Up Your Budget: Like Your Own Amazing Race

Amazing Race

By admin | Monday, October 31, 2005 | 11:22 am | 8 Comments

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We all love The Amazing Race, but there are a lot of people who may never get a chance to play themselves. Maybe they are too lazy to apply. Maybe they can’t find a partner to play with. Maybe they say that can’t find a partner to play with but really just have no friends. Maybe they’ve applied many times but just never get picked as a finalist. For all of you people, we have the answer for you. It’s called Up Your Budget, month long, weekly treasure hunt where you have a chance to win $10,000. Like The Amazing Race, Up Your Budget has clues. Unlike The Amazing Race, Up Your Budget doesn’t have Phil. Then again, anybody can play, and you still have three more chances to win. Read more about this game after the jump.I first heard about Up Your Budget when they submitted an ad to TVgasm. I couldn’t figure out what the ad was for, and when I clicked on it, it took me to the blog Up Your Budget, which has the rules and the FAQ in case you want to know more information. The problem was, I was still confused with what was going on, but I think have the gist of it.

Up Your Budget is sponsored by Budget Rent-a-Car. It’s a treasure hunt that asks you to figure out a specific spot in a certain city based on a series of clues. The cities are in one of four regions, East, West, North, and South, and each region will have four different cities/locations featured, one per week. The first week ended October 30th, which means there are three weeks left.

Visiting the Up Your Budget blog will give you video clues, some that may be helpful and some that may and try to throw you off track. Once you find the sticker, you need to have photographic or video proof. If you are the first person to send in the sticker for your region, you will win the $10,000 cash prize. Apparently, I haven’t been up on my blogosphere readings, because I haven’t seen it mentioned, even in the blogs that I read that are supposed to be taking part of the promotion. So maybe you have already heard of it, but I think it deserves a mention. If you are close to one of the cities, it could be a fun little thing to do. If you’re interested, sign up at Up Your Budget and get started.

P.S. I usually don’t find it necessary to mention advertisers in our posts, but I thought some of the readers would find it fun, and the ad totally confused me.

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8 Comments

  1. 1
    anon
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 5:38 pm

    Darn! I wish I had known about this last week! I used to work in the building the Chicago one was outside of … and I was able to figure it out based on the clues…I guess I’m just a day late and $10,000 short!

  2. 2
    j-dog
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 10:42 pm

    I guess they had a mishap with the San Diego Sticker Hunt. The sticker was missing from the location and all hell broke loose. They had to add a new rule(Rule #18) in case of future missing sticker madness.

    This does look fun, be sure to document your actual sticker finding moments or your entry won’t count.

    Come on TVGasm fans……… we can take this.
    find the sticker….

    Their Hunter stories blog is pretty funny.

  3. 3
    EdHill
    Posted November 1, 2005 at 9:23 am

    The east one is at Camden yards but I live like 9 hours away.

  4. 4
    Sarah
    Posted November 1, 2005 at 1:08 pm

    The west one is in Seattle. I am bringing a bunch of friends, we are going up there tomorrow, I need to see at least one more clue to be sure. If anyone has it figured out, let me know. Someone from TVGasm should win it. Why not me? :)

  5. 5
    jenny10girl
    Posted November 1, 2005 at 1:26 pm

    Ok so is there only 1 in each location? If the one in the East is at Camden Yards, (being I am on Long Island) then I’m out.

  6. 6
    Sarah
    Posted November 1, 2005 at 1:48 pm

    There is one in each of 4 cities (4 different cities each week). There are still 2 more weeks after this, so if its not near you now, next week it could be. Just check back on Monday, to see which city is in your region.

  7. 7
    mountain girl
    Posted November 1, 2005 at 3:12 pm

    They’re in Denver for one of the cities. I had to go register so I can play along. Thank god, this is the Bye week so I have my Sunday free to hunt!

  8. 8
    Sarah
    Posted November 14, 2005 at 12:06 pm

    Just an FYI. Looks like this week’s treasure hunt is in Beverly Hills…. It’s all you…too far for me.

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