Share Your Rewards Toward Disney: Week of 10/8/17-10/14/17

[Jen and Ashwin]

I think @Marionnette is on her trip at WDW now. Hope she has an amazing time! I thought I would start the next thread for this week.

This thread is about earning rewards and creative savings to fund your next Disney trip. The rules are simple - just create a post and edit it to share what you've done each day to reach your goal. For inspiration, here's last week's thread:

https://www.disboards.com/threads/share-your-rewards-toward-disney-week-of-10-1-17-10-7-17.3637914/

 

[Jen and Ashwin]

Last week was better than I had anticipated. I already put $100 into my DVC contract fund so far this month and we are only a week into it. Hoping to keep the momentum going.

Sunday

• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 267 SB
• Earned 2000 Marriott Rewards points from Twitter

Monday

• Met first and second Swagbucks goal, earning 444 SB

 

[seeingstars]

Thank for getting us started on another week @Jen and Ashwin Good luck everyone!

Sunday

• Met first SB goal- Earned 306 total
• Earned $2.60 from Ibotta

Monday

• Met both SB goals-Earned 569 SB total

Tuesday

• Met first SB goal-Earned 391 SB total

Wednesday

• Met both SB goal-earned 232 SB
• Earned $3 from Pinecone Research

Thursday

• Met both SB goals-Earned 733 SB total
• Earned $40 from a dscout mission

Friday

• Met first SB goal-earned 316 SB total

Saturday

• Met first SB goal

 

[pinkxray]

I'm joining in! It's motivating to see everyone's progress.

Sunday-
-Cashed in 2400 SW points on Erewards for my acct
-Cashed in 1200 SW points under DH's acct
-ordered $100 Disney gift card from $61 rolled change from Disney jar and $35 PayPal from Swagbucks

I have been doing horrible with Swagbucks since our laptop died about a month ago
I need to pick it up a little to meet the goal I set in Aug

 

[tzeitel]

Sunday

• Swagbucks 168 (first goal)
• Bing 280
• MyPoints 18
• Perk 241

Monday

• Swagbucks 235
• Bing 300 3087/5250
• MyPoints 168
• Perk 994

Tuesday

• Swagbucks 171 - redeemed $25 PP
• Bing 330 3417/5250
• MyPoints 92
• Perk 263

Wednesday

• Swagbucks 173
• Bing 280 3697/5250
• MyPoints 69
• Perk 766
• emiles 72
• $40 - sold boots on FB group

Thursday

• Swagbucks 2262
• Bing 340 4037/5250
• MyPoints 115
• Perk - yeah I cant keep very good track of Perk, I'm at 17,437

Friday

• Swagbucks 155 redeemed $25 PP
• Bing 280 4317/5250
• MyPoints 38
• Perk 550

Saturday

• Swagbucks 262
• Bing 280 4597/5250
• MyPoints 81
• Perk 340

All my other sites I only do once in a while so it is not worth to put on daily (but will probably do on the last day of the week).

Total this week -

• Swagbucks 3426
• Bing 1810
• MyPoints 581
• Perk 3500
• Fetch Rewards 189
• ReceiptPal 200 (only had 2 cards available this week)
• Receipt Hog 330
• eMiles 72
• $40

 

[Narnia_girl]

Saturday was my birthday and I was gone all day having fun. That's a good thing, but it meant I missed my Swagbucks goal for the first time in months. Oh well, I started again yesterday (Sunday) and met my goal.

• Added 6 dimes to my Dimes for Disney bottle
• Cashed in Bing Rewards for $5 Amazon card.
• Earned $1.28 on Ebates

@Jen and Ashwin, are you still earning Marriott #points? My auto retweets are not earning and I got this email:
Apologies — we weren’t able to award points for your recent post. Here are the most common reasons why this might have happened:

• Your Marriott Rewards account is configured to earn miles instead of points. Please change this in your Marriott Rewards account settings.
• You have reached the annual maximum of 2,000 points earned through #MRpoints. You can earn points through #MRpoints again starting next year.
• Your Marriott Rewards account may no longer be active. Please contact Marriott Rewards Customer Care to resolve the issue.

 

[Jen and Ashwin]

@Jen and Ashwin, are you still earning Marriott #points? My auto retweets are not earning and I got this email:
Apologies — we weren’t able to award points for your recent post. Here are the most common reasons why this might have happened:

• Your Marriott Rewards account is configured to earn miles instead of points. Please change this in your Marriott Rewards account settings.
• You have reached the annual maximum of 2,000 points earned through #MRpoints. You can earn points through #MRpoints again starting next year.
• Your Marriott Rewards account may no longer be active. Please contact Marriott Rewards Customer Care to resolve the issue.

They ended the 50 points per day earnings opportunity about 2 weeks ago. For the last several Sundays they have had an NFL trivia question. You just need to tweet them the answer and get 1000 points. Hopefully it will return each Sunday throughout the NFL season because 1000 points per week is better than 350 points. Seems the promotions will change throughout the year though. People are generally keeping on top of what is happening with Marriott Rewards in the credit card thread.

 

[kristenrice]

Ooops....I'm a little late this week...it's the final countdown to Disney.

Sunday
All videos (and a few referrals)...no surveys and no real effort put forth. I still made my goal (7 days in a row now!!) and finished the day with 140 SB.

Monday
I started an nCrave when I got up, but I forgot to switch it over to an AYCE one before I left for work. I got home from work 2 hours late and I was not happy to see my whopping 6SB for the day...towards my goal of 100. Fortunately, I was able to get the AYCE running and I slowly started creeping up. By 9pm, I was exhausted, but still only sitting at 37 SB...but a survey for 125 SB popped up and I was able to complete it in about 10 minutes. I left the AYCE running and went to bed. My final total for the day was 184 SB.

Tuesday
I was SO busy, I honestly don't even remember what I did! Looking at my ledger, I was able to get 278 SB, which was almost all nCraves. I didn't make my second goal, but I am on day 10 in a row of making my first goal.

Wednesday
Yeah!!! My nCraves were started when I left for work at 0730 this morning...here it is, 2030 at night and they are STILL going! I haven't had to restart it! I also did 2 surveys and I have hit my SECOND goal! As of now, I am at 381 for the day and the nCrave is still going. I'll update tomorrow with the final total. DH is still running his nCraves too which means more referral points too. The final total was 465 SB...and the nCraves are STILL going...

Thursday
...woke up to 59 SB already for the day with the nCraves still running. My goal is only 99 so hopefully I can hit that without any effort. I have to work 12 hours tomorrow and I leave Saturday for WDW. I wasn't planning on taking my laptop with me, but I guess it wouldn't hurt. I know I will probably be awake long before my traveling companion so I could try some surveys in the morning and maybe the nCraves will run there too. My backpack will just be a little heavier with my laptop and iPad in it. I don't use the laptop on the plane (too big) so I have to bring the iPad for my entertainment.
I went to my plasma donation today and I was really hoping that my hematocrit would be high enough so I could donate and earn the $10 bonus ($60 total!). I was so happy when she said it was 41 (38 is the minimum)....but then I was heartbroken when she said my protein level was only 5.9...6.0 is the minimum. They are closed tomorrow which means that I can still earn the $60 if I can get in a donation on Saturday...the day I leave for WDW. I'm probably going to give it a try.

I didn't do anything else today except let the nCraves run and I also got one search for 11 SB (which was doubled due to the Spin and Win) and my final tally for the day was 365 SB!!

Friday
When I woke up this morning and saw that my nCraves are still running and I made my second goal yesterday, I was ecstatic. I have to make it through one more shift at work and then I am officially on vacation.

 

[Narnia_girl]

They ended the 50 points per day earnings opportunity about 2 weeks ago. For the last several Sundays they have had an NFL trivia question. You just need to tweet them the answer and get 1000 points. Hopefully it will return each Sunday throughout the NFL season because 1000 points per week is better than 350 points. Seems the promotions will change throughout the year though. People are generally keeping on top of what is happening with Marriott Rewards in the credit card thread.

Thanks! I got 1000 point retweet last Sunday; this Sunday I missed it by an hour.
And I'm way behind on the credit card thread...need to catch up on that.

Thank you

 

[TabbyShabby]

Thanks for keeping this going! We got back on Friday and I actually had money left on my Disney gift card, my Rainforest Cafe gift card, and on my Starbucks gift card! While we don't have a WDW trip in the works, we are planning a quick trip to Disneyland this time next year, plus, a trip to the Italian Grand Prix in a couple of years. I've found this thread, and really this entire board, so helpful and inspirational. I'm right back in savings mode!

Sunday

• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 92 Swagbucks bonus.

Monday

• Redeemed 5,000 Swagbucks for $50 PayPal.
• Redeemed 2,200 Swagbucks for Target GC at Swagbucks using the first of the month discount on gift cards.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 10 Swagbucks bonus.

Tuesday

• Received $50 PayPal from Swagbucks.
• Received $25 Target GC from Swagbucks.
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 83 Swagbucks bonus.

Wednesday

• Earned .25 from iBotta.
• Redeemed 5,000 Swagbucks for $50 Paypal.
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 96 Swagbucks bonus.

Thursday

• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 10 Swagbucks bonus.

Friday

• Received $50 Paypal from Swagbucks.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 9 Swagbucks bonus.

Saturday

• Earned .44 from iBotta.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 7 Swagbucks bonus.

 

[tzeitel]

Thanks! I got 1000 point retweet last Sunday; this Sunday I missed it by an hour.
And I'm way behind on the credit card thread...need to catch up on that.

Thank you

Are the Marriott Rewards points on Twitter just for those who have the credit card or are these points for anyone who has their loyalty card?

 

[Jen and Ashwin]

Are the Marriott Rewards points on Twitter just for those who have the credit card or are these points for anyone who has their loyalty card?

They can be earned by anyone with a Marriott rewards account.

 

[.landry]

met all my swagbucks goals for the week! Missed the weekend though. We had a ton of plans this weekend.
Got my Target RedCard
reorganized my office schedule so im paying by the hour instead of monthly rent which is saving me a ton of money.
Last night i chose to make dinner instead of ordering in when we had a last minute dinner guest.
@Jen and Ashwin i love the idea of a DVC contract fund! How long have you been doing that? how are you doing with it?

 

[Jen and Ashwin]

met all my swagbucks goals for the week! Missed the weekend though. We had a ton of plans this weekend.
Got my Target RedCard
reorganized my office schedule so im paying by the hour instead of monthly rent which is saving me a ton of money.
Last night i chose to make dinner instead of ordering in when we had a last minute dinner guest.
@Jen and Ashwin i love the idea of a DVC contract fund! How long have you been doing that? how are you doing with it?

We are aiming to buy a second DVC contract. We will need around $10k so that is what I am aiming towards. We don't have any dedicated paycheck money going towards that right now, so I have been using my rewards money to help fund it. We are currently at about $4100. About $1k of that came from renting out points from our other contract but the rest mostly came from rewards and selling some items on Craigslist. It is fun to see the progress each month.

ETA: We started the fund in January.

 

[.landry]

thats fantastic!! congrats on all of your dedication!

 

[KirbyLouWho]

Okay, I love reading these so I guess it's about time I joined in! It's nice having some place to come and be "accountable" for trying to reach my goals. Right now I'm saving for my & my daughters first "only us" trip in March. My goal is to ideally save about 2300 which would buy me an AP (going again 2 more times next year), cover meals, shopping, etc this trip (I paid our hotel OOP before I started all this so it is what it is there) and then anything left over would roll into savings for the next tips (a grown-ups only long weekend with my aunt to F&W18 & the whole family together for Thanksgiving 18). So here goes... Here's what I have saved up so far:

• 892 in my Capital360 savings account ($10/week from my checking goes straight there + this years birthday gift money)
• 455 in DGC -- thanks to whoever posted the 10% off Target GC deal on the gift card board last week, I used some of my Cap360 money to snag a $400 card for $360!
• ~379 in cash -- Any ones or coins that find their way to my purse. Also, my daughter does competitive cheer, which y'all may or may not know is "ESPENSIVE." Thankfully, her gym offers the ability to fundraise for gym tuition via working as a bartender at local sporting events & concerts. My hourly wages/sales earnings go into our cheer account, but I get to keep any tips for Disney!
• Total = $1726 - so about 575 before I hit my goal, which is less than $30 a week, even with Christmas between now and then I think it's totally doable!

So here's how this week is going:

Sunday

• 541 SB - made both goals

Monday

• 105 SB - made 1st goal & I'm happy because I had the day off & spent all day out & about with my daugher who is on Fall Break
• cashed in $25 for PP which I then bought a DGC online

Tuesday

• Uploaded 3 receipts to ReceiptPal, finishing a card & bringing my point total to 3000
• 455 SB - made both goals
• $3 change from lunch went into the cash box

Wednesday

• Just randomly found a dollar on my desk at work. I'll take it! lol
• 273 SB - made my first goal

Thursday

• 350 SB - made my first goal

Friday

• 337 SB - made my first goal

Saturday

• 75 SB - made my first goal
• worked a beer cart at the Memphis/Navy football game - $70 in tips into the cash box!

PHEW! This was a weird week. My daughter was on fall break and since I work with my family, we took turns being off days to hang out with her & do fun things so not much time to swag or do much else. Good tips at the game saturday though bring my cash box up to $490! (I counted & turns out I had $420 not $379 to start with!) All in all I'm happy happy!

 

[travelbug]

Well, I'm a little late joining in this week, but I'll try to retrace what I've done so far. I'm off to a pretty slow start with Swagbucks this week. The watch videos and nCraves have been really glitchy for me.

Sunday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (107 total)
• Earned 42 Shopkicks
• Earned 15 MyPoints

Monday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (148 total)
• Earned 25 points in Fetch Rewards

Tuesday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (191 total)
• Received $25 Walmart card from Swagbucks
• Earned 252 Shopkicks
• Earned $4.15 from Ibotta

Wednesday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (276 total)

Thursday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (252 total)
• Earned 54 points in Fetch Rewards
• Earned 20 MyPoints

Friday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (138)
• Earned 312 Shopkicks
• Earned $1.80 from Ibotta
• Earned 20 MyPoints

Saturday

• Met first Swagbucks goal (157 so far)

 

[kristenrice]

Bumping it back up to the first page

 

[kristenrice]

Fell off page one again...

 

[tzeitel]

Swagbucks peeps remember to do the Swago board. You can do the spins as soon as you get the box - of course I did not get any 2x surveys until after a 500 survey credited. I do a panel that has a delayed credit and the last couple of times it credited when I had 2x survey swag-up, so they were $10 Now I just have to be picky about what surveys I do since I do have 2 of those - they tend to put super short surveys for just a few SB right after Swagos, I think they try to trick people.