Yukimo Heyer went to Missouri from her homeland of Japan to introduce high school students to her culture. Missourians must have done a pretty good job of introducing her to their culture as well, because she decided to stay. That was nine years ago. Today she is a wife and mother of a three-year-old to whom she devotes most of her time, except the few minutes she enjoys watching commercials on AdJack. She found the site about six months ago when she was searching for good sweepstakes contests, and she comes almost daily now. Her AdJack win on August 28 is her first big sweepstakes prize.
She says Japanese humor is very different from American humor. “AdJack is still entertaining,” she says. … more
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Hey Shirley, This Time It’s You
“What did I win?” asked Shirley Dudzinski when AdJack told her we were looking forward to a conversation with her about her recent good fortune.
“I saw over on the right side of the site on the sweepstakes page that somebody named Shirley had won on August 7, but it had no last name or state. I just thought, ‘that’s not me.’ It’s never me.
“I am still surprised! I’ve been doing sweepstakes for twenty years, and all I’ve ever won is a couple of $25 gift cards. I’ve kept hoping that someday I’d win something big. This comes at a great time. My lounge chair is falling apart, and I’ve had to replace my sky lights.”
Shirley, who describes herself as a “young 80,” walks the steps to her third floor condo in Vernon Hills, Illinois at least twice a day. “It’s good for your heart,” she says. She reads books when she’s not watching commercials on AdJack. She looks forward to postings of new commercials on the site. “So does my son,” she says. “He doesn’t have a computer of his own, so he likes to watch them when he comes to visit me. ‘Any new ones this week?’ he always asks.
“I’ve been playing for a couple of years now. I love to watch the unusual ones. Sometimes I think, great, this… more