Contest hilarity

So I went into the entry album for that one contest I recently entered (which, thankfully, stops accepting entries day after tomorrow) and saw that there were 489 photos. That was the easy part, number of pages multiplied by photos per page. Then came the more time-consuming part. Since I knew that some people had submitted TONS of pictures (one lady submitted 24 of the same kid!! Many others had over a dozen!!), and others had submitted photos of older kids when the company representative managing it asked specifically for babies and younger toddlers, and said that they would not be awarding to any big kids this time, but that a big kid contest may be next.

Honestly, I was just curious to see just HOW good our odds were, so I went through the entries (funny enough, this was quicker than it sounds), didn't count any that were over the age of 2, or whose entries were filled out incorrectly (Again, the company rep said it must be correct to count), and I only counted each kid once. I figured out that there were a total of 164 eligible kids in the contest. Now, the number of eligible families is lower since there can be one prize per family, each contest, and a great many families entered more than one kid (which is fine).

Basically, long story short is that our odds of winning, at this point are 1 in 54!!! Those are AMAZING odds when you consider that ALL winners get a super duper nice car seat that retails for about $300!! Yeah, we already have this exact seat, which we purchased several months ago. So freaking what? I'm still crossing my fingers we win another because then we'd never have to buy another car seat as long as we live, even AFTER the next baby is here. If we win another seat, then it would replace the Britax Marathon in the Dodge (the Marathon is horribly uncomfortable for Orren now that he's so tall and still rear-facing, but the Radian gives over twice as much leg room), and then after the next baby is here, Orren would stay in it, and we'd put the baby in the Marathon and the Diplomat until outgrown, but by that time, Orren will have outgrown the Radians and they can be handed down to little Sirikit/Chaiyo (OK, so the hypothetical boy name is still a work in progress) while we sell the Britaxes, and all we'll have to do is buy Orren a Monterey booster like Erin has. We would totally benefit from winning this contest.

Of course, it's anyone's guess if we will or not, but for something that costs absolutely nothing to enter, 1 in 54 odds of winning are INSANE!!