Guest Author - Jennifer L. Thompson

Family Dollar "Free For All" Sweepstakes & Offer

Family Dollar Store is sponsoring a sweepstakes with 20 Grand Prizes of $100 in the form of a check. This sweepstakes offers two forms of entry, one by using the official entry form, available at Family Dollar Stores, which can be paired with a gift certificate offer when purchasing certain brands, and one with no purchase necessary for sweepstakes entry only.

When using the official entry form, each household is also offered the opportunity to receive a five dollar Family Dollar Store gift certificate. In order to enter the sweepstakes AND receive the gift certificate, along with the official entry form one must send a cash register receipt from Family Dollar Store dated between June 1, 2007 and June 30, 2007, with the name and price circled from one of the following brands: Tide, Dawn, Charmin, Luvs, Pringles, Always, Gain, Febreze, Bounty, and Tampax. There is a limit of one gift certificate per household, and one sweepstakes entry per outer envelope.

In order to enter the sweepstakes without the official entry form, on a plain piece of 3x5 paper, hand print your name, street address (no p.o. boxes), city, state, zip code, date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy) plus (optional) daytime and evening phone numbers. Mail in a stamped envelope no larger than a #10 to:

Family Dollar "Free For All" Sweepstakes
P.O. Box 5014
Ellenton, FL 34222-5000

Limit one entry per envelope. All entries must be received by July 16, 2007.

Dollar General "Win a Fast Million"

This sweepstakes offers one Grand Prize of an all-expense-paid trip for two to the Ford 300 & 400 Championship Weekend in Miami, Florida, $10,000 cash in the form of a check, and the opportunity to win $1,000,000 in the form of a twenty-year annuity paid at $50,000 a year. The Grand Prize winner receives the million dollar award "if the No. 77 Dollar General Stores Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS participates in and is declared the official winner of the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Ford 300 Race at Homestead-Miami Speedway completed on November 17, 2007", according to the official rules. If the number 77 car does not win the race, the million dollar portion of the prize will not be awarded.

Ten first prizes of a $500 Dollar General Gift Card are also being awarded, with fifty second place prizes of a $100 Dollar General Gift Card, and 100 third place prize winners receiving an autographed cap and t-shirt fan pack valued at $50.

To enter this sweepstakes, you can mail the official entry form available from Dollar General Stores, or you can use the alternate mail-in entry as stated in the Official Rules, or you can enter online HERE.

Entrants must be 21 years of age or older, and be residents of the fifty United States or Washington D.C. One online entry per person and email address per day. Sweepstakes ends October 13, 2007.