Paid Survey Site - My Points

This site is a bit different from the Survey Sites I've mentioned before. You do get survey offers, but you also get "points" which translate into gift cards, just for opening emails. It's very legitimate, so I wanted to post on it.

For over a year now I have been a member of My Points. I was looking for ways to earn a little extra money, without leaving the home and taking away time from my family. I just happened on My Points one day and signed up.

The membership is free and all you have to do is allow them to send you offers through your email. Most emails are what I call a "click through". You simply open the email and click on the offer. Right now to just click on the offer you earn 5 points. If you sign up or purchase from the site you get additional points dependent upon the offer. Some offers are just free registrations and those are easy to fill out for points. Another opportunity to earn points is through surveys. Even if you don't qualify you receive 10 points and if you do, usually 50 to 60 points are awarded.

So far I've earned and redeemed more than 16,700 points!! It takes very little time each day to open an email, click, close the window and earn points! Of course it takes a while to earn enough points to redeem them doing it this way.

As for redeeming points, you get gift cards! I redeemed my very first 1,400 points for a $10.00 gift card to Bass Pro Shops as a gift from my son to my husband for Christmas. The second 1,400 went for a gift card to the Olive Garden to make my birthday dinner outing more affordable.

Now I regularly redeem Home Depot cards to aid in the process of finishing a family room in our basement. There are many other gift cards to choose from like CVS and Wal-Mart! We all know how far a gift card to CVS can go!!

If your interested in joining, leave me a comment or send me an email with your email address and I'll send you my referral link. It'll give me a chance to earn some more points and you can get started working towards the gift card of your choice! With most sites like these, I would recommend using a separate email address for sign up since you will receive many emails.

Taking Advantage of Points, Loyalty Programs and Survey Sites

Today I spent some much needed time looking into all my accounts that earn points. Generally, I don't pay much attention to them until I know I haven't looked in a while and then I'm usually pleasantly surprised.

Today for instance, I managed to rake in the following:

$5.00 Amazon.com gift card from Swagbucks

2 - $40.00 gift cards to Home Depot from my credit union rewards card

$40.00 gift card to Darden restaurants from my credit union rewards card (I'm thinking date night!)

$10.00 gift card to Home Depot from My Points. (If you are interested, email me and I can send you a referral link.)

30 free photo prints at Snapfish through My Coke Rewards. (You can earn 30 free prints just for signing up for a new account here.)

$7.00 check from Survey Spot for completing surveys

$7.00 check from Buzzback for completing surveys (this actually came automatically in the mail today)

If you total that out, using the standard $0.08 photo prints usually cost, it comes to a grand total of $151.40!!!

Don't forget to take advantage of points you may earn, as well as loyalty programs such as My Coke Rewards. As for Swagbucks - it doesn't get any easier as you simply perform your searches and win bucks to spend on gift cards. I have $15.00 loaded in my Amazon.com account now, which I'm saving for Christmas gifts.

Earn Gift Cards with My Points

For about 8 months now I have been a member of My Points. I was looking for ways to earn a little extra money, after bringing home our son from Russia, without leaving the home and taking away time from my family.

I just happened on My Points one day and signed up. The membership is free and all you have to do is allow them to send you offers through your email. Most emails are what I call a "click through". You simply open the email and click on the offer. Right now to just click on the offer you earn 5 points. If you sign up or purchase from the site you get additional points dependent upon the offer. Some offers are just free registrations and those are easy to fill out for points.

Another opportunity to earn points is through surveys. Even if you don't qualify you receive 10 points and if you do, usually 50 to 60 points are awarded.

So far I've earned and redeemed 2,800 points. This may not seem like a lot, but I am very careful about only doing the click through or free registrations and not purchasing anything. It takes very little time each day to open an email, click, close the window and earn points! Of course it takes a while to earn enough points to redeem them doing it this way.

As for redeeming points, you get gift cards! I redeemed my very first 1,400 points for a $10.00 gift card to Bass Pro Shops as a gift from my son to my husband for Christmas. The second 1,400 went for a gift card to the Olive Garden to make my birthday dinner outing more affordable. Next, I'm working towards a Home Depot card to aid in the process of finishing a family room in our basement. There are many other gift cards to choose from like CVS and Wal-Mart! We all know how far a gift card to CVS can go!!

I haven't posted about it before because I like to try these sites out to be sure they are legitimate and to be sure the prizes/gift cards really show up. Both gift cards I redeemed points for showed up very quickly.

If your interested in joining, leave me a comment or send me an email with your email address and I'll send you my referral link. It'll give me a chance to earn some more points and you can get started working towards the gift card of your choice!

With most sites like these, I would recommend using a separate email address for sign up since you will receive many emails.