I am obsessed with the HGTV dream home. Every year they build this vacation home and for a few months you can enter EVERY DAY online for a chance to win. What do you win? The house, all the furniture inside, a truck and $250K!
I’ve saved the link to my favorites so I’ll remember to enter every day. I honestly hesitated about telling you blog readers about it because I’m afraid you’ll hurt my chances. But then I thought of something:
-Most of you probably have better things to do than enter a dream home sweepstakes every day.
But then I thought:
-Wait. These are people who read MY blog every day AND leave comments. They have NOTHING better to do!
But then I thought:
-If someone I know wins, they’ll let me come hang out at the dream home.
So let me tell you about it: It’s in Asheville, NC. What am I gonna do with a home in Asheville, NC, you ask? (assuming you don’t live in Asheville or the surrounding areas). Well you could sell it for one thing (which is what Frank plans to do if we win although I disagree). Or you could fly out there a couple of times a year and live in luxury. You can afford it because you’re gonna get the cash and the truck. I estimate that after taxes, paying the TTL on the truck and then selling the truck you’ll end up with about $175,000. That’s like 500 round-trip tickets to Asheville! You can bring the whole family.
Let’s talk about the house. First, take a tour of it. (Hey, don’t tell me you have anything better to do!)
Did you love it? My favorite part is the outdoor living room. How much fun are we going to have at my mountain home? You can even bring your dog and he/she can stay in the doggy dream home! I think it’s nicer than my own home.
When you come to my mountain home we’re going to have barbecues on the terrace, watch movies in the family room, drink wine in the wine cellar and do projects in the project room! Okay, I don’t really know what that room is for but hopefully one of you will have some ideas.
So go enter now. And if you win, be sure to put me down on your house warming party guest list. And while you're at it could you make a note that I'll be needing one of those 500 plane tickets you're gonna buy?
8 comments:
My dream home would be a giant apartment in Paris. I want a ballroom.
I entered everyday to win a trip to Tokyo to see the opening of "Memoirs of a Geisha". Clearly, I didn't win. My advice is to ask to be notified of the winner's name. It sucked to log onto the website and nothing was mentioned of it again and I wanted to know who won if I didn't!
dis: A ballroom is a much better use of space than a project room. Good call.
mer: Yes, I do want to know the winner's name because I will be contacting them to schedule my visit!
I don't do projects. I hire cute French boys to do them for me. If I need to gift wrap something because the place I bought it at doesn't gift wrap, like I'd shop there if they didn't, but if that happened, I'd gift wrap at the kitchen table. That's where I would do any projects that couldn't be otherwise handled by a hot guy.
I would actually LOVE a project room.
Elsa, this reminds me of the time we tried to win the grilled cheese sandwich competition. The loss was disappointing but at least they posted the winners on the site.
Oh, the vacation home will definitely have a cabana boy, even though we don't have a cabana.
We were so robbed in the grilled cheese sandwich competition! Also, we sent each other e-cards every day in an effort to win appliances and such.
Love the ballroom idea. My ballroom would overlook the Mediterranean Sea or Central Park.
Yes, I agree no use for a project room.
They should notify you when someone else wins your prize!
writinggal - last year's was better. That house in Tyler had us all going, trying to figure out how to change our source of earnings to be able to actually live there. Best loved was...the view of the lake, the guesthouse, the totally "wired" aspect of the home, the master bedroom, the porch, the guest suitem the outdoor jacuzzi, the wonderful wrap around deck of the boathouse, the elevator...the tvs everywhere and need I mention again that guesthouse???
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