I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical when I heard about Swagbucks. But there was no harm trying it out, right? So I did and I am very happy to say that I just redeemed my first Amazon gift card and it worked!!! I even bought a book at Amazon just to test out the gift card and it worked. I still have more swagbucks in my account that I will be saving for Christmas. If you have never heard of Swagbucks, you can check it out HERE. Basically it’s a search engine that you can use to search for stuff on the web. It works just like the other search engine. When you do your searches, you will win swagbucks. Mostly it’s 1 swagbuck for searches but sometimes you’ll get more. You can also win swagbucks when you buy from their store. Accumulate those swagbucks and you can redeem them for gift cards. I use 45 swagbucks to redeem for a $5 Amazon gift card. Not  a big amount but it is enough to buy a book for my girl. The best part is that it doesn’t take a lot of effort since I spend a lot of time looking up information on the net anyway.