contests

Being the selfish person I am, the first thing I thought when I saw that the Swedish furniture store IKEA was having a contest offering a one-year sabbatical and $100,000 to advance a project that improves the lives of others, was "Cool, I could really kick back for a year and do a lot of deep...

In this new contest from 99-cent Only Stores, your chances of winning anything from $99 to $99,999.99, relies on a Californian heat wave and the luck of the draw. The contest is open to residents of the U.S. who are age 18 or older with a valid driver's license and who reside within the viewing...

It's mid summer, and the kids are starting to whine louder than the cicadas. Time to break out the Coke bottles. As part of a year-long campaign to find out what happiness means around the world, the Coca Cola company is asking consumers in 206 countries to design a Coke bottle showing what makes...

Better Homes and Gardens and the hosts of LIVE! with Regis and Kelly know what viewers like to see -- men in the kitchen. Cooking. If those men also happen to be heroes in uniform, all the better. This summer, the teams of BHG and LIVE! have partnered with Bush's beans to present the...

We should all know by now an ice cube would have a better chance in a hot oven then one of us winning a contest we didn't enter, but that didn't stop hundreds in Maryland and others in New Hampshire from falling for a recent mail scam. And they are not alone. In 2009, the Federal Trade Commission...

You see them at almost every corner of the Internet -- free iPads from contests that require you to do nothing but enter a drawing, write an essay, or tweet about it. It's a simple and relatively inexpensive ($499 is the entry price for a new iPad) way for a company to get people to its Web site,...

Feeling creative? Well, Dollar Tree is having a contest that requires more than just filling out a form and answering a skill-testing question. The folks at Dollar Tree want you to tell them why you love your Dollar Tree by putting it in writing, making an audio or video file or expressing it in...

It sounds like the deal of a lifetime: Spend a year eating out at restaurants, living in hotels, skydiving and doing other exotic activities, all for free. And at the end of the year, collect $100,000 for your troubles. Troubles? What troubles could anyone have after living such a high life? The...

If you've thought of starting a business this year, but haven't gotten around to it because of the recession, maybe this $100,000 contest might spark your interest toward getting an online store running. Shopify, a site that helps create online stores, is sponsoring a contest where the winner gets...

Wondering how to pay off those holiday bills? Entering Coca-Cola's $2,010 in 2010 Sweepstakes might be just the ticket. Open to legal US residents, 18 years-of-age and older, participants can log onto Coke's website and enter once a day from now until January 25. (Note, if you or your immediate...