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I originally published this list here two years ago.  I just updated it, although it’s mostly the same, except for a few additions.  Good luck and I hope they help you earn some extra cash!

I want to stress that any of these places on my list are legitimate sites that I trust.  I have used each of these for quite some time now and have also been paid by each of these.

Swagbucks - Search engine powered by Google and Ask.com – They randomly award you Swagbucks and you can redeem them for gift cards and all kinds of prizes.  My favorite is the Amazon gift card for only 450 Swagbucks.  You can also earn Swagbucks when they give out free codes, for referring your friends, shopping, playing games and watching videos.  Get 30 free Swagbucks just for signing up!

Winster – Free game site.  I LOVE the games on this site and easily get addicted to them.  My favorite is Slot Social.  Anyway, it’s completely free to play or you can upgrade to a monthly membership, but remember that you can play & earn for FREE, no need for the membership, unless you get addicted like me   Anyway, as you play the games, you’re awarded points.  Redeem your points for gift cards, etc.  My favorite is the Amazon gift card.

My Points - They send you emails with advertisements in them.  Some are worth 5 points, some aren’t worth anything.  Open the emails, click the link to view the site and you are awarded your points.  I only click the emails that say they are worth 5 points.  I just delete the others. Also earn points from shopping at your favorite stores through their links, referring friends, printing and redeeming grocery coupons and taking surveys.  Redeem your points for all kinds of gift cards! 

You Data - View advertisements, click on the link to view the site and easily earn cash.  They pay every Friday directly into your PayPal account.  No cashout minimums.  And no need to even request payments!  By the way, PayPal is free and easy to use, incase you’re wondering. 

QuickRewards - They send you emails, you click on the advertisements and view the site.  They reward you in points which translate into cash.  This also pays to your PayPal account.  No minimum cashouts!

Send Earnings - They send you emails, you click the link and view the advertisement or site.  They reward you in cash. You can also earn cash for taking their surveys and referring friends, among other things on their site.  Earn $5.00 just for signing up!

Inbox Dollars – Exactly the same as Send Earnings.  Feel free to sign up for both!

Snap Dollars – They send you emails and you click the link to view the site.  They award you in cash.  Also earn additional cash by referring friends ($5 for each one!) and other activites on their site.  Sign up and you’ll get a $5 sign-up bonus.

DonkeyMails – Get paid for viewing advertisements in your email and then clicking the link.  Once the new page opens, a countdown will begin and you need to stay on the page for 15 seconds. Their site is scammy looking, I’ll admit.  But I’ve been using it for over a year now and have been paid twice to my PayPal account so far with no problems at all.  And I’m actually ready to cashout again for a few dollars! To request PayPal payment, you only need to have a minimum of $1 in earnings.  There are other ways to be paid as well, but I prefer PayPal.

These sites are all FREE for you to use.  No cost is necessary to use these sites.  They will pay YOU in either cash or gift cards, depending on the site. 

Note that on several of these sites there may be free trials or whatnot that you can sign up for, but beware that some of them do require a credit card and may cost you money.  These are completely optional portions of the sites.  I normally avoid these and I don’t sign up for anything requiring a credit card, unless it’s something I really want, which is pretty rare.

My suggestion is to keep with the free portions of these sites.  You will still earn cash and gift cards, so no worries about that. 

I hope this list helps you to get started making money online or helps you find a new site to try out.  This list will not make you rich, but it sure is nice to have these extra bits of income. 

Check back occasionally, as I will add sites to this list… but only after I try them out for awhile and I receive a payment from them.  You can always find this list by clicking on the “Earn Cash Online” tab on my menu bar.

Any questions, please feel free to contact me and I will try my best to help you out!

Enjoy!

Disclaimer:  The links included in this post are my affiliate links.  If you sign up for any of these sites through my links, I may receive bonus points for that site.  Thanks so much!

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Simply head on over to their Facebook page and “like” them. Then you’ll have access to their freebie sign-up form.

Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

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I’d like to find a few new ways to save money this year.  I’d also like to step it up a little bit on a few things we’re already doing, but maybe slacking on a little bit, like couponing.

In order to figure all this out, I first wanted to make a list of things that we are already doing to save cash on a regular basis.  I’ve also linked to some of my past blog posts that relate to each item, if you’re interested.

  1.  Use cloth napkins for meals- Hubby and I
  2.  Kids use wet baby washcloths for their hands/faces during & after meals
  3.  Use real plates & silverware – hardly ever use paper or plastic
  4.  Turn off lights in unused rooms
  5.  Cut coupons & print some from internet
  6.  Lower thermostat at night and when away for a few hours
  7.  Sign up for freebie offers online
  8.  Pay all bills on time to avoid late fees, etc.
  9.  Pay credit cards off monthly to avoid interest
10.  Only use our bank’s ATMs to avoid fees
11.  Hang dry most clothes
12.  Use old towels as cleaning rags instead of paper towels
13.  Combine sales & coupons (need to get back into this more)
14.  Blank sides of unneeded paper becomes scrap paper for the kids
15.  Shop at yard sales & occasionally Goodwill (but only for needed items)
16.  Use containers for lunches, etc. instead of disposable baggies
17.  Create a stockpile of food/toiletry/ household items when they are cheap
18.  Use half the detergent that is recommended for laundry & dishes
19.  Use a half dryer sheet for each load
20.  Wear some things more than once before washing
21.  Search for free Kindle books on Amazon
22.  Use Bookmooch & PaperBackSwap for cheap book swapping
23.  Eat dinner leftovers for most of my lunches
24.  Look for free local family activities
25.  Take books out of the library
26.  Use CFL bulbs in most lighting fixtures
27.  Canceled cable tv & use an antenna instead
28.  Water down juice 50% (my kiddos don’t need the sugar anyay!)
29.  Use a bagless vacuum
30.  Use a reusable, washable Swiffer cloth cover instead of the refills
31.  Take our dogs to Petco’s clinics for vaccines instead of the pricey vet
32.  Make some of our own snacks from scratch
33.  Cook dinner from home more often (room for improvement)
34.  In summer, use fans & reduce need for AC
35.  Use Ebates, Mr Rebates or Shop At Home when shopping online
36.  Wrap presents with newspaper comics
37.  Reuse ribbon, bows, boxes, bags & tissue paper from gifts
38.  Use reusable shopping totes at Target for the 5 cents per bag discount
39.  Use a filtered water pitcher & reusable water bottle instead of bottled water
40.  Daughter uses a water bottle instead of box drinks at school
41.  Reuse glass jars from fruit, jelly, etc to store small craft pieces, hamster food, etc.
42.  Reuse glass baby food jars for storing push pins, rubber bands, etc.
43.  Wash most laundry in cold water
44.  Pay bills online to avoid cost of envelopes, stamps & driving to mailbox
45.  Canceled home phone service & use cell phones
46.  Save broken crayons to melt into new crayon molds
47.  Save bottle caps, toilet paper tubes, etc. to use for crafts
48.  Prepare our own tax returns (Hubby is an accountant, so that helps!)
49.  Open windows & use fresh air instead of air fresheners
50.  Repurpose shoe boxes as storage containers/organizers in closets, etc.

So that’s what we do now.  Of course, there are other things here and there, but the list can’t go on forever. 

Now I want to take some time to be conscious of our spending habits, our routines and expenses.  I’d like to find a few new ways to save more money this year.  And I’d also like to improve upon a few of the items mentioned above.  Any money saved will be a great help to paying off our car loan and credit card debt!

What are some of the key ways you save money? 

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One of my New Year’s resolutions was to spend more time on my blog. 

I’d like to double my readers by the end of the year.  I used to have more traffic, but when I was posting very irregularly, I lost some of that traffic.  So, I’d like to atleast get that back to where it was.  But to do so, I’ve got some work to do.

I’m increasing my number of weekly posts and trying to post atleast daily.  I’m also trying to comment more often when I visit other blogs.  I read so many other blogs, but hardly ever comment.  Not sure why.  I guess it just doesn’t occur to me to do so.  Trying to change that!

I’m also trying to read and teach myself some new tweaks to the blog to make it a better place to visit.  One of the recent changes I’ve made is to install CommentLuv. 

If you’re unfamiliar, CommentLuv is great for those commenters that have their own blogs. When you’re commenting, it finds your last blog post and places the title and link to it right under your comment.  This is a great way to snag interested new readers when you’re commenting on a post!

I’ve also made my blog Do Follow enabled.  This means that your blog will get some great “link juice” back because the web crawlers can now find your blog link in your comment!  This is obviously my very simple explanation, you can Google it if you want to find out more.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to over here.  Oh and that bad case of being unmotivated last week?  Totally gone now.  Dishes are all caught up and laundry is getting there… got slowed down by my 5 year old with a stomach virus. 

All my Christmas decorations are finally put away!  So excited about that one, lol.  We even got the house cleaned and decorated and held a great pirate 4th birthday party for my son over the weekend.  Lots going on around here

Coming up soon:  I have some pics to post of our homemade pirate party decorations!  They turned out great!

Image Credit: Tech 2 Hell

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This entire week I’ve been dragging, not wanting to do anything around the house.  Laundry is piling up, dishes are getting behind, our Christmas decorations are only half put away.

I’m just not motivated to do much of anything.  It’s weird because for the past few weeks, I’ve been doing really well with getting so much done around our house.  I’ve been decluttering and organizing and tackling big projects.  And now, nothing.

And the thing is, I’m not depressed about anything.  Nothing has me down and I’m certainly not sad.  Just unmotivated to get things done. 

It’s driving me insane because I want to get things done.  And the disorder is getting to me.  But it’s just not enough to actually pick me up and make me move, lol.

Hoping for a more productive week after the weekend!

Has this ever happened to you?  For no apparent reason, you just start letting things slide or you’re just so unmotivated?

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Use this printable coupon for $1.00 off two boxes of Krave! 

We’ve found this cereal for $2.50 at Walmart. So with the coupon, we’ve gotten it for just $2.00 per box! Oh, and the back of each box has had a coupon for $1.00 off two boxes that you can cut out for your next purchase.

My kids LOVE both flavors, the multigrain with chocolate center as well as the double chocolate.

I love that it’s made with multigrains, although it does contain more sugar than I’d like them to have.  So it’s definitely a “treat” cereal around here.

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Ditching our cable tv service was kind of a spur of the moment decision.  We had thought about it before, but never came close to actually going through with it.  But since they wanted to increase our monthly bill by $25, it kind of gave us a big kick in the butt to cancel it.

Now that the cable is gone, I’m so happy we did it, and kind of mad that we hadn’t done it years ago.  Seriously, it’s saving us $40 a month over what we were paying and $65 a month over what they wanted us to start paying.  That extra money is going to help us pay off our car loan early!

I know some people just decide to do without tv completely in order to save money, along with other benefits.  We could do that, but I’d rather not. 

I enjoy watching tv in the evenings with the Hubby.  It’s our time to sit and relax and enjoy each other’s company, with some entertainment as well.  We also don’t go out very often since we have two young kids (ages 4 & 5), and this is our main entertainment.  So we had to consider our options.

Right from the start, we knew we weren’t going to switch to another cable company because the money saved was too tempting.  We already have a Netflix DVD plan, but that doesn’t help with watching current tv seasons.  We considered Hulu plus, but ultimately decided against that too.

Instead, we went to our favorite big box store and bought an antenna for $30.  We hooked it up to the tv, which was super easy and fast.  And just like that, we had about 20 channels or so for FREE.  And they come in super clear.  For FREE. 

I don’t know about you, but I’m incredibly amazed.  I heard of people using an antenna, but I always thought it was like cheesy rabbit ears and fuzzy reception.  Umm no.  It’s not like that at all.  I seriously feel like we’re stealing cable, ha. 

With the antenna we can watch most of the tv shows that we enjoyed with cable.  Though there are a few that are on channels that we don’t get anymore.  For those few, we’re usually able to find them online on the network site or on Hulu.  Instead of watching the show on the laptop, we hook it up to the tv with an HDMI cord so we can watch it on our tv instead!  Love it!  And it’s also FREE!

Free is good!  Seriously, it’s one of the best decision we’ve made and I only wish we’d gone through with it long ago

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