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Mega SwagBucks Friday – Earn Points Towards Gift Cards & More

January 4, 2013 by The Frugal Batavian 18 Comments

Today is Mega SwagBucks Friday! One of the easiest ways to earn SwagBucks is to search the internet today where you can easily earn 2 to 3 times as many SwagBucks as you would on a typical day. Not a member yet? You’ll receive 30 bonus points just for signing up today! Once you’ve earned as little as 450 Swagbucks, you can cash it in for my favorite reward, a $5 Amazon gift code! These codes add up quickly, and if you save them up, you could use them to help pay for Christmas this year!

I just redeemed my Swagbucks the other day for a $20 Amazon Gift Card which will help cover my toilet paper I buy on Subscribe & Save!! So, I will be receiving 48 rolls of toilet paper absolutely for FREE! Sweet!

What is SwagBucks?

SwagBucks is a place where you can earn points for searching the web, performing daily tasks, and more! When you search the web, you will randomly earn points as you search. All points can be redeemed towards items or even gift cards. For example, 450 Swagbucks will get you a $5.00 Amazon gift card which is easy to earn if you were to perform a few tasks a day using SwagBucks. I use my SwagBucks exclusively on the Amazon gift cards and let it accumulate for a big shipping order in the future. To date, I’ve earned over $55 in Amazon gift cards in the last year alone! Join for free to start working on your points for gift cards.

Easy Ways to Earn More Swagbucks

Install the Swagbucks Toolbar. Each day you sign in you’ll be rewarded with 1 Swagbuck. You can still just go to the Swagbucks page, but if you’d like it to be a little easier just install the toolbar and then you’ll be all ready to go. Occasionally you’ll find special Swagbucks Codes that you can add to your account on the Swagbucks homepage.
Complete NOSO (No Obiligation Survey Offers). Just click through the screens (I usually skip all the offers) and after a few screens you’ll be rewarded with 2 points. You can do this every single day. 2 points a day is going to add up to 60 points a month.
Take the Daily Poll. Just answer a quick question (you’ll find it under the “Earn” tab at the top of the page and you’ll be rewarded with 1 point per day….30+/- points/month!
Watch Swagbucks TV. I will pull up Swagbucks while I’m working on the computer. Start a video, go about my business and I’m rewarded 3 points for every few videos I watch. You can earn 75 points in a 24 hour period.
Follow the Swagbucks Blog. Occasionally they will share codes within the blog that you can enter on your Swagbucks homepage.

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Mega SwagBucks Friday – Earn Points Towards Gift Cards & More

November 2, 2012 by The Frugal Batavian 6 Comments

Don’t forget that today is Mega SwagBucks Friday! One of the easiest ways to earn SwagBucks is to search the internet today where you can easily earn 2 to 3 times as many SwagBucks as you would on a typical day. What makes this even sweeter is that starting yesterday, Swagbucks has lowered the “prices” on gift cards and removed the limit on the number of gift cards you can get each month! How cool is that?

With the exception of the $5 Amazon gift card, all gift cards in the Swag Store are now the same SwagBucks-to-dollars cost. All $5 gift cards are now 500 SwagBucks, $10 gift cards are now 1000 SwagBucks, and so on.

What is SwagBucks?

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Join Jingit – Get Paid to Watch Online Ads, Shop & More!

September 30, 2012 by The Frugal Batavian 4 Comments

If you haven’t heard of Jingit, let me tell you more about them. Jingit allows you to earn real cash in return for watching ads online, for checking in and shopping for select products at your favorite stores and even for giving your feedback to leading brands by taking brief surveys. First off, in order to join this FREE opportunity you must:

Have a Facebook Account to join (this is how you sign up)
Have a mobile cellphone with text messaging (this is required to confirm that each account is a unique person)

Aftr joining Jingit, you start out with a $5 weekly earn limit. Then, when you post Jingit to your Facebook wall or invite friends to join, your earn limit will increase $0.25 for every friend that joins Jingit through your wall post or invite! You will be credited once friends complete the sign up process and you can increase your weekly earn limit up to $15. And any time you see an ad with the Jingit logo online, click on it and that ad pays you! How cool is that?

One way to earn your money is by signing up for the Jingit Visa Debit Card and add the cash from your Jingit account to the card (Note that you will need to use Jingit earned cash to pay the $2 fee, so be sure to accumulate at least $2 in your account before you apply for the card). After you apply for your Jingit Visa Debit Card, your card will be mailed to you within 3 weeks! This isn’t the only option, but I like the ease of using a Visa Debit Card for my purchases.

Want to sign up – click to join now!

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SavingStar: Buy $20 Worth of Unilever Products and Get $5 Cash (Valid thru November 22nd)

September 29, 2012 by The Frugal Batavian 5 Comments

SavingStar has a sweet deal where now through November 22nd, buy $20 worth of Unilever Products AND get $5 back in your SavingStar account! Remember that you can buy the Unilever products in one shopping trip or over several different trips – as long as you purchase $20 worth by 11/22/12.

Not familiar with SavingStar?

It’s simple. Whenever you use your loyalty card at checkout and purchase an item for which you’ve loaded an eCoupon for, the savings will automatically be deposited into your SavingStar account. This can then be redeemed for a deposit into your bank or PayPal account, an Amazon gift card, or a donation once your account reaches $5! It’s really simple to use, and to get started. Your grocery bill will stay the same, but the savings are automatically added to your SavingStar account. Once you reach $5 in savings, you can request a payout from a deposit into your bank or PayPal account, an Amazon gift card, or a donation to American Forests. They have local stores like Tops Markets and Wegmans too! Just remember that when you search by zip code that it might not populate the store if it’s not in that zip code. So to search for Wegmans, you will probably need to look up the nearest stores zip code.

To take advantage of SavingStar:

Sign up for a SavingStar account- it’s FREE!
After you log in, enter your zip code to see what stores are available for you to link your Store Loyalty card.
Browse through the available eCoupons and click to activate the ones you want.
If you have an iPhone or Android, you can even even download the SavingStar app so you can click the eCoupons you want on the go. Just download the iPhone app or Android app to get started.

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SavingStar: Digital Coupons for Rite Aid, Tops Markets & More (Redeemable for Cash & Amazon Gift Cards!)

September 28, 2012 by The Frugal Batavian 38 Comments

If you use a store loyalty or rewards card, then you should check out SavingStar for additional savings. SavingStar is a national, digital grocery eCoupon service that allows you to add paperless eCoupons (meaning electronic coupons) to your existing grocery or drug store loyalty cards. There are currently over 24,000 stores participating that represent nearly 100 retail chains which means there is a good chance that a local chain is included. For my area, this includes local chains like Tops Markets & Wegmans! How cool is that?

In a nut shell, whenever you use your loyalty card at checkout and purchase an item for which you’ve loaded an eCoupon for, the savings will automatically be deposited into your SavingStar account. This can then be redeemed for a deposit into your bank or PayPal account, an Amazon gift card, or a donation once your account reaches $5! It’s really simple to use, and to get started.

To take advantage of SavingStar:

Sign up for a SavingStar account- it’s FREE!
After you log in, enter your zip code to see what stores are available for you to link your Store Loyalty card.
Browse through the available eCoupons and click to activate the ones you want.
If you have an iPhone or Android, you can even even download the SavingStar app so you can click the eCoupons you want on the go. Just download the iPhone app or Android app to get started.

Your grocery bill will stay the same, but the savings are automatically added to your SavingStar account. Once you reach $5 in savings, you can request a payout from a deposit into your bank or PayPal account, an Amazon gift card, or a donation to American Forests.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t use a store or manufacturer coupon in addition to using this. If anything, you are saving MORE money! Just shop like you normally would, with or without coupons, and make sure you have the eCoupons that you want loaded and watch the savings add up.

Filed Under: Earn Money / Rewards, Print Coupons, SavingStar