My Best Buy Buys 3/30/12

Guess how much the hubbs paid for this out of his allowance...

Go ahead, guess!
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Did you guess $1.90? (If you did, you're right!) We have a Best Buy Rewards Zone card where he had a $5 credit, then using his Shopkick app on his phone (see below for more details on Shopkick), he had earned another $15 credit to Best Buy. The game was $19.99, and to use all $20 credit, the total before tax had to be $20 or more, so he bought a Sprite to go with it.

With ShopKick, you earn points by "checking in" at various stores like Best Buy, Target, Old Navy, Macy's, American Eagle, Aeri, and others. ShopKick also offers you the chance to scan certain random items to earn more points (10 to 25, and even up to 100 points). When you get to 500 points you have earned a $2 gift card (though not all stores offer the $2 amount). You can get gift cards in various amounts ($2, $5, $10, $20, $25, $50, and even $100), and for the most part once you redeem points for a gift card, you are given a code or barcode to give to the cashier at checkout. You can get gift cards to stores like Best Buy, Target, Starbucks, iTunes, Macy's, Old Navy, Toys R Us/ Babies R Us, Lowe's, CVS, and more!

Use the link below to download the app to your smartphone 
http://get.shopkick.com/hornet9061

Getting Free Date Night Gift Cards

So I wrote a post on our date night on my other blog about how we used gift cards to help pay for them, but then realized that a lot of people don't get gift cards as Christmas presents, or know where else we get them from. So I thought I'd write up a post about it, so that if you don't get them as gifts, you can find other places to get them.

Money-Earning Apps for Your Smartphone

Now, I'm not so up with the technology yet, as I don't have a Smartphone, but the Hubbs has one, and has found two different apps that he uses to actually make money!

Opinion Outpost = Free Stuff on Amazon

Opinion Outpost is by far my favorite online survey site. I wrote about it a while back, when I did a 3-part series on ways to make money with online surveys. But I wanted to tell you about it again, in case you haven't signed up yet, and show you what you can get!

Legit Ways to Make Extra $$, Part 3

If this is your first time reading this series, check out Part 1 (with all my most favorites) and Part 2. Now all of these (even if you combine all of them) aren't enough to make up for an income working a full or part time job, but they do add a little extra spending money to your pocket. I've also heard people who save all their points and such until the end of the year, and then use it for Christmas shopping (what an easier way to budget, if you don't have to worry as much about those extra expenses at the end of the year!).

Legit Ways to Make Extra $$, Part 2

If this is the first time you're reading about this, I would suggest you check out my first post to learn more. Plus, my first post has my first favorites, these ones are also good, but start with the best!

Legit Ways to Make Extra $$, Part 1

So many of you see my posts on Facebook all the time with my couponing grocery trips. That's just one way that I "make money" (yes, I realize I'm actually saving it). What you don't really see on Facebook are the ways that I actually make money, granted it's not much and it's not going to pay the bills, but it does pay for some of the "extras" in life (and then I feel like I'm saving even more money!). I was going to do all of them in one post, but the more I thought I about it, it gets a little overwhelming when you're first starting. I just started with a couple, then slowly added to my list. So I have decided to do a series of posts on them.