Free Stuff!

I wrote a post about this awhile back, but I just have to mention something about it again. I just redeemed my 8th, $5 Amazon.com gift card. I have earned 8 of these since I started doing Swagbucks in January 2010. In 8 months, 8 free gift cards! All I do is use Swagbucks.com like I used to use Google or Yahoo for a search engine. There are other ways to accumulate Swagbucks, but I have only done the search engine. I would be earning even more if I used some of their other options, but I just don't have time. All that to say, that if I have "time" to use Swagbucks just as a search engine, then you have time too! :-) And if you have more time, you can go crazy and use it more and earn more!
If you have never heard of Swagbucks, it’s a search engine that awards you points randomly and in varying denominations. SwagBucks can then be redeemed for a variety of prizes, including great gift cards, as I already described.
For more details click here.

This week they are celebrating Back to School and giving out more than normal:
If you sign up between and Sunday at midnight, use the code BackToSchool. You'll receive 30 points at sign-up, and an extra 40 points for using the code.
To sign up click here.

It's so easy, and so worth it! And you can use multiple gift cards at once. I save my gift cards to use $25 at one time, so I get free shipping on Amazon.
Even if you don't sign up, now you know what you are missing out on and can't say you didn't know! :-)

And of course some pictures of the boys. They are very into there homemade juice popsicles!

I got $30 of Amazon Gift cards for nothing!!

I was skeptical of this at first, but it's legit. I have now "earned" my 6th, five dollar gift card to Amazon.com. I have also redeemed them, and gotten the books shipped to my house (so it really is true!)
And even if it was a "scam", there's nothing to scam me out of, except maybe my time. But for me, I'm not wasting any time b/c I normally use Google or Yahoo at least 3 times a day. But now instead of those search engines, I use Swagbucks.com for my search engine. Very simple to use!
Check it out if you have 3 min. to spare!

So the first order of business–What is Swagbucks?

Swagbucks is a site that lets you earn Swagbucks (points) by literally just searching the web… something we do on a daily basis anyways! They also have an excellent referral program! If you refer someone over to Swagbucks and they earn a Swagbuck, you will earn a Swagbuck too–up to 100 Swagbucks! So you could potentially earn 100 Swagbucks from each friend you refer! Plus, once you accumulate enough Swagbucks, you can cash them in for various rewards, including Amazon.com gift cards! Yay!

How do you get started?

•Go here and register on Swagbucks by creating an account
•You will get 30 Swagbucks just for signing up!
•After registering, you can immediately start searching for anything you want on the web just by using the Swagbucks search engine!
•Periodically, while searching, you may see a pop up that says you’ve won anywhere from 10 to 100 or more in Swagbucks. From what I’ve heard, the best time to search is in the morning or the evening.
•Another way to earn Swagbucks, is by entering the Swagcode that is released almost everyday. This is a special code that you can enter in the swagcode box and you will instantly earn Swagbucks without having to search for them! How do you get this special code? Go to the Swagbucks homepage, click on “Ways to Earn” in the top left, then click on “Special Offers” and then click on the “No Obligation Offers” blue box on the right.
One you get to this page, it will state this:

Welcome to Swag Bucks Special Offers. Sign up for the free money-saving offers you like,
feel free to skip the rest, and find a special swag code reward at the end.

Skip ALL the offers by clicking the skip button or the See Next Offer button beneath the advertisement. Finally after about 7 pages you’ll be awarded with a Swagcode! Enter the code in the box provided on the homepage to see how much you’ve earned.

•After you’ve earned enough points, you can click on the upper tab labeled “Prizes”.� Scroll down and under the categories section on the left hand side you should see “Gifts and Rewards”–click there. Now you can start scrolling through all the gift cards they have available. The Amazon.com gift card is by far my favorite reward! You can score a $5 Amazon.com gift card with just 450 Swagbucks, so literally in a month you could earn a $5 Amazon.com gift card!