people can do if they each put in all
that they can—that’s the true definition of teamwork. You would have been much
higher in the rankings if Windows 8 hadn’t just come out…I can’t find the
stupid Start button anywhere on my laptop. Ask Mr. Bill Gates if he knows where
it went, and then we’ll reanalyze the standings.
“Buy an egg, incubate
and hatch, raise the chick to give my family more eggs...it could happen.” –
Brandon R.
Brandon is on the right track here…it’s all about return on
investment. This is a great way to be self sustaining well into the future. The
only drawback? I kinda threw up in my mouth thinking that an egg from the store
could actually hatch. [shivers]
“With coupons and
advertised sales, I would buy a week's worth of groceries for my family of 10
again! Love couponing!!” – Shawnee J.
Pretty amazing use of coupons, Shawnee! The only problem is
that I don’t understand all of the math that goes into couponing. You might as
well have said you would be dividing the hypotenuse of the burn trajectory by
the cosine of the turn radius (times pi) to regulate a sustainable atmospheric
reentry for Apollo 13. It’s all gibberish to me.
“Buy an extra ranch
sauce from McDonalds for my kids chicken nuggets.” – Tiffany A.
Love this, Tiffany. There’s nothing like Ranch to satisfy
tired, grumpy kids. Not that your kids are grumpy—I was talking about mine. But
as a matter of principle, I have to leave this comment in the honorable mention
category. Nobody should have to pay
for extra sauce. Freakin’ McDonalds.
“I'd take it and have
a rat gnaw that thing off.” – Thomas J.
Yes. Wait, what? This is one of the most bizarre things I’ve
heard since we read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in college. And since I got a "B" in that class, so should you.
The Winners
“Throw it into the
kids mission fund. Every little bit counts!” – Tera M.
This is great, Tera! With the recent announcement of 58 new missions and the circulation of this awesome video, I’ve been a little teary-eyed about missionary
work. So you caught me at a vulnerable time. Congrats!
“I would give 13 1/2
people my $0.02 on why they should buy your book for their kids!” – Bryan K.
There are a couple of reasons why Bryan wins here. First, he’s
helping the cause of talking about the book (hint, hint for the rest of you). Also,
he’s not excluding anyone. Even ½ people deserve to read a good book now and
then. Well done Bryan!
To the winners go the spoils! Tera and Bryan, send me your address and I will send you a crisp new copy of The Epic Tales of a Misfit
Hero.
And to the rest of you, thanks so much for participating. I had a blast! Let’s go live it up. We’ve just discovered that we really
only need $.27 – and there should be no shortage of ideas now.
