Don’t you wish you had thought of this? Carrie Duwelius of Naperville, Illinois turned a big piece of cardboard into a free ticket for four on a Carnival cruise.
Actually, there was a step in between. First she made the big piece of cardboard into a rather flat Carnival cruise ship. Then that won the cruise for her on the yet-to-be-delivered Carnival Magic.
Duweilius was the winner of Carnival’s Build a Ship out of Everyday Items contest. As you may remember, you could use anything to represent the ship. The more creative, the better. Photos were submitted to Carnival, and finalists were chosen and voted on by visitors to the website. Entries came in every variety of materials from piles of laundry to mattresses to aluminum cans to the winning cardboard.
Of course everybody was a winner, because Carnival donated $1 for every entry to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, and they also donated $1 every time anyone cast a vote for a finalist.
