Try using Swagbucks.com as your search engine to earn points redeemable for PayPal, Amazon gift cards and other prizes. Earn 7-12 Swagbucks per search and redeem 450 for a $5 Amazon.com gift card. When you sign up, you’ll get 30 free bucks.
The FatHeadDog has been known to eat the contents of her desk drawer for lunch. Not file folders, but granola bars, ramen noodles, hot sauce packets and any random candy found leftover in a candy dish. Saves time AND money, right? My doctor thinks otherwise.
High blood pressure schmlod pressure. And the killer is, I’d just snapped up these economical (cheap-ass) staples for lunch. 50 cents for lunch! (I’m not promoting gross sodium consumption–1,170 mg of sodium–but come on, a 12-pack of Hot & Spicy Shrimp ramen
So, because I can’t eat these yummy little fake food containers of goodness, I’ll pass along the salty details to you. Just don’t tell your doctor that FatHeadDog sent you.
For reasons that escape me, I can never find the darn Amazon Coupon Book with e-coupons on amazon.com. There’s not a nav link or easy URL to remember. I’m not a navigation doofus, but really.. its a big 404 error to me. So for mostly my sake and hopefully for your convenience, here is the link to the Amazon Coupon Book
Right now there are two valuable Pampers eCoupons available, $3/1 Pampers Cruisers or Swaddlers Box
My office “neighbor” and I shout most things across our cubicle walls–meeting times, web content updates or the status of the donut table– but tips about the search-and-win site Swagbucks were always whispered. “Pss, there’s a Swagcode worth 11 bucks…”
You earn “Swagbucks” for searches performed on their site (as opposed to searching on Google). Points range from 7 to 20 “bucks” earned. You can redeem for tons of different prizes, but the best value, by far, is the $5 Amazon.com gift card for 450 bucks. Essentially free bucks for free gift cards.
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Do you have 15 friends? I don’t.. I mean, I’m a fathead dog. I don’t get out much. But if you’re of the two-leg variety, just round up 15 friends who’d like ItsThoughtful.com and you’ll get an easy $25 Amazon GC.
ItsThoughtful.com is a cool gift browsing site and social community. Users suggest their best gift ideas (for a current contest, if your gift idea is voted best, you’ll win a $500 Amazon GC) and vote–helping sort out the great gifts, like this sculpted jewelry tree
No purchase necessary on their part, just a confirmed email address. Referral contest runs until Dec. 15. I like that tree.
Free music! Amazon.com is offering $3 worth of free music downloads with the promo code GET3MP3S
Also, Amazon is stretching Black Friday deals into an entire week. Throughout the day, every day this week, Amazon is revealing new Black Friday deals
Box sets on sale include The season with The One Where No One Proposes, The season with The One Where Ross & Rachel Take a Break and The season with The Last One. I could sooo easily geek out on you and confess my unhealthy adoration for Friends. But I won’t. All I will say is, “We were on a break.”
What a proud day it was the day FatHeadPup asked, “Mama, what this?” as he pulled a toddler-sized handful of coupons out of my wallet. “They’re coupons, John John.. Mama likes coupons.” My husband looked over at me, slyly concealing a smirk. I retorted his silent statement with, “Well, he’s never too young!”
Did you know Amazon offers coupons? They’re similar to manufacturers coupons on household items, such as Tide laundry detergent, Charmin bath tissue, Pampers diapers and more, that can be used at Amazon only. When I’m on the site, I can never seem to “find” them so here’s an easy link for you (and me) to the Amazon Coupon Book
In this several-part series entitled Cheapskate Santa, FatHeadDog will share her favorite money-saving and money-earning techniques for the holiday season.
Until now, FatHeadDog has been on the fence about search and win sites. Then once I researched the best practices for winning, I’ve now got the hang of it and winning. Here’s how:
Swagbucks: You earn “Swagbucks” for searches performed on their site (as opposed to searching on Google). Points range from 7 to 50 “bucks” earned. You can redeem these bucks for thousands of prizes, but the best value, by far, is the $5 Amazon.com gift card for 450 bucks.
Click here to sign up for Swagbucks.com. On the left-side column, click on NOSO and keep clicking Skip or Next Offer on each offer until you reach the last page and receive 1 free Swagbuck.
Then, click on TRUSTED SURVEYS and you’ll receive another free Swagbuck.
Finally, click on DAILY POLL and vote to receive 1 free Swagbuck. Do this daily for 3 automatic bucks, in addition to your search wins.
The great thing about Fridays are Mega Swag Bucks, which offer larger denomination wins on Fridays only.
I know mentioning the holidays before Halloween is a faux “paw” but really, its never too early to get started on your Christmas shopping and savings. In this new series I’m calling Cheapskate Santa, I’ll share ways I’ve discovered and researched to earn extra money for the holidays, as well as a way to stretch your holiday dollars.
iRazoo is what Mashable calls a human-powered search engine that rewards users with prizes, such as $5 Amazon.com gift cards. If you already use Swagbucks, a site I’ve mentioned before, you’re familiar with the concept. Here are easy ways to earn points with iRazoo.
You can vote and comment on two sites daily to earn 100 points a day. Redeem 3000 points for $5 Amazon.com gift card. In three days, I’ve earn 300 points so it’d take about two weeks to earn a gift card. Worth it when you add iRazoo to other sites that I’ll recommend in this series to earn cash, gift cards and prizes. Every little bit counts!
How to Get 150 Points Right Now:
Use this link to sign up for iRazoo and you’ll receive 50 free points as bonus. Perform your first search and scroll down to the People Recommended Sites. Click on two sites you’re interested in, leave a comment and vote yes or no for recommendation. You’ll get your next 100 points that way.
Amazon’s going for the purse strings–quite literally–and inviting select members to join the new Amazon Mom
Join Amazon Mom for FREE and get FREE Prime Shipping for 3 months!! (For parents and caregivers) We hope you have been enjoying the limited-time 30% discount on diapers and wipes with Subscribe & Save! Continue reading
Amazon has extended the 30% off diapers deal so you have another change to score Cheap Ass Diapers (herein referred to as CAD). All varieties of both Pampers Baby Dry Diapers
For a huge box of Pampers size 4, 176-count $39.49 (a box of CAD which is bigger than my two-year-old kid…)
| (Cheap Ass Diapers) Item(s) Subtotal: | $39.49 |
| Shipping & Handling: | $0.00 |
| (20% magazine coupon) Promotion Applied: | -$11.85 |
| (15% Subscribe & Save) Promotion Applied: | -$7.90 |
| (Amazon coupon book) Your Coupon Savings: | -$1.50 |
| —– | |
| Total Before Tax: | $18.24 |
| Sales Tax: | $0.00 |
1. You can stack up to three magazine 20% off codes in one order for really really CAD.
2. Amazon offers diaper coupons, which can be used with this deal. They’re found in your Coupon Book on amazon.com. If you don’t see one, try refreshing.
3. Canceling your subscription to Subscribe & Save can be done online in one easy step. Go to My Account and look for Managing my Subscribe & Save subscriptions.
4. Also refer to Amazon diaper deals as Cheap Ass Diaper deals.
Anyone else spotted more Amazon 20% coupons in magazines? Leave a comment on FatHeadDog!
If that gift card to Frederick’s of Hollywood just isn’t your speed, try selling it for cash or Amazon.com credit. You can buy, sell and trade gift cards at PlasticJungle.com.
I’ve been following Plastic Jungle for a while and intrigued, but just haven’t pulled the trigger. A nerd for research, here’s what I’ve found:
It’s a great idea when you get stuck with a retail gift card that you know you’ll never use. The site offers a guarantee for both gift card buyers and sellers in the event the gift card is invalid or the balance is less than what was advertised.
I’m gonna give it a shot with a Jiffy Lube gift card I have (yeah, Jiffy Lube) and trade for an Amazon.com gift card, so I’ll report the results. Any one else have experience with Plastic Jungle or similar sites? Leave a comment here on FatHeadDog.
This one will probably go quick. On Pampers Gifts to Grow, you can snag a $20 gift card to CVS for 2,200 points (Edit 8/25: gift cards are gone now.) I know that’s like 10,000 million diapers worth of points, but that’s one of the best rewards I’ve seen on there to date. If you’re new to the program, here’s a quick guide.
Until now, FatHeadDog has been on the fence about the search and win site Swagbucks. I never seemed to “win” any points on searches, never entered the bonus “Swag Codes” in time and generally just failed at returning the investment of my time.
But now that I’ve gotten the hang of Swagbucks and figured out my best strategy for winning, I’m a big fan and tickled with the dozens of free Amazon.com gift cards I’ve scored from the site.
First off, here’s the premise of the site. You earn “Swagbucks” for searches performed on their site (as opposed to searching on Google). Points range from 7 to 50 “bucks” earned. You can redeem these points for thousands of prizes, but the best value, by far, is the $5 Amazon.com gift card for 450 bucks.
Here are a few pointers for winning:
1. Perform your searches approximately three to four times a day, several hours apart. I search first thing in the morning, after lunch, late afternoon and in the evening.
2. Once you win bucks from a search, its fairly unlikely you’ll hit it again, so you can save your next search for a few hours later.
3. When searching, try related terms to the original you searched, and click through all the pages of results. Also, you can try searching photos or videos for the same term. To me at least, it seems searching “deep” wins better results than searching “shallow” with dozens of unrelated terms (which, by the way, can penalize you if Swagbucks thinks you’re not performing “natural searches”).
