Realistically, how much in a year???

[AdventurerKat]

We have our big family trip planned for next October now instead of may since everyone wanted to do the Halloween party. So I have a longer time to save up rewards (provided I don't panic or get excited and use them for one of my solo trips)

I do three programs pretty faithfully, MyPoints, CreationsRewards and I use eBates. I am going to try to pick back up on CTTM but I am not sure what to do about Memolink. Seems like people wait forever to get paid from them and sometimes I wonder if at all. I also do one of the survey sites which I expect if I am lucky will make $20.00 or so in the next year, lol. I was doing RewardTV and lucked out the first time I cashed in but not since so kind of gave up on that.

What have you made in a year? I plan on shopping for my cat needs and vitamins online and anything else I might need when I can hit that free shipping or it just works out cheaper. And of course any tupperware needs I might have...sure wish they would bring back the gcs!

In any event, I am hoping, after a year of rewarding to have made at least $250.00. Does that seem reasonable? Unrealistic? I know some of you have done VERY well but I don't do test drives and things like that because I don't drive. I just try to make sure if I am buying something online I find out if someone rewards for it.

So let me know how you do and if you thinking my plan is attainable if I kick my RP-ing up as much as I can. Should I still do Memolink and PCH since people seem to have so much trouble getting paid?

Thanks. This trip is going to be a long one for us so we need every bit of cash we can get.

 

[Eilonwy]

Well, I haven't added them up by reward program, but so far this year I've earned about $600 cash/webbies/reward cards that I can count towards my Disney trip. I'm still waiting for about $50 of that from Blink, Memolink, and LuckySurf (I just emailed LuckySurf today, so we'll see). I didn't have any problem getting my WalMart GC from PCH Points, so I don't know why the LuckyPoints one is taking almost two months. The others I know I may never see--I've stopped doing Blink, but I figure Memolink only takes a minute or two everyday, so I'll continue and hope for the best. The almost $600 is also NET after you take off what I spent on Tupperware, etc. (things I wouldn't normally be buying) to earn the Webbies. This does include $200 in Test Drives.

From Surveys and another Test Drive, I've earned an additional $150 in Giftcards for things like Olive Garden, Amazon, Borders, and The Gap. These are things that I can't in someway use for my Disney Trip or for things I would do normally, like shop at WalMart, so I don't count them in my Disney total.

And I've earned over $150 in DDRD on my Disney Visa since March.

So I think $250 is certainly doable, depending on how much online shopping you do for things that you would buy anyway. About $75 of my Webbies were from when Tupperware had the $1 GC, so that was some easy money before they took it away.

I plan to design a new spreadsheet for the New Year so I can keep better track of my earnings per program. Right now I just have them in one big running total when I cash out.

 

[AdventurerKat]

Thanks Sue. Since PCH and Memolink are connected I just figured they both might be a lost cause but I will see about doing them both a little better. I do shop online quite a bit and I am getting a new contacts prescription after the first of the year and that 1-800-contacts banner at MyPoints is looking pretty good to me. I want to get the disposables so every month or two months for 750.00 points would be pretty good.

I just ordered gift bags through Tupperware which I will use to put Xmas gifts in and I think I am going to get my nanny a couple of things from there for her Xmas gift basket we are making her.

I would just like to say "look honey, I made this much $$$ off of my RPS" so he stops looking at me like I am nuts when he sees me doing them.