Sweepstakes Facts and Thoughts

Mail in entries on different days of the week. When you send in your entries on a Monday – all the time, you are limited when your entries are received and placed in the mail piles. Spread out your entries through out the week for best chances of winning.

The best time to mail in your entries is on the days Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday so your mail does not get ‘clogged’ in with the sales ads for the end of the week and when most other entries are being sent at the first and the end of the week!

Use your time wisely. Spend time that you have waiting on others or breaks, lunches etc to fill in your envelopes, your entries and spend your time looking for other sweepstakes that may interest you so you can free up your other time for other things!

Be sure to try for sweepstakes that offer many prizes – 50 or more – your chances of winning something are even great then!

Resuse old rolls of wallpaper to cut down and make cards that you need for printing your entry information on!

Buy a paper cutter for a few bucks through a yard sale, flea market or thrift store to help you in cutting your entries down to size fast and evenly.

Decorate your envelopes yourself or have your child decorate your envelopes for you so your entries stick out from all the rest of the mail that the company receives!

Remember that the harder the sweepstakes is to enter – the more steps that you have to follow the better your chances are in winning because others could mess up their entries, or they don’t want to go through the hassle to win this certain prize.

Sweepstakes that are limited to one entry per person means that they are going to be double checking your information against a database of other entries – only enter once so that all of your entries are not dis qualified.

Read the rules, hand printed, no mechanical and block letters mean just what they say!

Reuse old cards to make your own postcards. Reuse cardboard from anything like cereal boxes, rice boxes, pop tart boxes, notebooks and other types of boxes to make your own postcards without any added expense!

If you hate licking envelopes, invest in a few cheap stickers so you can stick them on the back of the envelope for decoration and no messes when mailing in entries!