Wouldn’t it be nice to start next year with a bedroom makeover or $25,000 in cash? If your bedroom could use a mood change, or you need the scratch–and who doesn’t, then enter the Dream Come True Sweepstakes by the publisher of Home Magazine.

Besides the grand prize, there are several other prizes including the GE ®Front Loading Laundry pair, outdoor furniture from Lloyd®Flanders, a Weber® Smokey Joe Grill, and Helbros dress watches. Open to U.S. residents, Canadians, and other countries.

Sweepstakes ends January 30, 2009.  Bonus: For entering, you can purchase 17 issues of Woman’s Day bonus priced at $5.00 and Metropolitan Home 10 issues bonus priced at $5.00!

Ben Franklin once said that fish and company smell in three days. Do they really? How do you know, if you’ve never caught a fish, or even gone fishing? Well, here is one way to find out by winning your own Minn-Kota trolling motor from Addictive Fishing. If you are 18 or older enter the Addictive Fishing Minn-Kota Trolling Motor Giveaway Promotion online and check the site to see if you are a winner. More than one winner will receive a choice of trolling motors, one entry per person.

Every young woman in my family loves Herbal Essence shampoo and other products. Now Downy® is offering a great opportunity to win a $500 luscious indulgence grand prize and other prizes Instantly! Great gift as a send-off to your favorite college student. Herbal Essences Scents and Sensibility Sweepstakes continues through September 30, 2008. Resident of U.S. or Canada, 13 years of age, enter once each day.

Have Fun With This Contest and Good Luck!

This week only enter the Best Buy® Sweepstakes and win one of 25 Grand Prizes of a trip for 2 to Mall of America® with a $1000 Best Buy shopping spree. Contest ends on Saturday, July 19th–so hurry. The lucky winners will visit MOA on August 7, 2008, just in time to do some Back-To-Classes shopping. Plus you could win one of the 10 first prizes of a Toshiba laptop, and 50 Sony MP3 players for second prizes.

Don’t Delay, Don’t Hesitate, Enter Now→Best Buy/Mall of America Sweepstakes

Tired of looking for a gas station at the bottom of a hill so that you can cruise to fill it up with what can only be thought of as “liquid gold?” And who can vamp around when you are worry that your wheels are running on vapors! The answer? Visit a Lane Bryant store between now and July 29, 2008 and enter their contest to win a $5000 gas card and a $5000 Lane Bryant gift card! Other prizes include a $1000 gas card, 10 $350 gas cards, and 200 $150 gas cards.

Shop their summer clearance and find red hot fashions at $9.99 up, and free shipping on any order $75+. Plus Sizes Plus Prizes, What can be better than that?

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery® has teamed up with the Florida OJ industry to ofer a chance to win a Florida Getaway! Win airfare, lodging and rental car for that special vacation. Additionally, sign up to win other great prize like gift cards to Best Buy® and Perkins. Contest ends Sunday, June 29th, 2008-so hurry!!!

Unless you’re postmenopause, or you have opted to try the new meds to limit the monthlies to a few times a year, sanitary pads for women and girls are a part of life.

Kotex® is offering a free sample pack of its’ products including its’ new ultra thin, ultra light pad with wings. Feel funny about “that talk” with your young daughter? This is a perfect opportunity to initiate it with this great freebie packet.

Plus at the site check-out sweepstakes, new product offers, and educational information!

Only those of us Marthaphiles can get excited over a new super pastry bag. But how can you not get excited over any new hot kitchen gadget that makes it easier to be a fantastic chef or baker? JB Prince caters to professionals, but MDM found that this is a great site for those of us who dabble and try to bring a more global variety to the family dinner table. And for those of us who are more adventurous in planning and executing receptions for special occasions, this is a must!

Among these goodies, two pastry bags caught MDM’s eye since although the initial investment is higher than other pastry bags, they can be used over and over again, and are more versatile with ease of use.

One of their new items from their 2008 Summer Catalog, is a rubber pastry bag that makes it strong, flexible and soft. The Super-flex Pastry Bag is very tactile friendly, the smooth rubber interior makes it easy to pipe products, while the textured outside assures a great grip $21.30.

Another pastry bag is made from silicone which is great for piping both hot and cold items. The Sac A’Flex Silicone Pastry Bag has a temperature range of 76°F-446°F. Dishwasher safe and fast drying, at $15.10.

And how about these Mini Mason Jars for those special spices, crafts, workshop, or what have you! Measuring 3¼” x 1½” d. it holds 2oz., $2.00 each. How cool is that?

Visit this site especially if you are planning a graduation, wedding, or anniversary party!

James Van Praagh, the popular psychic and the inspiration for the hit television series CBS Ghost Whisperer , has just written a new book titled ghosts Among Us.

As a special reward for buying the book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble, five lucky winners will be selected from entrants to his site for a special reading by Mr. Van Praagh. Plus with this purchase you will get a free online lesson on enhancing your intuition, online meditation lesson, and his cleansing reference guide. Simply record your order receipt number and application online at his site.

Hurry, registration for this contest ends May 20, 2008.

Ellen Degeneres’ Road to Riches Game Week starts today! Enter from home by filling out an online entry, download a digital photo, and in 25 words or less tell them a little about yourself. Prizes are guaranteed to be fabulous, so take the time–you could be one of the lucky home viewers. No matter what, you are bound to have a good time with plenty of laughs watching the show!

Hey, I’m with you –all these contests and not even an also ran prize.  Just like today,  MDM got a new magazine–kind of like the old Sear’s Roebuck catalog Wish Book, but you know, it’s like this blog you never know what little goodie it will have.  So, inside the magazine was this sealed invitation supposedly offering a dinner at David Bouley’s Restaurant in NYC followed by a trip to Paris (ooh, finally use that French degree–I know it’s rusty, but it’s better than nothing).  In Paris you would dine with Chef Bouley at his restaurant–priceless!  Open the invitation, and you got it, the old "Sorry," even candy bar contests contain that one word that dashes all our hopes.  Well, bummed out, go to the site to find out that there are only 2 ways to win:

Wonder what it is like to get the ultimate celeb treatment when you go shopping?  Well, you might not be able to have a private showing when the "open" sign is just for you, but this comes close.

Macy*s is offering to one lucky grand prize winner, travel and hotel accommodations to New York, a makeover day at a New York City spa, and a $1000 Anne Klein Shopping Spree at Macy’s with your own fashion advisor, Elle magazine’s merchandising editor.  Super Fly!  Contest Ends April 13th, must be 18 years of age.

Enter today, and check out their fabulous Warehouse Sale going on until March 29th.  For every $100 you buy on Clearance, use Promo Code:  WAREHOUSE(at checkout) and get an extra $10 off.

Do people walking in back of you whisper:  "One lump or two?"  Do you find yourself squirming in your seat because you’re sitting on a roll and it keeps moving?  Are you in a hurry dressing for the day and your underwear is behaving like a runaway roller blind?  Then, my friend, it’s time for Wedgifree™ underwear from Hanes® to tell your panties to stay put, you’re the boss!

Now you can win a chance to try before you buy.  Hanes is selecting 500  winners every Wednesday!

Enter today and get rid of another one of Life’s little problems.

Imagine "If" and Enter the Reimagine Your Home Giveaway!  What could you do with $300,000 on your home?  In these days of foreclosures, you could put the money toward paying off your mortgage, or you could remake your home into the castle you always wanted.  Sears is having a fantastic giveaway, and you can enter automatically by using the Sears charge card or by mail with on a 3 x5 card sent in a #10 envelope and received by April 7, 2008 to:

Today, QVC is featuring roses, tomatoes, and other plants from Cottage Farms.  As part of these special deals, Cottage Farms is holding a Sweepstakes Contest called "Name this Rose."  One Grand-Prize Winner will work with Cottage Farms and the American Rose Association to name the Cottage Farms 3-piece Pink Floribunda Rose.  The winner will be announced April 1, 2008.

Enter online at QVC or mail a post card with your name, address, and phone number to: