Earn Back on Groceries through Saving Star

Saving Star is a great way to save on groceries or earn a little extra cash. The site has a list of stores you can shop from, and you either tie your rewards/store card into their system to automatically get the savings back, or you can take a picture of the receipt for certain stores (Walmart, Target, etc) and submit it online.

At the beginning of every week they offer one produce item that you can get 20% back on. This can range from bananas, avocados, tomatoes, onions... This week the item is lemons and limes.

Also every week they offer one item you can get 100% savings on. That's right - one free item per week. In the past I've received Morton salt, baking soda, ICE water, candy bars, single serve ice creams, and more. This week the free offer is a 3-4 oz Ben and Jerry's mini cup of ice cream.

They offer many savings similar to coupons, and they also have "one or many" offers where you can save $5 when a certain amount of money on products. One of the examples they have up now is to save $5 when you spend $25 on Ore Ida products. You don't have to purchase all the products at once and can keep submitting receipts until the offer expires or you earn enough.

Once you reach $5, you can cash out via PayPal, send it to your bank account, or donate it to charity.

Check out the site. 

Join Club Skinny for Rewards

Looking for another rewards program? Enjoy the Skinny Cow brand? Join Club Skinny for a chance to earn rewards such as coupons, gift certificates, hoodies, and more! I joined today and already earned enough for a $5 gift certificate to a participating retailer. I plan on saving up, however, for a better reward.

CLICK HERE to check it out and join today.

Make Easy Money with 1Q!

Looking for ways to make passive, quick, easy money? Sign up for 1Q. They'll send a quick and easy survey to your phone via text and all you have to do is reply back with your answer (usually just selecting A, B, C, or D etc.) As soon as you do within a timeframe, they'll IMMEDIATELY send $1.00 to your paypal account. You can earn $1.00 per question.

Example? Just this past weekend they sent out a survey during the superbowl, asking a question related to the superbowl. I've also had questions about my personal preferences on things like products or activities.

The downside? There's not a whole lot of questions - you may get one every week or so. However, it takes less than a minute when you do receive a survey and you immediately get $1.00!! Definitely great as an extra money maker.

CLICK HERE to sign up for 1Q today!

Make Money with Amazon Mechanical Turk

I recently got into working with Amazon Mechanical Turk to make some money on the side while at college. I actually joined towards the end of spring this year, but since my information wasn't confirmed right away (I believe I forgot to provide my SSN when setting up payments to go into my bank account) I slowly crept away from it. 

Thankfully I kept seeing others post about MTurk online and the easy money they were making, so at the beginning of August I contacted them and asked what I needed to do to get my account up and running with the correct information. It was settled within two days and I was making money. 

Basically companies and people put tasks called "HITS" on MTurk with a price amount you'll be paid to do the HIT for and an allotted timeframe you need to complete them in. The more HITS you do with a good approval rating, the more HITS there are that will open up for you to do.

The best part about MTurk is that YOU choose how much you earn. If you don't feel that a HIT paying 10 cents for 3 minutes of work is worth your time, you don't have to do it. You can use the search function to separate HITS out by time, price, and many other options. I usually set my search function to look for HITS paying at least 30 cents, and then I find ones that will take around 3 minutes to do. If it's a slow weekend, however, I'll lower my standards just so I can get more HITS in and more money if I have the time to do so. 

You don't have to be too dedicated to the site if you're just in it for a little extra cash (which you can have sent to your bank or have it automatically deposited in your amazon gift card account). As you can see below some days I earn less than a dollar, but that's because I only did a few HITS and they probably weren't worth a lot. I do what I can when I have time. On other days, I can earn a lot more when I put more effort into it. 8 HITS earned me almost $6. Sometimes the requester will even give you bonus money or a chance to win bonus money. Check it out and see what you can earn!

Yes to Grapefruit Facial Towelettes Review after Target Deal

So after a brief walk through of Target this afternoon when my only intent was to pick up some more popchips, I happened across the facial care aisle. Turns out there was a gift card deal going on -- buy two Yes To... products and get a $5 gift card. I saw that the cheapest products you could get were the facial towelettes at $5.99 a piece (so with the gift card deal it was like I was getting one of them for only 99 cents). I picked up two of the grapefruit variety, however they also have cucumber, blueberry, and probably a few others I can't remember. If you want to give any of these a try I recommend you get a $2 coupon to go with this deal by heading over to the Yes to Carrots facebook page and printing it off to get even more savings.

As I said, I purchased the Yes To Grapefruit Brightening Facial Towelettes which comes with 25 towelettes. They are facial cleansing wipes that claim to cleanse, exfoliate, and leave skin feeling soft and bright. It's 98% natural and the towelettes have slight texture to help exfoliate. 

The packaging is excellent. I must admit, the pink appeals to my feminine side. However, I quite love the lid that easily locks back in place to keep the towelettes moist and fresh when not in use. The towelettes have a grapefruit sent to them which is nice and not in any way overpowering. They left my face feeling fresh and with a bit of a tingle. I cannot attest to brightening my skin or making it softer because I only used them once so far. Even if they did or didn't do that I wouldn't mind since I only care about something easy to use to clean my face with if I'm tired at night or in the morning and don't want to waste time using a face wash. The price is about a dollar higher than what I normally spend on face cleansing towelettes, but I'm sure coupons would help out in that area.

You can purchase these and many other Yes To products by heading on over to their website if you don't wish to travel to Target.

Where to Earn Easy Money Online

    Every so often my opinions change on various money earning sites and, of course, I always find new and better ones. So here is my latest list at the beginning of 2013 of my current favorite places to earn money online.

Opinion Outpost

     Opinion Outpost is a survey site. In exchange for taking surveys, you are given Opinion Points which you can use towards rewards. 1 Opinion Point is equivalent to 10 cents. Shorter surveys are generally worth 5 Opinion Points, while longer ones are usually worth anywhere from 10 to 30 Opinion Points, sometimes more. In my experience rewards immediately arrive. I only cash out with Amazon, and my code arrives in my email mere seconds after requesting it.

     Rewards Include: PayPal, Amazon, Restaurant.com, American Red Cross donation, or Alawar games. All rewards require a minimum amount of points before you can cash out.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OPINION OUTPOST

Tellwut

     I only just came across this website and I'm already loving it. Tellwut is a survey site, however, I would consider it more of a "polling site". Users can join and take surveys or create their own to earn points. Surveys are usually 5 points for one question surveys, 10 points for multiple question surveys, and 25 points for business created surveys. Points quickly add up to rewards which, when redeemed, are shipped to your household address. You will probably earn over 1,000 points just on your first day when you catch up with all the surveys on the website. Check daily for new surveys.

     Rewards Include: Amazon (US and Canada), Walmart, Home Depot (US only), Best Buy (Canada Only), Cineplex, and Future Shop (Canada only).

CLICK HERE TO JOIN TELLWUT

Swagbucks

     Swagbucks is a rewards site in which you gain "Swagbucks" through various activities such as: surveys, daily polls, games, watching videos, getting free codes from them, and by using their search engine on a daily basis which will allow you to randomly win swagbucks. You can then redeem these Swagbucks in their swagstore for gift cards or many other items.

      Rewards Include: Many gift cards at different value ranges and many various items.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN SWAGBUCKS

Jingit

     Jingit is a website that allows you to earn money by watching videos and commercials. The payout is decent and you can put it immediately on a debit card you can purchase from them. There are many times when the ads are lacking, but then again there are times when you can earn up to $15 a week.

     Rewards Include: Money, which you can transfer to a Jingit Debit card or you can use on musicme to purchase songs.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN JINGIT

Crowdtap

     Crowdtap is a website that allows you to earn points in exchange for rewards. You can earn points by answer polling questions that their partner companies have them post. You can also earn points by sharing various websites on social media and getting friends to check out those posts, by participating in actions, and by being a part of a sample share (where you get free products to test out and pass out to your friends/family).

     Rewards Include: Amazon, and other gift cards or money off offers. 

CLICK HERE TO JOIN CROWDTAP