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This is my second post for today, scroll down for a little crafty goodness.

I love Friday’s because it’s Mega Swagbucks Day meaning your chances of earning more Swagbucks is higher on Fridays.  I told you about Swagbucks before, but thought I would bring it up again today, because if you sign up today while it’s still 2010 you will get 30 Swagbucks for joining, plus you can use code JoinIn2010 (case sensitive) to score another 30 Swagbucks and you start off with 60 (and it only takes 450 to get a $5 Amazon card!).

Basically Swagbucks is a search engine – like Google – and you can win points (Swagbucks) that you exchange for prizes.  I have to admit it all seemed complicated to me at first, but then I started using it and racked up the points and when I hit enough to score my first Amazon gift card, I was hooked.

You can load the toolbar, or just have Swagbucks open as a tab which is what I do.  And anytime I want to find something, I just type in the search box like you would a Google search.  I would guess that I do about 20 searches a day – sometimes for the same thing if I want to go back to a particular place – and I get points 1-2 times a day.  I still have all my favorite sites bookmarked but I just type in Papertrey Ink or whatever and that still gets me to the site I want to go to but it increases my chances of scoring – just a lil’ tip 😉

Your points are always showing up in the top right hand corner.  450 gets you a $5 Amazon gift card and you can use them as cash for your Amazon purchases.

There are other ecards you can buy with your accumulated Swagbucks, they have actual things you can buy too – I’m only interested in the Amazon gift cards 😉

You can also get 1 point per day for taking their daily poll.  You can get points for watching videos and playing games, and even shopping online via the links on their site.  It took me about 6 months of hearing about it to finally give it a shot.  I’ve only been doing it for about 2 months and I have already gotten (7) $5 Amazon gift cards…without even leaving my house…or my chair for that matter…and without even spending a dime.  I used my $5 Amazon cards to buy a Twilight DVD for $5.49 – so I got that shipped to me for 49-cents, and I heard that Santa did a lot of shopping there as well 😉  Give it a shot – it’s kinda like gambling, every time you do a search and hit enter you get excited to see if you’re going to earn something; fun even!