Guest Author - Jennifer L. Thompson

Magazine giveaways are some of my favorite sweeps to enter. They are quite winnable, easy on the taxes, and offer some of the best quality prizes available on a regular basis, with a wide variety to choose from. These will often include clothing, items for the home, makeup, cell phones and accessories, vacation packages, and much more. These are also most often done exclusively as online giveaways, making them quick to enter, and with daily entry available in most, your chances of winning are pretty good (though some would disagree on this, it is what I have found to be true). The other great thing about these is that a good number of these giveaways will have multiple winners. Some of these sweepstakes are exclusive to subscribers, though this is the exception rather than the rule.

For those of you who may enjoy adding these types of sweepstakes to your daily or weekly sweepstakes entries, here is a list of some you may wish to check into.

Woman's Day Magazine

This magazine offers a good variety of monthly sweepstakes. Though they have recently changed their format from offering each sweeps as prize for each day of the month, to having a group of monthly prizes, the giveaways are just as good as ever. I have won several of these since entering regularly, all of which were quality products that I use and enjoy.

PointClickHome

This is a sister to the above site, featuring magazines such as Elle Decor and Metropolitan Home. These are high quality prizes, generally for around the home, that most anyone who loves to decorate a home would be thrilled to win (or just to buy!), and there is an abundance to choose from. These have generally been running for about a month and a half each. This can be found through a link near the bottom of the Woman's Day sweeps.

Redbook Magazine

Though this magazine offers less sweepstakes than some of the others, the prizes offered are all still great prizes. The nice thing here is that, aside from the monthly sweeps, they also offer a daily and/or weekly giveaway for three winners, each with a different prize, so it can still be worth your while even just to enter for this.

Quick and Simple

This magazine offers its daily and weekly sweepstakes in a little different style than the others in that the daily prizes are an instant win, and you must enter a code word that can be found in the magazine in order to qualify. (These code words are also available through Zena's Freebies online, along with some others, though you must subscribe to the newsletter to receive these.), Each entry in the Quick and Simple sweeps is then a chance to win an instant win prize and an entry for the weekly prize. These lovely folks were kind enough to make special delivery arrangements for me to receive the cell phone I've won (a Katana II, which I love) when the floods in the area prevented fedex delivery.

Keep your eyes open when entering magazine sweepstakes for opportunities to send in photos of your home to win remodling packages and the like, or photos of yourself to win makeovers, and things such as these. Many will pass on these types of sweeps, so, once again, your chances of winning will increase. Also, once you've won a prize, the rule of thumb is that you can only win once every ninety days, so you will need to forego entering sweeps from the magazine you've won from for this time frame.