This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Clorox Company for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Staycations are al the rage since everyone in the country is broke and gas prices are astronomical. Of course, jus tstaying at home isn’t exactly an exciting way to spend your time off. Dollar General has always been a great place to save money, and now they’ve teamed up with Clorox®  to make your staycation a little more thrilling. From now through June 24,2012, you can enter the It Pays to Vacation at Home sweepstakes on dollargeneral.com for a chance to win one of 20 Grand Prizes or 100 First Prizes –

(Grand prize)$500 “paycheck” to vacation at home
(First Prize) $25 Dollar General Gift Card.

Once registered, contestants can also play the  “Wipe To Win” instant game and see if you are a winner of a $10 Dollar General Gift Card.

$500 can go a long way to making your staycation much more exciting.  Even the $10 gift card is enough to buy some snacks to go along with movie night, or maybe some water balloons and other fun toys for a backyard vacation.

Did you know all your favorite Clorox products can be found at Dollar General? A few include:

•  Pine-Sol® Multi-Surface cleaners
• Clorox® Disinfecting Wipes (my personal favorite)
• Clorox® Liquid-Bleach

Of course, since it’s Dollar General, you know you’ll be getting it for a great price. I’m always amazed at the cool things i find there.

Entering the sweepstakes is really simple. Just fill in your info, submit, and play the instant win game. It takes less than two minutes. I didn’t win the instant win game, but hopefully one of my wonderful readers will! If you do, be sure to come back and tell me so I can woohoo for you!