Lent is a time of sacrifice and reflection. Here on Well-Heeled Blog, we are holding a Financial Lenten Contest with a $300 cash prize sponsored by Prosper.com, the popular peer-to-peer lending site. Because even the smallest of changes, like Lenten sacrifices, can save you financially. With the biggest giveaway ever hosted on this blog, one lucky reader will get a push towards his or her goal with the $300 cash prize provided by Prosper.com. 
For a chance to win the $300 cash prize, please complete Step 1 and Step 2:
Step 1: Comment on this post on how much you plan to save by Easter (April 4, 2010) and what small changes you would make to realize that goal. [you must complete this step in order to enter the contest].
Step 2: Please do the following up more entries:
(A) up to 15 entries = Follow @WellHeeledBlog and tweet this giveaway up to 15 times (1 tweet counted per day) with this message: I want to win $300 Cash @WellHeeledBlog See http://tinyurl.com/300prosper to enter!
(B) 5 entries = blog about this giveaway, include in your post these 2 links: http://www.wellheeledblog.com/2010/03/01/win-300-cash-prosper/ and http://prosper.com
(C) 5 entries = spread the word on Facebook by writing about this giveaway on your wall, include these 2 links: http://www.wellheeledblog.com/2010/03/01/win-300-cash-prosper/ and http://prosper.com
(D) 5 entries = write a review of Well-Heeled Blog on Alexa – it will help me make this site better, so I really thank you in advance for taking the time to review.
(E) 5 entries = sign up for Well-Heeled Blog’s RSS updates or email updates. If you are already a subscriber, just let me know and you will be counted.
**If you’ve done any of the above, please leave a comment and let me know how you have entered so I can count your entries. Remember, you must complete Step 1 to enter the contest.
Deadline is Friday March 19 at midnight PST. Good luck. 
Thank you for entering this contest and thanks to Prosper.com for making this possible!
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I hope to save $300 extra by Easter. to do this, I need to be stricter about my $20 a week spending allowance.
I subscribe to your RSS feed.
I tweeted today, March 1, 2010.
I reviewed your blog on Alexa during the last contest.
What an amazing giveaway! I've been trying to save $400 over the course of March. It may not seem like much, but between student loan payments, car payments, rent, other expenses, etc. it's harder than it looks. I'm trying to reach this goal by cutting food spending (i.e. eat what I have in my freezer/pantry and eat out less). I've also decided to forego my beloved happy hour drinks (usually once a week).
We want to save $500 by Easter (ie in March) by only eating out twice a month and cooking more of the stockpile in our pantry.
I'm a follower.
I plan on saving about $200 for my emergency fund. I have to avoid going out to eat and keep my spending under control in Las Vegas (going for spring break).
Tweet http://twitter.com/savingforhome/status/982833359…
I subscribe to your blog via google reader.
I would like to save $1,500 by April. I plan on doing this by contirbuting more to my Roth, opening a 401K, and rebuilding my Efund. This is simply going to come from sticking to my budget and placing the surplus income into one of those three accounts.
I would like to save $500 in my Efund by April. I'll do this by continuing to stick to my budget and eating out less.
I follow your blog on Google reader, I blogged about this contest on myspace, I posted the contest to my newsfeed on FB, I completed a review on Alexa and I tweeted about the contest today.
I'm following you on twitter now too!
I want to save $500 by April. This is $100 toward each fund Emergency Fund, Life Happens, Christmas. $50 each toward two kids 529, Roth IRA Starter Account and vacation fund. I plan on doing this by cutting back on eating out and personal shopping.
Oh my, in the next month I might be spending quite a bit depending on what happens, but if not, I'd like to save my tax refund ($2000) in its entirety and combine it with my money previously saved to pay for taxes and convert the whole kit 'n' caboodle into a Car Savings fund.
P.S. you already know I subscribe
And I posted about it.
I would love to save an extra $500. I'll cut out all the extras like Starbucks and shopping.
tweet tweet: http://twitter.com/centsandthecity/status/9849237…
Hmm. I want to save $400 in the next month (continue sticking to budget), plus $80 from my side job (diverted from travel fund, which doesn't really need to be a priority) and an extra $50 (which I plan to make up from mystery shopping).
I already subscribe to your blog, and tweeted about the giveaway today!
I hope to save $500 by Easter. I plan to do this by hosting potlucks rather than going out to dinner, avoiding the grocery store by eating the food I stored in the pantry and freezer, and repurposing the things I already own rather than buying new things I probably don't need anyway. The hardest part will be saving money while celebrating three birthdays for friends and family.
I subscribe to your feed.
I tweeted.
I'm on a no eating out plan this month to save money. I'm subscribed via RSS feed.
I subscribe to your feed.
Over the next month, we’re trying to save about $100 extra dollars by cutting back on grocery (using more coupons and shopping sales), eating out, and we recently readjusted our phone/internet and car-insurance bills to make sure we weren’t over-spending. It will be tough though because I just got a bill for my car-tag renewal and it’s $150!
I posted a review on Alexa under the username atlantagal
I'm following on Twitter and tweeted: http://twitter.com/atlantagalknows/status/9882186…
I subscribe to your RSS feed.
I am cutting back on food spending and refraining for shopping for shoes and clothes (a personal vice) and hoping to save $300 by Easter. If I succeed and win I'll double my mondy! Sweet.
I am also subscribed to the RSS feed.
I am cutting back on my going out/alcohol for Easter which is allowing me to save hopefully $300!
subscribed to RSS feed.
Blogged! And already a subscriber
Hmm…my budget is out of whack right now, so I'mgoing to guess that I'm going to save $1,000 by Easter. I will…take more time to think about my expenses before doling out the cash.
I'm a long time subscriber via RSS
We'll scrape together about $20 extra by Easter by putting a moratorium on buying coffee from 7-11.
I'm only saving $30 in the next month, my usual monthly amount, but it's because I'm putting all of my excess income to my debt repayment for student loans! I'll be paying $1,300 to my student loans this month!
I hadn't really thought about saving more for Easter; If I can just stick to my budget and save my usual amounts I'll be happy, as that has been a real struggle lately.
This has got me thinking that I should set up a change jar again though. I cashed out my change jar at Christmastime and haven't gotten a new one going again yet. It's only about $50 / yr, but every bit helps.
Also, I tweeted your message.
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/OneFrugalGirl/status/990656744…
i plan to save a couple hundred bucks. it's less than i usually save but i'm on a reduced income because of disability leave/cancer. i'll stick to my budget and not splurge past it to reach that goal
I'd like to have another $400 saved by Easter.
I tweeted http://twitter.com/meg1620/status/9907380104
I'm signed up for your RSS updates.
I hope to save $400 by Easter! I will accomplish this by selling some things on Craigslist and also not buying anything new!
Also…(same person as above) I am already subscribed AND i just posted a review on Alexa!
Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
I would be happy just to save $100 by April 4. To accompish this, I need to cut back on how much I eat out.
Today's tweet: http://twitter.com/OneFrugalGirl/status/994242175…
I blogged the contest http://chattywomen.com/pennythoughts/2010/03/03/h…
Tweeted again @jwhipper