Giveaway: Share Your Investing Story for a Chance to Win a Book

By Pinyo, on November 15, 2007

Today, Moolanomy turns exactly 4 months old. To celebrate this occasion, I am holding a contest to give away Wise Investing Made Simple to 5 lucky winners. In case you don’t know, Larry Swedroe, an investing expert who offered to write a monthly Q&A “Ask The Expert” column for Moolanomy wrote this fine book.

There are two ways to enter

To enter, you’ll need to share your personal investing story…good, bad, or ugly.

Do you have a wildly successful investing experience? Did your investment bomb and you swear never to go near the stock market again? Did you have your entire retirement invested in Enron? What about the first time you tried your hand at investing?

1. If you have a blog, write a post sharing your personal investing story. When you’ve finished, contact me with the URL, or send a trackback directly from your post. Note, I will not accept stories written prior to the publication of this contest.
2. If you don’t have a blog, you can simply share your story here using the comment function below.

How the winners will be selected

I list and link to your stories as they are submitted. The contest ends on November 30th at 11:59 PM, Eastern Daylight Saving Time. I will use a random number generator to select the 5 winners, and announce the result on Sunday, December 2nd morning along with the weekly roundup.

The rules

First and foremost, this is meant to be fun. It’s an opportunity for me to give back to my readers, and the Personal Finance Bloggers community. If participating in this contest will cause any kind of problem for me, you, or Larry, please do not enter.

• All winners must be of legal age — usually, 18 years of age or older.
• These contests are open to participants outside the U.S., but in all cases are void where prohibited by law.
• No purchase is necessary to participate in the contests. Purchase will not improve your chance of winning.
• I will choose the winners from the participants listed below. I am the sole judge of adding entries to the list. In general, substantive story submitted in good faith will be accepted. On the other hand, plagiarized content, trackback from splogs, spams, non-story comments, and stories containing abusive or inappropriate languages will not be considered.
• In order to get the prize, I have to be able to contact you; so please leave a valid email address with your comment, or make sure I can contact you through your web site.
• Larry will be the one sending the books. This means I will have to pass along your information to him for shipping.
• There are no prize substitutions, and prizes are provided as-is.

Participants list

1. My Spouse’s 401K ~ What It Really Means @ I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
2. My Only Investing Experience @ BeingFrugal.net
3. My Personal Story: Background, Taxes, First IRA @ My Dollar Plan
4. Investing a Large Inheritance @ Smart Healthy Rich
5. Losing My (Investing) Virginity @ Credit Withdrawal
6. Investing the Easy Way @ Gather Little By Little
7. Comment by L in MO
8. An Investing Story @ Plonkee Money
9. Comment by E.C. @ Not Living on Ramen
10. Investing on an Expert’s Advice @ Debt Reduction Formula
11. Investing adventures @ Fecundity*
12. The Metamorphosis From Mutual Fund Investor to Dividend Investor @ The Dividend Guy
13. Do Your Research Before You Invest @ Cash Money Life
14. The Billionaire Investment Guru within Me Called Billy @ Money Ning
15. My investing story… @ Mrs. Micah: Finance and Life
16. Comment by Ningpo @ im.wilcke
17. I dare to win, no matter what @ I am for Eternity
18. Enron, My Best Investment Ever @ Finance and Fat
19. My Investing Story @ Remodeling This Life
20. My First Investing Story @ Broke Grad Student

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5. My Personal Story: Background, Taxes, First IRA | My Dollar Plan
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7. an investing story : plonkee money
8. Debt Reduction Formula
9. The Metamorphosis From Mutual Fund Investor to Dividend Investor
10. Do Your Research Before You Invest | Cash Money Life
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15. My First Investing Story — Broke Grad Student