Share Your Rewards Toward Disney: Week of 8/27-9/2/17

[Marionnette]

How are are you earning rewards to make you Disney trip more affordable? Share what you're doing each day and how well you're doing. From adding pennies to your change jar to selling a large item on Craigslist, everything counts!

Here's last week's thread for inspiration https://www.disboards.com/threads/share-your-rewards-towards-disney-week-of-8-20-8-26-17.3627798/

 

[Marionnette]

Here's my progress this week:

Sunday

• It's been a very calm weekend visiting our son in D.C. Earned about 7500 HHonors points for our stay, plus another 2100 HHonors points for using my HHonors AmEx to pay for it.
• Paid my AT&T bill using my AmEx and got a $30 statement credit.
• Paid my Comcast bill with my AmEx and got a $30 statement credit

Monday

• Received a $25 Target GC from Perk
• Received a $25 Target GC from Swagbucks

Tuesday

• Nothing to report. Picked up some Checkpoints and Shopkicks while shopping but not enough to redeem for anything.

Wednesday

• Not a great rewards day. Picked up some Shopkicks and Checkpoints.
  
• Redeemed a couple of "rebates" on Checkout51, SavingStar and iBotta.
• Crushed it at CVS, where I paid under $25 for $61 worth of items after coupons and got $9 in ExtraCare Bucks for later.
  
• Threw some change in the Disney jar.

Thursday

• Filled my gas tank (which was between one half and one quarter of a tank after driving to DC and back. Used my gas rewards and saved $13, which went right into my Mickey Money. Had to fill up today because the rewards expire today.
  
• Picked up a lot of Shopkicks and Checkpoints while shopping and doing errands.
  
• Ordered $250 of Walmart eGCs using Chase Pay for 10X UR points. Bought $200 worth of Disney GC today at local Walmart.
• Stopped in Best Buy and purchased $300 worth of Disney GCs using husband's AmEx. Got the email that "he" used his offer for a $30 statement credit. Should earn 300 kicks, 600 Best Buy Rewards points and $3 AmEx cash back.
• Ran to Target. Picked up some more kicks for scans. Bought $150 worth of Disney GCs with Target GCs earned from Swagbucks, Shopkick and Perk.
• Redeemed some offers on SavingsStar, iBotta and Checkout51
• Picked up a free 5-lb bag of Science Diet dog food from PetSmart. Saved $15, which also went into my Mickey Money.

Friday

• Did the Safeway Best Buy GC deal. Saved $7.50 on a $75 GC. Will hold onto this one until the $45 BB bonus GCs arrive later this month and then redeem for Disney GCs.
• Repeated the Chase Pay Walmart deal late last night. Hoping that the 10X UR points will credit. Purchased $250 in Walmart GCs. Redeemed them along with a $50 Walmart GC left over from the previous purchase for $300 in Disney GCs.
• Picked up some snacks for the weekend and redeemed some iBotta rebates for them.
• Received $25 PayPal from EarnHoney
• Received a $25 Target GC from Perk

Saturday

• Got my 300 Shopkick points for buying Disney GCs at Best Buy.
• SwagBucks August bonus put me over the top for my first Target GC of the month.

 

[TabbyShabby]

Here we go again! And as always, thanks, Marionette for starting this! It's wonderful inspiration.

Sunday

• Received $25 T Rex GC from Amazon.
• Completed Harris Poll Shoptracker for $3 Visa.
• Cashed out for $25 PayPal from Swagbucks.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 8 Swagbucks bonus.

Monday

• Cashed out for a $5 Amazon GC from Bing Rewards and received it.
• Ordered $25 T Rex GC from Amazon using various rewards. (Currently have $208 in Landry's GC)
• Recieved $25 PayPal from Swagbucks.
• Won a pair of running leggings from Amazon Giveaways. Great for travel days.
• Cashed out for $2 Target GC from MPlus Rewards.
• Earned .50 with Ibotta.
• Received $3 Visa from Harris Poll Shoptracker. Added it to my Amazon wallet.
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 85 Swagbucks bonus.

Tuesday

• Earned .25 with Ibotta.
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 104 Swagbucks bonus.

Wednesday

• Cashed out for $25 PayPal from Swagbucks.
  
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 96 Swagbucks bonus.

Thursday

• Recieved $2 Target GC from MPLUS Rewards.
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 94 Swagbucks bonus.

Friday

• Finished Dscout project for $150 via PayPal.
• Received $100 Disney GC purchased through Swagbucks for 2% back, using PayPal funds. (Currently have $502.14 in Disney GC)
• Received $25 PayPal from Swagbucks redemption.
• Cashed out for $25 PayPal from Swagbucks
• Cashed out for $25 Target GC from Swagbucks for 2,200 Swagbucks with first GC of the month discount.
• Received $25 birthday credit from Landry's.
• Received August Swagbuck bonus of 2343 Swagbucks.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 11 Swagbucks bonus.

Saturday

• Received $25 TRex GC from Amazon. (Currently have $208 in Landry's GC, plus $25 birthday credit)
• Received $100 Disney GC purchased through Swagbucks for 2% back, using PayPal funds. (Currently have $602.14 in Disney GC)
• Earned .25 with Ibotta.
• Cashed out for $25 PayPal from MyPoints.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 9 Swabucks bonus.

 

[Andrea1975]

At the beach with the kids this week, so may not have as much time for earning money online (though they both go to bed early...)

Sunday

• 32 swagbucks (balance of 1241)
• 4 mturk tasks worth $3.91
• 14 cents of credit card rewards processed (I'll try not to go crazy and spend this all in one place!)

Monday

• 98 swagbucks
• 4 mturk surveys worth $3

Tuesday

• 87 swagbucks (balance of 1425)
• 35 cent bonus from mturk

Wednesday

• 93 swagbucks
• $1.60 in mturk tasks
• $2.32 in credit cards rewards processed

Thursday

• 114 swagbucks (which got me to my 14 day streak), balance of 1633
• after no luck in the morning, ended up finding a few short mturk tasks worth $1.30, plus 81 cents of bonuses from old tasks
• $2.68 in credit card rewards processed

Friday

• 118 swagbucks, plus my 221 bonus sb from August (Started using it about halfway through the month so not a huge bonus)
• $2.30 in mturk tasks

Saturday

• 202 swagbucks
• $3.38 in mturk tasks
• $1.12 in credit cards rewards processed

Balances (weekly/total)

• $0/$37.63 savings account (earmarked for Disney)
• $6.26/$103.88 credit card rewards balance
• $17.05/$64.83 mturk balance
• 965/2174 swagbucks

Grand Total = $23.31/$206.84 (not including swagbucks)

 

[scard192]

Sunday

• cashed out $145 in e-rewards for a $50 Starbucks GC; not the best value, but do not have a lot of attractive options

 

[Elleshoodat]

I'm not as experienced at getting the most bang for my buck as you all, but...

Sunday

• Earned $1.25 in rebates from Ibotta

Side note: I have almost $30 in Ibotta rewards. At what point does everyone typically cash out, and what's your preferred method? I was just going to use PayPal or Venmo, then purchase a Disney gift card...

 

[TabbyShabby]

Side note: I have almost $30 in Ibotta rewards. At what point does everyone typically cash out, and what's your preferred method? I was just going to use PayPal or Venmo, then purchase a Disney gift card...

I normally cash out with PayPal to do just what you do, buy a Disney gift card. I go through Swagbucks so I can earn 2% back as Swagbucks credits you for a physical gift card purchase, but not an electronic gift card.

 

[justlook3]

Side note: I have almost $30 in Ibotta rewards. At what point does everyone typically cash out, and what's your preferred method? I was just going to use PayPal or Venmo, then purchase a Disney gift card...

I always cash out when I hit the minimum to cash out, which is $20 and I usually use Paypal.

 

[Marionnette]

I normally cash out with PayPal to do just what you do, buy a Disney gift card. I go through Swagbucks so I can earn 2% back as Swagbucks credits you for a physical gift card purchase, but not an electronic gift card.

I also cash out for PayPal but I sweep the PayPal money into a CapitalOne checking account and then use it to pay for Disney GCs anywhere I find a deal (like the Best Buy deal from two weeks ago where I got a $15 BB GC for every $150 BB GC purchased and then converted those to Disney Gcs) or I just buy a Disney GC using my Target REDCard in the store for 5% off and then pay off the REDCard with money from the CapitalOne account.

 

[justlook3]

Monday

• Received $5 Amazon Gift card I cashed out for on Swagbucks

Tuesday

• Cashed out $20.04 on Ibotta
• Received $5 Target Gift card I cashed out for on Swagbucks

Wednesday

• Received $10 Target Gift card I cashed out for on Swagbucks

Friday

• $103: Grocery budget savings for the last 3 months

 

[Elleshoodat]

I normally cash out with PayPal to do just what you do, buy a Disney gift card. I go through Swagbucks so I can earn 2% back as Swagbucks credits you for a physical gift card purchase, but not an electronic gift card.

I always cash out when I hit the minimum to cash out, which is $20 and I usually use Paypal.

That's what I was thinking. Thanks!

 

[kristenrice]

Hello, Everyone. Since most of my earnings right now are coming from SwagBucks, I'm basically using this thread to track my SB earnings only. Once my plasma donations start back up (Sept 12), I will include those earnings too.

Sunday
Well, this was embarrassing....I made a whopping 20 SB...and most of those were referral credits from DH, plus a small search win. I'm confident it will get better.

Monday
I had a survey credit from Sunday for 80SB (I completed it Sunday, but it kicked me to a different one without crediting so I submitted a ticket and the credit showed up today), and I also had a search win (doubled, thanks to the Spin and Win from SWAGO) and I earned some SB's on the wheel. My final total for the day was 111...and I made my first goal.

Tuesday
Even though it doesn't count towards my daily goal, I did well on the Spin to Win wheel this morning...21 SB off of 18 spins.... and probably about 150 more entries into the contest I'll never win. My first goal for the day is 105 so I better get cracking on the surveys. I managed to get 2 surveys, finished my to-do list, earned some more spins on the wheel (almost all contest entries) and a few referrals from DH. I made my first daily goal and finished the day with 180 SB.

Wednesday
After a 12-hour shift, followed by parent orientation night at school, I just didn't have it in me to do any Swagging. Fortunately, DH did a few things during the day and I managed to score a whopping 9 SB from him.

Running total for the week: 320 SB

**On a side note, I just looked at my numbers for my upcoming trip, and I am so excited to see that I am only $15 away from hitting my $500 gift card goal! I want to bring a $500 Disney gift card (earned, not paid for) to cover 5 days of food. I already used it to pay for one of our F&W seminars ($50!) but I've already recouped that so I am ecstatic!

 

[Narnia_girl]

Monday: 5 dimes for my Dimes for Disney bottle

Tuesday: Cashed out Swagbucks for $25 WalMart GC

Thursday:

• Received $40 Disney Gift Card in mail for doing a 10-minute phone tour of Disney Vacation Club.
• Completed August monthly master bonus for Swagbucks
• One dime for my Dimes for Disney bottle

Friday: 689 Swagbucks bonus for August

 

[hsmamato2]

Today I cashed out my request at befrugal for our new fridge...that's $99.27 cash back! You can look at it like we saved that money, or that I have $99.27 for my dis gc fund (hit it with a 10% cb day on sears) plus that day I also got 5x back buying gc at the grocery to use on the purchase so an extra 5000 UR points which equals....(I calculate 1.7c each so about 85.00 extra in UR points) so I'm gonna total that here to around 184.00 saved for Disney! (and I have a new fridge so there's the real bonus,my old one was BEAT) still waiting on my givingassistant cb to ppst, I bought SPG points on sale a couple of months back,so $17.25 coming soon!(points already used to get a cheaper booking,9 days at Disney here we come)

 

[TabbyShabby]

**On a side note, I just looked at my numbers for my upcoming trip, and I am so excited to see that I am only $15 away from hitting my $500 gift card goal! I want to bring a $500 Disney gift card (earned, not paid for) to cover 5 days of food. I already used it to pay for one of our F&W seminars ($50!) but I've already recouped that so I am ecstatic!

That's fantastic! Congrats!

 

[Marionnette]

Rough rewards day. Must be the end-of-the-month slump. Struggled to get to my second goal on SB because there were no nCraves for me today. EarnHoney is puttering along and I'll be lucky to earn $1 today. Perk TV Live! has almost no ads.

How's everyone else doing today?

 

[TabbyShabby]

Rough rewards day. Must be the end-of-the-month slump. Struggled to get to my second goal on SB because there were no nCraves for me today. EarnHoney is puttering along and I'll be lucky to earn $1 today. Perk TV Live! has almost no ads.

How's everyone else doing today?

Same. I've spent more time sending tickets into Swagbucks for missing points than anything else. Hollar, Men's Shave Club, and two surveys. It drives me nuts having to follow up with them all the time. Good news is that this time next month I'll be celebrating my birthday at WDW!

 

[Angrose]

I haven't posted on any of these threads yet, but today was such a good day that I had to share!

First, on a whim I logged into a new bank account I recently opened for the bonus to see if my latest deposit had posted. No it had not, but my $200 bonus had posted anyway!

Second, I signed up for a hotel loyalty program with Outrigger since we are staying at the Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort for 3 nights before moving over to Aulani. Lo and behold, I was eligible for a better promo and re-booked our stay, saving us $150...more fun money for Aulani!

Third, I found out this afternoon that my service credit at work was finally adjusted to reflect the two years I worked before going on maternity leave 10 years ago. So, I will hit my 10 years in a few months and will start accruing more vacation time and will get a $100 Visa gift card! Hurray!

I love reading about how everyone is earning money towards their Disney trips. So fun!

 

[seeingstars]

So far this week I've really only earned money for Disney from Swagbucks. I do have enough points to cash out for a $10 gift card through Fetch Rewards too.

Sunday: Earned 302 SB

Monday: Earned 353 SB

Tuesday: Earned 481 SB

Wednesday: Earned 353 SB so far-Ended up with 2940 SB at the end of the day. Had one of the 2500 Gut Check surveys credit!

 

[TabbyShabby]

Wednesday: Earned 353 SB so far-Ended up with 2940 SB at the end of the day. Had one of the 2500 Gut Check surveys credit!

Nice one with the big survey! I call those kind of credit days, "Minnie Christmas" since Swagbucks go into the Disney savings. My husband just rolls his eyes while I giggle to myself.