I'm not sure where I first heard of Swag Bucks (most likely from the hundreds of blogs about being frugal that I've been scouring the web for) but one thing that I knew for sure... I had no idea what the heck a Swag Buck was or what you would do with it if you had one!
So last Thursday I updated my Facebook status to say:
What are swagbucks? Anyone use them? Educate me.
A few friends responded that they use Swag Bucks to do surveys, watch videos or use their search engine (among other things) to earn Swag Bucks. They eventually turn their Swag Bucks in for gift cards. One friend in particular mentioned that in the 3 years that she's been doing it that she's earned $500 in Amazon gift cards.
Since I didn't have to pay to get started (those things are always a red flag for me) I decided that it didn't hurt to give it a try. My friend gave me a referral and I clicked on it and began my adventure. That was about 5 days ago. While there are numerous gift card companies that are available, I believe that I'll try to earn Amazon.com gift cards. So in order to earn a $5 gift card to Amazon I have to earn 450 Swag Bucks.
Because I'm concerned with whether this is really worth my time or not I had to do some math. 1 Swag Buck = 1 cent. I'm not sure that sounds like a great return on my time. As I mentioned before I've been at this since last Thursday and so far I've earned 293 SBs... or $2.93! I haven't really kept track of how long it's taken me over those 5 days to earn that HUGE amount, but that's OK.
I have had very little "luck" with their option of earning SBs from surveys. It seems as though I don't qualify for much. I'm not going to buy a new car in the next few years (or ever), my Turkey Bottoms aren't allowed to watch as much TV or play video games as much as the standards require or perhaps there are too many other white married females taking these surveys ... but whatever the case I don't make much off the surveys, especially for the amount of time that they require.
I downloaded the Swag Bucks toolbar which is nice and earns me 1 Swag Buck a day just for using it. But, even better than that it allows me to "search and win". I use it in place of Bing or Google to search for things that I would normally search for... and every time I do there's a chance to win Swag Bucks. The most I've won in a search is 29 SBs. That's a decent return on the 2 seconds it took me to type into the search engine box something that I would have just typed into a Bing box.
The other way that I have earned quite a few Swag Bucks are from "watching" SwagbucksTV. Basically they have hundreds of videos: from Movie Trailers, to jokes, to clips from TV shows and tons and tons and tons of Hollywood gossip and much more. If you watch 10 videos you get 3 Swag Bucks. So here's what I do. While I'm writing blogs, checking email, playing Guess My Word on Facebook I have a video playing on a different page. Pretty soon I've earned my 3 Swag Bucks while doing the over things that I would normally be doing online anyway.
Another way to earn Swag Bucks is referring your friends. You invite them through your referral link for instance, mine is http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/FiscalMisfit and when your referrals earn Swag Bucks through searches you win matching Swag Bucks up to 1,000 SB per referral. So be sure to click on that referral and start searching away!! ;)
There are many other aspects of SBs that I haven't even begun to explore so I will try to update you more later on how successful this whole project is! For now the jury is still out on whether or not this is worth my time. I figure for now if I continue to use it for searches and watching the videos while I'm online it really doesn't waste any time. And if I earn a $5 gift card every week from now until Christmas that will add $60 to our gift giving and every little bit helps!
So how about the rest of you? Anyone else use Swag Bucks? What's the most that you've earned? Was it worth your time? For those of you who have never tried it does it sound like something that would be worth your time?
So last Thursday I updated my Facebook status to say:
What are swagbucks? Anyone use them? Educate me.
A few friends responded that they use Swag Bucks to do surveys, watch videos or use their search engine (among other things) to earn Swag Bucks. They eventually turn their Swag Bucks in for gift cards. One friend in particular mentioned that in the 3 years that she's been doing it that she's earned $500 in Amazon gift cards.
Since I didn't have to pay to get started (those things are always a red flag for me) I decided that it didn't hurt to give it a try. My friend gave me a referral and I clicked on it and began my adventure. That was about 5 days ago. While there are numerous gift card companies that are available, I believe that I'll try to earn Amazon.com gift cards. So in order to earn a $5 gift card to Amazon I have to earn 450 Swag Bucks.
Because I'm concerned with whether this is really worth my time or not I had to do some math. 1 Swag Buck = 1 cent. I'm not sure that sounds like a great return on my time. As I mentioned before I've been at this since last Thursday and so far I've earned 293 SBs... or $2.93! I haven't really kept track of how long it's taken me over those 5 days to earn that HUGE amount, but that's OK.
I have had very little "luck" with their option of earning SBs from surveys. It seems as though I don't qualify for much. I'm not going to buy a new car in the next few years (or ever), my Turkey Bottoms aren't allowed to watch as much TV or play video games as much as the standards require or perhaps there are too many other white married females taking these surveys ... but whatever the case I don't make much off the surveys, especially for the amount of time that they require.
I downloaded the Swag Bucks toolbar which is nice and earns me 1 Swag Buck a day just for using it. But, even better than that it allows me to "search and win". I use it in place of Bing or Google to search for things that I would normally search for... and every time I do there's a chance to win Swag Bucks. The most I've won in a search is 29 SBs. That's a decent return on the 2 seconds it took me to type into the search engine box something that I would have just typed into a Bing box.
The other way that I have earned quite a few Swag Bucks are from "watching" SwagbucksTV. Basically they have hundreds of videos: from Movie Trailers, to jokes, to clips from TV shows and tons and tons and tons of Hollywood gossip and much more. If you watch 10 videos you get 3 Swag Bucks. So here's what I do. While I'm writing blogs, checking email, playing Guess My Word on Facebook I have a video playing on a different page. Pretty soon I've earned my 3 Swag Bucks while doing the over things that I would normally be doing online anyway.
Another way to earn Swag Bucks is referring your friends. You invite them through your referral link for instance, mine is http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/FiscalMisfit and when your referrals earn Swag Bucks through searches you win matching Swag Bucks up to 1,000 SB per referral. So be sure to click on that referral and start searching away!! ;)
There are many other aspects of SBs that I haven't even begun to explore so I will try to update you more later on how successful this whole project is! For now the jury is still out on whether or not this is worth my time. I figure for now if I continue to use it for searches and watching the videos while I'm online it really doesn't waste any time. And if I earn a $5 gift card every week from now until Christmas that will add $60 to our gift giving and every little bit helps!
So how about the rest of you? Anyone else use Swag Bucks? What's the most that you've earned? Was it worth your time? For those of you who have never tried it does it sound like something that would be worth your time?
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