For me, March started out as a month for books. In just a couple of days, I was notified that I had won a free book from GoodReads (who gives away tons of books. You can enter current GoodReads Sweepstakes here) and another from BookDivas (you can click here to see BookDivas Sweepstakes to enter yourself). I love to read, so free books are always a welcome prize!
The coolest prize I won last month was a $25 Olive Garden gift card I won just last night from the Win a Culinary Tour of Italy Sweepstakes 2010, which is still ongoing. While I love Olive Garden, the really cool thing about this prize was that I was literally thinking that it had been a long time since I'd won an instant prize, and it was just about time to win again, when the "Congratulations!" message popped up on the sweepstakes screen. The timing was exquisite.
It reminded me of an article I just wrote, about winning on the verge of giving up. If you have a story about a prize you won when you were just about to give up on sweepstakes, share it here!
I can't wait to hear what all of you have won over the past month. Click on the "comments" button below to share your good prize news.
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Not a bad month. Little prizes were a $10 Restaurant.com certificate, my 2nd Old El Paso free food coupon, a 2000 Flushes free coupon, and the best thing–from AT&T’s instant game where you flip, then flip again, the messaging phone. No one could have been more surprized when that 3rd phone symbol flipped around!
Good luck to us all for April!
I won one of Southern Living wrap and ribbon holders!
I have a perfect place for all my gift wrapping supplies so I am using it for my three Standard Poodles things>> it is perfect for that and sooooo handy…
I love to win anything
I had a good month. I won a couple of books, an ipod shuffle, Bakugan toys, a pair of 4-day tickets to Walt Disney World, a kids kitchen set, an organizer, and gift cards to restaurant.com, starbucks, amazon.com, itunes.com, and Longhorn Steakhouse.
Won movie tickets for two to see City Island.
I could not bookmark Goodreads fast enough, thank you Sandra! I just started keeping tabs on Divas a week ago or so also.
My fun little keep-me-going prizes this month were:
Kikkoman tongs, $5 Subway, $5 from Extra Gum, a little Budweiser soccer ball, a fitness book from MET-Rx, a Spicy T-shirt from Slim Jim, a $25 Amazon from the Michigan Lottery and a free pack of Dentyne gum.
Congrats on the Olive Garden prize! Looks like you have a Date Night in your future.
This month has been great! I received an email that I won the Grand Prize in the Slim Jim Live Like Edge Sweepstakes!!
Thanks Sandra & good luck to everyone!
I won 2 basting brushes 2 pair thongs 2 spoon rests from Kikkoman and $10.restaurant gift card .
I had a lot of little wins in March: a $10.00 Restaurant.com gift certificate, 2 free Pace product coupons (my last ones – I’m finally up to 5 wins!), 2 pairs of stainless steel tongs and a ceramic spoon rest from Kikkoman, a $5.00 Kroger gift certificate, and a 16oz jar of Planter’s peanuts.
I love to read, so I’m definitely checking out the GoodReads and BookDivas sites – thanks for the heads up on those!
won kikkoman ponzu sauce,a family dollar $5.00 gift card & Elizabeth Arden cologne/lotion from Elle.com
A dozen long stem roses, Combo’s coupon, 4 family fun pack passes to our local water park, $5 from Honey Nut Cheerios, Subway Fan t-shirt, $10 Restaurant.com certificate, & 2 season passes to our IMAX and Riverfront Park attractions.
Very cool wins, Pat, congratulations! I played the AT&T instant sweep, too, but with no luck. It’s great to hear about someone winning!
Congratulations, Charlotte! Great that you can put the wrap and ribbon holder to good use
I won 3 lip products from Bare Escentuals, a Glade Wall Plug-In with a refill, and a $5 Subway gift card!
I won Dentyne gum twice, tongs twice on Kikkoman, a Oxo bowl set.
I won last month’s Travel Bug! Woo Hoo! A $7000 road trip through California!
Congratulations, Melissa, it sounds like a great month for you! Glad to hear that you won some books as well
i won a $10 gift card to Dollar General in their $1million dollar sweepstakes. first thing i have won doing the sweeps! so i was pretty excited
Congratulations, Karen, I hope you liked the movie!
After a slow January and February, March was awesome! I won an Ipod Nano, yogurt bars from Nature Valley and a $10 Restaurant.com certificate. Also, a $100 spa gift card, Kindle reader and $120 in Amazon.com Gift Card from Freshetta Pizza, free cheese and peanuts from Kroger/Dillons and 12 boxes of Golden Grahams cereal from General Mills! What a haul!
I won a $50 g.c. to Cabela’s
Congrats onepeach! Travel Bug is one that I make sure to enter every single day – WELL DONE!!!
For me March was a good month. I received a AT&T Pebble Beach Prize Pack and that came with a nice clock, blanket, hat and pillow. The rest of my wins all came from Twitter. Yes I was surprised. I won a Zune poster set, pair of sandals for the wife from Muk_Luk, T Shirt from Bing maps, Khaki Pants from The Khaki Man , and a $50 gift card for Best Buy from BBMChat and I started April off really good with another pair of pants from The Denim Guy. I am what i call myself as a twirgin I guess you could call me that as there is a lot of stuff that I still do not know, but Douglas has helped me out a lot. I believed that I got put in twitter jail one day, because I had been putting in my entries pretty quickly and the next time I try to log on I couldnt talk to anyone on the lists and I had to get help from them. So I slowed down entering them. Anyone have any advice for me let me know. I can use any help that i can get. It is overwhelming at first and I switch between the Web twitter and Seesmic version mainly because Seesmic shows the mentions in lifetime. But You Can Win on Twitter
It was a good month – won pair of concert tickets to see Kanas, DVD – The Informant, entry into to go to the Masters (though was not the grand prize winner), Restaurant.com $10 gift card, granola bars.
I got some nice goodies:
* $10 food gift certificate from Restaurant.com
* $100 AMEX Traveler Cheque from Twentieth Television, Family Guy
* $5 automatic credit at QFC supermarket & King-sized Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
* Bag of Ghiradelli Squares
I’m still playing & hoping for a big win!! Congrats to all of you, I love reading about your wins. Thanks for sharing.
February had been a dismal month but fortunately March was much better.
Won free Nestle Crunch coupon, $100, and won $5 Cheerios check at the last minute in February and got it right away. I also won the Pantech messaging phone from A T & T but I opted for the $100 AT&T gift card instead. I also received a free Advil coupon from a contest I entered last year!
My big win for March was a $250 shopping spree at Bare Escentuals. Still can’t believe it. My sister and I will have a girls night out at the mall.
I won $100 in the Kotex Shopping Spree sweepstakes!!
Pretty good month for me!
Dove soap for a year, $100 shopping spree to Bare Escentuals (thrilled to finally try the stuff, so expensive!), another free Pace salsa, a box of Nature Valley yogurt bars, a Free Willy DVD & two boxes of Pop Secret Popcorn, $10 Restaurant.com gift certificate, 2 packs of Dentyne gum, 2 $5 grocery credits for Ralphs, and a $5 check from Honey Nut Cheerios. I think that is it! I’m happy!
Won a new 2010 Dodge Challenger in the When Kurt Wins You Could Win Too Sweepstakes. It was very exciting. Very nice car. Plus, my husband said he would never make fun of me again. That was a little bonus.
I won $2,000 from StateFairCorndogs.com
also the Hess Express $2,000 gas gift card.
I won a spatula in the SeaPak sweepstakes!
I won a $10 Dollar General gift card. It was a total surprise as it just showed up in the mail! I love sweeping!
I won a $10 Dollar General gift card. A total surprise; it just showed up in the mail!
I won a $50.00 gift card from Dollar General and a $5.00 G C from Krogers
I hope you’ll win from GoodReads, too, Scitrus, they have a ton of giveaways. I use the site to track the books I’ve read, too, it’s a handy way to see what I’ve read and when.
Congratulations on all of your wins last month!
Wow, congratulations, Stanhurst! That sounded like an awesome prize! Have you gone on your trip yet?
It seems that I was entering almost everything everyday and with no hopes of winning anything. But towards the end of March, my daily entries finally paid off. Not big but a win is a win right? I won a pack of gum with Dentyne and a gift certificate with Restaurant.com. So I will continue in my endeavors to win more!
After entering contests for two years I finally won my first prize. A weber smokey joe gold grill from Marlboro.com. I was super thrilled to have finally won something and the funny thing is I was contemplating giving up the day before.
Congratulations, Nancy! Isn’t it a thrill to win those instant prizes?