Win $500 to Make Summer Vacation Sizzle

There’s nothing like hearing friends and family brag about exciting vacations while knowing your personal bank account is so tapped out that a trip across the street might cost too much!

Patch wants to help you make some great memories of your own during the summer of 2012. That’s why we rolled out the contest. Since this is the last week of the contest, we thought we’d do it up in a big way - $500 big!

Entering the contest is easy.

Just share your best tips for saving up for summer fun or just tell us how you’d use the money. Will you take the family on a theme park weekend? Or book a room right on the beach? How about camping in the mountains? Just post your tips or summer fun ideas in the comments section on this article to be eligible for the drawing.

We’re taking entries from all 19 of Patch’s Florida sites, so we expect to hear some great ideas from you!

We’ll select one winner randomly from the comments submitted when this week’s contest closes on Friday, Aug. 3, at noon.

The winner will be notified directly and announced on the sites as quickly as possible.

We know you’re expecting our legal department to have some fine print for you to read. You’re right! Here it is:

* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. * To enter, post a comment on this story.* All entries must be received by Aug. 3, 2012, 12:00pm Eastern Time.* You may enter once.* 1 winner will be selected in a random drawing for each week’s drawing.* One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive the $500 gift card for Week Five of the contest.* Click here for complete Official Rules.