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

[ssedlac1]

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.

I've seen multiple people mention that they continue to run ncraves or videos. How do you do that? Since it requires you to like it or not?

 

[tzeitel]

I've seen multiple people mention that they continue to run ncraves or videos. How do you do that? Since it requires you to like it or not?

Some of the nCraves runs on their own, look for the ones that have a little orange symbol with arrows going around. There is one that is for 1sb that is very colorful and says "TV" (usually the first nCrave square on the page), there is also one that says 50 SB+ playlist. There is a blue one with small tv screens that says "all you can eat" that is for 3sb. Those run on their own and you do not have to stay on the page. There are others that you do have to keep the mouse on the page for them to run. I know some people figured out how to get around that but I am not sure how to do it myself and I always runs the 3 I mentioned. Hope that helps Also, if you do MyPoints they have the same nCraves and I run them at the same time.

 

[Andrea1975]

Late this week because I spent the first chunk of it in Iceland--which is amazing. Highly recommend! But it's reinforced my travel bug, so I better get back to making some fun money!!

Monday

• while I was away a $1 bonus posted to my murk account

Thursday

• $2.59 in interest posted to my checking account so I transferred that to my Disney savings
• $9.46 in credit card rewards posted (some of this posted earlier in the week, but I wasn't tracking it)
• 152 swagbucks which met my second goal

Friday

• $4.16 in credit card rewards posted
• Did some swag spins and got a doubled search win, leading to 211 swagbucks which met my second goal

Saturday

• $1.20 in credit card rewards posted
• finished a $1 murk survey
• earned 90 swagbucks, which made my first goal

Balances (weekly/total)

• $2.59/$404.67 savings account (earmarked for Disney)
• $14.82/$175.66 credit card rewards balance
• $2/$19.07 mturk balance
• 455/786 swagbucks

Grand Total = $19.41/$599.4 (not including swagbucks/ibotta/shopkicks)

 

[MEM]

I think this falls under "creative savings"? Several times a year my husband stops at a Verizon store to get our cell phone bill reduced. Each time he has been told it's as "low as it can go". $216.49?!?! for three iPhones and three mini iPads. Well today DD boyfriend went with him and started to negotiate. Two of the minis are not used outside the house so only need wi-fi - savings of $10 each there. I've been paying $9/month for insurance on my phone and I never signed up for it (its asurion and we know from DD21 experience that it sucks). We decreased our data from 16 to 8 GB. Total monthly savings of $46. Over the course of a year that will pay for a DVC annual pass for WDW.

I haven't waded into swagbucks (seems too invasive for my comfort) but I do mypoints.

 

[TabbyShabby]

I think this falls under "creative savings"? Several times a year my husband stops at a Verizon store to get our cell phone bill reduced. Each time he has been told it's as "low as it can go". $216.49?!?! for three iPhones and three mini iPads. Well today DD boyfriend went with him and started to negotiate. Two of the minis are not used outside the house so only need wi-fi - savings of $10 each there. I've been paying $9/month for insurance on my phone and I never signed up for it (its asurion and we know from DD21 experience that it sucks). We decreased our data from 16 to 8 GB. Total monthly savings of $46. Over the course of a year that will pay for a DVC annual pass for WDW.

I haven't waded into swagbucks (seems too invasive for my comfort) but I do mypoints.

Fantastic that you review your bill like that. My contract with ATT was up the end of last month. I'm currently weighing my options.

I've been a member of MyPoints since 1998. MyPoints was purchased my Swagbucks and they are now almost identical. The activities you participate in with MyPoints are most likely available on Swagbucks as well. I like both of them, but find Swagbucks to a slightly better earner.