I have come up with a new idea: I am going to enter sweepstakes as a job! Okay, maybe not as a full-time job, but I found a neat site that makes finding sweepstakes a lot easier to do: Online Sweepstakes. They not only list all sweepstakes currently open, but they also break them up into categories like what the prize is, how often you can enter, when the contest expires, and other helpful groupings. For someone who doesn’t have the slightest clue about sweepstakes (like me!), this site really seems jam-packed full of great info.
And just in case you thought I really was joking about entering sweepstakes as a job, I just wanted to point out that I actually have a friend who does just that! She says she enters contests at the gas station, grocery store, online, and any other place she can think of. She has won trips, computers, a complete home office, electronics, gift cards, and thousands of dollars in cash. She told me that she has actually gotten burnt out on entering sweepstakes so she’ll take a break and not enter any for a while. Then she’ll win something from some contest she had entered months before, and suddenly the drive is back and she’s back to entering in the contests. After years of playing, she even decided that she needed to have a set schedule for it: Every evening she sits at her computer and enters contests for two hours.
To also help with managing the entries, she has set up an e-mail address just to enter contests with, so she can go to just that e-mail inbox, work on e-mails, etc, and leave the junk mail there. Entering in contests is almost guaranteed to have your e-mail address end up on a spamming list somewhere, so it’s best to have one e-mail address for contests, and one for your normal life.
Tomorrow I will talk about how to know the difference between a sweepstakes scam and the real deal. Good luck in winning your million bucks!! And remember who originally sent you down this path if you do end up being that lucky! 😀