A couple of years ago I started entering Instant Win Sweepstakes and other giveaways and sweepstakes. I slacked off with this, and a whole slew of other stuff (but that’s for another day….maybe) this year but I’m starting back up because I was winning some nice prizes. I never won TVs, cars, vacations or major cash like people I honestly know but I won a bunch of gift cards and other sweet gifts. It was fun to get something in the mail quite often that was FUN!
Starting tomorrow, Saturday, I’m going to post 10 new sweepstakes every day that I will be entering as well as 10 giveaways from fellow bloggers. They’ll be mix of Instant Win and regular contest sweepstakes I find online or in magazines each day. The series will be called Ten to Win since that’s how many I’ll be posting (as long as I can find 10 new ones each day). How about joining me? Enter 1, or enter all, but try to win some awesome prizes! I used a lot of the prizes I won each year to help with Christmas, and it really did! We all know how far a $25 gift card can stretch, don’t we?
Are you a blogger who wants to join in the “Ten To Win”? Leave a comment with a link to your post (I’m still learning Mr. Linky and Word Press) so that others can see the contests you post. Also please link back to this post somewhere in your post as the original “Ten To Win” post. I really do appreciate the link! You don’t have to list blog contests, of course, but it’s a nice way to help bloggers get the word out about contests and I always appreciate it when some of my friends do it for me!
Want to join me? I have a few tips for entering the instant win games:
1. Enter at the same time of day, preferably really early in the A.M. or late at night. These are the hours when others are in bed so your chances are greater. I used to enter about 2 AM CST, which worked out for the IWGs.
2. Follow the rules. If the rules state that you can enter once, enter once. I’ve had many people tell me they were disqualified from claiming a prize because they entered multiple e-mails or too many times during the contest period.
3. For loyalty games such as My Coke Rewards, read the rules completely to find “Free” entry methods that do not require that you spend your points. For instance Live It With Charter costs 4,000 points per entry. Totally not worth it when I can get a guaranteed $10 gift card for 8,000 points, don’t you agree?
4. Download “Roboform“. Roboform will fill out the sweepstakes forms for you, so it will make entry so much faster! This way, you can enter the new 10 plus the old 10 or more easily and without spending so much time. Of course, get the free version!
Do you have any more tips for entering instant sweepstakes? I’m hoping my friend Shellie will have a few tips I can pass on to you (hint, hint Shell..) but she’s a bit under the weather right now.
Without further (and further….and further…) ado, here is our January 9 Ten To Win!
Ten to Win Bloggers’ Giveaways Some bloggers get to give away the coolest things! I hope to be one of the cool bloggers someday, and not just to my mom and husband…OK, my mom!
- $30 Starbucks Gift Card- Make Money With Your Brain
- $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook- Bargain Briana
- Bijou in a Box- Nicole’s Nickels
- The Snowy Day and The Silly Snowy Day- Chief Family Officer
- Assortment of Cheryl & Co. Brownies- Stretching a Buck
- $25 gift card to your choice of a few retailers- Delightful Chaos
- SimPerfect- Everything Up Close (ends today!)
- $25 BJ’s Wholesale Gift card Plus free trial membership- Thrifty, Frugal Mom
- Mixes From the Heartland- Happy Mom of 5
- Custom Charm Bracelet- A Frugal Life
Wow those Ten To Win Blogger Giveaways were hard to come up with. Most people gave away the good stuff before the holidays and sponsors don’t knock down doors in January because they are still recuperating 
Check the dates on those because you probably need to enter most of them quickly as they’ll end soon.
Ten To Win Instant Win/Sweepstakes Games and Contests: Again, read the rules to make sure your entry is valid. It is 3:15 AM and I’m trying to catch up on getting some deals out to you guys so I’m posting these contests pretty fast. For these I’m just making sure they haven’t already ended and that the method of entry is feasible.
IWG: Instant Win Game
SWPS: Sweepstakes
- Kraft Game Day Sweepstakes- Official Rules: IWG **You will need a code from a Kraft product for this game, they do not provide any, sorry!**
- Hills Pet Nutrition 3 Bag Challege: Official Rules: IWG and SWPS
- Honey Nut Cheerios Sweet Rewards- Official Rules: IWG and SWPS **A Code will be provided if you don’t have one but everyone needs Cheerios in their home **
- C.S.I.: Deadly Intent: Official Rules: IWG
- Mars Be on the Field: Official Rules IWG **They will provide you with one free code**
- Wrigley’s 3PM Extra Snackdown Challenge: Official Rules: IWG and SWPS
- My Coke Twist Txt Get: Official Rules: IWG NPN (no purchase necessary) **There are 2 ways to enter w/o using points, one is a text method and the other is without texting, so you choose which you want to to**
- General Mills Win Cash Game: Official Rules: IWG **use free code 1800099973** Fun fact: I stink at this game!
- $2500 Microsoft Dream Apartment Makeover: Official Rules: IWG and SWPS
- Get Back to School Vacation Sweeps: Official Rules (this game’s prizes are regional it appears): IWG and SWPS
Tomorrow’s post may look a little differently, or it may appear the same in the interest of time. My suggestion is to take the Instant Win/Sweeps and make yourself a master list of them until I do this at a later date. On the list, note the expiration date so you can delete them as they expire. Once you install Roboform, which I cannot stress enough will be so important, entering will take seconds and you can go down your list within a matter of minutes. Be consistent and you will win yourself some great prizes!
