About Me

 

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My name is Jennifer, but I go by Jennie or Jen most of the time.  I was born in 1978, so that makes me almost 32 at the time I am writing this.  I live with the love of my life, Mike, and our dog, Hilo.

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I started my wonderful hobby of sweepstaking several years ago.  My grandma had seen an episode of Oprah about sweepstakers and thought it was something I would be interested in.  She started cutting out the little contests and entry forms that you seen in magazines and newspapers and giving them to me.  I entered every one of them.  Soon after, I began researching the hobby further.  I found SweepSheet, a newsletter with sweepstakes.  I requested a free sample of the article and was very impressed.  In the beginning, I entered mostly by mail.  Filling out the 3×5 cards and sheets while I watched TV.  Now I do mostly online entries because of the cost of stamps.  I find this to be a relaxing, fun and rewarding hobby.

You cannot win anything if you do not enter.  I walk around everyday knowing that there is a possibility that the next big win could be today!

Some of the bigger things I have won:

A $10,000 gift certificate to Van Dyke’s Restorers We got all new AMAZING bedroom furniture, an outside patio set and several other items.

2 trips – one to Atlanta, GA to participate in a key-turn with 10 others to win Jeff Gordon’s Tahoe (I did not win, but we got VIP access to the Nascar race, free airfare, hotel and $500 spending money)…another trip was a sports dream package to anywhere in the US for a major sporting event.  We have not gone on that yet.

I won tickets to the Chicago auto show and a $100 Shell gift card – there was a chance it was worth $10,000.  So many smaller items like books, magazine subscriptions, shirts, hats, water bottles, song downloads, coupons and dvds.  I have won 2 iPods, an electric toothbrush, video games, Bolle sunglasses, a Nintendo Wii, an Ipod dock from Miller Chill, so many gift cards I have lost count.

All wins from 2010 on, I will now post on my blog – HERE.

Other Hobbies

I also love reading.  I go on reading binges where that’s all I will do in my free time for a week or so.  Find me on goodreads!

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