100k to stay off your smartphone for 1 year

Coca Cola will pay her 100k to stay off her phone for an entire year, and she is more than half way home

Elana Mugdan is a millennial’s millennial.

She’s single, in debt, and recently moved back in with her parents in Queens, N.Y. She works part-time jobs while writing fantasy novels. She’s blocked the president on Twitter (TWTR) and, despite her parlous financial condition, she hopes to eventually be in a position to donate to a charity fighting global warming.

But if she can last another four months without a smartphone, she’s looking at a fat payday of $100,000 courtesy of the Coca-Cola Co. (KO)

“I [will] have to take a lie detector test,” she says. “Because I’m an extremely anxious person, I’ve been very rigid with the rules.”

Last winter, Mugdan won the “No Phone For A Year” contest run by Coca-Cola’s Vitaminwater. She’s agreed to go a year without using a smartphone or any similar device, like a tablet. She’s stuck with a flip phone.

She’s two thirds of the way through the challenge: It began in February. She’s looking good for the payoff. “I’ve detoxed completely from the smartphone and I don’t need it,” she says. “The biggest challenge I’ve faced in the contest is other people pushing their phones at me. People are always trying to show me their phones.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/meet-the-millennial-whos-sworn-off-her-smartphone-for-12-months-for-dollar100000-%E2%80%94-and-why-she-wont-go-back-to-one/ar-AAIdtL6?ocid=spartanntp

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