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		<title>YouData:  Make Friday a PayDay (Earn $ for viewing ads)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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Have you heard of You Data?
The concept is simple&#8230;..Advertisers will pay you to view text ads (and visit the homepage of their website). What I love about YouData is that you can fill out a profile about yourself and give as little (or as much) information as you want&#8230;&#8230;it can be as simple as  you [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Have you heard of You Data?</span></strong></p>
<p>The concept is simple&#8230;..Advertisers will pay you to view text ads (and visit the homepage of their website). What I love about YouData is that you can fill out a profile about yourself and give as little (or as much) information as you want&#8230;&#8230;it can be as simple as  you are a mom in TX, for example. Hardly any information is required.</p>
<p>Log into your YouData account whenever you want and they will tell you if advertisers are willing to pay you to look at a text ad&#8230;.this includes companies you&#8217;d recognize, small companies and organizations too. I have found some great new companies this way too, especially smaller boutiques.</p>
<p>They pay you to look at an text ad &#8211; and you can earn a bit more for clicking over to the website.  You don&#8217;t have to stay.</p>
<p>Every Friday, YouData deposits the money in your PayPal account for your activity that week. Safe and consistent. Every Friday</p>
<p>They won&#8217;t send you emails or reminders&#8230;.you just visit them whenever you want. I like that.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">How do you Get Started?</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">SIGN UP:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.youdata.com/join/tink11" >YouData sign-up &#8211; click here</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">CELLPHONE:</span></strong> You&#8217;ll need a cell phone number (only for sign-up). They do this in order to make sure you are a live person and aren&#8217;t trying to set up multiple accounts. They will text you an activation code&#8230;..and that&#8217;s it.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">PAYPAL account:</span></strong> You&#8217;ll need to open a PayPal account if you don&#8217;t already have one. You Data was the reason I opened my account, and it&#8217;s already come in handy. Many popular retailers let you order online and pay using PayPal. I love PayPal because I can transfer the money easily into my checking account.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">MeFile:</span></strong> Fill out your MeFile (profile) and tell them as much or as little about you as you are comfortable with&#8230;.what kind of music you like, etc. This will help them get the right ads to you. They don&#8217;t want to offer you children&#8217;s clothing ads to watch if you have no children.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Sign up your Spouse:</span></strong> You can have 2 active accounts per household&#8230;.you&#8217;ll need separate email addresses and cellphone numbers though so they know you aren&#8217;t trying to double dip.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Visit once a week:</span></strong> Remember, what I love most about YouData is that you won&#8217;t get emails from them reminding you to visit. If you don&#8217;t visit and log-in, you won&#8217;t get any $$$, it&#8217;s as simple as that. I try to visit each Thursday (right before they send out payments for the week). It takes me no more than 2-3 minutes to view my weekly text ads. Some weeks there may be no ads for your particular demographic&#8230;.they may be targeting women or men of a certain age that week. There have been weeks where I&#8217;ve earned up to $6.00 and some where I earned 20 cents, but little by little you&#8217;ll save up that money. Just forget it&#8217;s there in your PayPal account til next year!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">PAYDAY:</span></strong> Every Friday, usually in the afternoons for me, you&#8217;ll receive a notification from PayPal that YouData has sent money to your account for your activity that week.</p>
<p>I just visited and found 9 ads waiting for me!  Took me less than 3 minutes&#8230;..love it! I&#8217;ve been using YouData since 2009!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youdata.com/join/tink11" >YouData sign-up</a></p>
<p>Enjoy!
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		<title>Opinion Outpost: Earn ($) for taking Surveys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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I get many emails asking about  survey companies and ways to make a bit of extra money. Yes, I take surveys, but only from reputable companies. I&#8217;m Type A and quite conservative, so I really do my research before I even sign up. Most survey companies I have used are absolutely wonderful to work with&#8230;&#8230;but [...]]]></description>
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I get many emails asking about  survey companies and ways to make a bit of extra money. Yes, I take surveys, but only from reputable companies. I&#8217;m Type A and quite conservative, so I really do my research before I even sign up. Most survey companies I have used are absolutely wonderful to work with&#8230;&#8230;but there have been one or two that I have never mentioned on A Frugal Friend&#8230;..and won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Survey companies are a way you can earn a bit of cash or merchandise on your own time and when the kids are fast asleep. You decide how much time you want to spend doing it. You don&#8217;t have to accept every opportunity that comes your way&#8230;..in fact, you can ignore them. I love that.</p>
<p>Previously, I spotlighted the survey company, <a href="http://www.afrugalfriend.net/2010/06/ipsos-i-say-survey-panel-pays-in-cash/" ><strong>Ipsos i-Say</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m highlighting <a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><strong>Opinion Outpost</strong></a>, which I&#8217;ve been using for about 3 years.</p>
<p><strong>Earning Points:<br />
</strong><br />
For completing a survey, you will earn points. The amount of points available for you to earn differs with each survey, but I&#8217;ve seen a wide variety of points offered per survey. At Opinion Outpost, you only need 50 points to start redeeming. 10 points equals $1.00.</p>
<p><strong>Redeeming Points:</strong></p>
<p><strong>UPDATED:</strong> You can redeem your reward points with <a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><strong>Opinion Outpost</strong></a> in several ways &#8211; just updated recently:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Amazon Gift Card</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for Amazon Gift Cards. Just 50 points will get you $5.00 cash and you can redeem! It doesn&#8217;t take long at all to earn that.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Cash</span></strong> &#8211; sent via check.  You&#8217;ll need 200 points to redeem for $20 cash.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Citi Gift Card </span></strong>- you can redeem with $15 (150 points)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Donation to American Red Cross</span></strong> &#8211; need a $10 (100 points) minimum to redeem &#8211; Love this new option!</p>
<p><strong>Opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>Survey opportunities are emailed to you. It&#8217;s best to open them as soon as possible, so they don&#8217;t fill up. What I&#8217;ve noticed with Opinion Outpost is that I always seem to have survey opportunities (more than most). Today I received a survey opportunity by email, and when I logged in, I had several other opportunities waiting for me.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Preliminary questions</span></strong> &#8211; when you open up the survey link, they might ask you a few preliminary questions to see if you qualify. Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; remember, surveys fill up quickly at times. They are looking for a certain demographic with each survey. Some are obviously looking for parents of children, some look for persons who consume or purchase certain items. If you don&#8217;t qualify, you&#8217;ll know pretty quick. Just wait for the next opportunity&#8230;..it likely won&#8217;t be long. With Opinion Outpost, they always seem to ask questions that don&#8217;t have anything to do with the survey at first&#8230;&#8230;I&#8217;m sure they are trying to find out if you fit with other survey opportunities they have for you.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Advantages:</span></strong></p>
<p>1. I do get many survey opportunities from them each week<br />
2. Get points for Referring Friends<br />
3. CASH &#8211; they&#8217;ll send checks (I&#8217;ve received them) <img src='http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
4. Only have to attempt to take 1 survey every 3 months to remain active</p>
<p>Note: 1 account per household and for US or Canada residents.</p>
<p><a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><strong>Opinion Outpost</strong></a> is an easy one to start out with.  Enjoy!
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		<title>Ipsos i-Say Survey Panel &#8211; Earn Cash ($)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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I constantly am asked what I think about survey companies for making a few extra dollars.  I think it can be a good thing, and I have used them, but only a few select reputable companies.  I&#8217;m very particular and do quite a bit of research before I sign up.  And while [...]]]></description>
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<p>I constantly am asked what I think about survey companies for making a few extra dollars.  I think it can be a good thing, and I have used them, but only a few select reputable companies.  I&#8217;m very particular and do quite a bit of research before I sign up.  And while I don&#8217;t have near as much time to participate in surveys as I did a year or two ago, I have to admit that it&#8217;s fun to get paid for answering questions&#8230;..love those checks in the mail.  Yes, some pay in cash!!</p>
<p>Here is one company that I have personally used (and been paid from!):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel:</strong></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #993366;"><strong></strong></span>Most rewards are either <strong>CASH </strong>or <strong>American Express Gift Card</strong>. I noticed that change last year, which really made me pay attention to their particular surveys in my inbox (versus other companies).</span></p>
<div><strong>Earning Points:</strong></div>
<div><strong> </strong>For completing a survey, you will earn points. The amount of points available for you to earn differs with each survey, but I&#8217;ve seen up  to 100 points per survey.</div>
<p>Partial points are awarded if you don&#8217;t qualify for a survey. Many times a survey has either already filled up or I am just not who they are looking for. Ipsos i-Say is one of the only survey companies that I&#8217;ve seen do this. Because of this, I always open their surveys and try to qualify.  Just tonight, I didn&#8217;t qualify for a survey, yet received 10 points just for trying.  <img src='http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Redeeming Points:</strong><br />
You can redeem your reward points with Ipsos i-Say in one of a few ways:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Gift cards</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for American Express Gift Cards. Just 500 points will get you a $5 Gift Card!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Cash</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for cash, issued as a check.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Donate</span></strong> &#8211; There&#8217;s also an opportunity to donate reward points to charity</p>
<p><strong>Opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>Survey opportunities are emailed to you. It&#8217;s best to open them as soon as possible, so they don&#8217;t fill up. Not only do you have the opporunity to earn rewards by taking interesting surveys, but you might also have the opportunity to try new products. You always have to promise confidentiality (that&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t tell you exactly what projects I&#8217;ve been involved with). That&#8217;s important not only to Ipsos i-say, but to the companies wanting the research done as well.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Preliminary questions</span></strong> &#8211; when you open up the survey link, they might ask you a few preliminary questions to see if you qualify. Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; remember, surveys fill up quickly at times. They are looking for a certain demographic with each survey. Some are obviously looking for parents of children, some look for persons who consume or purchase certain items. If you don&#8217;t qualify, you&#8217;ll know pretty quick. Just wait for the next opportunity&#8230;..it likely won&#8217;t be long. The best part, is that with Ipsos i-Say, you&#8217;ll earn 1 point even if you don&#8217;t qualify.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Poll Predictor </span></strong>- After you have completed a survey, you will be given the opportunity to play the Poll Predictor Game. You can opt out if you don&#8217;t want to play &#8211; it&#8217;s no big deal. You are asked a question and have to guess what percentage of the population it applies to. You get so many Poll Predictor points based on your answer and you can spend those points on chances to win things like Home Depot gift cards. I never count on winning, but I like to see if I can guess correctly. It&#8217;s just fun.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Advantages:</span></strong></p>
<p>1. Earning points even if you don&#8217;t qualify for survey</p>
<p>2. I do get many survey opportunities from them each week</p>
<p>3. The opportunity to earn reward points for trying new products</p>
<p>4.  US and Canada</p>
<p>5. CASH</p>
<p>It&#8217;s super easy to join the  <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel</strong></a>!  This is a good one to start out with.</p>
<p>Check back this week as I focus on more ways to earn a bit of extra money!
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		<title>Ipsos i-Say Survey Panel (Pays Cash $$)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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With the holidays behind us, many are taking the month of January to regroup and get focused on finances.  I constantly am asked what I think about survey companies for making a few extra dollars.  I think it can be a good thing, and I have used them, but only a few select reputable companies.  [...]]]></description>
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<p>With the holidays behind us, many are taking the month of January to regroup and get focused on finances.  I constantly am asked what I think about survey companies for making a few extra dollars.  I think it can be a good thing, and I have used them, but only a few select reputable companies.  I&#8217;m very particular and do quite a bit of research before I sign up.  And while I don&#8217;t have near as much time to participate in surveys as I did a year or two ago, I have to admit that it&#8217;s fun to get paid for answering questions&#8230;..love those checks in the mail.  Yes, some pay in cash!!</p>
<p>Here is one company that I have personally used (and been paid from):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel:</strong></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #993366;"><strong></strong></span>Most rewards are either <strong>CASH </strong>or <strong>American Express Gift Card</strong>. I noticed that change last year, which really made me pay attention to their particular surveys in my inbox (versus other companies).</span></p>
<div><strong>Earning Points:</strong></div>
<div><strong> </strong>For completing a survey, you will earn points. The amount of points available for you to earn differs with each survey, but I&#8217;ve seen up  to 100 points per survey. At Ipsos i-Say, you only need 500 points to start redeeming.</div>
<p>Partial points are awarded if you don&#8217;t qualify for a survey. Many times a survey has either already filled up or I am just not who they are looking for. Ipsos i-Say is one of the only survey companies that I&#8217;ve seen do this. Because of this, I always open their surveys and try to qualify.  Just tonight, I didn&#8217;t qualify for a survey, yet received 10 points just for trying.  <img src='http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Redeeming Points:</strong><br />
You can redeem your reward points with Ipsos i-Say in one of a few ways:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Gift cards</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for American Express Gift Cards. Just 500 points will get you a $5 Gift Card!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Cash</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for cash, issued as a check. Just 1000 points will get you $10.00 cash! It doesn&#8217;t take long at all to earn that.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also an opportunity to donate reward points to charity and an option to redeem for amazon gift cards.</p>
<p><strong>Opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>Survey opportunities are emailed to you. It&#8217;s best to open them as soon as possible, so they don&#8217;t fill up. Not only do you have the opporunity to earn rewards by taking interesting surveys, but you might also have the opportunity to try new products. You always have to promise confidentiality (that&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t tell you exactly what projects I&#8217;ve been involved with). That&#8217;s important not only to Ipsos i-say, but to the companies wanting the research done as well.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Preliminary questions</span></strong> &#8211; when you open up the survey link, they might ask you a few preliminary questions to see if you qualify. Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; remember, surveys fill up quickly at times. They are looking for a certain demographic with each survey. Some are obviously looking for parents of children, some look for persons who consume or purchase certain items. If you don&#8217;t qualify, you&#8217;ll know pretty quick. Just wait for the next opportunity&#8230;..it likely won&#8217;t be long. The best part, is that with Ipsos i-Say, you&#8217;ll earn 1 point even if you don&#8217;t qualify.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Poll Predictor </span></strong>- After you have completed a survey, you will be given the opportunity to play the Poll Predictor Game. You can opt out if you don&#8217;t want to play &#8211; it&#8217;s no big deal. You are asked a question and have to guess what percentage of the population it applies to. You get so many Poll Predictor points based on your answer and you can spend those points on chances to win things like Home Depot gift cards. I never count on winning, but I like to see if I can guess correctly. It&#8217;s just fun.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Advantages:</span></strong></p>
<p>1. Earning points even if you don&#8217;t qualify for survey</p>
<p>2. I do get many survey opportunities from them each week</p>
<p>3. The opportunity to earn reward points for trying new products</p>
<p>4.  US and Canada</p>
<p>5. CASH</p>
<p>It&#8217;s super easy to join the  <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel</strong></a>!  This is a good one to start out with.
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		<title>Pinecone Research Panel &#8211; accepting new applicants (Female 18-24)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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This doesn&#8217;t usually last too long, and this time it is limited to:
Females
ages 18-24
I&#8217;ve been signed up for about a year now and get $3.00 checks routinely!!  Love Pinecone!
Click here to sign-up for Pinecone Research Click Here

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<p>This doesn&#8217;t usually last too long, and this time it is limited to:</p>
<p>Females<br />
ages 18-24</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been signed up for about a year now and get $3.00 checks routinely!!  Love Pinecone!</p>
<p><strong>Click here to sign-up for Pinecone Research <a href="http://lm.logicalmedia.com/z/19377/CD4626/" >Click Here</a></strong>
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		<title>Use UPromise E-Coupons to earn $$ for college education &#8211; Have you Joined?</title>
		<link>http://www.afrugalfriend.net/2010/09/use-upromise-e-coupons-to-earn-for-college-education-have-you-joined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of new readers since I last talked about one of the best programs out there, Upromise &#8230;&#8230;.. a program that I think all of us with children or grandchildren should look into.
It&#8217;s a program where you can turn everyday spending into future money for college education. It&#8217;s something you can do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3781294-10488012?cm_mmc=CJ-_-2557379-_-3781294-_-Buy%20Groceries%20Today,%20Pay%20For%20College%20Tomorrow" target="_top"><br />
<img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.tqlkg.com/image-3781294-10488012" border="0" alt="Buy Groceries Today, Pay For College Tomorrow" width="300" height="250" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of new readers since I last talked about one of the best programs out there, <strong><a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3781294-10428611?cm_mmc=CJ-_-2557379-_-3781294-_-6-12-06_Upromise_Everyday_Spending"  target="_top">Upromise </a><img src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-3781294-10428611" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></strong>&#8230;&#8230;.. a program that I think all of us with children or grandchildren should look into.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a program where you can turn everyday spending into future money for college education. It&#8217;s something you can do right now, even when you may not have much to invest in the market.  Buy groceries or gasoline (things we all need) or even use coupons and it will earn you (or your children and grandchildren) money for college.</p>
<p>You can join for free. Then you register either a grocery card (like a Kroger card or a CVS card), credit card or debit card. I&#8217;d recommend starting with a grocery or drugstore card like I did.  You never have to add a credit card, but you&#8217;ll want it especially if you eat out a lot!</p>
<p><strong>PURCHASES: </strong> Upromise has partnered up with major retailers we all use (Target, Gap, Apple, Home Depot, etc) that will give you a rebate with every purchase. That rebate goes into your Upromise account and accrues until you roll it over and invest.</p>
<p><strong>E-COUPONS:</strong> Upromise gives you the ability to load e-coupons onto your grocery card and when you purchase that item at the store (and then scan your card), the value of that coupon is deposited in your account!  FREE MONEY!</p>
<p><strong>RESTAURANTS:</strong> Earn 8% back from more than 8,000 participating restaurants</p>
<p>Not only can parents of a child enroll in Upromise, but the child&#8217;s grandparents, aunts, uncles etc can all enroll under the same account to benefit the same child or children.</p>
<p>I joined back after we had our daughter!  Every bit helps and it&#8217;s never too early to start.</p>
<p>Check it out yourself by visiting <a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3781294-10428611?cm_mmc=CJ-_-2557379-_-3781294-_-6-12-06_Upromise_Everyday_Spending"  target="_top"><strong>Upromise</strong> </a><img src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-3781294-10428611" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> (it&#8217;s FREE of course)!<a href="http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/bounty-napkins.gif" ><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6535" title="bounty napkins" src="http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/bounty-napkins.gif" alt="" width="75" height="120" /></a></p>
<p><strong>SEPTEMBER UPROMISE E-COUPONS: </strong> You can load these to your grocery card after you join.  Here&#8217;s a sample of the e-coupons available:</p>
<p>50 cents off Elmers School Glue</p>
<p>$1.00 off Charmin Mega Roll</p>
<p>50 cents off Bounty Napkins</p>
<p>50 cents off Wacky Mac Pasta</p>
<p>50 cents off No Yolks Egg White Pasta</p>
<p>75 cents off Snyders Pretzels</p>
<p>$1.00 off Chiquita Bites Family Pack</p>
<p>50 cents off Wacky Mac &amp; Cheese Dinner</p>
<p>Check it out yourself by visiting<strong> <a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3781294-10428611?cm_mmc=CJ-_-2557379-_-3781294-_-6-12-06_Upromise_Everyday_Spending"  target="_top">Upromise </a><img src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-3781294-10428611" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> </strong></p>
<p>Enjoy!
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		<title>Survey Spotlight: Toluna (earn cash)</title>
		<link>http://www.afrugalfriend.net/2010/08/survey-spotlight-toluna-earn-cash-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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I get many emails asking about the checks I receive from survey companies each month. Yes, I take surveys, but only from reputable companies. I&#8217;m Type A and quite conservative, so I really do my research before I even sign up. Most survey companies I have used are absolutely wonderful to work with&#8230;&#8230;but there have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://enlnks.com/aff_c?offer_id=69&amp;aff_id=108"  target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.go2cdn.org/brand/files//escalatenetwork/69/300x250.gif" alt="" width="300" height="250" /></a><img src="http://enlnks.com/aff_i?offer_id=69&amp;aff_id=108" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></p>
<p>I get many emails asking about the checks I receive from survey companies each month. Yes, I take surveys, but only from reputable companies. I&#8217;m Type A and quite conservative, so I really do my research before I even sign up. Most survey companies I have used are absolutely wonderful to work with&#8230;&#8230;but there have been one or two that I have never mentioned on A Frugal Friend&#8230;..and won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Survey companies are a way you can earn a bit of cash or merchandise on your own time and when the kids are fast asleep. You decide how much time you want to spend doing it. You don&#8217;t have to accept every opportunity that comes your way&#8230;..in fact, you can ignore them. I love that. I didn&#8217;t have anything to do with surveys for the last 6 weeks that we were fighting ear infections and stomach bugs in our house. No problem&#8230;.you can do that.</p>
<p>The last few times I spotlighted the survey companies , <a href="http://www.afrugalfriend.net/2010/01/ipsos-i-say-panel-earn-cash/" >Ipsos i-Say</a> and <a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" >Opinion Outpost</a>.</p>
<p>This time I&#8217;m highlighting <a href="http://enlnks.com/aff_c?offer_id=69&#038;aff_id=108" >Toluna</a>, formerly Your2Cents, one that I&#8217;ve been signed up with for almost 2 years.</p>
<p><strong>Earning Points:<br />
</strong><br />
When you sign up you will receive sign up points automatically. For completing a survey (or participating in sponsored polls), you will earn additional points. The amount of points available for you to earn differs with each survey, but I&#8217;ve seen a wide variety of points offered per survey.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sponsored Polls</span> &#8211; this is one of my favorite ways to earn points.  Just log-in and answer some fun polls&#8230;..some are multiple choice and some you get to write your opinion.  It&#8217;s fun!</p>
<p><strong>Redeeming Points:</strong></p>
<p>You can redeem your reward points with Toluna in one of three ways:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Cash</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for cash and they&#8217;ll mail you a check.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">PayPal</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for<br />
cash deposited in your PayPal account. It doesn&#8217;t take long at all to earn that.</p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><strong>Gift Vouchers </strong></span>- This takes a bit more points to redeem for, but I actually prefer the check or PayPal method myself.</p>
<p>Minimum payout is $20 either by Cash or PayPal.  I just today looked in my account and have enough points to have a check issued.  YEAH!</p>
<p><strong>Opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>Survey opportunities are emailed to you. It&#8217;s best to open them as soon as possible, so they don&#8217;t fill up.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Advantages:</span></strong></p>
<p>1. <strong>CASH</strong> &#8211; they&#8217;ll send checks (I&#8217;ve received them)<br />
2. On sign-up you don&#8217;t have to divulge everything (I personally like that you can check,&#8221;Prefer not to say&#8221;&#8230;.note however that you may be limited with surveys based on needed demographics.</p>
<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://enlnks.com/aff_c?offer_id=69&#038;aff_id=108" >Toluna</a> and check it out!</strong>
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		<title>Christmas Cash: SwagBucks 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;&#8230;kids go back to school and before you know it we&#8217;ll be Christmas shopping. Or if you&#8217;re like me, you have a closet with some gifts already stashed.   There are a few things I do throughout the year that help pay for Christmas&#8230;.and you&#8217;ll find some of them on my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;&#8230;kids go back to school and before you know it we&#8217;ll be Christmas shopping. Or if you&#8217;re like me, you have a closet with some gifts already stashed. <img src='http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  There are a few things I do throughout the year that help pay for Christmas&#8230;.and you&#8217;ll find some of them on my navigation bar (up above) under Earning Extra $$. If you&#8217;re wanting a few extra dollars this holiday season, you might want to get started now.</p>
<p>The first one I&#8217;ll highlight is SwagBucks&#8230;&#8230;..mostly because I get paid for something I would do anyway!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://swagbucks.com/refer/AFrugalFriend"  target="_top"><img class="aligncenter" title="Search &amp; Win" src="http://prodegebanners.sitegrip.com/images/swagbucks-173x63Alt2.jpg" border="0" alt="Search &amp; Win" /></a></p>
<p><strong>What in the world is this SwagBucks thing everybody is talking about?</strong><br />
That&#8217;s what I kept saying too, now it&#8217;s my absolute favorite thing. I had heard about it for months, but kept putting it off. Finally I started looking into it and signed up over a year ago.</p>
<p><span style="color: #339966;"><strong>Swagbucks is an alternative to Googling, but the results are powered by Google</strong>. </span>More importantly, you win Swagbucks by searching. You win Swagbucks just for doing something you already were doing anyway &#8211; searching the internet.</p>
<p>They start you off with free Swagbucks and then you WIN Swagbucks when you search online. After only a few searches the first day, I had already accumulated many Swagbucks. After a couple of weeks, I had earned enough to redeem! Yeah. The best part &#8211; you can turn them in for gift cards (or other items).</p>
<p>The way I look at it, this is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">FREE money </span>they are giving me for choosing to &#8220;SwagBuck&#8221; something instead of &#8220;Google&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>A Few of my Favorites:</strong><br />
<span style="color: #339966;">$5 e-gift card to Amazon.com<br />
$10 e-gift card to Barnes N Noble<br />
$10 gift card to Starbucks<br />
$50 e-gift card to Southwest Airlines<br />
$5 PayPal (yes, cash)</span></p>
<p><strong>Other gift cards available:</strong> <span style="color: #000000;">Target, Disney.com, Lowe&#8217;s, Ticketmaster</span>, and so many more.<br />
<strong>Merchandise available</strong>- MP3 singles, books, TV series DVD&#8217;s, sports memorabilia and more.</p>
<p>Most of the time I redeem my SwagBucks for amazon gift cards&#8230;.as amazon has so much, including groceries. But I do have to tell you that we recently started redeeming ours for Lowe&#8217;s gift cards&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;and we bought all our supplies for a major home improvement project we just finished in December&#8230;&#8230;all FREE (just for searching the internet).</p>
<p>Everytime I need to search on the internet, I just go to the SwagBucks home page&#8230;&#8230;others have the option to download a toolbar on their computer. I find it easier to just go to their homepage. If you are online often, like me, you&#8217;ll earn quickly.</p>
<p>Make sure you get your spouse or significant other to sign up too! Another perk is that you can earn SwagBucks for referring your friends too or even recycling your old cellphone.</p>
<p>They often publish free SwagBucks codes on their blog and other places.</p>
<p>Each Friday is also <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mega SwagBuck day </span>and they are giving away extra large SwagBucks denominations, so do a few random searches for things on Fridays. Go there and search for fun activities for the weekend, the weather forecast, or even A Frugal Friend.</p>
<p>To sign up, click on the link below and start earning gift cards for something you already do:</p>
<p>S<strong>WAGBUCKS SIGN-UP: </strong><a href="http://partners.mysavings.com/z/5278/CD1447/" ><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
<p>Enjoy!
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		<title>Survey Spotlight: Opinion Outpost (pays cash $$)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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I get many emails asking about the checks I receive from survey companies each month. Yes, I take surveys, but only from reputable companies. I&#8217;m Type A and quite conservative, so I really do my research before I even sign up. Most survey companies I have used are absolutely wonderful to work with&#8230;&#8230;but there have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><img class="aligncenter" src="https://OpinionOutpost.com/affiliate/images/bannerads/Opinion-Outpost-blog-ad.gif" border="0" alt="" width="150" height="200" /></a><br />
I get many emails asking about the checks I receive from survey companies each month. Yes, I take surveys, but only from reputable companies. I&#8217;m Type A and quite conservative, so I really do my research before I even sign up. Most survey companies I have used are absolutely wonderful to work with&#8230;&#8230;but there have been one or two that I have never mentioned on A Frugal Friend&#8230;..and won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Survey companies are a way you can earn a bit of cash or merchandise on your own time and when the kids are fast asleep. You decide how much time you want to spend doing it. You don&#8217;t have to accept every opportunity that comes your way&#8230;..in fact, you can ignore them. I love that. I didn&#8217;t have anything to do with surveys for the last 6 weeks that we were fighting ear infections and stomach bugs in our house. No problem&#8230;.you can do that.</p>
<p>Recently, I spotlighted the survey company, <a href="http://www.afrugalfriend.net/2010/06/ipsos-i-say-survey-panel-pays-in-cash/" ><strong>Ipsos i-Say</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>This month I&#8217;m highlighting <a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><strong>Opinion Outpost</strong></a>, which I&#8217;ve been using for about 3 years.</p>
<p><strong>Earning Points:<br />
</strong><br />
For completing a survey, you will earn points. The amount of points available for you to earn differs with each survey, but I&#8217;ve seen a wide variety of points offered per survey. At Opinion Outpost, you only need 50 points to start redeeming. 10 points equals $1.00.</p>
<p><strong>Redeeming Points:</strong></p>
<p>You can redeem your reward points with <a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><strong>Opinion Outpost</strong></a>:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Cash</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for cash, issued as a check. Just 50 points will get you $5.00 cash! It doesn&#8217;t take long at all to earn that.</p>
<p><strong>Opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>Survey opportunities are emailed to you. It&#8217;s best to open them as soon as possible, so they don&#8217;t fill up. What I&#8217;ve noticed with Opinion Outpost is that I always seem to have survey opportunities (more than most). Today I received a survey opportunity by email, and when I logged in, I had 9 opportunities waiting for me.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Preliminary questions</span></strong> &#8211; when you open up the survey link, they might ask you a few preliminary questions to see if you qualify. Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; remember, surveys fill up quickly at times. They are looking for a certain demographic with each survey. Some are obviously looking for parents of children, some look for persons who consume or purchase certain items. If you don&#8217;t qualify, you&#8217;ll know pretty quick. Just wait for the next opportunity&#8230;..it likely won&#8217;t be long. With Opinion Outpost, they always seem to ask questions that don&#8217;t have anything to do with the survey at first&#8230;&#8230;I&#8217;m sure they are trying to find out if you fit with other survey opportunities they have for you.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Advantages:</span></strong></p>
<p>1. I do get many survey opportunities from them each week<br />
2. Get points for Referring Friends<br />
3. CASH &#8211; they&#8217;ll send checks (I&#8217;ve received them) <img src='http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
4. Only have to attempt to take 1 survey every 3 months to remain active</p>
<p>Note: 1 account per household and for US or Canada residents.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any questions at all about <a href="https://OpinionOutpost.com/join.php?aid=af11221-12085" ><strong>Opinion Outpost</strong></a>! Enjoy!
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		<title>Ipsos i-Say Survey Panel (pays in cash)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve been sick the past couple of weeks&#8230;&#8230;.and sometimes I find myself on the computer, but really don&#8217;t have the energy to do what I need to do.  So, I&#8217;ve been having fun taking more surveys than I normally do.  I like to pick the ones that pay me in cash, so I was happy [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve been sick the past couple of weeks&#8230;&#8230;.and sometimes I find myself on the computer, but really don&#8217;t have the energy to do what I need to do.  So, I&#8217;ve been having fun taking more surveys than I normally do.  I like to pick the ones that pay me in cash, so I was happy to see several from <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel</strong></a> in my inbox.  If you like to earn a few extra dollars, taking surveys is one of my favorite ways.  There are some bad sites out there (they know who they are), but I&#8217;ve been using Ipsos for almost 2 years now (and get PAID)!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel:</strong></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #993366;"><strong>***NEW***</strong></span> Most rewards are either <strong>CASH </strong>or <strong>American Express Gift Card</strong>. I noticed that change this January, which really made me pay attention to their particular surveys in my inbox (versus other companies).</span></p>
<div><strong>Earning Points:</strong></div>
<div><strong></strong>For completing a survey, you will earn points. The amount of points available for you to earn differs with each survey, but I&#8217;ve seen up  to 100 points per survey. At Ipsos i-Say, you only need 500 points to start redeeming. </div>
<p>Partial points are awarded if you don&#8217;t qualify for a survey. Many times a survey has either already filled up or I am just not who they are looking for. Ipsos i-Say is one of the only survey companies that I&#8217;ve seen do this. Because of this, I always open their surveys and try to qualify.  Just tonight, I didn&#8217;t qualify for a survey, yet received 10 points just for trying.  <img src='http://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Redeeming Points:</strong><br />
You can redeem your reward points with Ipsos i-Say in one of a few ways:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Gift cards</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for American Express Gift Cards. Just 500 points will get you a $5 Gift Card!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Cash</span></strong> &#8211; you can redeem reward points for cash, issued as a check. Just 1000 points will get you $10.00 cash! It doesn&#8217;t take long at all to earn that.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also an opportunity to donate reward points to charity and an option to redeem for amazon gift cards.</p>
<p><strong>Opportunities:</strong></p>
<p>Survey opportunities are emailed to you. It&#8217;s best to open them as soon as possible, so they don&#8217;t fill up. Not only do you have the opporunity to earn rewards by taking interesting surveys, but you might also have the opportunity to try new products. You always have to promise confidentiality (that&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t tell you exactly what projects I&#8217;ve been involved with). That&#8217;s important not only to Ipsos i-say, but to the companies wanting the research done as well. </p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Preliminary questions</span></strong> &#8211; when you open up the survey link, they might ask you a few preliminary questions to see if you qualify. Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; remember, surveys fill up quickly at times. They are looking for a certain demographic with each survey. Some are obviously looking for parents of children, some look for persons who consume or purchase certain items. If you don&#8217;t qualify, you&#8217;ll know pretty quick. Just wait for the next opportunity&#8230;..it likely won&#8217;t be long. The best part, is that with Ipsos i-Say, you&#8217;ll earn 1 point even if you don&#8217;t qualify.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Poll Predictor </span></strong>- After you have completed a survey, you will be given the opportunity to play the Poll Predictor Game. You can opt out if you don&#8217;t want to play &#8211; it&#8217;s no big deal. You are asked a question and have to guess what percentage of the population it applies to. You get so many Poll Predictor points based on your answer and you can spend those points on chances to win things like Home Depot gift cards. I never count on winning, but I like to see if I can guess correctly. It&#8217;s just fun.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Advantages:</span></strong></p>
<p>1. Earning points even if you don&#8217;t qualify for survey</p>
<p>2. I do get many survey opportunities from them each week</p>
<p>3. The opportunity to earn reward points for trying new products</p>
<p>4.  US and Canada</p>
<p>5. CASH</p>
<p>It&#8217;s super easy to join the  <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=98370&amp;u=355684&amp;m=14469&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=" ><strong>Ipsos Survey Panel</strong></a>!  This is a good one to start out with.  For more ways to earn a bit of extra money, click on the &#8220;Earning Extra $$$&#8221; tab on the Navigation Bar at the top of my blog!</p>
<p>Email me with any questions you have!
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		<title>SwagBucks&#8217; Summer of Swag (Monday will be HUGE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Frugal Friend</dc:creator>
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You ought to know by now that there are some things in life that are FREE, unlike the popular saying. Thanks to my using SwagBucks instead of Google to search the internet, I&#8217;ve received FREE magazines, Free Amazon, Macy&#8217;s, and Starbucks Gift Cards, but my personal favorite&#8230;.LOWE&#8217;S GIFT CARDS!
If you&#8217;ve been neglecting to use SwagBucks [...]]]></description>
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<p>You ought to know by now that there are some things in life that are FREE, unlike the popular saying. Thanks to my using SwagBucks instead of Google to search the internet, I&#8217;ve received FREE magazines, Free Amazon, Macy&#8217;s, and Starbucks Gift Cards, but my personal favorite&#8230;.LOWE&#8217;S GIFT CARDS!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been neglecting to use SwagBucks as your search engine (remember, it&#8217;s powered by Google), be sure to use it this week. It&#8217;s a HUGE week to kick off the Summer of Swag!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Monday (JUNE 7th) is a Swag Code Extravaganza</strong> &#8211; they are releasing at least 5 Swag Codes throughout the day &#8211; that means FREE SwagBucks for you and me.</li>
<li><strong>Monday (they&#8217;ll be awarding many 25 SwagBuck amounts)</strong>  Every 7th searching win on Swagbucks will be awarded that big bill.  Every day will be a different high value.  This is HUGE!</li>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>New to SwagBucks?</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>What in the world is this SwagBucks thing everybody is talking about?</strong><br />
That&#8217;s what I kept saying too, now it&#8217;s my absolute favorite thing. I had heard about it for months, but kept putting it off. Finally I started looking into it and signed up over a year ago.</p>
<p><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Swagbucks is an alternative to Googling, but the results are powered by Google</strong>.</span> </span>More importantly, you win Swagbucks by searching. You win Swagbucks just for doing something you already were doing anyway &#8211; searching the internet.</p>
<p>They start you off with free Swagbucks (extra right now for A Frugal Friend readers) and then you WIN Swagbucks when you search online. After only a few searches the first day, I had already accumulated many Swagbucks. After a couple of weeks, I had earned enough to redeem! Yeah. The best part &#8211; you can turn them in for gift cards (or other items).</p>
<p>The way I look at it, this is <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="color: #339966;">FREE money</span></strong> </span></span>they are giving me for choosing to &#8220;SwagBuck&#8221; something instead of &#8220;Google&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>A Few of my Favorites:</strong><br />
<span style="color: #008000;">$5 e-gift card to Amazon.com<br />
$10 e-gift card to Barnes N Noble<br />
$10 gift card to Starbucks<br />
$50 e-gift card to Southwest Airlines<br />
$5 PayPal (yes, cash)</span></p>
<p><strong>Other gift cards available:</strong> <span style="color: #000000;"> Disney.com, Lowe&#8217;s, Ticketmaster</span>, and so many more.<br />
<strong>Merchandise available</strong>- MP3 singles, books, TV series DVD&#8217;s, sports memorabilia and more.</p>
<p>Most of the time I redeem my SwagBucks for amazon gift cards&#8230;.as amazon has so much, including groceries. But I do have to tell you that we recently started redeeming ours for Lowe&#8217;s gift cards&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;and we bought all our supplies for a major home improvement project we just finished in December&#8230;&#8230;all FREE (just for searching the internet).</p>
<p>Everytime I need to search on the internet, I just go to the SwagBucks home page&#8230;&#8230;others have the option to download a toolbar on their computer. I find it easier to just go to their homepage. If you are online often, like me, you&#8217;ll earn quickly.</p>
<p>Make sure you get your spouse or significant other to sign up too! Another perk is that you can earn SwagBucks for referring your friends too or even recycling your old cellphone.</p>
<p>They often publish free SwagBucks codes on their blog and other places.</p>
<p>Each Friday is also <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mega SwagBuck day</span>and they are giving away extra large SwagBucks denominations, so do a few random searches for things on Fridays. Go there and search for fun activities for the weekend, the weather forecast, or even A Frugal Friend.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">To sign up</span></strong>, click on the link below and start earning gift cards for something you already do:</p>
<p><a href="http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&amp;rb=296438" ><strong>SwagBucks sign up &#8211; click here</strong></a></p>
<p>Use code<strong> <span style="color: #008000;">SUMMEROFSWAG</span></strong><span style="color: #008000;"> </span>when you sign up for an extra 20 Swag Bucks free.</p>
<p><em>(NOTE: This code expires June 11th at midnight)</em>
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