Home Earning Strategy #1 – Swagbucks

Swagbucks was the first Home Earning Strategy (HES) that I started using, three years ago! I can’t even believe it’s been that long.  I don’t even remember how I heard about Swagbucks.  Now I feel like an expert and I wish I had really gotten this into it from the very beginning.  I have used the Swagbucks site off and on over the past 3 years to earn hundreds of dollars in gift cards and even cash via PayPal.  My husband has an account too and between the 2 of us, I think we have earned over $500 in gift cards and cash.  Not bad for a HES!

So what is Swagbucks?

Swagbucks is a rewards earning site. You can do several tasks on the site and they earn you Swagbucks, a digital currency that you can then cash in for gift cards, cash via PayPal, and more.

Some of the tasks you can do that earn you Swagbucks are:

Web Search

Playing Games

Surveys

Coupons

Shopping

Daily Poll

Special Offers

Watching Swagbucks TV

Mobile Swagbucks TV

Referrals

Swag Codes

Daily/Weekly/Monthly Goal Bonuses

More…

Earning Swagbucks doesn’t take a lot of time or effort.  You can do as much or as little as you want.  Some days, I barely do anything but still earn Swagbucks.  Other days I’m on the site all the time while I’m watching TV and trying to reach my Daily Goal.

If you work, you can easily still earn Swagbucks on the job or before and after work while watching TV.

If you don’t work, you most certainly can earn bigtime!!!

Some of the ways I have used my Swagbucks are for gift cards to Walmart to offset grocery bills or Christmas Shopping.  I am also working on saving up my Swagbucks right now to cash in for a $25 credit to PayPal – that’ real cash I can put in my savings account!!!

This is not a scam, this is not a get rich quick scheme, this is what I love and what Home Earning Strategies is all about “Real, Honest, Proven Ways to Earn Money from Home.”

I plan to share each of my strategies and ways that I earn Swagbucks in even more detail, step by step in the future, but in the meantime, I just wanted to share the idea of Swagbucks and I highly encourage you to Sign Up for SwagbucksToday.

Oh, I forgot to mention, it’s free, super easy to sign up, and doesn’t require any credit card, or anything.

Thanks Future Home Earners!

Abby

Tallying Up – Gotta Start Somewhere

The goal is to earn $2,500 with my home earning strategies by December 31, 2014. However, I have been using various home earning strategies off and on for the last 3 years. So I think I should start by showing what strategies I am currently working with and how much I have earned up until this point so I can start to track how much I earn by the end of the year.

Also note, my husband also has accounts with some of these sites as well, so these are just my stats. We’ve earned about double this if we include his as well. I am hoping that between both our accounts going forward we will reach our goal of $2,500 by 12/31/14.

Results before the Challenge:

(I’ll explain more about each of these strategies in future posts.)

Swagbucks

Member Since: 3/13/11

Lifetime Swagbucks Earned as of 9/13/14 – 21,857 = $218.57

Send Earnings

Member Since: Not Sure

Lifetime Cash Earned as of 9/13/14 – $10.66 (no payment yet)

Inbox Dollars

Member Since: Around August 2012

Lifetime Cash Earned as of 9/13/14 – 4 payments totaling $108.93 plus $13.45 (pending payment)

Store Hours

Member Since: 8/6/14

Lifetime Cash Earned as of 9/13/14 –$50.10

Lending Club

Member Since: January 2014

Lifetime Interest Earned as of 9/13/14 –$12.77

Metal Recycling

Previously didn’t track – Approximately $32 made in cash

Extreme Couponing

Too hard to track, will figure something out

Very First Post – Home Earning Strategies

Welcome to my Home Earning Strategies blog. My name is Abby and I have been home earning off and on for at least 3 years now. In the beginning, I was just looking for ways to earn a little extra money and researched ways online. I couldn’t believe how many opportunities there are. I am now focused on really building up a consistent strategy to earn from home so that I can become a stay at home mom and take care of my family. My goal for this blog is to set goals to keep me accountable and share my strategies and exact process with others so you can do the same.

Right now, I work full-time and so does my husband. We don’t have any children yet but will start trying this year. My hope is to start this blog and really building my home earning strategies so that by the time a baby arrives and it’s time to go back to work after maternity leave, I can stay at home and just rely on my husband’s salary and my home earning strategies.

Fingers crossed! I look forward to sharing this home earning journey with you so that you too can earn extra money as well. Post comments, share your feedback and ideas. Let’s do this together.

Thanks Future Home Earners!

Abby

What is Home Earning?

I classify home earning as doing things from the comfort of your home that earn or significantly save you money or other forms of currency that are useful (like gift cards).

My home earning strategies consist of:

Extreme Couponing
Rewards Sites – Like Swagbucks, Inbox Dollars, Send Earnings, Hulk Coins, Fusion Cash, etc
Metal Recycling
Peer to Peer Lending
Sweepstakes
Goals for this Blog:

Earn $2,500 across all home earning strategies between September 2014 and December 2014

Track my progress toward my goal

Explain exactly what I do with my home earning so that you can replicate it

Investigate and review new home earning strategies

Ideas for Future Posts:

Review of each home earning strategy I use and my results

Investigate new ways to make money online and review them

If you have an idea on something you want to hear, let me know.