Parents, we know how expensive the holiday season can be.
If you’re struggling to shop for the kids, the cousins, the family, the teachers, the grandparents and the neighbors, don’t worry — CouponCabin is here to help. Our cash back program pays its members to shop online.
Here’s how earning cash back at CouponCabin works. First, you sign up for CouponCabin. Then, you click through CouponCabin to let a store know that you’re a cash back member. If you want to earn cash back at Bed Bath and Beyond, visit the Bed Bath and Beyond page and click on the Shop Now button. This will direct you to the Bed Bath and Beyond website, where you can shop online as you normally would.
That’s it! That’s how easy earning cash back is. The only extra step you need to take is clicking through CouponCabin before shopping online. Once you make a qualifying purchase, cash back will be posted to your account within a few hours. Then, once you’ve reached your payment threshold, you’ll receive your cash back in your payment method of choice. CouponCabin has 9 payment options to choose from:
- Check
- PayPal
- Venmo
- Direct Deposit
- Chase QuickPay
- eGift Card
- Charity
- Crypto
- Credit to Your Debit Card (Coming Soon)
We’ll mail you a check. We’ll deposit money into your account. We’ll even issue your cash back in the form of an e-gift card. If you’re feeling generous, you can donate your cash back to a reputable charity. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can get paid in Bitcoin, Litecoin or Doge. It might sound too good to be true, but CouponCabin will actually send you real money. Once you get paid, you can use the money to shop more!
So, where does the whole parenting thing come in? Parents (and all CouponCabin members) can earn a TON of cash back on holiday essentials. If you’re in the market for a new TV, a video game or a LEGO toy set, you can shop at stores with high cash-back rates and essentially make money back on every order.
Let’s see what earning cash back on holiday shopping would look like. This year, your kid asked for the PlayStation 5 and you didn’t have the heart to say no. So, you put the $459.99 console on your shopping list. Luckily, it’s being sold at GameStop, where shoppers can earn 3.5% cash back. You purchase the item online as a CouponCabin member. You earn 3.5% cash back and get about $16 in your cash back account.
Now, $16 may not sound like a lot of money, but cash back adds up quickly. You’re also in the market for clothes for your kids. You notice that American Eagle is offering up to 10% cash back, and you go to town purchasing sweaters, jeans, outerwear and accessories. You end up spending $500, but that’s OK because with 10% back, you make $50. Now you have $66 in your account, and you’re not done shopping.
You still have to buy holiday decor! You get your Christmas tree from Home Depot (4% cash back), you purchase decorations from JCPenney (5% cash back), and you get all your wrapping paper from Walmart (2% cash back). Every transaction adds up, and suddenly, you have more than $100 cash back. And let’s not forget, cash back can be earned in addition to using coupons. That means that you can redeem a coupon AND earn cash back on your purchase. Where else can you double your savings so easily?!
The bigger the purchase, the more cash back you’ll earn. And it goes beyond holiday shopping. If your refrigerator is broken, you can earn cash back on a new one. Planning a trip for spring break? You can earn cash back on your flight, hotel room and rental car. You can even earn cash back on gift cards. If you bought a Kohl’s gift card right now, you would earn 7.1% back. We have a whole list of eligible gift cards.
Don’t make the mistake of not getting paid to shop online this year. According to Capital Counselor, in 2020, Americans planned to spend an average of $998 on winter holidays, including gifts and decorations. That’s a lot of money. But if you earned 10% on $998, you’d make just under $100. Now we’re talking!
Cash back earnings are estimates and cash back rates are subject to change over time.
This article originally appeared on CouponCabin.com and was syndicated by MediaFeed.org.
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22 ways to score free gift cards
Free gift cards may not sound as exciting to you as they do for me, but listen up. Getting gift cards for free is basically free money.
Why would you want to pass up free money?
For example: As I was getting ready for our upcoming trip to Naples for some holiday family time, I wanted to get some cute gear to be fully prepared. I came across the cutestvintage backpack on Amazon for $30. But I did not want to pay that much. I am cheap. Sue me?
Instead, I paid only $3 for it, thanks to free Amazon gift cards I had racked up through contests and on Swagbucks (when you sign up you will get a free $10 bonus).
Free gift cards can help you get groceries online, pet care items and pet food, baby items, and even help you pay bills with free PayPal or Visa gift cards!
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You can get free gift cards for simply sharing your opinion in surveys or entering giveaways. You can even earn free gift cards by shopping in store with simply walking in the store, scanning bar codes and/or receipts with my favorite app to do this: Shopkick.
But there is more where that came from.
This ultimate guide shows you how to get free gift cards by playing online, entering contests, signing up for apps, completing offers, and more.
Now, let’s look into each one of these a little deeper.
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The easiest way to get free gift cards is with giveaways and contests. Good thing we have Google to help us.
Start by entering in your Google search bar ‘free gift card giveaway’. You are bound to see some promising results with some great winning opportunity. You can never enter too many (but you might want to opt out of all the email spam that you might get for entering them).
Other search terms you could use include “free gift card contest” or “blogger gift card giveaway”.
In addition to Google searching for giveaways, you can also check online giveaway directories.
Here are some giveaway directories that we like to surf:
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You often see many different survey apps and sites offering gift cards for sharing your opinion about certain products and experiences.
With SurveyRewardz, you not only can earn gift cards for answering surveys but you can also earn money to withdraw to a PayPal account, virtual Visa gift card or an actual check.
Yeah, you can also earn cold, hard cash with this one.
You not only earn gift cards and cash for answering surveys, you can also earn free gift cards by referring others. You can earn $3 for every person you refer plus 15 percent of their lifetime earnings!
The best thing about SurveyRewardz is that the minimum payout is only $1 for PayPal (and varying minimum amounts for other withdrawal methods).
- Amazon gift card(minimum $5)
- US Virtual Visa (minimum $5)
- PayPal (minimum $1)
- Check (minimum $5)
- Best Buy eGift card (minimum $5)
- Walmart eGift card (minimum $5)
- Xbox eGift card (minimum $15)
SurveyRewardz is 100 percent free and only takes one second. I earned my first $1 for payout literally 5 minutes after signing up (eek!).
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Two words: Facebook Groups. Use them!
I love Facebook groups and use them for just about anything and everything. I have one for this blog that you can join here.
When using the right groups for getting discount codes and finding free gift card opportunities, you will realize what a life hack you just stumbled upon.
These groups aren’t just open to the whole world or an entire audience like they may be with other brands, companies, websites/apps, and retailers. But they are open for you to join.
This is my favorite group for discount codes (most the codes shared are 99 percent off): Coupons Deals & Codes
This is my favorite group for giveaways: Blog Giveaways & Sweepstakes: Come enter to win!
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Sign up bonuses are the easiest way to get free money online today. You can’t cash out any of the bonuses or earnings into gift cards from any of these apps but a free $15 in the bank sounds like a better deal anyway.
Rakuten and Giving Assistant are great online savings and cash back apps and websites that also pay you for signing up.
Rakuten is a cash back web app, mobile app, and extension that you can get anywhere from 2–20 percent cash back for your shopping. You can also earn more bonuses by referring others using your unique referral link.
When signing up for Rakuten you get an automatic bonus of $10 added to your Rakuten account where you can redeem via PayPal.
Giving Assistant is another cash back website where in addition to the signup bonus, you can also earn cash back by completing purchases through their online portal.
Then earn even more for referring your friends and family.
What makes this cash back site different is that you can opt for a certain percentage of your earnings to be donated to a nonprofit charity of your choice.
You will get $5 just for signing up for Giving Assistant, redeemable via PayPal or check.
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You can either use the Amazon website or their app to trade in your old devices for free Amazon gift cards.
Eligible devices for trade in include tablets, kindles, cell phones, media players, video games and tons of other tech categories.
You can even trade in old DVD’s and textbooks for gift card balance credits.
The best thing about Amazon Trade-In is you get an immediate offer for your old technology and free shipping when sending it in.
The process is pretty easy. Depending on where you live it can take up to 10 business days for them to arrive and be processed but you can track the progress in your Trade-In Account.
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Ibotta is a savings app and rewards program originally created to help people save money on their grocery shopping but has expanded into thousands of other shopping categories and online offers.
You can earn on Ibotta by:
- Submitting your physical shopping receipts
- Shopping online through the app
- Fulfilling cash back activity bonuses
- Participating in team activity bonuses
- Referring others to the app
Using Ibotta has been the easiest way to earn some cash by shopping and referring others. You will get $10 just for signing up for Ibotta.
I can either withdraw the amount in my Ibotta wallet to Paypal or Venmo ($20 minimum), or redeem the amount for a variety of gift cards including:
- Whole Foods Market gift card ($20 minimum)
- Amazon.com gift card ($20 minimum)
- Groupon gift card ($20 minimum)
- Starbucks gift card ($20 minimum)
- Sephora gift card ($20 minimum)
- And tons more gift card options for other merchants, retailers, online retailers, restaurants, apps, etc.
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Because of social media hashtags and the many ways to creatively use them make them the perfect tool for finding free gift cards using Instagram or Twitter.
On Instagram you can now follow hashtags. By following hashtags from contests, giveaways and freebie opportunities you can snag free gift cards that way.
Following any of the below hashtags on Instagram will help you find free gift cards:
- #freegiftcards
- #giftcardcodes
- #giftcardgiveaway
- #giveaway
- #contest
- #freebie
- #amazongiftcard
On Twitter you can follow certain accounts like @heyitsfree or track freebie related tweets. A popular way many people are now using to hack for free gift cards are Twitter parties.
To find Twitter parties to join and participate in, start with searching on Google for things like ‘Twitter parties for free gift cards’ or ‘Twitter parties for giveaways’, etc.
Or you use the search bar on both Instagram and Twitter and try searching for ‘free gift cards’ to see what else you can find (this same strategy can also be used on Pinterest).
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Drop is an app that lets you earn rewards by automatically giving you points for shopping and spending with any of the credit or debit cards that you link to the app. You are then able to redeem those points for a variety of gift cards.
Some of the gift cards you are able to redeem points for are:
- Starbucks gift card (5,000 point minimum)
- Amazon gift card (10,000 point minimum)
- Best Buy gift card (10,000 point minimum)
- Uber Eats gift card (15,000 point minimum)
- And more at a variety of other online or in store retailers, restaurants, apps, etc.
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Ok, this is one of the newer ways I have heard of. And by far one of the easiest.
Even though I don’t take any prescriptions, my wife does. So when we learned she could earn a free $25 gift card from Walgreens for transferring her prescriptions there from CVS, we jumped on the offer.
Walgreens is not the only pharmacy that rewards you for transferring your scripts to them.
Other pharmacies that offer free gift cards for prescription transfer are Safeway, RiteAid and Kmart.
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With PrizeRebel you can earn rewards by answering surveys, watching videos, completing tasks, referring others and many other ways. Those rewards are usually granted via points.
Then you can redeem those points for a variety of gift cards including Amazon gift cards, PayPal Money, Visa Prepaid gift cards, restaurant gift cards and basically any other gift card you can think of.
You can also enter contests and raffles on the site for free gift cards.
PrizeRebel is really an amazing site for earning free gift cards and rewards. Plus, it is completely free to sign up.
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On GrabPoints you can earn reward points for answering surveys, watching TV, completing offers, and downloading other apps on your phone.
Those reward points are then exchanged for free gift cards.
How it works is advertisers pay GrabPoints for engagements. They recruit members like you and I to do online activities for free gift cards and PayPal cash.
Gift cards and PayPal cash aren’t the only rewards you can earn with GrabPoints either. You can also earn real cash, crypto and gaming rewards.
Some of the gift cards and other rewards available through GrabPoints include:
- Netflix gift card
- Walmart gift card
- Airbnb gift card
- Xbox gift card
- Amazon gift card
I was able to have a payout to my PayPal within my first 48 hours of using this app.
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InboxDollars is an app where you can earn free gift cards and cash for a variety of online activities.
Some of the activities that you can get paid for InboxDollars:
- Answering surveys
- Completing offers
- Downloading apps
- Playing games
- Watching videos and ads
- Confirming emails
- Referring friends
InboxDollars doesn’t allow you to cash out until you reach the $30 minimum. Once your minimum is reached you can chose from a variety of merchant eGift cards including Amazon, AMC, eBay, Facebook, Target, Kohls, Playstation, Xbox, Uber, and more.
You can even opt to get paid by check or via Delta Airlines gift card. Seriously, you can earn free money towards your next flight. Talk about a hidden travel hack!
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Did you know you can bring almost any other gift card to Target and they will give you a Target gift card of the same value in return? Yeah, pretty awesome.
How it works is you first look up if the gift card you want to trade-in for a Target gift card is one of their currently accepted cards. You can do this on this page.
Some cards they currently accept:
- Ann Taylor
- Best Buy
- Starbucks
- Kate Spade
- Bath & Body Works
- And mostly any others you can think of
Go to this page to see what location near you is a participating Target Trade-In store.
Then go to the store, tell them you have a gift card to trade in, wait for a couple of magic on their end and voila, you have a free Target gift card!
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Gift Card Granny is normally used to find gift cards with up to a 50 percent discount. What many don’t know about Gift Card Granny is that you can also use it to earn points towards completely free gift cards and even stack savings for more money.
Ways to earn points on Gift Card Granny include:
- Signing up for their newsletter
- Referring others
- Making a purchase on Gift Card Granny
- Reading blog posts on the site
- Downloading the app
After earning points by completing any of the applicable tasks you are then able to redeem them for gift cards, depending on the amount of points you racked up.
Below are redemption examples and ratios you can expect to see on Gift Card Granny:
- Redeem 5,000 points for a $25 Amazon eGift card
- Redeem 5,000 points for a $25 Airbnb eGift card
- Redeem 1,000 points for a $5 Michael’s eGift card
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There are sites that list current promo cards that can be redeemed for either free gift cards, discounted gift cards, or a discount off a total price. A popular way of finding promo codes and coupon codes for discounts is by using Groupon and navigating to ‘Coupons’ and then to ‘Stores’.
They currently have Amazon promo codes that provide up to 75 percent off.
You can also search in Google for terms such as ‘promo codes for free gift cards’ or ‘free gift card codes’. This may often lead you to free gift card generators and review posts of other sites and apps that can help you acquire these kinds of codes.
Be careful of free gift card generators. They seem cool and as if you are able to get a free gift card from one click but that isn’t always the case.
Usually these sites want you complete a series of offers or sign up for other things.
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Recyclebank was founded in 2004 to create waste-free communities. They reward members for reducing waste and learning how to reduce waste.
You can earn points on Recyclebank.com by reading blog posts and recycling (if your waste hauler has partnered with Recyclebank). Then you can redeem those points for free gift cards, including gift cards to small local businesses, or special offers like $10 off $30 at Bed Bath & Beyond.
You can see which local gift card you can earn by entering your zip code here.
Recyclebank also hosts contests to win free gift cards for as low as 10 points (which you can earn double that by reading one article).
Gift cards you can win include Amazon gift cards, Apple gift cards and Best Buy gift cards, among many others.
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Sometimes stores like Target and Forever 21 have special weekends (especially around the holidays and Black Friday) where you can get free gift cards just for showing up.
If you shop there during a specific time or spend a specific amount of money, they will give you something like a free $5 gift card to spend on your next visit.
I got a free $10 gift card during Black Friday at Forever 21 last year. I was there right when the doors opened and it was the luck of the draw because they had three types of gift cards you could get: a $5, $10, or $25 gift card.
I was lucky enough to at least get the $10 gift card.
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If you haven’t yet tried out Airbnb for any of your travel accommodations, I suggest it as a must. Airbnb is the best way to rent unique accommodations and feel like a true local on even the lowest of budgets.
Don’t believe me? Check out this tiny house we stayed at on a horse ranch in Colorado or this apartment in Athens, Greece, for only $40 a night. Your free $40 credit would basically cover a one-night stay.
After you sign up and agree to the terms of Airbnb, that free credit is all yours to enjoy.
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Don’t try to drive yourself crazy with even more clutter around the house. Instead of asking for more stuff from family and friends for your birthday or during the holidays, ask for gift cards to your favorite online shopping sites, stores, restaurants or apps.
People enjoy going to grab a quick gift card more than they do hunting for your special requested item anyway. This way you’re happy, they’re happy and all is well.
If you end up getting gift cards that you didn’t necessarily ask for, exchange them or sell them online.
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Toluna Opinions is where you can earn rewards for answering surveys, participating in daily lotteries and engaging in the community. Points that you earn can then be redeemed for PayPal cash, Amazon gift cards and more.
The surveys on Toluna are among the easiest to use in my experience. Most other survey sites seem outdated but Toluna is intuitive and won’t make you want to pull your hair out.
Other gift cards you can redeem points for in Toluna:
- $10 Starbucks gift card for 30,000 points
- $15 Sephora gift card for 45,000 points
- $25 Global Hotel Card by Orbitz for 75,000 points
- $30 PayPal gift card for 95,000 points
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Dosh is a cash back app but not in the way you are used to with other cash back apps. Instead of having to scan a receipt or mail in rebates, Dosh uses your linked cards to instantly apply cash back when you make purchases at participating merchants.
Eligible purchases include shopping, dining out, ordering online, and even purchases at the gas station.
Dosh doesn’t have any way to earn free gift cards but does give you a free $5 just for signing up.
Once your Dosh wallet reaches $25, you can withdraw the amount to either your bank account or Paypal account, or opt to donate it to a charity of your choice.
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My wife and I use travel rewards credit cards to earn points on any purchases made with those cards. When those points are redeemed, their value ranges on what I purchase whether it be airline tickets, rental cars or hotels (and specific times of the year will change their value).
This is my favorite “free gift card hack” because those points earned from my past purchases kind of act like free gift cards that I get to redeem for travel.
In addition, the card we use has no sign-up fee and any flights I book through their portal are 50 percent off.
It is basically free travel.
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It is kind of amazing how many different ways you can get something discounted or for free online or with using apps. And with giveaways happening every single day online, you have more chances to score free stuff.
Be aware of online scams though and if something seems fishy, always turn to google and the BBB to review ratings and see if a company is legit.
This article originally appeared on ILikeToDabble.com and was syndicated by Mediafeed.org.
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