The Conclusion of the Fabulous Purse Contest

When I left you, dear reader, you were begging among yourselves for a chance to win  Deb Trotter's gorgeous purse. Well, I have to say this was quite the contest, an event elevated by world class begging among several avid candidates. You may want to go read some of the begging comments as they are clever and hilarious. Needless to say, Deb and I really got a kick out of this. So much fun!

To continue the spirit of fun and to also ensure neutral decision making, I enlisted the help of two trusted aids - my grandsons, Aidan and Ian.

After seeing all the entries, the boys talked about the situation briefly and quickly developed a plan as to how they would perform their role as judges.

Aidan's Spreadsheet of Beggers & Begs

Aidan, age 8, the extremely meticulous one (son of 2 engineers), decided that a chart was needed. As we spread all the entries on the floor, he started his chart. Each Begger was assigned a code that was written horizontally across the bottom of the page. As I read the Begs out loud, the boys ranked them up vertically, giving an 'x' for a poor beg and an 'o' for a good beg. As the Begger did additional Begging, the rankings continued to build and we could quickly see a real competition developing among several people. 

The boys discussing the merits of Begs

Once all the Begs had been assessed and rated, Aidan counted them up and we were all stunned to see there was a TIE between Kath and Jill Berry. Oh my gosh, we couldn't believe it! The boys decided to flip a coin. But it wasn't as simple as you might have guessed. They assigned 'heads' to Jill and 'tails' to Kath and determined that to win, a person had to get two of three. The first toss was heads. The second toss was heads. Oh my. The third toss was heads.  That is when I asked to check the coin and indeed, it was proper, no shenanigans, this was a fair fight.

So.......without further ado, the winner......Jill Berry. Woo hoo!!