Share Your Rewards Toward Disney: Week of 9/24-9/30/17

[Marionnette]

It's the last week in September! Whether you're finishing up a month of saving, or just starting to add to your Disney fund, come share your ideas and get inspired by what others are doing. The rules are simple: Just post what you're doing to fund your Disney trip. It can be adding coins to a change jar, doing a targeted study for money or selling something near and dear to you. Anything goes! Just your post each day that you add to your funds. For ideas, you can find last week's thread is here: https://www.disboards.com/threads/share-your-rewards-toward-disney-week-of-9-17-9-23-17.3634640/

 

[Marionnette]

I have only a couple more weeks to add to my Mickey Money. I plan to hit all of my rewards programs hard until I leave.

Sunday

• I under-spent last week's grocery budget since we're in the process of using up stuff in the freezer, fridge and pantry before our trip. Put $23 cash in my Mickey Money account.

Monday

• Received $3 Amazon from SB
• Received $25 PayPal from SB
• Collected 535 Shopkicks while running errands today - just 450 more to get a $10 Target GC!
• Redeemed $2.75 iBotta rebates
• Received $25 Target GC from Perk

Tuesday

• Picked up another 310 Shopkicks today.
• Redeemed 6 different iBotta rebates for a total of $3.00, but it brings me within 2 rebates of getting a bonus for the month!

Wednesday

• Redeemed 3 iBotta rebates for a total of $2.25, which brought me to Level 2 for the month of September ($1.00 bonus) and Level 1 Lifetime ($2.00 bonus)
• Placed an order on Boxed thru iBotta and paid with my AmEx. $25 AmEx statement credit, $7.70 iBotta rebate pending and I should get a $5 iBotta bonus for placing my first mobile order.
• Got $1 back from SavingStar for purchasing Larabars at Target and submitted the receipt to Shopkick for another 300 Shopkicks.
• Picked up some Shopkick scans and some Checkpoints while I was out.

Thursday

• Transferred my remaining $77 in Disney Rewards Dollars to the rewards cards - $95 in rewards to spend at F&W!
• Received $25 PayPal from SB

Friday

• Received $25 Target GC from Perk
• Made a purchase on Jet and have $3.60 pending in iBotta
• Did the Amazon Music Unlimited sign up for 4 free trial months + a $10 Amazon credit. Combined the credit with my $3 Amazon from SB and $5 from last month's Coke Freestyle to get a $25 Safeway GC (groceries) for only $7 OOP!

Saturday

• Ended up having to go into the office today, so other than reaching the 30-day streak on SB and snagging a few CheckPoints, I didn't do much today.

Totals for the week:

Cash - $73
Target GCs - $50
Amazon GCs - $13
Disney Rewards Dollars - $77 ​

 

[hsmamato2]

Just made 2.90 at Giving assistant portal so total to get thru there from last couple of months is 25.50! SO far I only like befrugal,givingassistant and of course ebates.

 

[Bellabully]

I took an extra on call shift for work, took my husband's gas reimbursement check from work and added $6.00 to my change jar this week. I have 199 days until my trip.

 

[Jen and Ashwin]

Enjoyed tracking last week, so here we go again.

Sunday

• Met first and second Swagbucks goals, earning 572 SB
• Earned $32 for workplace wellness incentive
• Earned $0.50 on iBotta
• Earned 2100 Marriott rewards points via twitter
• Earned $10 Target gift card from Target mailer coupon

Monday

• Met first and second Swagbucks goals, earning 688 SB
• Redeemed Swagbucks for $25 Paypal credit

Tuesday

• Met first and second Swagbucks goals, earning 631 SB

Wednesday

• Met first and second Swagbucks goals, earning 439 SB
• Redeemed Swagbucks for $25 Target gift card

Thursday

• Met first and second Swagbucks goals, earning 582 SB

Friday

• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 156 SB
• Earned $10 Target gift card from Target mailer coupon

Saturday

• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 147 SB
• Earned $20 Visa gift card from mystery shop
• Earned $0.25 on iBotta

Total for the week:

$57 cash
$20 Visa gift card
$45 Target gift card
2100 Marriott Rewards points

 

[TabbyShabby]

We leave Wednesday morning! Thank you all so much for the inspiration and fun! It's been a great motivator to save!

Sunday

• Cashed in for $25 Paypal with Swagbucks.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 7 Swagbucks bonus.

Monday

• Earned .25 with Ibotta.
• Cashed in for $10 Amazon GC from Swagbucks.
• Received $2 Amazon GC from Cricket/Mplus Rewards.
• Received $25 PayPal from Swagbucks
• Purchased $50 Disney GC at Target using earned gift cards.
• Received 200 Swagbucks bonus for ordering $100 Disney GC from The Disney Store through Swagbucks.
• Met second Swagbucks goal, earning 70 Swagbucks bonus.

Tuesday (WE LEAVE TOMORROW!!!)

• Cashed in for $1 Amazon GC from Swagbucks.
• Received $10 Amazon GC from Swagbucks.
• Earned $1.75 with Ibotta.
• Cashed in for and received $20 PayPal from Ibotta.
• Purchased $50 Lyft GC for $46.75 from Raise.com using earned PayPal funds. Shopped through Swagbucks earning 1% back.
• Cashed in for $5 Amazon GC from Swagbucks.
• Met first Swagbucks goal, earning 10 Swagbucks bonus.

 

[Marionnette]

We leave Wednesday morning! Thank you all so much for the inspiration and fun! It's been a great motivator to save!

Sunday

• Cashed in for $25 Paypal with Swagbucks.

My neighbors leave for OKW on Friday. I hope all of you have good weather!

 

[TabbyShabby]

My neighbors leave for OKW on Friday. I hope all of you have good weather!

Thanks! Coming from Seattle, we're actually hoping for some of the warm rain to empty out the parks a bit. <3

 

[seeingstars]

Good luck everyone! Put my deposit down for my daughter's 6th birthday surprise trip in May!

Sunday

• Met first SB goal-Earned 346 SB

Monday

• Met first SB goal-Earned 522 SB
• Cashed in for $100 Paypal with Swagbucks

Tuesday

• Met first SB goal-Earned 252 SB
• Earned $1.25 with Ibotta

Wednesday

• Met both SB goals-Earned 2233 SB

Thursday

• Met first SB goal

Friday

• Met first SB goal
• Cashed out for $50 to paypal on SB
• Earned $5 from online community-added it to my Tango card and have $48 now
• Earned $40 to Paypal from a dscout mission

Saturday

• Met first SB goal
• Redeemed $7.65 in Ibotta rebates

 

[Andrea1975]

Sunday

• Slow day today--family stuff going on. Just 91 swagbucks, which at least made my first goal

Monday

• 110 swagbucks
• 68 cents in credit card rewards posted
• found a cache of well paying mturk tasks and cranked out $6.30
• transferred $100 from mturk into my savings account (this is just money shuffling and doesn't affect my totals)

Tuesday

• 105 swagbucks
• 2 mturk surveys worth $1.50

Wednesday

• 116 swagbucks
• $5.16 in credit card rewards processed
• 2 mturk surveys worth $1.85

Thursday

• 131 swagbucks (met my goal and hit a 21 day streaks)
• $1.64 in credit cards rewards processed
• 2 mturk surveys worth $2

Friday

• 128 swagbucks
• 43c in credit card rewards
• 1 mturk survey for $3, and I got an unexpected 18c bonus from an old task
• Picked up $4.75 in ibotta rebates, which also got me a $5 bonus. So I now have $25.50 and can cashout.

Saturday
Kind of said screw it today and didn't do much. Got my Disney fix in through Disney on Ice instead of mentally planning how to spend my earnings..

• 34 swagbucks
• $6.38 in credit card rewards

Balances (weekly/total)

• $0/$315.07 savings account (earmarked for Disney)
• $14.29/$146.42 credit card rewards balance
• $14.83/$29.02 mturk balance
• 715/3791 swagbucks

Grand Total = $29.12/$490.51 (not including swagbucks/ibotta/shopkicks)

 

[kristenrice]

Sunday
I'm not sure what I did to please the Swagbucks gods, but I clicked on something this morning and it is still going! I've earned 150 SB so far! It was an nCrave that I allowed to auto-run while we were at church. I came home and found that it was still going. I went to a different window (to check the DISBoards) and to my surprise, the nCrave is still running! It has been going for over 12 hours now, 1 SB at a time, but I've made both of my goals without doing anything. I can't complain. I'm going to let it go and I will update the final total when I get up tomorrow morning.

The nCrave ran a LOT, but was shut down when I got up. My final total for the day was 241 SB!! That's amazing!!

Monday
I got up at 0300 today to go to work. I started up one of the nCraves and let it go. When I got home from work at 1145, I was already at 120 SB for the day!! It's DD's birthday today so I don't know how much I am going to try to actively earn, but I am letting the nCrave run for as long as it wants to go. DH has it running on his computer too so even though we are chomping through our wi-fi data allowance, we are earning a ton of SB without any effort. The final total for the day was 284 SB!! And I didn't even have to do a survey!

Tuesday
The nCraves are running great again! I also got DD's old Galaxy tablet running the Lifestylz app and it is also going strong. We have an unlimited data promo going on right now so I am running the tablet on our cellular plan instead of our wi-fi. So far, I have 28 SB towards my first daily of 100.
Whoa!! I'm heading to bed and the nCraves are still going! I made 275 SB as of right now...no surveys, no shopping credits, no offers and only a small (6 SB) search win. Everything else has been nCraves, referrals (DH's nCraves are going great too!) and the Lifestylz app. The final total for today was 325...another 50 SB earned while I was asleep. It doesn't get any easier than that. I also tried to donate plasma today, but my hematocrit was WAY too low (35...needs to be 38!) so I will only have a chance at one donation ($20) this week. Fingers crossed that I can qualify on Thursday.

Wednesday
I did the Rayovac offer today but I am not going to count it until it credits. I let the nCraves run today, but I never got around to firing up the tablet for the Lifestylz app. I still made both of my goals and ended the day with 218 SB.

Thursday
I let the nCraves and Lifestylz run today and I also got a few referrals from DH and an 18SB search win. The final total was 285 SB. I also made it to my plasma donation and I was successful so that's another $20 in the Disney piggy bank.

Friday
I had my nCraves running when I left for work at 0430. At 1300, I checked my point total (from my phone while at work) and saw that I was only at 11 for the day. Obviously, my nCrave stopped running, so I called DH and asked him to start it up again for me. Unfortunately, he wasn't home so they didn't get re-started until almost 4pm. The bright side is that when I got home at 5:30, I was able to start up the Lifestylz app and get that running too. I woke up this morning and found out that I had 214 SB accrued for yesterday. I didn't make my second goal (250) but I'm totally fine with earning the 214 without even being home.

Saturday
What a week for nCraves! Once again, I spent 12 hours at work and barely looked at my computer. I got a single search win (6 SB) and a few referrals from DH, but other than that, it was all videos. I ended the day with 269 SB and also made my 7-day daily goal bonus.

The final total for the week is 1836 SB

 

[amccu18007]

I am happy to join this thread I am learning so much about saving through you guys! Well, here is how my week is breaking down so far....

Sunday:
Swagbucks: met goal
Cashed in change jar $44.50
Sold a dance costume for $25
Sold old tap shoes for $10
Received a $50 check from our DVC closing
Received a $20 rebate check from Justice
Received Marriott points from Twitter feed
Receipt hog met weekly goal

Monday:
Met Swagbucks goal
Received $3.55 back from ebates for a purchase
Received my Marriott rewards points for twitter post

Tuesday:
Met Swagbucks goal
No Marriott reward points

Wednesday:
Met Swagbucks goal
No Marriott reward points

 

[Narnia_girl]

Sunday:
Met Swagbucks goal
Marriott points from Twitter (including the 1000 pt trivia reply)

Monday:
Met Swagbucks goal; NCraves been running all day...

 

[Marionnette]

Did you guys see this? SB may be adding Disney GCs to their redemption store!
Those using swagbucks ???

 

[seeingstars]

Did you guys see this? SB may be adding Disney GCs to their redemption store!
Those using swagbucks ???

I agree with what you said in the Swagbucks thread. I will probably redeem for the discounted 2200 for $25 if they offer it but I will continue to cash out for Paypal otherwise.

 

[TwoHeartsBeat]

I just found this thread, so I'll post my overall numbers since I started last October.

Paypal (Ebay mostly, but some early Etsy sales): $7,469.93
Etsy: $1,370.41
Poshmark: $127.45
iPoll: 24.60
Capital One Rewards: $188.10
Ibotta $24.60

 

[TabbyShabby]

Pretty rad they're FINALLY going to start offering Disney gift cards! Like mentioned earlier, I'll take advantage of the first redemption of the month discount, but after that I'll most likely use PayPal and buy them myself and get some back either by using Swagbucks or Sam's Club when I visit my parents who have the membership. Pretty exciting!

 

[Marionnette]

Did you guys see this? SB may be adding Disney GCs to their redemption store!
Those using swagbucks ???

Well, that was a false alarm! It turns out that they have added Disneyland tickets to their redemption store, not Disney GCs. Not what I was hoping for, but some people may be excited about it.

 

[seeingstars]

Well, that was a false alarm! It turns out that they have added Disneyland tickets to their redemption store, not Disney GCs. Not what I was hoping for, but some people may be excited about it.

Yeah that's a bummer! Guess I'll be sticking with Target and Paypal

 

[HuskyGal]

Sunday:
Met Swagbucks goal
Marriott points from Twitter (including the 1000 pt trivia reply)

Monday:
Met Swagbucks goal; NCraves been running all day...

Can anyone explain how the Marriott points from twitter or Facebook work? How do I sign up for that? Thanks.