Write a Haiku for 35 Contest Entries!
by Money Crashers
Filed under Contests and Giveaways
There’s just 1 week remaining in the Money Crashers 2010 New Year Giveaway Bash – now with a prize pool of over $9,100 including $3,150 in cold hard cash!
Now we’d like to release the final contest action – it’s a fun and quick one.
Write a personal finance related haiku on Twitter.
It can literally be anything about money – saving it, making it, getting out of debt, an anecdotal story, the list goes on. You’ll get 10 entries just for writing a haiku and the best 5 haiku writers as judged by our team will get an additional 25 entries each.
In case you’re not familiar with what a haiku is, it’s basically a form of Japanese poetry that consists of 17 syllables broken up into three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables in that order (no rhyming necessary).
Here’s an example we put together where each slash signifies a new line:
“New Year has begun / Let’s save, invest, budget…Get / Financially Fit! #moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2″
The guidelines are below:
- Include the #moneycrashers hashtag and link (http://bit.ly/71Pgs2) at the end of your haiku tweet.
- Once you’ve written your haiku on Twitter, copy and paste the poem itself into the comments of this post, along with the direct URL to the tweet (to get the tweet URL, click on the tweet time stamp).
- The deadline for this action is Wednesday, January 27 11:59 PM PST. We’ll announce the winners of the best haikus on Thursday, January 28.
We’re looking forward to seeing your literary side. Good luck and have fun with this!
UPDATE: It was really hard to choose the winners because all the entries were awesome and this was a ton of fun for us all to judge, but since we had to…the 5 winners and their haikus are below. Congrats! And everyone out there, you have some serious literary talent!
1. @davisesq212: My resolution / be careful, invest wisely / save for my future!
2. @dmetd42: Always ask yourself / Is this a need or a want / Wait a week… then buy
3. @dementiaNYC: Track your spendings for / budgeting, saving and more / it will reap rewards
4. @cherryontop22: I hate student loans / they make me stay up at night / make them go away!
5. @anormaloperator: I saved a few dimes / Now I am a millionaire / Compound interest!
Penny pinching ways,
Though means are tight, yield dreams.
Cabin among trees. #moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/frugalbohemian/status/823636021
show me the money / for real not being funny / if not so be it #moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/AnnickVer/status/8238446834
Saving dough is tough/ No matter how hard I try/ It’s never enough #moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/eswright18/status/8251089949
Accidentally posted this on the main contest page but here’s my haiku tweet:
I hate student loans
they make me stay up at night
make them go away!
http://twitter.com/cherryontop22/status/8218737837
What is a budget?
Deprivation and pain
Help MoneyCrashers!
Budgeting is right / opens our peepers up wide / to the folly buys
#moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
chrissam1 My credit soared then crashed/Who was I to deny free cash?/Friends cared, 2010 beware! #moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
less than 20 seconds ago from web
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http://twitter.com/chrissam1/status/8267584548
http://twitter.com/walshsurvey/status/8272041505
Clipping of Coupons / And Wrangling of the budget / Opening up my goals
Here is mine:
know credit card debt/charge it fast pay it off slow/better to say no
http://twitter.com/drewsleonard/status/8281010810
Frugality brings // Refreshment to what means most: // The little things shine.
http://twitter.com/IzziCat/status/8282243350
money grows on trees
but always beyond my grasp
must plan first today
http://twitter.com/brettsota/status/8282388465
Since I tend to fail
Resolutions, this year I
Plan to SPEND money!
construction business is slow
look to frugality for relief
hope comes on the dawn
Hiding my wallet/only deturs the spending/I keep finding it
Sitting here today/ Seeing future tommorow/ Feeling uncertain #moneycrashers hashtag and link (http://bit.ly/71Pgs2)
http://twitter.com/Facetwit17/status/8284104865
Tax day almost here
sorting through my old receipts
relax, have a beer.
http://twitter.com/mami2jcn/status/8284426244
Stay at home mommy/
Needing extra income now/
For special needs child.
(#moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2?)
http://twitter.com/Emommy21/status/8285279992
Personal finance
can be distasteful unless
paired with a good wine
http://twitter.com/repercussionist/status/8287193745
necessary gold /
survive illness job loss more /
handle with knowledge
#moneycrashers hashtag http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/Cj_McGinnis/status/8293765379
value investments /
time in friends and in kindness /
study money too
#moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/Cj_McGinnis/status/8293779280
ingots glistening /
false deities and true trade /
know the difference
#moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/Cj_McGinnis/status/8293794474
teach the children well /
ethical financial goals /
make happy grown ups
#moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
http://twitter.com/Cj_McGinnis/status/8293808286
Money quest I seek / to remove my current debt / reaching hearths freedom.
# MoneyCrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
about 23 hours ago from web
Saving is not hard /
When you live below your means /
It grows while you sleep
#moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
https://twitter.com/thriftygal_/status/8301951601
Investing is hard / It is surely not an art / For the faint of heart! #moneycrashers http://bit.ly/71Pgs2
https://twitter.com/thriftygal_/status/8305863117
Credit scores are no/ joke, but can haunt forever/ go to great lengths; SAVE.
http://twitter.com/JennSweepsAlot/status/8307433093
Cutting plastic cards / Sweet victory by the blades / Redemption is mine
http://twitter.com/SnowflakeDay/status/8307924746
Budgeting is key / To managing finances / And increasing wealth
http://twitter.com/thriftygal_/status/8312430570
Read Money Crashers / Learn how to save and invest / Watch your money grow!
https://twitter.com/VegasRissa/status/8313110529