Hubby-Time, Swag Bucks, and Amish Stories

I took Bruce to the dentist today to have his teeth cleaned, then ran a couple of errands with him, came home to cook him some breakfast, started school with the kids, and now I'm sitting here blogging while the kids are working quietly.

If you recall, I joined Swag Bucks a while back and promoted it here on my blog. I still promote it. It's been great!! I've gotten several free things from swag bucks, mostly the $5.00 Amazon gift cards, which I've been loading to Amazon and watching my FREE money pile up. Anything I have ordered through Swag bucks has had free shipping too. That's a bonus. Anyway, I like reading Beverly Lewis books and bought her Seasons of Grace series using my Amazon cards I got from my Swag bucks winnings. I just finished the first book this morning, The Secret. It's kind of different, in that there is really no closure to the story in this first book. So I'm eager to begin the second and continue reading about Grace Byler, her mother's strange disappearance, and Heather, a young woman whose mother passed away not long ago and who has escaped to an Amish community to deal with her own recent diagnosis of cancer. Good story line so far.

If you want to join Swag bucks and start earning your own Amazon cards, or whatever other gift cards you may be interested in, just sign up there at the Swag bucks there in my sidebar. It's the easiest thing I've ever done. I joined, downloaded the Swag Bucks tool bar, and started using their search engine when searching the web. And that's how easy it is. Just search something in their search engine, and it's a chance to win swag bucks.

Bruce's dentist told him that Bruce's Uncle Major was in our town's newspaper, so we stopped on the way home and grabbed a paper. He read me the article as we drove home and it was really nice. Bruce's Uncle Major is a funny man. He's quite the character, let me tell ya! The write-up about him was good and I enjoyed hearing it. He just celebrated his 80th birthday, if I'm not mistaken. So Happy Birthday, Uncle Major! We love you.

I've cleaned out closets and drawers and cabinets and last night I cleaned out my washroom. I could not believe how much stuff was in there that we either didn't need or just didn't use any longer. Don't worry, Bruce, I didn't get rid of anything that belonged to you. :D

It looks so much better in there! I love a decluttered, less chaotic look, don't you? Have you ever seen that show Hoarders? I've only watched it once or twice and these people are not hoarders, in my opinion. They're either lazy or have some sort of mental disorder that causes them to be like that. I can't watch it. I get ill.

Well, speaking of decluttered and less chaotic looks, I need to straighten up this living room and do some dusting.

I Do Love FREE!

Hey, if you haven't signed up for Swag Bucks and want to earn FREE stuff, now is the time! Yesterday and today, I've ordered three more FREE $5 Amazon gift cards and a FREE one year subscription to one of my favorite magazines. Did I mention the word FREE??

I ordered some multiplication and division cards for Harrison and a mouse pad last week. The cards were FREE and the mouse pad was FREE and there is ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING on Swag Buck items!! Did I mention the word FREE??

And tomorrow I'll be ordering two more FREE $5 gift cards to Amazon. :P Love my FREE stuff...especially those FREE gift cards!!

As soon as my FREE gift cards show up in my Swag Bucks account, I load them to Amazon where they never expire. I love watching my Amazon account grow with all that FREE money!

Go ahead...click the link in my sidebar and start earning your FREE stuff today!!! :) Just use their search engine when you search anything on the web. I downloaded their toolbar and it makes it a lot easier.

Hope you have as much fun as I've been having!!

Who Likes Free More Than Me??

Justin left for the mountains this morning with his friend and their family. There were actually five of our senior boys from church going. I know they're having a great time. I hope Justin thought to take the camera with him. Would love to see some fun pics of them.

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I haven't mentioned this on the blog yet, but wanted to let you in on something I've been doing for a couple months now. I kind of wanted to test it out before promoting it. Just to make sure everything was up to par, if you know what I mean? And you know what? It is!!

If you scroll back up and look over to the right of my sidebar you'll see a Search and Win banner. There is also a swidget at the very bottom of this blog. I have joined a group called Swag Bucks. I had some serious reservations before joining and kind of just watched my friends as they did it. It was when a friend bought a Wii for her husbands birthday and never spent a dime on it that I decided to join.

Since then, I have accumulated $50 in Amazon gift cards and I'm almost ready to purchase $25 more in those gift cards too!! I thought I had more and then after looking things over, I realized I added things up wrong....SO DISAPPOINTED!! But hey, I still have free money in gift cards waiting on me to spend it when I'm ready. I'm saving up for something special.

Anyway, I thought there would be some kind of scheme tied to it. Like spamming emails or something like that. But nope...no spams. How about giving them a credit card number? NOPE! You don't do that either. What about purchasing things from their Swag store? Only if you want to. I haven't really seen anything worth spending my swag bucks on, so I keep them to purchase my Amazon cards. I have found that it's the best deal on the site to purchase the $5 Amazon cards, which are 450 swag bucks a piece. By the way, they have LOTS of different gift cards to order. But again...I LOVE the Amazon cards. If you know anything about Amazon, it's like a virtual mall. You can find pretty much everything there.

How do you win swag bucks? Just by using their search engine! It's that easy. You can do it from their site or download the toolbar. Which is what I did. Several times a day I'll search anything that comes to mind. Sometimes I'll just type in "facebook" or "thimble thoughts" and I'll win anywhere between 6 and 14 swag bucks. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but several times a day I'll win. Plus they have special codes that show up on their blog or their toolbar. It's really that simple.

You should give it a try. I am dead serious when I say that something that sounds too good to be true, usually is...but not swag bucks. It really is too good to be true, but it's true. I have had so much fun earning my swag bucks and working toward my special prize. LOL

If you're interested in signing up, just click the icon at the top of my sidebar and start earning your way to FREE MONEY!!! :D

Happy Swagging!