Archive for the ‘Making Money’ Category
Double Rewards This Week
This week Swagbucks is doubling the number of “winning moments” for anyone who uses the search feature. This gives us all an opportunity to rack up a bunch of swagbucks toward another gift card. My wife just cashed in her swagbucks for a $5 Amazon.com gift card and is on her way to another one. [...]
Get Money Back for Online Purchases
I have been getting my e-mail caught up the last few days and have seen a few that wanted to know how it works to get money back for your online purchases. It really comes down to three programs: Big Crumbs Big Crumbs is my favorite online shopping portal. The reason I call it a [...]
Thrifty Tips 9/3/09
From time to time readers send me tips on how they save money. I take the best of them and compile a few into one post. Here is the latest group. Use Oatmeal for Bug Bites Kids and bugs don’t always mix well. When we get bug bites, I put cooked oatmeal right on the [...]
Nielsen Taking Applications for Homescan
The Nielson Company is famous for doing ratings on just about everything you can think of. Most people know about their ratings when it comes to television and radio, but they do so much more. Right now Nielsen is taking applications for their Homescan program. If you are selected as one of the people they [...]
Pinecone Research Accepting New Applicants
-This link went bad about four hours after I posted it. Pinecone is very quick to pull the plug due to their wanting to keep the pool of people they survey very exclusive and specific. I will post about them again as soon as I find another link- Pinecone Research is one of the few [...]
Swagbucks Still Going Strong
One of the real downsides to programs that allow you to earn free stuff is that they tend to not be able to sustain their business model. Swagbucks is proving to be an exception. After using Swagbucks for ten months they have been very reliable in delivering free gift cards to me for using them [...]
Looking for a New Rewards Credit Card
Chase has decided to abandon the Chase Freedom credit card as we currenlty know it. No long will they be allowing 3% back on your top three most used categories and 1% back on everything else. They are also ditching the extra $50 dollars for waiting to cash out until you get to $200. The [...]
Earnings Update 3/17
From time to time I like to give an earnings update for how I am doing with my various programs that earns cash or gift cards (which spend just like money). Here is the latest: Cash Duck – This one had fallen out of favor because there were not enough programs to keep earning, but [...]
Making Money from Your Techno Waste
Some techno waste is worthless. A good example would be the CRT monitors that people used to use and have given up for the smaller flatter LCD monitors. These old monitors are hard to get rid of and I have heard of people spending as much as $20 to have someone dispose of them safely. [...]
Extra Earnings Update
After seeing that I am almost able to cash out again with Cash Duck I decided it was time to do an update on the programs where I earn extra cash and gift certificates. After each program I will provide a link to a blog entry where I describe how the program works. Cash Duck [...]
