Contests and Sweepstakes?

[FarmerChick]

we chatted about this before but with new members I would like some new input


who does contest and sweepstakes and do you win? lol

I thought about finding a site to maybe list sweepstakes I can enter. I never win but for some reason I feel lucky HAHA
so anyone know of a site like this that is legit or anything? thanks

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Many years ago, my grandmother heard about entering sweepstakes.....she found lists of large and small sweepstakes. She had heard about how to win, what tricks to increase your chances, how much it costs to do all the entering....stamps, envelopes, 3X5 cards, etc...
Well, she was a business owner and I worked for her, so when things were slow she told me to enter her (and me) in sweepstakes. I would sit for 2 or 3 hours, writting our names on 3X5 cards and sending them all over the country to win like....10,000 dollars or a new truck, home, tractors, boats........anything.
Well, neither of us won a thing. If she won, she didn't tell me and I think she would.

 

[Denim Deb]

I tried years ago to win all kinds of contest. I had a magazine that I got, and followed the rules. I won nothing. :/

 

[hwillm1977]

My mom spends about an hour a day entering online contests... she's made herself an html file with the links for contests organized by those she can enter daily, weekly, and monthly and has a schedule to enter each type of contest. She also has a program called 'Robofile' that automatically enters her name, email, address, etc. into the entry forms.

Every year our Christmas presents are things mom has won during the year... sometimes it's video cameras and Ipods, other times it's a pair of flip flops that write 'Snapple' in the sand when you walk... lol She generally wins about a contest a week. She's won a car, trips to Mexico and Jamaica, three video cameras, four ipods, ipod docks, a $1000 gift card, $1500 in home renos, a year's supply of Smarties... lots of cool stuff... but she's very dedicated. She doesn't enter contests through the mail that would cost her money to enter, only ones she can enter online.

She belongs to a site called Canada Sweepstakes... there's a yearly fee, but they find all the internet contests open to people from Canada and it saves mom a TON of time, instead of searching for all the contests she can just add the new links from the site to her files each day.

 

[Denim Deb]

Wonder if they have something like that in the States.

 

[hqueen13]

Some people are just lucky. Seriously.
My other half is one of those people (though he's never hit the lotto yet... gah!)
I have a friend that is like that. If she enters, she'll win. We were doing a raffle at one of our competitive rides here, and all of the riders got a ticket. The group was gathering for the award cermonies, which is when we do the raffle, and I was giving out the tickets. I had to go to the photography truck to get several people, and I handed her a ticket and told her she'd better get over there cause she was going to win, and darned if she didn't!

 

[Denim Deb]

If only you got a prize for finding extra leafed clovers, I'd win.