Okay you loyal readers you. Scratch that… you loyal READER you. I’m sure there is one of you out there?

I just cashed in for my *SECOND* $5 Amazon gift card of 2010 through Swagbucks. I have been using Swagbucks for a little over a year now. Throughout 2009, I earned enough swagbucks to cash in for over $265 in Amazon gift cards. That paid for a good chunk of Christmas presents for my kids. If there was ever a year we needed a little help, 2009 was it. It was so very helpful!

I don’t expect to earn nearly as much in 2010. I had about 20 referrals in 2009 (many of which mind you, I got just from posting my wins to Facebook and catching the attention of a curious Facebook friend here and there). So, I was earning swagbucks for my own searches, and then each time they won, I also won the same amount - until they reached 100 swagbucks. A $5.00 Amazon Gift Card costs 45 swagbucks. How do you earn swagbucks? EASY. You stop using Google. You make Swagbucks your primary search engine. It is google powered, so you are going to get very similar search results. You don’t *have* to download anything. You can download a toolbar, but you don’t have to. I like the Google engine better for searching for images, but otherwise, Swagbucks is very comparable. I know this to be true because it’s all I use now (and I was a mega googler before)! Anyway, you will randomly “win” a swagbuck for searching. I have the best luck later in the evening (which happens to be when I’m looking for various things on the Internet), I think because the East Coast has all gone to bed. I have won as much as 20 swagbucks on one search. Most are just 1 swagbuck wins. Some are $2, $3, $4 or more. They also put out swagcodes, that you can redeem for 1 free swagbuck. These come out pretty much daily, so you can almost earn a $5 Amazon card just from copying and pasting the codes they publish!

I figure if I can earn two $5.00 Amazon gift cards per month, that is $120.00 by the end of the year that can be spent on Christmas gifts and it would be 100% worth my time. I am doing nothing different. We all search the Internet. I just choose to search through swagbucks.com so that I can earn gift cards for doing so. Easy!

I have no referrals right now, so whatever I earn, is completely by myself. If you have not started using this site, I highly recommend it. It is WORTH checking out!!

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