Win #199

omg. omg. omg.

I won the new Lady Gaga perfume.  Im so super stocked for this to come, I hope this is a win that ships quickly because I so wanted/needed this one!

Busy Working Mama needs to get a big virtual hug from me because this was one that I wanted so bad and she hosted a giveaway for three so not only did I score a bottle but so did two others!

Thanks again, Im going to smell like a Fame Monster now!

Win #198

After a week without a win I was really kind of sad.  I felt like I lost my luck, then this weekend... Sunday actually i hit three wins in about the span of an hour!  So happy right now!

Im entering all the baby sweeps and contests again because I have several preggo friends and I want to stock up for their showers.

Win #198 come from no other than my favorite low entry giveaway blog: Dandy Giveaway.

This is a swaddle designs win, I won these same birth clothes when i was pregnant with my son, he's 4 now and I still remember them being my favorite burp clothes of all time, I handed them down to a good friend because they are so awesome!

Thanks to Dandy and thanks to Swaddle Designs as well.

Win #197

Susan's Disney Family is one of my favorite blogs.  I go everyday because she hosts TONS of giveaways, all stuff I love or would use.  ALSO she has a daily entry method (picket fence) so I can get my extra entries in each day, LOVE IT!

So thanks to Susan I was able to win a Tiny Prints prize package  I have actually won Tiny Prints before, I love them so much for children's invites and labels!

Win #196 instant win

Every once in a while I get an instant win bug.  I used to do them every single day but I got busy and lost the extra time I had so not so much anymore.  This morning I had a few extra minutes so I went to enter all of them.  I go to Coupon Cousins who have a dedicated list of all the instant wins going on.  You can find that here.

I enter the John Frieda Elite Colour instant win and scored a years subscription to ELLE magazine.  I am super excited, I cancelled all my magazine subscriptions a long time ago to save money and getting them is like Christmas!

Thanks Coupon Cousins and John Frieda!

Win #195

A big thank you to Mom Spotted, she's been on my daily read list for as long as I can remember!  She hosts tons of baby and kid giveaways and I was fortunate enough to be one of twenty winners of nuks bottles!

Thanks so much to Nuk and to Mom Spotted for this great giveaway!

in #194

Ellen Peppercorn runs the blog Thrifty and Chic Mom.  She does amazing reviews and giveaways of clothing and shoes and accessories and everything chic and Mom oriented.  I just love her to pieces.

I enter all of her giveaways in hopes of filling my closet with new clothes and shoes.  She recently did a review and giveaway from Seraphine Maternity.  I scored a $100 gift card out of it and i am super stocked,  I already picked out a swimsuit that I want!

so check out the sponsor and check out Ellen because she rocks my socks off!

Win #193

I think a few posts back i was letting you know I had winner guilt over winning from the same promotion several times.  For instance; I won two honeywell space heaters, I won two blue steal rings.  Now you can count me in for three dial kids body wash wins.  I guess again I have to let it go because its totally random and the company did completely saturate the blog market.  So if I enter 100 of these giveaways in a week there is always the possibility of winning multiple times.

So there you have it, almost to 200 and it's another dial giveaway.  Thanks to Shawnee from Adventures of a Thrify Mommy for the awesome opportunity.  Stop by and enter, she has three good ones going on right now!

Win #192 another Dandy of a Giveaway!

Dandy Giveaway is still in my top ten for best blogs to win from!  They are still ridiculously low entry, I won this time out of 150 other entries and I do multiple so I had great odds yet again.  I won a whole bath set from Daisy Natural!  I got to pick all my scents that I wanted and I am super excited, especially for the body butter, it's summer and my legs get really dry.

Thanks again to Dandy for the great giveaways, keep up the great work!

Win #191

Speaking of multiple sponsor wins I happen to score another Blue Steal giveaway!  This one comes from one of my favorites: Deal Finder Dad.  I have won from him before and he's super fast and has TONS of giveaways, I think a bunch get posted everyday, or at least that is how it seems.  Thanks to Deal Finder Dad for the awesome ring that I am anxiously awaiting!

Win #190

I won another honeywell heater giveaway!  Sometimes I feel bad when I win multiples from a sponsor that is clearly trying to saturate the market.  I know im not cheating and it's completely allowed most of the time but I still feel winners guilt sometimes.  Ok, enough of that!

I won another awesome honeywell heater from Detroit Mom & her Views, she doesn't host too many giveaways but she has great opinions and post a lot of relavant Mom stuff during the week!

Thanks Detroit Mom (Tonya)!

Win #189

I have so many good things to say about Mar at Obviously MARvelous.  She is a real down to earth chick and she and I share a love of tattoos and alternative parenting.  I really truly identify with her and she is a very sweet person, I have the pleasure of being her Facebook friend along with reading her blog regularly.  She has giveaways that are right up my ally and this one was perfect for me as I have a little wannabe super hero at my house.  He is four and I should have never let him help me customize this cape that I won for him because he has already asked me thirty times when it will be delivered.

So thanks a lot MAR!  Now I have to hear about this super hero cape for the next few weeks or until it arrives at our house, lol!  If you have time go check out Mar and enter her contest will ya!

A quadruple win weekend! Win #188

That's right, you read it correctly...  I won 4 times over the weekend!  I am feeling super duper lucky now and I get all excited and stuff when I hit a good streak like that.

My first of four wins this weekend is the Dial kids 6+ body and hair wash from "My highest Self".  Thanks to Tina for the great giveaway, it will certainly get used with two little bodies to wash at my house.

Win #187

Thanks again to the amazing Dandy Giveaways!  I have told you i struck giveaway gold, this is the best for low entries, I still don't get how they remain so low, but I am going to take advantage of them being that way while I can! I mean really  I won out of 216 other entrants and I entered using multiple methods!

I scored a $50 gift card to Blue Steel, I can't wait to go through all their jewelry and pick out something just for me.

Win #186!

A huge special thanks to NY Single Mom for hosting a slew of awesome giveaways all the time, but more importantly for the Children's Place gift card she hosted and I won!  I just got my Shoes for my son I won last week in the mail, now I can go get him a matching outfit!  I love Children's Place so much, there is one right by my office.  The have great clearance (new arrivals are kind of pricey)  and they offer a good rewards program too!  Check out her blog and enter some of her great giveaways too!

Win #185

Glorias Bits and Pieces is a new blog im reading, she is getting into some great giveaways and reviews so go check her out!  She hosted a dial children's giveaway where I was able to win and score two coupons for free dial kids products!  I have a huge stock pile of kids shampoo and bath products because I grab them when they are on clearance and I have coupons which makes them free so this will go right into there for future use, I love it!

Win #184

So I may have entered like 100 giveaways for the Hobbit on DVD/Blu Ray.  I definatly won one though!  Thanks Mint Green With Envy, a great blog that does reviews and giveaways.  I am so excited and can't wait to watch it with my hubby, he is excited too since I NEVER WIN ANYTHING FOR HIM, or so he says.

If I wind up winning ten more copies because I entered so many than it'll be a Hobbit Christmas this year, lol.

#183

Thanks to Adventures of a Thrifty Mom for hosting a very special Nickelodeon Easter DVD giveaway!  I scored four new DVD's from Nick in the Spring/Easter collection!  I already have an older Dora Easter DVD and we watched it all week in the car, this is a new one and features other episodes, Im excited to be able to share these with my kids, we also take them to school on rainy days so the kids can all view them!

Win 182!

Thanks again to one of my favorite stops everyday, that's Valeries blog Sweeps4bloggers!  I have said it before, but I will say it again: "she's got a ton of giveaways, easy entry, daily entry and sometimes low entry."  That's everything you need in an equation to equal W.I.N.

So thanks to Valerie for this multiple win of the new Lisa Loeb kids CD, we'll be jamming out together, my kids and I as always.

Win #181!

Thanks again from a good friend/blogger Michelle who runs "The Adventures of Super Mom".  I scored a great free coupon for honey bunches of oats cereal.  Anyone who has to buy cereal knows it costs an arm and a leg.  I usually wait until my grocery does buy four get them $2 a piece, then I stock up!  Michelle and Honey bunches of oats held a great giveaway and now I have a free coupon, so I can give them a try, since in my house it's usually a cereal the kids pick out.

Win 180!

I haven't really been doing instant sweeps anymore.  I just don't have the time to commit to doing them everyday.  I did catch this one from someone on Facebook and went and threw my name in the hat really quickly.  I wound up with a free skinny cow candy coupon!  I actually do buy these regularly so it will surely go to good use!  Thanks Skinny Cow!

Win #179!

BARNEY IS A DINOSAUR FROM OUR IMAGINATION!!!!

Yeah it's like that at my house sometimes, my son never liked Barney when he was younger but my daughter found a close companion in Barney and she's glued whenever he's on!  2 boys+1 Girl = 1 crazy Mom was kind enough to host a Barney DVD giveaway!  I love winning DVD's by the way, not many people enter to win them so I do score a ton of them and it helps increase the number of shows we can play in the car as well as new movies to keep the kids busy on a Friday movie night.

Thanks to 1 Crazy Mom and to the makers of barney too!

Win #178

A huge thanks to Mom Always Finds Out!  I scored a credit to Florsheim, so I can pick out a great pair of shoes for my little man!  I still am on the fence between two pairs but I haven't gotten the email with the credit code from the sponsor yet so I have time to mull it over!

#177 Win

I said it before and I'll say it again; "I love me some Dandy Giveaways!"  These are super low entry and I really don't know how they are either, they are an established blog and they have great prizes too!  I scored a pair of Faded Days sunglasses, my choice, so I got pink!

If you're looking for low entry easy entry giveaways this is for sure the best place to go!

Update:  I requested the pink version of these glasses, im putting together an 80's ladies night for my girls and I wanted to save these for my outfit!  They are great, just what I was looking for!  Not to mention the prize was awarded in less than a week, talk about fast delivery.  The glasses are a bit lighter than I like because I have kids and kids destroy everything, I fear that they might not last as long as i'd like but I will try to covet them and keep them out of my monsters grasps.

Win #176!

I think I mentioned a few posts ago about some of the blogs that still run their contests the old fashioned way.  That is... That they require a ton of individual comments for each method of entry instead of a form.  The great this about this is that is doesn't have a lot of entrants and your odds are better, the bad thing is you have to spend a lot of time entering all the comments and it always tells me I am posting too fast and I have to slow down, grrrrr.

So the bragging mommy is one of those blogs that has those giveaways still, I happen to score a sweet bubble bum car seat booster, this will not go to waste, i was totally in the market!

Thanks bubble bum and thanks Bragging Mommy!

Win Number 175!

Thanks to my favorite blog: Funkymonkey for all the great easy giveaways!  I scored one of five Klean-grips they were giving away, I can't wait to use this, my daughter is always mouthing the cart and I can't stand it!  I just wish these came out sooner I could have used it with my son!

Update: We received this super fast!  I actually shared this giveaway on my Facebook because I wish this was something I had years ago for my babies.  I got the beautiful pool color and got a compliment already on it!  Also im siked to not have to wipe my cart off before I touch it as I now have this handy dandy contraption.  overall I love it!

Win #174

WOOHOO!  Thanks so much to Akron Ohio Moms for the amazing giveaway!  Uncrustables is holding an awesome photo contest and with it sponsored a ton of blog giveaways.  I score myself an awesome wireless photo printer and uncrustables as well!  I can't wait to get this, such a great prize!

Check out the Akron Ohio Moms blog for more great giveaways!

Win number 173!

I happen to hit the mother load of low entry giveaways.  Now im telling you all this in good faith because if you all go running over and enter than I will vastly increase myt chances of winning, lol.  I hit this win with less than 150 entries and while I went back to check it out I entered all her other ones that were also around 100-200 entries a piece.  Those are just fantastic odds.

I score for the kids a brand new laser bug vacuum from summit toys!  It has everything we need to rid our home of those awful stink bugs we see everywhere!  The kiddos are really going to love this one!

So without further ado: Check out Dandy Giveaways for some awesome chances at winning some great stuff!

Update: You'll never guess what bug we caught in our bug vacum first!  Oh you guessed it? Yep a Stink bug!  I can't believe that even in the unseasonably cold weather right now the stink bugs are still terrorizing me.  Well not anymore because now my kids come vacum them up for me.  Before I force them to flush or release them outside they are able to check them out in a removable compartment with a magnifying glass!  This is a huge hit at my house and we may have to go get another so the fighting ends.

WOAH! 1 in 5 finalists!

Now I might not get comments but I can tell from my google account statistics that I get at least 50 readers here every single day.  So if you are stopping by on the regular or just got here by accident than feel free to click this link and "like" or "share" my purse design so I can score one for free!  I submitted the idea of a reversible clutch purse with solid on one side and pattern on the other with a hidden magnetic closure.  What are you waiting for go like it!  until the 17th of March at least.

Win Number 172

Obviously MARvelous is a great blog I read on occasion   I am planning to add it to my regular rotation and try to hit it up everyday instead of once a week!  Th blog owner and I are really similar.  Similar in that we are Obviously awesome, MARvelous and heavily inked.  If you didn't already know, which I am sure you did not I have a lot of tattoos, a lot by normal standards.  According to the tattoo community im pretty average.  I have a chest piece scheduled for this summer so we'll be crossing that line in the sand soon.

At any rate...  I have scored from MAR over at MARvelous a three pack of kisstexx lip glosses.  Super excited because not only did my daughter use an entire pot of very expensive lip gloss from my purse in once sitting yesterday, but also because in the summer I find my lips chap pretty bad.

So while your out sifting the internet for good stuff check out Mar's blog and enter if you want, just not too much, I want to win some more!

Update: I got 8 lip glosses with this win!  They came as duo combinations and are super yummy, of course my daughter stole some but I managed to hide away at least 6!  I highly recommend these!

WIN #171!

It's another multiple win day today!  The luck of the Irish I think, since it is March... too bad I am not Irish in the slightest.  A super duper big thank you has to be sent out the Frugality is Free blog, they offered a great contest for me to win, and as a matter of fact they are very baby heavy so if you are in the market for baby products this is one blog to hit up on the regular!

I scored a $25 gift card to PinkBlush Maternity where we'll be getting some super cute maternity clothes very soon!

Win #170

Thanks to Deal Finder Dad for the amazing Gift crate of Bixby & Co chocolate bars, I seriously needed this because I am mad stressed out right now.  Thanks a ton Deal Finder Dad!

Win Number 169!

Oh. My. Gosh.

I can't believe I scored this one!  Again, many thanks to valerie over at Sweeps4Bloggers because I have hit another awesome win from them!  Also thanks to Wholly Guacamole for sponsoring a great giveaway event!  I am the new proud owner of a Wholly Guacamole and Daily's prize pack which includes: $50 worth of goodies and a $25 Wal-mart giftcard, YES!

Not only is this like a super awesome multiple win from Valerie's blog but it's a great prize and out of 40 thousand entries, I am so grateful!

Win #168!

I can't tell you how long it's been since I won something twice in one day, at least six months or so!  It happens to be from one of my other regulars too, this is just a great time to say that if you enter the same blogs everyday you will totally be rewarded!  So thanks to Sweeps4Bloggers I am going to having some very luxurious wild hibiscus tea in the very near future...

Thanks Valerie!

Win Number 167!

Another.  Yep that's right another Funky Monkey win.  It is very true what they say; "you have to play to win".  That is exactly what I do.  I'll have to admit to you, they very first blog I visit every morning is Funky Monkey.  She updates and adds contests daily, sometimes multiple one's a day.  The raffelcopter form is easy, all listed on the homepage so I don't have to redirect all over, the comment entry is already on the form.  This is just the easiest blog to enter through, really.

So I was able to score, with the help of Funky Monkey of course; a wall charge and home button for my iphone via "Designed by You" on etsy.com.  Im super cited.

Please go check out Funky Monkey, don't enter too much though, because I want to keep winning these all the time!

Win #166!

I've been a reader of Cake Mom for a very long time, I want to say somewhere in the neighborhood of three to four years!  I've had her buttons up for sometimes too, I bet i've been through a few different button designs!

What I love about her is that she does a ton of reviews and giveaways, mostly of things I need or want! She lists them all and they're easy to get to and i can enter them all from the home page without having to navigate to each individual giveaway!

I scored this space heater, I totally put some good energy behind this one because I've been borrowing the girl who sits near me space heater at work for some time, mostly because she blows a fuse if she uses it and I don't (stupid wires) but also because it's freezing in here.

Thanks Jaime at Cake Mom for the best win of the month!

Win #165!

I enter to win all the kids DVD's I see!  My kids watch DVD's in the car, on movie nights at home we build blanket fortresses with bean bag walls and make popcorn and sometimes I take them to Daycare on rainy days so we can share all the great movies we win!  I scored this awesome DVD from Sweeps4bloggers!  I have won multiple times from them and like I've said in the past if you're looking for blogs with easy multiple entries this is a great one to check out!

Thanks to Sweeps4bloggers for this great win!

Win #164

Another win saved from the spam folder, gosh am I ever glad that I check that thing regularly!  Learning Resources is a phenomenal website that has learning toys and games for teachers and parents!  Thank you to them for hosting so many giveaways and to 2 Classy Chics as well for having such a great review and giveaway blog that features so so so many contest on a daily basis.

Win #163

You all already know that there are several blogs I visit every single day without fail.  They meet my "multiple win" criteria.  I trust them, they have good prizes, easy and multiple forms of entry.  Yadda yadda contest jargon.  Gay NYC Dad is one I go see every morning over my coffee.  He's got a lot of great things to say and a ton of great things to give away!  So please as I have said in the past go see Mitch in all of his splendor and enter his contests because they are super awesome and you'll win eventually, I always do!

Thanks to Mitch at Gay NYC Dad for the Blip Toys win!

Win #162!

I've won multiple times from Sweeps for Bloggers.  They offer a daily easy entry on all of their giveaways so it makes for good odds.  They have a high number of loyal readers though so it's usually pretty high entry into their giveaways.  They do a great deal though so it makes it really fun!  This month in particular they are giving away a ton of kids DVD's so I entered a ton to try to stock up on new DVD's for my car for the kids.  They were getting sick of the same old movies we had.  So thanks to Sweeps for bloggers for helping me score this Leap frog DVD!

Win #161

Thanks to Day by Day in our world for the chance to try the Purex baby laundry soap!  I've won a coupon for a bottle and I can't wait to add this to my baby care package for my girlfriend.  So excited, I also only use Purex at my house so I know it's going to be great!

Win #160!

Another Funky Monkey Win!  You can bet im reading them every single day as I mentioned before.  They have a new giveaway almost every day!  I scored a cute valentines banner from Two Doodles Designs!  Super stoked as my valentines decor is pretty limited.  Go see Funky Money when you have time, they do reviews/giveaways on jewelry, prints, decor and more, I love them!

How to win blog contests: all the secrets.

A friend of mine asked me to teach her how to win stuff.  I guess at this point I am some kind of expert in winning huh?

 I can do you one better, I can teach anyone how to win stuff.  I feel like deep down inside my little winners soul I will regret giving away my secrets, but it's really not a secret in the first place.  It's going to be easy to lay these out as steps for you.

Step 1.  Subscribe to Online Sweepstakes Websites.  I have my favorite that I have belonged to for years now.  It's not a secret, these sites exist, they are googleable (say that ten times fast).  I like OLS, Prizey and Sweepstakes advantage.  There are links for all of these sites on the right hand side of my blog under "links that are full of Win".

Step 2:  Subscribe to every social network possible.  Blog contests thrive on social media outlets and they compete by number of clicks, most likes, most "ups", all kinds of internet malarky.  Your big ones are: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google + and Google Friend Connect.  Of course there are many sites that bloggers use to promote themselves and their giveaways but those are the most frequented.

It is helpful to create an alternate email just for giveaways.  Trust me, when you see the amount of spam you're going to get after subscribing to all these emails and publicly posting your email address on blogger you'll crap your winners pants.

Know how to use all of these sites by the way.  If a blogger wants you to repin a contest and provide them a link to it in order to win, you sure as shit better know what to do and what link to post.  This just takes practice.

Step 3: Use the force.. I mean Form.  There are several form widgets out there used to allow people to enter contests more easily and faster than ever before: WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!  Raffelcopter is your big one.  These forms not only make it easy for you to one click your entries but it also gets rid of a lot of cheaters.  I love them and I usually enter these a lot more often that other contests.

Step 4:  Take advantage of lazy sweepers.  Because of step 3 a lot of people who enter sweepstakes and contest are now lazy and don't like the old method of entering 100 comments on a blog in order to win something.  This is great news of course because if you aren't lazy you can throw your hat into a ton of low entry giveaways.  Low entry means good odds that you'll win.  I know several blogs that don't use widgets and still follow the tradition way of entering, I usually wind up in a pool of about 100-500 comments to win, if I entered ten times that means my odds are awesome!

Step 5:  Enter as much as possible.  keep in mind that you will go through periods where you don't win anything, this is when most people give up.  If you keep entering than you'll win something eventually. I enter every day while I eat lunch, this is my deal and it's my hobby, it's just what I do.  Maybe you do yours during your kids nap time, maybe late at night when you can't sleep, whatever.

Step 6:  Use your bookmarks, save your favorites.  There are five places I enter everyday, I have them book marked on my computer for easy access.  If your serious about winning something make sure you save the best places to enter.

Speaking of entering...  You can enter some contests daily.  If there's one you really want to win and it has daily entry methods, perhaps book mark it and do that daily entry everyday, that takes like one second of your lunch break.

Step 7:  Creativity.  If you have it use it.  There are some contests that only require something fun, if you have creativity you can destroy the others and come out with contest gold.

Step 8: Check back and claim your prize.  Most blogs you enter will email you if you win.  If you enter somewhere know how they'll be contacting you and if they don't email you be sure to bookmark it and check back to claim your prize.  Also most emails must be responded back to within 24-48 hours in order to actually receive the prize, so check your email at least once a day to make sure you aren't letting prizes get away from you.  Twice this year I checked my spam folder only to find I had won something!

BAM!  I just blew the milk out of your cheerios didn't I?

So there you have it, how to win stuff in 8 easy steps.  Now forget you ever read this because I don't need all you guys lowering my odds by becoming sweepstakes and contest pros.

Semi-win

It isn't a true win, but I still feel like I won something so I wanted to share it!  My friend from high school moved to Florida when we graduated, he recently started a wonderful jewelry business and is just fantastic!  I love all the leather pieces and the simplicity that some of their pieces offer, it means you can wear it with everything!

My wonderful friend mailed me the most beautiful bracelet, it looks like the one below only it's got swarovski crystals on it.  I love it so much I wore it to the gym, lol!  He has a Facebook page and does custom work, so go check them out if you are in the market for men's or women's jewelry. 

Jewelry by Sanders & Franklin

Win #159

TWO IN A ROW!  Wow, I received another email from Dandy Giveaway that I won their 13 in 2013 Giveaway!  There were 13 prizes and I won a beautiful item of my choice from Baby Wisp!  I chose I lovely bow with feathers on it for Delia and I to share.  It's purple for our Baltimore Ravens team so we'll wear it out for sure!

Thanks again Dandy for the great giveaways!

Win #158!

First win of February is a super awesome Valentines giveaway just for me.  Thanks to Dandy Giveaway I was able to score myself an awesome pair of Bed Head pajamas ($140 retail) to make my Valentines awesome.  Not only are these super cute but they have been featured on several television shows!  Check out this picture from How I met your Mother!

So thanks again to Dandy Giveaways, you rock, and I am totally going to be reading you guys all the time now!

Creative win# 157!

I love to enter creative giveaways but they often require voting and that makes me hate them with every once of my body, voting contests are hands down the worst thing ever and they are completely unfair in every sense of the word, BUT LET ME TELL YOU HOW I REALLY FEEL!

Well sometimes if you take an extra five minutes to enter a creative giveaway, like this one where The Flairist just wanted to know who your ideal houseguest would be and why.  I was the only one to actually type more than 2 sentences out of almost 90 people.  So obviously I took this one for mine!

here's my entry: "My ideal houseguest would be Martha Stewart. We would make doilies, she would teach me how to properly fold a fitted sheet and together we would make the most amazing beef wellington my family will have ever hoped to taste. In between all of the doilies and properness we’ll secretly discuss prison and how she spruced up her cell and I will educate her on the history of tattoos and abstract expressionism. She’ll be gracious even though I will cut her off often to interject about how one time I made a baby blanket and I learned to use a calligraphy pen to adress my own wedding invitations. Then, when her time closes I will wake up in the morning to fresh squeezed orange juice and a handwritten note on the finest stationary thanking me for letting her be my guest. She will have made the bed, organized my kitchen junk drawers and alphabetized my life. Yes. Yes, martha. You have and always will have an open invitation to my home."

They hold contests like this often and I plan on entering them frequently now that I know how fun they are.  I also can not wait to get this serving set, it's awesome!