Sometimes Money DOES Grow On Trees; You Just Need To Know Where To Look
Most things where you get thrown in a pot to have a chance at winning usually cost something, or aren’t worth your time anyway. But knowing that you’re spending your time reading this blog make me think that a chance at a few extra $ carries some weight; that being said, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars out there that you can take a pretty decent stab at…
Before I get started, I’m not undermining our own efforts over at The Money Life Network to cook up a FREE $100 Amazon gift card; I’m just making you aware of everything ELSE out there that you could be getting for free by “tossing your hat in the ring“.
Yes, the lottery has been 
referred to as “voluntary tax on the ignorant“, and I’m agreeing with D4L there; but I’m still a sucker for getting into contests that don’t cost me anything. Leaving a comment, joining an RSS feed, posting about a contest is worth it I think to get a shot at getting some free $ (or something I can sell for $).
I’m sure that some of them are rigged and/or don’t pay our so I am wary about contests that are on obscure blogs/sites. I enter my gmail address with a +contest at the end of the address and have it route directly to a “contest” folder to keep my standard email safe (Thanks for the tip MrsMicah 
).
Other Free Money Across the Land
1. JonathanVolk.com is cooking up a contest giving away:
1st Place – $200 Amex Gift Card AND Flip Video Camera!
2nd Place – Ipod Touch!
3rd Place – Market Leverage USB Flash Drive Pen
2. Gadget5 is giving away Digital Photo Keychains.
3. NetFool is giving away a Brand New Flip Video Mino and $50 MLRewards Card!
4. How about going so far as to offer $20,000 to Innovative Moms? Whirlpool isn’t a blog, but it’s still free to enter.
5. Bloggernoob is giving away a 4gb Ipod Nano(plays video), 2gb USB pen, Flip video camera, $50 American Express Card.
6. How about an Eee PC laptop, a Shoplet.com gift certificate for $100.00, or a Shoplet.com gift certificate for $50.00? OfficeSummerFest is cooking this one up.
7. Cook up something in our realm, US Savings Bonds! Join the Proud to be an American Photo Contest:
8. Gas is pricey these days – how about a $25 gift card for gas?
9. OpMom is giving away a whole slew of treats here:
1 GRAND PRIZE:
(1) $250 Zappos.com Gift Card
(14) Books from the Hachette Book Group
(1) Set of Eco-tool Brushes
(1) Thymes Sweet Leaf Baby Collection
1 FIRST PRIZE:
(1) $100 Lands’ End Gift Card
(1) $50 Earth Mama Angel Baby Gift Card
(14) Books from the Hachette Book Group
8 SECOND PRIZES:
(14) Books from the Hachette Book Group
10. FrankTownRocks has a laundry list of prizes they’re also giving away! See the page for more details.
Sites That’ll Do The Work For You
Angolo dei Contest | Blog Contest | Blog Contests on the Net | Blog Paradise Contests | Contest Beat | Contestu | International Freebies | Free Stuff | From The Contest Queen | Giveaway City | Mediamafia | Our Blog Review | RevieWOW | The Contest Blogger | The Prize Blog |
Conclusion
The list really can go on and on and these are just a taste of the many contests going on all the time. Even do a search in Google if you want to see what’s cooking because there are dozens running every day giving stuff away to sign up, comment, participate, join a revolution, etc that’ll certainly be happy you stopped by.
It’s kinda like buying friends, even if it is for a short while, I’ve done it myself twice (1,2) and the friends I’ve bought have been pretty worth while thus far.
photos by: /brookenovak/ /eelssej/ /timusan/
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I’m doing a $200 American Express contest too! Seems like a great time to be surfing the web!
Momma’s last blog post..Contest *Up To $200 American Express Prepaid Card
Can I tell you I’ve won about four or five blog contests already? Why? Because I entered. Never expected to win anything but came away with books, money and an iPod. You gotta be in it to win it!
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Thanks for the mention!
Best Wishes,
D4L
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Thank you for mentioning my blog!
I regret not having enough time to blog about all the contests I find around. I only blog about a few, where there are a lot more I enter by simply posting a comment.
My latest win is $250 at the Net Fool, sponsored by Pepper Jam. You can tell I feel my blogging is very rewarding!
International Freebies & Contests’s last blog post..Blog Contest: MarketLeverage Contest 5
Thanks for doing all this work, Hank. I haven’t tried any of these contests yet, so am not sure what it’s all about. There’s so much going on in the blogosphere, it’s hard to keep up:) I sure wouldn’t mind winning some books, or maybe free commissions on stock purchases:)
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Well, anything free is nice. But don’t go overboard on it. I once when for a campaign to exchange “old pots for new.” I got a new pot but because there was such a long queue, I got a $100 parking fine.