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2 October 2010

#276 Collect pamphlets and compete

If you are lucky and write a good enough slogan, you could be sent on vacation far away.

If you are lucky and write a good enough slogan, you could be sent on vacation far away.

You do not need to go to Barcelona, Berlin, or Bombay to have fun. You can stay in your home town. You can also do it cheaply. To help you along, here are "Seven free things you can do in your city".

There are smart ways to get things and there are way expensive ones. An expensive way is to always buy things. A smarter way is to win things. And it's not about luck. Winning contests is about giving the right answer, thinking of clever and funny slogans and to justify why you should win in a way that nobody else can. Make an art of it. Become really good at it. Win a lot.

1. Gather your friends and try to go to as many stores as possible. Try to aim for the really big supermarkets. That’s where the most pamphlets are.

2. Go through every store and collect as many pamphlets as possible. Find a good system to really cover every aisle in the store.

3. Gather at the home of one of your respective homes and fill in the pamphlets together. Help each other to come up with snappy slogans and to answer questions. Googling the correct answers and make sure that everyone’s writing is solid.

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
You might not win.
Pros: 
You can win trips, gadgets or maybe even money.
Taggar: slogans, race, luxury cruise, line, free, counterfoils, business, 365 things you can do
2 September 2010

#246 Organize a trading table

Bring your old socks to school and see if anyone is interested. You never know.

Bring your old socks to school and see if anyone is interested. You never know.

School has started again, and for those of you who think that it is monotonous with teachers, homework and project work, 365 gives you seven things you can do at your school.

Surveys, in-depth interviews with the country's brightest minds and a group of 20 researchers’ careful research have now discovered that pupils in Swedish schools do not have lot of money to spend. It has been determined that it is time to find creative ways to save money instead of going about in rags. After several years in a laboratory, two of the researchers have developed the Trading Table.

The Trading Table serves as a regular table. The difference is that instead of putting buns and juice on the table to take a coffee break, you fill the table surface with things you do not want. Books, magazines, CDs, clothes, gadgets. The table can be in a corridor at your school. Then the 1for1-rule is in effect meaning that you may take one thing off the table if you put another thing there in return.

Bonus – Trade Trade Trade-collective in Gothenburg

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
There are always those who do not follow common rules. It could be that some think that the table takes up too much space and move it.
Pros: 
You can find bargains by switching off the shawl you’re fed up with for a new hat.
Taggar: used clothes, stockings, seven things you can do at your school, hat, free, changing table, 365 things