Prudent Lifestyle

My husband has been happy lately that his online shop at Zazzle has been producing trickles of income. He said the commission is not a lot but it’s still money and its worth the small efforts he did. Why small efforts? Its because joining and having an online shop with zazzle is so easy and it for free. You sign up for free, upload your graphics and digital pictures for free, and customize their products online for free, set up how much you commission you want to receive, and voila, your online shop is born. There are lots of costumers in Zazzle looking for customized and can be customer personalized items.

As for my husband, he is not very active in promoting his store, but still, costumers were able to find his store among thousands of stores in zazzle and maybe he just had his lucky charm who is me. Joke! I am also promoting his shop to my other websites so yeah, that might probably help but he does not believe. Oh well, I am just happy that he could find an online outlet of his abilities such as a noob photographer and graphic designer. Here’s a picture of him holding his first check worth 50 bucks in June 2011.

Tags: income online, zazzle

Hello December! How time flies by so quickly. This month marks the end of the year is very much soon. As for me, life goes on and on. I never stop looking for good deals. I bought lots of stuff before the Black Friday sale because I noticed for 3 years having lived here in our place in Pennsylvania, most stores has lots of big discounts the week before and after Black Friday sale. But the best to shop is before the Black Friday so that you will get good stuff and not a lot of people has roam around the stores yet.

As for my Swagbucks update, it is pretty slow but increasing. Here is my swagbucks activity last month:

A big part of it was that there was an offer in Yaysave that if you buy 25 bucks worth of Pantene brand products, you will get additional 500 swagbucks after a few days of your purchase. This has been my third time to buy and received Swagbucks points from shopping at yaysave online. It has been my favorite online shop because the items their selling are the basic needs and discounted.  The other swagbucks points I got was when I responded to the easy offers they sent to my swagbucks inbox and the others were from searching using their search bar. I could have got a lot more of swagbucks if I stay tuned in their Facebook page so I can type what others typed in the search bar and got swagbucks points from their searches, but I got busy online and offline lately, especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations. Anyhow, if any of you folks want to sign up with swagbucks, just click here and you will be directed to my swidget and from their you can click the sign up button and start earning swagbucks.

As for my swagbucks points update lately, I have a total of 5697 swagbucks points, which I can redeem twelve 5 bucks worth of Amazon gift cards which is a total of 60 dollars. I am still saving it as for now.

Tags: online deals, swagbucks

As what I have written in my post a few weeks ago here, I shared my first proof of payment from Swagbucks and the eight simple steps of how I snagged a five dollars worth of paypal cash prize from swagbucks(dot)com’s swag store. Now, I will share to you my second proof of the five dollars paypal cash that was delivered in my paypal account yesterday. Here is how I received notice from them:

Isn’t that something? It is my one way of earning extra cash online. I hope that in this sharing of proofs of mine, it will also benefit others to build confidence in joining.

Tags: freebies, prizes, swagbucks

Hello Folks. As promised in my first post post, I will share with you how I redeemed gift cards from swagbucks that helped me ease my online shopping. As I have said, one should sign up in swagbucks first before you can start accumulating swagbucks points to redeem rewards such as gift cards. Just go to their website and signing up is free. You can read their requirements of an individual and their terms and conditions. My tip in getting swagbucks points from them is to go to their website and use their search engine to search all kinds of stuff that I want. Their search engine is powered by google as well so its like searching in google. The only difference is that in some of your searches, they will reward you with swagbuck bills. Either 5-10 or 50 or more worth swagbucks bills, you can get it in just one search or a few more searches in their search engine everyday. I have accumulated mine for many months now and its in the 5,000′s worth of swagbuck bills. After that, you will go to their swagstore and redeem your swagbucks bills for the prize you want. They got lots of prizes there but as for me, I like gift cards.

This is what their swagstore look like. The circle in red is where you can click and go to their gift cards page. You can click the picture to get a large view of the picture.

When you hover the gift cards link from their swagstore, you get to choose how much gift cards you want to redeem. I like Amazon, Paypal and Yaysave gift cards. Sometimes other cards to other online stores like euphoria baby and fragrancenet if they are available in their swagstore. The ones underlined with black is the amount of swagbuck points you are going to give for that particular prize.

Just lately, they give lots of swagbuck points if you shop to yaysave online. I did a few shopping there just like my previous post and fortunately, I got 1000 swagbucks points for the 50 dollars shopping I had. 1000 swagbucks points is equivalent to 10 dollars worth of Amazon shopping or 5 dollars worth of paypal cash.

So there you have it, hope my tips in getting swagbucks points and shop and earn will help you. The above pictures are the gift cards I redeemed in swagbucks. They don’t have expiration dates in all of them.

Tags: amazon, euphoriababy, fragrancenet, gift cards, online rewards, swagbucks, swagstore, yaysave

I created this weblog for me to keep track on the simply economic and practical lifestyle that I have experienced and applied in real life. I like to be thrifty and frugal most of the times. And I try my best to find good deals and sales in shopping either online or offline shops. Aside from shopping, I also want to create a small business online in the near future that hopes to ease costumer’s shopping and interest too. I am still a novice when it comes to this niche. But I am hoping to see my progress to this and to spread helpful tips and information to my readers.

There are two online shopping tips that I find useful. One has to consider shop and earn method at the same time online, and shopping online by using electronic gift codes from rewarding sites.  But before I proceed, I just want to let my readers know that this post is made according to my experience and the stores I will be mentioning are the ones I like the most and I am not asking payment from them. One example of shop and earn sites that I have tried is Yaysave. You can find various practical items in their site, from beauty, personal care, household essentials, baby and mom and many more. They usually have discounted items compared to items found offline. They announce a certain amount of purchase where they will reward you with Swagbucks points. Now, to get Swagbucks points, you have to be a US, Canada or UK resident only. If you don’t have an account yet and you are willing to be referred by me, you can just leave me a message in this post and will send you my email so I will help you from the best that I can about it. It has been three times that I tried shopping in Yaysave and I am satisfied of their costumer service. They mail the items to me and I received them intact. After a few days, I got my swagbucks points. About Swagbucks, they are a freebie website where they can reward you free gift cards and other items that you like in their selection of rewards. For me, I like getting gift cards from them. I think I have received 50 dollars worth of gift cards from them, either Paypal cash or Amazon gift card. I will talk in my next posts about how I redeemed online rewards and freebies from them. But hey, isn’t this amazing that something online is real and its something that can benefit you?

A screenshot of my Yaysave purchase.

A screenshot of my Swagbucks points after I purchased from Yaysave.

Tags: introduction, online rewards, online shops, shop and earn, swagbucks, yaysave