Neato

I stumbled upon this in my googling and it's a brilliant way to find blog sweeps http://www.giveawayscout.com/ It seems to pull them as they are posted/updated and I have found quite a few low entry ones! My google bookmarks folder for daily retweet reminders is getting very long!

Latest Bzz on OXO candela

I am a bzzagent and have been for several years and thoroughly enjoy the campaigns and love to learn about new items. I got these a few weeks ago after what seemed like a lifetime of waiting, post being accepted into the campaign. These are super cool, they look nice, and are very handy to give to your kid to use as a nightlight, create some nice ambiance without the heat of candles, and super handy for when they power goes out!! I can never seem to find a flashlight when our power goes out or I have to fumble using my cellphone as light to find a lighter. I live in a rural area of SC and it seems everytime the wind blows it knocks our power out, so very useful!

Also. My son likes to pretend they are some form of lightsaber and play with them.

Twitter sweeps

I found this http://enter.ws/ and they do a daily thing to find things to enter to win off of twitter, it has pulled up a few things I couldn't on my own! Nifty!

I have started employing new techniques on finding sweeps and entering things. One is I am focusing less on IWG and more on dailies and one time entries and now am doing twitter retweets and twitter parties. I have won a ton of stuff from twitter since starting this!

Another is I will do a search for a specific prize, example, I wanted to win the phineas and ferb game for evan for his bday, or anything phineas and ferb, so I did a search for "enter to win" + phineas and ferb and set it to search the past 24 hours, found a few blog sweeps and won a ps3 copy off of one of them. I have found it helpful to set up a googles bookmarks page of all of the blog contests that have daily retweets for entries and putting them all there and just going down that, easy way to get lots of entries!!

Also, often companies give items to more than 1 blogger to do a sweeps, so if I see something I like on a super popular blog with like 1k entries, I will do a search for that item and find a blog with sometimes UNDER 100 entries. Very neat!

Why I want in MIO

I have at least 10 different water bottles and constantly have a glass of water. The water where we live is sort of yucky, so I always flavor it with flavor packets and would LOVE to try this new way of flavoring water and making it yummy! I love how mio has where you can pick how much or little of flavor you can use while still having a small compact method of dispensing versus a big thing of kool aid or tang! I imagine you can mix and match and create custom flavors too? AWESOME!

Bzzagent-Why I want in on the kindle Campaign.

I have been reading, more like gorging myself on books since I was four. I read so much even with weekly library visits with stacks of books I never had enough. I had to start reading my parents novels (Stephen King, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, etc) around age 7 or 8. I still love to read, but with a busy lifestyle having a kids, I am no longer on a book or two a day habit. I would love a kindle because I would carry it with me everywhere and could load up books for myself and my son. It'd be easier to carry that with multiple books on it to read for long waits at soccer practice for my son and in waiting rooms. I really want a kindle above any other e-reader because of it's great ink technolgy and it is supposed to handle outside light and glare far better than any other ones. I think it is well worth the extra cost for those features, I just have been unable to scrape the money together. I would even be able to get some of my class textbooks loaded onto it! Think of all the paper and trees saved! I really really really want in on this campaign and if I get in I will rename one of my kittens Kindle or Jono or little miss BZZ BZZ!

Smiley

http://smiley360.com/56849.cfm

Vocalpoint salad offer

Free Salad and Clip

Another great offer from vocalpoint! I have been with them since 2008 and have nothing but good things to say about them!

Freebies and coupons for love or hate emails.

List of Companies

Very interesting post by one of my favorite savings bloggers, she compiled a list of all the companies she has contacted and if they got back to her and any sort of compensation they sent.

Yay, love panels

I am doing a paid online bulletin board study next week and will be paid $50 to do it, I did one in December that took me about half and hour/day over 3 days and made $110, very simple and rewarding!

List of FB sweeps

Giant list of various companies fb contests

I accidently stumbled across this, I am mainly doing it by ending soon contests, found a ton I haven't seen listed on other sweeps sites, my favorite is the one to win a car from Circle K, but only good in 4 states, and SC is one of them!

Google+

Just got an account, it seems interesting, but don't see how it will crush facebook. I can see it maybe being an elitist fleeting to google+ thing like how everyone fled myspace for facebook. Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Expotv and Clairolista

I have been a member of expotv and it's a really great site and love how it works. You record a video giving your opinion on products and earn points that can be redeemed for various items and giftcards. They also have a tryology program where companies send you products to test and you post a video about how the product worked out for you.  And they value truthful opinions, I recieved one product I was not very impressed with and said so in my video and I am still with them! So don't feel like you need to lie or be happy happy joy joy about everything you try!  They also have a survey portion where you can take surveys and earn points. I did one that spanned over a week and I got the equivalent of $15 in points for completing!

They recently recruited people on behalf to be "Clairolistas" for Clairol and I am really exited to get started on this program, I will definitely post more on that once I get my own portal pages set up!

If you want to join expotv use my referral link and we can be friends on there!  Expotv sign up

Man alive

I am really getting sick of this weather, it seems to either be unbearably hot and humid or storming.  Our power seems to go out more right before storms, than during, which is really odd.  I am glad Evan is fairly unfazed by the storms, however he does not like when the power goes out.  This is becoming an expensive month, first I lost my phone at the park, got a new one and within 2 days the screen is cracked, I apparently dropped it just right, 2 feet off the ground. The top glass is cracked, but I can still read it and the underscreen is fine, I put some packing tape over the broken glass to fix it for now.  I also finally got my car towed (amazing, only $35!) to get my brakes fixed and they guess that will be around $100 and than once my car is operational I have to go and get all new tires.  I have noticed a lot of blurring of my vision so also need to make an eye appointment and get new glasses and I think I am going to give contacts a try again. Oh and our fridge died a week and a half ago and I had to throw a ton of food out and need to rebuy it all.

I really can't believe Casey Anthony got off and was found not guilty, I really hope the truth of what happened to that little girl comes out one day.

Have had a lot of small wins lately, still hoping for a big win! Someone on the board I go to has a friend that just won 40K from nestle, that'd be nice!

smiley360.com—Be Heard. Be Happy.

smiley360.com—Be Heard. Be Happy. I haven't got any campaigns or anything from them yet, but I have seen nothing but positive reviews from users!

bzzagent stylefind

I found out about this great site from bzzagent, it's called Stylefind, it's like totsy or zulily for grownups! Different deals rotating on a variety of clothing and clothing accessories!

Recent Wins

I have been winning a lot of sweeps lately, maybe I should play the lottery, small things like t-shirts and soda sampler packs, vitamins, yoga mat, candy, $8 gc to grocery store and medium sized prizes like a stadium chair from M&M's and a $20 best buy gc, and a decent win of $50 from Hostess Cupcakes.  I also have been getting a lot of rewards redeemed from survey and other sites, I've cashed in over $35 in Amazon cash in the past week. I always add those to my account and than when I want or need something it is already paid for or near it!

New bzzcampaign

I recently got accepted into another bzzcampaign for OXO Candela Glow and I am really excited to get my bzzkit and start bzzing about it!

I also resolve to really get posting on this blog and start pushing it so I can get some more followers. I really do have a lot of great tips and savings options to share with you all!

I keep forgetting about this blog

http://sweetiessweeps.com/

Swagbucks

I love swagbucks, I average 1, sometimes 2 $5 amazon giftcard cashouts a month, super easy, just set as default search engine.

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Motts for Tots Vocalpoint

http://www.vocalpoint.com/mottsfortots