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Deadline Looms for Patch's “Deck the House” $100G Contest

Will you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills.

Posted by Lance Howland (Editor), December 14, 2012 at 03:18 pm

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You've only got a few more days to prove you have the best “decked” house in the country — the one home so spectacularly adorned that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s.

If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our annual Patch Deck the House Contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16.

Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district.

After all, ‘tis the season ...

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