{"id":56245,"date":"2018-12-12T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=56245"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:21:07","slug":"vitaminwater-will-pay-you-10000-to-ditch-your-smartphone-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=56245","title":{"rendered":"[Update: Dead] VitaminWater Will Pay You $100,000 To Ditch Your Smartphone For A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-tjb-dead=\"1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update:<\/span> Dead!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminwater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>VitaminWater Will Pay You $100,000 To Ditch Your Smartphone For A Year<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Think you can go without your smartphone for a whole year? Vitaminwater bets you can&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminwater.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">The company says <\/span><\/a>it&#8217;s giving $100,000 to the person who can go without their smartphone for 365 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;The vitaminwater brand stands for breaking the monotony, and intentionally behaving in ways that run against the status quo. Vitaminwater is challenging fans to take on this mission to call attention to the monotony found in their own day-to-day life \u2014from scrolling through their social media to eating the same thing every day \u2014 in order to discover a more vibrant way of living outside of the lines,&#8221; a statement on their website reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To enter the contest, create a Tweet or Instagram post \u201cexplaining how you would use your year if you took a break from your smartphone.\u201d The post must include the hashtags #nophoneforayear and #contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The winner will be given a 2000s era phone with a monthly plan, in order to make calls and texts, but they must stay off their smartphone (and everyone else\u2019s) for a year and will\u00a0have to take a lie-detector test to make sure they follow the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If they make it six months, they get $10,000. If they make it 12 months, they get $100,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Enter up to four times anytime between Tuesday, December 11 at 8 a.m. ET and Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. ET.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminwater.com\/legal\/scrollfree_rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Click Here For Official Rules<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">[<\/span>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/don-t-miss\/vitaminwater-offering-100-000-to-the-person-who-can-go-without-a-smartphone-for-a-year\/1655058173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WFLA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminwater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56246\" src=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-7.59.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-7.59.05-PM.png 232w, https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-7.59.05-PM-177x177.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Update: Dead! 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