Reward Sites that Work
I just want to take some time to tell you about a couple of the reward sites that I use that really work. While none of these sites will make me rich they do pay and every little bit helps out.
This site is one of my favorite reward sites. Originally this site was created to save money for college but now you can have the earnings transferred directly into a High Yield Savings Account at Sallie Mae. Since January I have had $455 deposited into the Sallie Mae savings account that I opened thru the Upromise website. That is an average savings of $65 a month.
To earn this money, I load all their grocery e-coupons onto my shopper cards which I have registered on the Upromise website. Since these are e-coupons, there is nothing to print, clip, or remember to bring to the store with you. All you need to do is shop at the store you normally shop at and use your shopper card. If you purchase an item and there is an e-coupon loaded on your card, this coupon will be credited to your Upromise account. Once a coupon is used it is no longer on your card, so the drawback is only 1 coupon but one of the things I have noticed if I use a paper coupon on an item and I have a paper coupon for that same item, the e-coupon sometimes still gets credited to my account!
Once I went shopping at Stop and Shop, they had Hot Pockets for 2/$4. I had two $0.95 cent off 2 Hot Pockets and there was a $1 off 2 Hot Pockets loaded on my Stop and Shop card. Stop and Shop is one of the stores that double coupons so both paper coupons were doubled to $1.90 for a total of $3.80 and the $1 e-coupon was credited to my Upromise account for a total savings of $4.80 on 4 Hot Pocket Packages. Instead of $8 these 4 packages ended up only costing $3.20 or $0.80 each!
Another way I earn money is by registering my Debit Card and Credit Card on the Upromise website. I then earn cash back for eating out at restaurants that participate in the Upromise Dining Program. My family and I usually eat out once a week so this is a great way for us to earn money back on something we already do!
The last way I earn money from Upromise is I have installed their Turbo Saver Toolbar. If I go to an online store that has partnered with Upromise for cash back rebates the toolbar detects this and tells me and activates my cash back rewards. This way I do not miss any of the savings I am eligible for when shopping online!
Upromise has other ways you can earn money such as gas rewards with a speedpass at Exxon or Mobil or even booking travel through their website but the three ways above is the way I have been earning my money. And while it may not make me rich I can certainly use an extra $60/month or an extra $720/year that does not take up much of my time. Sign up, registering shopper cards, registering debit and credit card and opening a Sallie Mae account took me less than 15 minutes to do. Coupons are refreshed monthly so once a month I go on the website and load all the coupons to my shopper cards which only takes a couple minutes and I have them for the entire month without having to remember to bring them to the store. Then once a month around the 15th of the month my rewards are deposited into my Sallie Mae Savings account without me having to do anything!
This is my second favorite rewards site. Using this site, I earn on average $25 a month in gift cards to some of my favorite retailers both on and off line. Granted this also will not make me rich but I will take $300 a year in gift cards to be spent at retailers I use on a regular basis. Swag Bucks awards you Swag Bucks for performing actions on their site. You then take these Swag Bucks and redeem them for prizes which range in price from 5 Swag Bucks to over 80,000 Swag Bucks. Their prizes range from virtual prizes such as wallpaper for your computer to a Kindle Fire to 32 inch LCD TV’s. Plus they have gift cards to retailers such as Amazon, Chili’s, Barnes and Noble, CVS, Target and many more. They even have options where you can redeem for PayPal cash.
To earn Swag Bucks, I installed the Swag Bucks toolbar. Just for opening my web browser I get 1 Swag Buck per day for having this tool bar. I then answer the daily poll and earn 1 more Swag Buck. Sometimes after answering the poll they offer you a short video ad to watch and you can earn an additional 2 Swag Bucks. I then go to the survey area to see what is out there and maybe answer a couple of surveys. They do let you know what the award is in Swag Bucks and how long they survey should take so these are the things I look at to decide which surveys to answer. Surveys can be anywhere from 25 Swag Bucks up to a whopping 700 Swag Bucks, so well worth taking the time to see what is there.
The method I use most for earning Swag Bucks is searching. Instead of using Google to look for items I use the Swag Bucks search which is available on the toolbar and the website. I have found the results are very similar to what I would have gotten with Google but I have the opportunity to earn Swag Bucks while I find the information I am looking for. I have earned as few as 6 Swag Bucks and as much as 40 Swag Bucks performing a search.
Swag Bucks does have other ways you can earn Swag Bucks from them but the methods I detailed are what I use on a regular basis it has been netting me an average of $25 in gift cards a month without my having to put in too much effort or time.
