August results

It's the last day of August, and I've been sweepstaking for 3 weeks now.  I haven't won anything yet, but most of the sweepstakes that I have entered are still open. Most of what I enter for is gift cards or cash prizes, since most of the other prizes don't interest me - although I do register for baby product giveaways since I have a little one on the way.  As an exception to the cash and baby giveaways, I entered for a giveaway of Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series.  I have the first couple books, but this would be all 7.  It would be pretty neat to win those, but it's no skin off my back to continue slowly picking them up for a couple bucks each at the local used book store.

I also like registering for giveaway items that seem like nice gifts, such as perfume.

What are the odds?

I had heard that blog giveaways can have really great odds, but this one was pretty crazy! I entered a Zim's Creme and $10 Walmart gift card giveaway at http://www.masterofmom.com/2014/08/organic-skincare-zims-advanced-review.html and after 13 days of the giveaway, or about halfway through the contest period, there were only FIVE ENTRANTS.  I shop at Walmart every week, wouldn't mind getting $10 towards the grocery bill.  Every little bit counts!

I wonder if I am interested in the sweepstakes now because I am specifically hoping to get some of these Walmart gift cards while I'm on maternity leave for the rest of the year.  Obviously it won't make up for the fact that I'll be missing $10,000 of take-home pay, but every little bit helps.

Blog giveaways

I started entering blog giveaways as well.  The odds seem much better than in other sweepstakes, although they are much smaller prizes (such as a $25 Walmart gift card).  Blog sweepstakes give you more entries for following on Twitter or tweeting about the giveaway.  My next step became clear: set up a Twitter account! I'm officially following almost 200 accounts already and tweeted about 80 times yesterday to get additional entries in these drawings.  It honestly seems like an abuse of the Twitter system, since I post far more often than I read tweets, and only have 5 followers.  (Those 5 were all automatic follows after I followed their account).

So far, the favorite sweepstakes that I have entered is for the 2014 Tesla Model S at http://usbankpowerup.com/sweepstakes/

Good morning and good luck!

Monday I decided to start entering sweepstakes for fun.  I started a new email account, favorited a couple of websites, and have been signing up for sweepstakes during otherwise empty time.  Right now I am using Contest Girl and also Online-Sweepstakes.com.  Let's see if I win anything!