Economic Endeavors

If you are a long time reader of my blog, then you know already how much I LOVE Swagbucks.com. For those of you who may not already be familiar with this awesome site, this post if for you!

There are a lot of scam sites out there who promise you a payout for simple searching online, but I have personally used Swagbucks.com regularly for the past seven months, and it really works! It's fast and easy, and you'll probably average 1-3 Swagbucks everyday just for doing something you are probably doing anyways- searching the web. Use Swagbucks everytime you need to do a search online, and randomly you'll be rewarded for your searching with Swagbucks that you can cash in for a ton of different prizes. A $5 gift card for Amazon.com only costs 45 Swagbucks! And your search results are from Google and Ask.com, so they're just as reliable as searching anywhere else.

For those of you who have a blog, or a friends and family who use the internet, you will definitely want to check out Swagbuck's great referral program. Refer your friends and you'll earn every Buck they earn, up to 100! That really adds up fast, the more referrals you have, the quicker you'll be on your way to earning some pretty fantastic prizes. From gifts cards for Amazon, Starbucks, iTunes, Best Buy, and many other stores, to memorabilia from your favorite bands and music artists, there are hundreds of prizes to save for. They even have a new section of prizes that is just "For the Kids!"'

Ready to sign up? It's easy to sign up (Name and email address, no credit card needed or anything like that) and Swagbucks has offered me a great incentive for readers of my blog who go and sign up before midnight Friday night:


Use this link to sign up for Swagbucks, and enter this special Swag Code to receive your 5 free Swagbucks: LAVONNESBLOG.

Then refer your friends and start searching and you'll be earning some pretty awesome prizes in no time!

Here's another Swag Code for all you SwagBuck users out there. This one is good all day, so no need to rush!

This Friday, Jan 16, at 8/7c the ABC show "Wife Swap" will feature a wife dedicated to staying home and clipping coupons who swaps lives with a super social, spendthrift family.



The coupon-clipping mom is a member of the online site, Refund Cents, and in honor of the episode, the site is offering free trial access this weekend, Friday through Sunday!

To take advantage of the free trial weekend, go to Refund Cents and enter the following:
username: wifeswap
password: wifeswap

For more info about Refund Cents, check out what the Northern Cheapskate has to say!

Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I'm a big fan of Swagbucks, because I earn a ton of free Amazon gift cards there. I average one or two $5 gift cards per day, mostly thanks to referrals who have signed up through my blog (Thank you!).

Those gift cards are even better when combined with free Amazon shipping, so I'm always on the lookout for free trials of Amazon's Prime membership. Members of Amazon Prime get free 2-day shipping on any orders bought directly from Amazon, so free gift cards + free shipping = lots of absolutely free stuff arriving on my doorstep each week.

This trial membership offer is the cream of the crop, because it gives you free shipping for 3 full months! And once you sign up, you can immediately go into your account and choose to shut off the auto-renew option, so your membership won't be renewed automatically. So no fear of future unwanted charges.

To sign up for this free trial offer:

• Click here to go to the offer on Amazon.
• Add a qualifying textbook to your cart (you will not actually have to purchase the book).
  
• Continue throughout the checkout process, including entering your credit card info (don't worry, there is one more step after the credit card page, so you are not authorizing any charges).
• On the final page to review your order, you will be asked if you want to sign up for the 3 month trial to receive free 2 day shipping on this order. Approve the trial membership, but DO NOT submit the order. Go back to your cart and remove the book from your cart.
• Go into your Account page, and scroll down to "Manage my Prime account"
• Click "Manage my Prime account" and disable the option to Auto-Renew your membership at the end of the 3 month trial.
• That's it! Enjoy your membership for 3 months, and no need to remember to cancel. If you like the membership and choose to continue with it, it costs $79.99 for a year, and you will need to manually go into your "Manage your Prime account" and renew it manually.
  

This week at Kroger, Fast Fixin' brand chicken strips are on sale for $1. Sign up at the Fast Fixin' site here for FIVE coupons for $1 off any Fast Fixin' product! (I believe the coupons are good on any size product).

Thanks, Erin!

**If you're not familiar with Swagbucks, read my posts here and here to see how you can earn tons of free gift cards!**


If you don't yet have a Swagbucks account, use my referral code here to sign up and get 3 free Swagbucks to get you started! Then, use the exclusive code below to add another free buck to your account!


Ok, here it is! An exclusive Swag Code just for the readers of my blog!

Today only, Jan 14, you can go to the Suave website and request your free Suave product coupon by mail.





The coupon can be used for one bottle of Suave Shampoo, Conditioner, Hair Spray, Styling Aid, BodyWash, or Body Lotion (up to $3.00)! One coupon per household.