Lucky Breaks

Every month, Lucky Magazine (I got my subscription for free…more on that another time) holds a decent number of giveaways for everything from lipgloss to cars, clothes to all expenses paid vacations. They list all the giveaways for the month in the back of each issue, as well as on their website. It’s kind of a pain to go through for each giveaway and enter your contact information and double check all the boxes say “do not send me any information” and no I don’t want to subscribe over and over again, but they offer some pretty great stuff each month.

I used to think this was just a spammy scam to get people’s contact information on mailing lists. But the volume of spam in my inbox never seemed to increase from entering any of these. And then about a year ago, I won this! To say I was shocked that I won something is a bit of an understatement. I was even more excited once I received it and found out Sephora was selling it for $50 a tube. And then I was even more excited once I started using it and found out the stuff actually works! Technically it’s to be used to repair sun damage on hands and décolletage (ooh la la), but I use it on my face. I spend a lot of time outdoors, and let’s face it, if you live in California, it’s pretty near impossible to avoid sun exposure. I was starting to get a lot of dark spots on my face. This stuff has almost completely faded them. It’s awesome. It’s totally worth the two minutes I spent filling out my contact information on the Lucky website.

Now winning something like this, while it validated the legitimacy of the contests for me, would not have inspired a post. That being said, yesterday afternoon I received an email that I won again!! This time it’s a Bliss berry-flavored gift set, worth about $30. I’ll let you know how it is once it arrives.

So I’d say that free subscription and “wasted” time I spent online have really paid off with $80+ worth of free product. I’m still kind of surprised I’ve won, not just once, but twice. Now I’m really hoping I win one of those occasional vacation, car, or iPad giveaways they have. I could really use one of those.