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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!