If any of you were wondering whether I would really receive the $149 gift card that I won off of Blingo - wonder no further. On Friday (twenty-four days after I won!) I recieved my gift card in the mail!
Oh what excitement! $149 all mine, to do with what I want. Now what shall I do?
I took my $149 gift card and did this:
Blonde and copper highlights.
Thanks 
!
Here are my tips for winning on Blingo:
Make Blingo your homepage.
Then, when your browser opens up you can just type the name of the site that you want to visit and you're up and running.
- Make Blingo Your Home Page in Internet Explorer
- Go to the Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
- See the box marked Home Page? Type "www.blingo.com" in the address box.
- Click OK.
- Now every time you open Internet Explorer or click on the "Home" icon, you'll go to Blingo!
- Make Blingo Your Home Page (Firefox)
- The easiest way is to drag this link (Blingo home page) onto your "Home" button.
- On Windows, choose Options from the Tools menu. On a Mac, choose Preferences from the Firefox menu.
- Click the General category.
- See the box marked Home Page? Type "www.blingo.com" in the location box.
- Click OK.
Add Blingo to Your Search Box
- Add Blingo to Your IE7 Search Box (Internet Explorer 7)
You can easily add Blingo to the handy search box at the top of every Internet Explorer 7 window.- Click this link to add Blingo to your list of search providers.
- Check the box to Make this my default search provider.
- Click Add Provider.
- Now when you type keywords into the search box and hit return, your search will go to Blingo!
- Add Blingo to Your Quick Search Box (Firefox)
You can easily add Blingo to the handy search box at the top of every Firefox window.- Click this link to add Blingo to your list of providers.
- Select Blingo from the pull-down list in the search box.
- Now when you type keywords into the search box and hit return, your search will go to Blingo!
- If you'd like to remove Blingo from your list of search engines, just go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins (or on a Mac go to Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/...), remove blingo.src and blingo.gif, and restart Firefox.
Invite your friends!
Every time you win something on Blingo the person who invited you to Blingo wins something. Now if you invite someone to join and then join and they win, you win the same prize they do. That's why it pays to invite people, because the more people you invite and the more searching we all do, the more likely we all are to win!
Keep in mind that only the person who invited you wins the same prize. So if I invited you and you invited a friend and your friend wins, only you and your friend the the prize; not me. And if I win a prize, the people I invited don't win the same prize, only the person who invited me.
Use it for everything!
The first time I won a prize on Blingo I was searching for Wikipedia. Of course, I knew the address of wikipedia, but I just typed the word into Blingo to use it as a search. Because some days I don't have a whole lot to search for and I figure every search is one search closer to winning.
Do remember, however that only your first 25 searches of the day count. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to search just to try to win, just use it to go to different web sites and to search. That's how I win!
Good Luck!
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