I love free money. I checked my mailbox this weekend and was pleased to find a $10 gift card from MyPoints.
I had actually signed up awhile ago and had forgotten about the account. As I was going through a list of points programs that I belong to, I checked my MyPoints balance. I was surprised to see that I had enough points to redeem them for a $10 gift card to Old Navy. There’s lots of choices, but I actually want a new pair of jeans from there, so it will come in handy.
How It Works
If you aren’t familiar with MyPoints, here’s how it works: You enroll in their program for free. It’s similar to other cashback programs, but instead of earning cash you earn points. You can then redeem the points for gift cards.
Sign Up
Signing up is easy, just go to MyPoints and enroll for free.
Earning Points
There’s various ways to earn points. Here’s a summary:
- Shopping online. Whenever you are planning a purchase on line, check out if it’s one of the top programs listed, log-in and click through from MyPoints.
- Refer your friends. Once you sign up for MyPoints you can refer a friend. Once your friend earns 125 Points, you’ll get 100 Points.
- Reading email. You can also earn points for Bonus Mail. I don’t do this anymore but Jaimie at Paid Twice has a great idea. She has all the emails filtered to a folder in her email. Then every once in awhile she clicks through a bunch of them at once.
- Easy points. Besides reading email, shopping, and referrals, you can also earn points in the “easy points” section if you need a few extra points to top off your account. There are various services to sign up for and some games (but I haven’t tried these out personally).
I actually checked an old email address from when I belonged 5 years ago or so and saw I had some points in that account too!
While my $10 gift card isn’t that impressive, check out My Two Dollars who earned over $250 from MyPoints.
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Thanks for the link Madison!
DavidFebruary 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I do the same thing as Jaimie at Paid Twice. I just signed up this month and am slowly collecting points. Already up to more than 450!
Also I did a bit of analysis on my blog about which offers were the best in terms of getting the most dollar for your points. If you want to check it out, you can : http://www.nodebtplan.net/2008.....my-points/
No Debt PlanFebruary 29th, 2008 at 6:54 pm