Todd Sloane and I founded the Prize Patrol twenty-seven years ago — when we decided to surprise our prizewinners in-person rather than with phone calls. How exciting for the winners themselves! And how exciting for TV viewers who could see the actual “winning moment” and realize that ordinary folks like themselves could win prizes worth […]
Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. Life is full of them. It’s what keeps us going (and going) to meet the demands of everyday life. Some of us meet the challenge head on and get busy doing what needs to be done. The rest of us procrastinate and keep putting things off. There’s always tomorrow, right? In this […]
Guys, it’s true! If we find a match to the winning number for our upcoming Special Early Look Event, someone will win a stupendous $10,000 A Week For Life. That’s DOUBLE our standard weekly lifetime prize – the largest weekly lifetime prize we offer! HOWEVER – what if the winning Special Early Look number is […]
Motivational Monday is here again! Time sure does fly. Last week we visited with some of our past winners to see how their big prizes had changed their lives for the better. I hope it was very inspirational for all of you, and fun to read. Isn’t it fascinating to see how winning a big prize […]
Nicholas Kristof, a frequent op-ed columnist for The New York Times (the paper whose motto is “All the news that’s fit to print”), recently wrote about how journalists tend to speak out about war, scandals and disasters. He himself pleads guilty to overlooking important things happening in the world that are truly good news. I […]
The media – not to mention some ambitious real estate brokers – are already talking about where the nation’s First Family will move when President Obama vacates 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – better known as the White House — in early 2017. Will they move back to Chicago from where they came? Or relocate to New […]
