Baby needs a new pair of shoes

     Okay so it wasn't the baby who needed shoes. My son who is 10 needed new shoes. His running shoes had holes in the soles and were cracking. I was a bad mom and didn't notice till yesterday how bad they were. He has a pair of Canvas type shoes to wear right now but they won't last like regular tennis type running shoes. I bought the canvas shoes last summer on clearance for $1. I bought them a few sizes too big and so now they fit!
    It's winter so he needs new shoes. The canvas ones really won't last in rainy cold weather.  How can I afford new shoes if I'm not going to spend any money from my budget? Have no fear... His new shoes were purchased last night and were shipped today from Amazon. I didn't spend 1 penny of our money to buy them!
    HOW? I'm a swagbucker... er hmm... is that the term? I participate in Swagbucks. I had swaggbucked years ago. It was just a toolbar that I installed and occasionally got "points" called swagbucks from my normal searching. The points were never cashed out and I switched computers and forgot about it. Recently I read about it again on a forum. I decided to sign up... Guess what? Nearly 5 years later my account was still valid and my points were just sitting there! Plus the site had changed (Or perhaps I never discovered the full website? previously) I could now watch tv clips, do surveys, play games, shop, or do other things for points.
     I re-started on Dec 21, 2012. I had 400 swagbucks just 50 shy of a $5 amazon gift card. By the end of the month, I had $25 worth of Amazon gift card. It is now Jan 16th (less than 1 month since I re-started) and I have cashed out another $25 worth of Amazon gift cards!
     So now you know how I bought my son his new shoes without spending any money from our bank accounts!

http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/rdesonia

   Now you can't get rich with Swagbucks but it can help pay for the little things here and there. If you want to sign up click the link. I'll get a little referral bonus. I'll get the same rewards a referred person gets up to 1000 swagbucks only on searchs. Normally you get 8 to 10 swagbucks a day or so from your random searches. So I only get anything if a person actually uses the site and the toolbar.

. (*I don't want people think I'm just trying to get them to sign up for something because I'll make a profit off them. At the moment, I have had one page view to my blog and that was my husband. So if anyone is reading this at some date in the future... I'm not recommending Swagbucks for my own profit. I'm recommending them because I really have cashed out prizes. It's not a pyramid scam where a person gets huge bonuses for recruiting others. Swagbucks doesn't charge you anything to sign up. And if you want, you can go directly to the site and sign up if you don't want me to get a referral bonus.)

Have a great day and stay thrifty!