Freebie Giveaway - 6 Boxes of Turtle Chex Mix Bars

Have you tried the Turtle Chex Mix Bars yet? My Blog Spark sent us two boxes to try out and they are delicious! This yummy snack combines crunchy Chex pieces, pretzels and peanuts with chewy and indulgent ingredients like caramel and chocolate. And if that´s not enough, they have less than 150 calories per bar and provide at least 8 grams of whole grain per serving (48 grams recommended daily)! A great combination of the ingredients you love, Chex Mix Bars are a tasty treat that will leave you feeling satisfied and guilt-free!

Now that we've tried them, thanks to My Blog Spark, we can offer our readers six boxes to try! We'll be giving away 2 boxes each to three of our faithful readers absolutely free, mailed right to your house.

To enter to win, just leave a comment here letting us know how you wind down from a long, hard day. We will choose three random winners on Saturday night. Be sure to leave your email address or a way to contact you. If you win, we will need to email you and get your mailing address.

Thank you for reading!

Earn $50 Cashback by Applying for Discover Card

We've mentioned this deal before, but it's still available, so if you are not already a Discover Card owner, you may want to check it out!

Discover is still running a $50 cash back bonus. The benefits are probably some of the best that I have found for credit cards. The Discover Card has great low rates, no annual fee, and best of all 5% cashback on gas, groceries, and travel. Also, you get 1% cashback on everything else.


My husband and I decided to give the Discover Card an opportunity in September of 2008 when a $75 gas card came across my desk. It said all we had to do was fill out the application and make 1 purchase and we would receive our $75 gas card. (Sure enough, about 8 weeks later we received our gas card!)


We decided to incorporate the Discover Card into our monthly budget. The Discover Card is used to purchase gas and groceries every month. At the end of the month we pay the entire balance. ( Usually, my husband writes a cash check (we put it aside with our bills) the first of each month to cover the gas and groceries for the month.) This has had 2 benefits, the first being that we stay within our budget for gas and groceries and second, we are earning cash back. To date we are at $80 cashback simply for making purchases on everyday items we need and use.

This is another great opportunity to earn cash, but be sure that you discipline yourself to pay off the balance each month! These types of offers can be pitfalls without a good measure of self control and wise financial planning.

JOIN NIELSEN HOMESCAN PANEL NOW

What is the Nielsen Homescan Panel? It is a program that offers you the opportunity to have a voice with manufacturers and retailers. Once you join the panel you receive a scanner which is used to scan all items you purchase.



Earning points is as simple as transmitting your purchases and taking surveys. Redeem your points for some very nice gifts. Also, each week you transmit you are entered into the Lucky Week Sweepstakes for $25, plus there is a Monthly Sweepstakes for a $1000,there is still more! Super Scanner sweepstakes every quarter for $500 and finally the Grand Prix Sweepstakes for $20,000.



You may think that it is to hard or time consuming, but it isn't. I registered about 4 months ago and have taught my daughter how to do the scanning. She takes the scanner everytime we come back from the store and scans our items. It takes her about 10 minutes or so to scan.



If you are looking to earn some great gifts than take the time to join Nielsen Homescan.

EARN GIFT CARDS BY SIGNING UP WITH VALUED OPINIONS

Valued Opinions is one of my top recommendations for survey companies. I received my first $20 Visa gift card within 12 days of cashing out.

Survey companies that get my attention include those who payout quickly and I was pleasantly surprised when I went to my mailbox to find my reward from Valued Opinions. I look forward to taking more surveys from them. As a matter of fact, I am already halfway there in cashing out for another Visa Gift Card. So far, they are one of my favorites.

I'll try to keep you posted as I find more survey companies that are worth the effort. You can make some pretty good money on the side if you sign up with the right companies and devote your time and energies to them. We'll do our best to bring you the ones worth the trouble!

SIGN UP WITH SURVEY SPOT

I have heard many positive comments in regards to Survey Spot, as well as some negative. Yesterday, I was made a firm believer in Survey Spot when I opened my mailbox and found my first check from Survey Spot for $64. It took them about 12 days to get it to me. Pretty fast!
This $64 check was actually 2 separate surveys I took. The first time a product was sent to my home and I used it for 4 weeks and than had to answer a survey each week, which took about 10 minutes. This first survey paid $40. The second survey was a journal and answering a very brief survey. This one paid me $24.
Be sure to fill out any profile questions they ask. You may qualify for specific at-home surveys due to your age, sex, geographic location and/or any health conditions you may have. I qualified for the $40 survey above because I suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
I do not qualify for many of the surveys they send and instead am just offered a sweepstakes entry. Do not let this discourage you, as I have found this to be true with a number of survey sites, but you have to wade through the junk to get to the "gold". Just keep checking those emails. At least give this site a few months – you may not find that it’s worth it for your specific demographics, but it surely paid off for me and it’s one of my favorite survey sites now. Despite some of the negative "hoopla" I've read about this site, I'm a huge fan and I'm $64 richer for it!

Earn Gift Cards by Reading Emails

If you're new to the blog and you're not already signed up for My Points, definitely check them out! Even if you are a member already, you may want to browse through this post and be sure you're taking advantage of these easy point-earning opportunities!

I just earned my first $10 CVS Gift Card through them. I earned the gift card by reading emails and printing coupons through their website! Yep, it's really that easy!

The first thing you need to do to start earning your FREE gift cards is to sign up for an account here. Then, follow the below steps to start knocking down some points!

2 Ways to Earn Easy Points with My Points:

Way #1: Read Emails

First, sign up for an account with My Points here.

Once you are logged into your account, click on the "My Account" link at the top. From there, scroll down to the "Manage Your Account" section in the lower-right-hand corner. When the box comes up for "Email Subscriptions" sign up for all the different email options.

They will send you several emails a day. The emails you want to watch for the most are the "BonusMail". If you scroll down through the email, you will see a place to click to get your points just for reading the email. The email often contains offers that you can do to get even more points, but just for clicking through on the email you can get points! What is easier than that?

Way #2: Print & Redeem Coupons

The second way to earn easy points at My Points is to print your Coupons.com through your My Points account. For every coupon your print and redeem, you will recieve 10 points! On the homepage of My Points.com, scroll down until you see "In the Spotlight". From there, click on the link that says Coupons (printable). Another easy peasy way to earn points!

There are also a number of other simple ways to earn poins throughout the site, such as filling out surveys and such. Be sure to look through all their offers for ways to earn quick points!

When you reach 1500 points, you can redeem them for a number of $10 Gift Cards! My plan is to redeem my $10 Gift Card at CVS in August when they are planning to have a number of Free After ECBs school supplies! That way, I'll spend my $10 and get it all back in ECBs! (see iheartcvs.com for the August listing)

Want to get started? Go here to sign up! Be sure to send us an email when you get your free gift card in the mail!

EARN AMAZON GIFT CERTIFICATES BY REGISTERING WITH PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY!

One of my favorite online studies to take are those from the Psychology Departments at Universities. Many pay you by Amazon E-Certificates. The online studies are usually interesting and take about 15 minutes.

So far my favorite has been GSB Labs, presently they are not accepting any new registers, but I did come across another Psychology Department at Harvard University that offers online studies and pays by Amazon E-Certificates that looks very promising.I am really excited about doing online studies for them.

If you register now with Psychology Studies at Harvard University there are 4 online studies (looking for US residents, age 18 or older,minority group member) to choose from that pay $5-$10 in Amazon E-certificates. They take about 10-15 minutes to do. If you do not meet the criteria for any of these four, do not be discouraged as this site posts new online studies regularly. Be sure to register and visit weekly to check out any new studies they have that you may qualify for.