Swagbucks for Amazon gift cards or extra money! II

mpillow · #**821** 05/07/12, 05:01 PM

well we harvested ROCKS today...too bad we cant eat them....we filled the front bucket on the tractor twice!....looks like rain for a few days...so we will wait to till---but the tiller is on....what do I plant? Potatoes--red norlands....bush beans
....carrots....zuchinni...summer squash...winter squash....TOMATOES...peppers(hot and sweet)....beets...spinach...lettuce....green onion (shallots)...corn....and lots of cucumbers(we are big relish and pickle eaters) and broccoli.
I mowed a bagger load for the goats today in shorts....and my best friend and her son visited all afternoon...we sat in the grass in the sun and watched the children play with the kid goats, the dog and the bunnies....It was nice!
Back to swagging tho for a few minutes!

Pam6 · #**822** 05/07/12, 05:07 PM

It rained HARD earlier today so we could not finish getting all of the sand tilled in that we put in our garden yesterday. I am getting anxious to start planting but we still have a couple more weeks before we can officially start planting.

jamala · #**823** 05/07/12, 08:42 PM

I love reading about your gardens. I canned 21 quarts of string beans Saturday and I have at least that many more to pick in the morning and get canned up. My potatoes are almost finished so I will be digging them and canning by the weekend. The squash are coming in each day by the bucket full and my tomatoes are almost big enough to have fried green tomatoes for supper. I have picked a few ripe ones in the last week but they are small. So my swag/razoo/superpoints have suffered as I am just outside and busy with the garden so much.

Pam6 · #**824** 05/07/12, 08:49 PM

Jamala, that is awesome that you have gotten so much out of your garden! I can't wait to see how much I get this year! I have been working on extending the garden and sunflower patch so I am hoping the garden does really good this year! I got a hanging scale last year so I am HOPING I can weigh all of my produce and get an idea of how much I really do produce on my little acre and a half. I should be counting all of my eggs and gallons of milk....as well as baby animals produced. It would be really neat to know just how good I have really done and not just guess. I always start out good with weighing and then I start to slack off and then forget.....

keno12 · #**825** 05/08/12, 09:52 AM

I love reading about the gardens! We have 8 planter boxes (weren't planning on them but can't dig too deep bc of the septic system, so it reduced our garden space a bit), plus about 20 5 gal buckets that Home Depot gave us for free (probably bc between the Boy's work and us buying home stuff we are in there ALL THE TIME). Last year we grew green beans and tomatoes in them, but we didn't get as much crop as we hoped. I think everything was too crowded.

We are growing corn and spring onion for the first time this year and I'm excited! I'm most excited for eggplants though...I can eat them all the time. And tomatoes, and cucs, and green beans....yum.

I'll have to look into growing lettuce and spinach. Seems easy enough if you're already growing other veggies, and we buy SO much from the store. Or maybe it's region specific? Will do some reading while my SBTV is playing.

keno12 · #**826** 05/08/12, 11:38 AM

One of the Special Offer surveys (you can get to it from the main SB page) is for Neilsen Home/Mobile Scans. If you have a smartphone and/or tablet, it's an easy 60 pts. Quick download of an app to aforementioned device, and instant credit.

The Trusted Surveys were being a pain and DQing me from EVERY ONE of them, but I finally got one, so I'm at about 140, with other odds and ends added in (SBTV, poll, etc). I wish we had that counter on the SB homepage again!
I wonder what the next 'contest' will be, after Vegas voting is over? I would think they would wait a bit, since they've had a bunch back to back? Who knows.

Pam6 · #**827** 05/08/12, 11:55 AM

After all of the drama from the swagmom contest I am ready for a break from the contests! But I do like the bonus swagbucks! I hope they keep something like that going though!

**Terri** · #**828** 05/08/12, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Pam6

It would be really neat to know just how good I have really done and not just guess. I always start out good with weighing and then I start to slack off and then forget.....

Pam, I USED to try to keep track like that, but now I look at dollars saved because it is easier. Like you, I was loosing track about mid-summer.

For instance, I now have enough greens in the garden to replace half of the store bought lettuce, so that is 75 cents. In a couple of weeks we will have broccolli, so I can credit myself the cost of 6 heads of broccoli. I have picked about 2 pounds of asparagus worth $4. So, right now I have a return of $4.75, with broccoli to come in a week or two.

And, I think that I will make another big salad tomorrow with the beet greens, and cabbage leaves, and some more store-bought lettuce which will give me another 75 cents, since half of the salad will be home grown. That will bring my return to $5.50 so far this year.

That leaves me with one figure instead of many!

I also do not count the value of my eggs because, alas, the feed costs eat up any profit. Even when I give them the scraps.

But, back to the origional subject: Swagbucks! Somebody said that it was easier to get points for searches if it is in the middle of the night, and I have confirmed this! And, since I get up at 6, I have found that perhaps 20 searches when I get up while I am drinking my morning caffien will almost always get me points.

keno12 · #**829** 05/08/12, 09:09 PM

^ Interesting that it is easier to get search points in the middle of the night. I got one of my biggest search wins (26 points on a Thursday) when I woke up with a headache at 3am and grabbed my phone and typed in 'why do I have a headache'....BAM, instant 26 SB...and I was off to find some water, advil, cold compress, something. But I've NEVER gotten that amount searching during the day. Maybe once or twice the ENTIRE time (years) that I've been using SB on MegaSB Fridays, but never on a non MSBD. Will have to take note and keep track.

Also with searches, I typed in something today and couldn't find what I was looking for on the first page, so I clicked to the second page, and was credited 8 pts. Not much, but not bad for just clicking over to the second page in Google. So something else to keep in mind if the points don't show up on the first page.

nightfire · #**830** 05/09/12, 03:35 PM

has anyone else not been getting the swag email for the 3 easy swagbucks? I haven't gotten it in 2 days. Seems like they keep making the easy to earn ones harder or non-existant....also can't use the toolbar with my browser so thats another easy 1 point I'm not getting.

mpillow · #**831** 05/09/12, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by nightfire

has anyone else not been getting the swag email for the 3 easy swagbucks? I haven't gotten it in 2 days. Seems like they keep making the easy to earn ones harder or non-existant....also can't use the toolbar with my browser so thats another easy 1 point I'm not getting.

same here

keno12 · #**832** 05/09/12, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by nightfire

has anyone else not been getting the swag email for the 3 easy swagbucks? I haven't gotten it in 2 days. Seems like they keep making the easy to earn ones harder or non-existant....also can't use the toolbar with my browser so thats another easy 1 point I'm not getting.

I haven't gotten it in 2 days either. I did get a 'read these articles and get a point' thing in my inbox today (I think it was a point? It wasn't 3SB like the video, that's for sure).

Pam6 · #**833** 05/09/12, 08:57 PM

I got the 3 pt email video earlier today and the 2pt 'read these' this evening. I hope they keep doing the 2 pt 'read these'! That would be an easy extra 5 points a day for those two swag inbox points!

Pam6 · #**834** 05/09/12, 10:41 PM

Loading up on the 2pt jello videos! I will say I might actually make a few of these! The strawberries and cream and the lemon pie!! Mmmm....I am thinking I would really like these!!

keno12 · #**835** 05/10/12, 06:20 AM

Where do you see the 2pt jello vids? I see jello coupons, but no videos.

Went to print coupons last night, since I was going to the store and this month is 2x the SB coupon amt, and the dang printer wouldn't work. Some garbage about how something wasn't installed, or something. It's worked every other time we've printed from coupons. com, smart source. com, etc. ahhhh. not what I needed. So, store trip didn't happen. Printer is on my list to fix.

keno12 · #**836** 05/10/12, 06:16 PM

Probably a 'duh' question, but...easiest way of keeping track of SB YTD earnings?

Internet was spotty today so I didn't get much done.
My favorite foster dog left this evening for her forever home (maybe, she has issues, so they may just 'try' her out

don't get me started). She's been a real comfort, especially on days I feel like crud. She'd just cuddle up next to me and sleep.

Pam6 · #**837** 05/10/12, 08:05 PM

How to keep track of your SB YTD earnings....You can go to your ledger and put in the date from the beginning of the year 'til now. How I keep track of my month made is I go to my gift card status and then just add up the money from the first of the year. I have been keeping track from the beginning so I just add to it every time I cash one out.
Jello videos...I get a read 'play button' that pops up on my Swagbucks homepage every once in a while. My mom says she never gets it.
I hope you can get your printer to work so you can take advantage of the double swagbucks on coupons!

Pam6 · #**838** 05/10/12, 09:34 PM

Thank you all for your votes for the swag mom contest! It looks like I am going to finish 26 out of nearly 1800!! That is amazing if you ask me! I knew I would not have a chance at winning but to be that close to the top out of so many great choices just amazes me! Thank you all!!

keno12 · #**839** 05/11/12, 09:20 AM

Pam- You redeem a LOT more than I do! I think since I've started SB I've only redeemed maybe...6 GC total over a 2-3 year time span. Up until recently I was only doing the poll, NOSO and the occasional search, so I wasn't earning many SBs! I will have to start keeping track though, it's neat to see it add up. I'm not worried about going over $600 (ha, that will be the day).

I have to redeem mine for a Home Depot GC soon. Not what I was planning on, but we have some home projects and the Boy priced around, and HD has these shelf/mounts cheaper than Amazon does. I know I can get one GC, but I really want to be able to get two, because that will cover both shelves/mounts, plus have some left over! I like that about SB though...I can change my mind last minute if I haven't redeemed points, and it all works out.

Pam, 26 out of 1800 is EXCELLENT!

Pam6 · #**840** 05/11/12, 10:20 AM

I pay so little in taxes that I am not worried about the $600 mark at all. In fact, I can't remember the last time I owed instead of getting back more than I put in.
So far I have only redeemed my SB for AGC because they usually have the best payout. I am sure if I dedicated just a little more time to SB I would make more but I am pretty content with my earnings right now. The swagmobile is really my easiest points everyday. Then I do all of the NOSO, 3 pt ad survey from inbox, daily poll, one or two search wins, games, and referral points....then throw in 2 point videos every once in a while. I don't do the surveys or special offers. Most of my earnings came at the beginning of the year when swagmobile was 100 points a day! Boy, I miss those days! I was averaging $75 every month then! Now my earnings have slowed down. I have been averaging $25 one month and then $75 the next, averaging $50 a month.
I think Mpillow has totally got me beat for earnings though...and for sure has me beat in overall earnings from other sites! She knows how to rock out the points!