Does anyone besides me grow weary at times sitting at the computer and entering?

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vickiburton

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Do you just walk away from the computer some days? Do you ever feel like you're wearing a yoke sitting in front of the monitor? Please tell me that I am not the only one who grows tired, even with some good wins under the belt, and just cannot continue. I do my best work from 5-7AM. I truly desire to make this an 8-hr a day job since I am not employed, but, lately, I just want to forget all about it. I suppose I don't really forget it, since I'm talking to you now.
 
vickiburton said:
Do you just walk away from the computer some days? Do you ever feel like you're wearing a yoke sitting in front of the monitor? Please tell me that I am not the only one who grows tired, even with some good wins under the belt, and just cannot continue. I do my best work from 5-7AM. I truly desire to make this an 8-hr a day job since I am not employed, but, lately, I just want to forget all about it. I suppose I don't really forget it, since I'm talking to you now.
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Do you realize that you and I have been members longer than one of the owners? Yup. I remember joining when the site was started by Diane and Ken wasn't around. He didn't officially join till 2007, though he was probably active in the business prior to that.

When you've been sweeping that long, it's easy to become discouraged.

I started with a "paid membership" with site which went out of business & I lost part of my membership fee. I then switched to another site. After a few years it went "paid membership" so I switched to 3 other sites, one of which was SA. I used those 3 sites for a number of years till I started with a 4th site. One of the original sites is now out of business so I'm back to 3 sites again.

Managing the entries and "my sweeps" at 3 sites gets a little taxing at times but I manage, and haven't yet, to my knowledge disqualified myself for any reason from any sweep I've entered. If I think I might have entered elsewhere, I check before I enter again.

I do a cost/benefit on the iffy sweeps before I commit to entering. I find in the long run it prevents me from wasting time. Here's an example of a sweep that I passed on because the reward wasn't worth the effort. On 7-9-14 and 7-10-14 SA listed a some sweeps with a bottle of nail polish (ARV $15) as the prize. I have no use for nail polish but I wouldn't have entered even if the prize was a visa card with a $15 limit. I originally counted 15 sweeps - maybe I miscounted. We listed 15 out of 16 sweeps (creative presentation) that ran for 40 days. There is no way that I'm going to bang away at the keyboard entering 16 sweeps daily for 40 days to have a chance to win a $15 prize. It's just not worth the time invested, and I'm retired with oodles of time. If your interested in looking at 'em, do a SA sweeps search for opi nail polish and they'll come up.

You might take some time and analyze your sweeps and delete some that on second thought aren't as attractive as you first thought.

You might also set a floor limit and not enter a sweep unless it meets a minimum ARV requirement. I set a $100 limit, but it's not cast in concrete. If it's a quick one click entry for a $50 Visa I'll might do it. Depends upon my mood at the time, but I'd generally pass if the prize was an object or service with the same $50 ARV.

Remember, sweeping is an avocation, not a vocation. Take a break, go for a walk or some other activity that you find refreshing and that'll take your mind of sweeping.
 
Yes, yes, and yes vickiburton! I have to take breaks!

7 years is a long time to do something, and most of us don't even make it to 7 - I've been at it for 10 now, and I can't ever imagine not sweeping - kind of like using coupons/price matching!

I used to enter daily - did so for years - then I had to take a break when we went away for our anniversary and the world did not end, so when we returned, I started taking off 1 day a week. It helps keep me on an even keel.
 
Oh yes! Breaks are good. I have days, even months where I bang out all the sweeps on my list. then sometimes not so much, days off, even weeks, then back at it. Been sweeping for about ten years and still hoping for "the big one".
 
I struggle with it quite a bit. I end up messing around doing other things, which makes it take longer, which makes it harder for me to stay focused.
 
Well, I've been sweeping since long before there was an internet. With mail-in sweeps, I won 2 trips in 1993. I remember winning a transistor radio when I was 15. That was 1970. It was a sweeps from Chiquita Banana. The radio was blue with the Chiquita lady with the fruit on her hat on the front of it. I also won a record album (OK, all you young people can laugh at my age!) when I was in high school. It was a mail-in sweeps I'd found.

I definitely couldn't afford to sweep mail-in with the cost of postage now. So happy to have an internet.

I use Sweepstakes Ninja for a lot of my entries. I subscribed to the Millionaire's Club for a few months, but, money is tight and I can't do that anymore. From Ninja, I won $2,500 last year and $500 GC to Plow & Hearth. I haven't redeemed that yet. Mulling over a few purchases I'd like to make there.

I do like to travel so I enter some, not all, of travel sweeps. Honestly, there are a lot of sweeps I enter, hoping to win 2nd prize or something less than the grand prize.
 
I too have grown pretty weary before entering sweepstakes. When I make entering a big-big project daily it means I don't have enough energy to do it.

Sweeping is hard 'work' to me. but I love that for a hobby/job/career you can sit around your house I think that's awesome!...without the high stress of a real job. Winning is not everything to me as it doesn't motivate me or hasn't in the past like last week when I just entered a couple sweeps everyday. But, yes, one of my biggest motivators is that if I don't try to enter sweepstakes then I know no one is going to mail me a gift card. No one is going to send me a winning email. There won't be a surprise in the mail....

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself, but I can't really talk. lol. I am totally hard on myself too. I'll say well I really regret not entering sweeps this day or that day and of course I won't win with no entries.

But, just look ahead and do the best you can. Even if you put in the effort to think about sweepstaking I think that should count for a whole lot!! I've also found that if I just get started I can complete everything, if I sit around and think about form after form then YES it's totally overwhelming to me each and every time. good luck:):)
 
I too suffer from burn out .... and have been sweeping for a long time ... as someone else stated I too started with mail in sweeps ... looking forward to the latest issue of my "Contest Newsletter" to arrive.... then it got too expensive for me. When I moved back to Ohio in 2004 I started to think about sweeping again and then in 2005 I found SA and the rest is history. I sometimes take at one day off a week ... like when Ohio State is playing football or when I have a doctors appointment and am gone most of the day... but then other times I stay at it 7 days a week. But NO you are not the only one that suffers from burn out... Good luck!
 
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