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We have been earning gift cards online for almost two decades, and while some great sites have disappeared over the years, several are still hanging on, and others have popped up.
For us earning gift cards online has become about expanding our plant collection in every way possible, but we also buy books with our gift cards, and the gift cards have paid for many gifts over the years.
We've realized that by purchasing new varieties of starter plants on Amazon for our Amazon gift cards, we can expand our collection and invest in our food forest and orchards.
This is our guilt-free Amazon shopping and guilt-free plant shopping wrapped up all in one.
Below is a list of our favorite online earning websites and gift card reward apps. There are lots more out there, but these are the ones that we feel are worth our time. If you sign up for one of them, please use our referral links and codes. These will give you extra points, and you'll help us buy more plants at the same time.
Tips for Earning Gift Cards Online
The number one tip we can give you is to be consistent. Adding Swagbucks, Mypoints, and Microsoft Rewards to your bookmark toolbar is a great way to be reminded every day.
Saving your receipts in a place you can see them helps get you scanning every week.
It's all about making earning Amazon gift cards a daily habit. While one of the older kids put the groceries away, someone else scans all the receipts for the week. We start with Swagbucks, then do one receipt scanning app at a time. Have a system and get it done...and you will get rewarded faster.
For the cashback shopping apps, the most important thing is to not let the app "control" your buying. For us it's more like an afterthought, we don't shop to get cashback, we scan the cashback shopping apps to see if any of our potential purchases qualify for cashback.
Most of the shopping apps also give you credit for online receipts if you link your accounts, but this is not necessary to get enough points for cashing out...unless you want extra rewards.
Before you make any purchase online, check to see if any of the sites/apps offer cashback on online purchases at the online store you're shopping at.
We don't bother with the surveys, but years ago we used to do surveys, and they can help you earn a lot of points if you have the patience and time.
Our Favorite Places to Earn Gift Cards Online
Swagbucks
We've been members of Swagbucks since 2008, and this is a reliable and consistent website to earn Amazon gift cards online.
While there used to be a lot more free, no-need-to-sign-up opportunities, we still earn enough points by doing a couple of tasks a day.
- We search to earn a Daily Swagbuch Reward ranging from 3 - 30 Swagbucks.
- We take the daily poll
- We have the Swagbutton in our toolbar and get Swagcode alerts.
- We do a few free Discover offers a day.
- You can earn Swagbucks for your receipts, so make sure to add offers to your list.
- Swagbucks offers a great variety of gift cards.
Swagbuck Tips
- You can cash out for a $1, $3, $5 Amazon gift card, etc., but if you wait to cash out for a $25 amazon gift card, you save $3.
- Copy your Microsoft Rewards searches into Swagbucks and Mypoints until you get your daily Search Rewards...this saves time and effort.
- If you shop online, make sure to check whether you'll get cashback at Swagbucks first.
- Participate in the Team Challenges and Swago to get more points and Swagups.
- Install the swagbutton on your toolbar to get notified about Swagcodes for extra points.
Sign up to earn gift cards with Swagbucks here.
Microsoft Rewards
Microsoft Rewards has had a few different names over the years, but we've stuck with it and appreciate the opportunity to earn points for our online searches.
At Microsoft Rewards you get points for searching with the Bing App and the Bing Browser, but there are also new daily point opportunities such as quick quizzes.
Although we love Google, we always use Bing to search with first because Bing pays us.
Bing is also great for kids who can read, because the quizzes and a lot of the daily tasks are educational and provide them with extra knowledge, facts, and quotes.
If you do your Bing searches and tasks every day, you can earn $5 - $10 in gift cards every month, and that's without submitting receipts or shopping cashback.
Bing has a quick gift card redemption process, and you'll usually see your gift card in your inbox within hours of redeeming.
Microsoft Rewards Tips
- Copy your Microsoft Rewards searches into Swagbucks and Mypoints until you get your daily Search Rewards...this saves time and effort.
- Make sure you do your 3 daily tasks every day, and you will get extra bonus points.
- Download the Bing App and make sure you use Bing to do your Internet searches every day.
- Get points for reading news articles through Microsoft Rewards on your phone.
- Check your dashboard after dinner to ensure that you've got all your Mobile and pc/laptop searches in for the day and that you got all 3 daily tasks done.
- Start your morning by reading news through the Bing dashboard on your phone to get points.
- When you browse through the articles screen out the junk articles suggested. (AI messes things up in the feed sometimes).
Mypoints
Mypoints doesn't offer a whole lot of bonus opportunities but it is still a reliable and consistent earner.
Mypoints has a quick gift card redemption process, and you'll usually see your gift card in your inbox within hours of redeeming.
Mypoints Tips
- Make sure you get your daily bonus for completing your tasks every day.
- Copy your Microsoft Rewards searches into Swagbucks and Mypoints until you get your daily Search Rewards...this saves time and effort.
- Check your inbox for 5 bonus point emails. Not all Mypoints emails have these, but certain offers from companies Such as Walmart, Best Buy, Kohls, and Sam's Club usually have them, whereas coupon emails and game-promoting emails do not.
- You can get points for scanning your receipts.
- If you shop online, make sure to check whether you'll get cashback at Mypoints first.
Sign up to earn gift cards with Mypoints here.
Rewardia
Whether or not you like computer games, Rewardia is something that hooks. If you're into strategy games, mind twisters, and crosswords, Rewardia will reward you for challenging your mind.
If you are a multitasking, you will love Rewardia. Whether it's watching news, movies, or YouTube plant videos, we're always earning Rewardia points at the same time, and if it's a foreign language movie, we'll just Spin the Wheel once in a while.
Rewardia is a family affair around here. It's a treat for our little ones, and it is rewarding for us as parents to see our 4-year-old plant lover challenge himself to a game of Mahjong, Suduko, Memory Game, or Word Find. He is especially thrilled when we reach 10000 points and can add yet another Amazon gift card to our Amazon account. He's decided that the next Amazon gift card purchase will be fig trees.
Rewardia Tips
- Spin the Wheel is best for when you need to earn points without thinking about it.
- Instant gift card redemption when you get to 10000 points.
- Large amount of gift card options including Amazon gift cards.
- Do Rewardia while watching TV or listening to podcasts.
Sign up to earn gift cards with Rewardia here.
Shopkick
We earn most of our Shopkick points from opening up the app in the store, from scanning products in store, and for watching daily videos.
It's very rare that a Shopkick cashback offer matches anything on our grocery list.
We love the ShopKick app because it's a consistent earner, and the gift card redemption process is almost instant.
At Shopkick you can redeem gift cards at $5, and they have lots of great options including Amazon, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, and even Marshalls. We love using a gift card on clearance plants.
ShopKick Tip
- Open up your ShopKick app if you go to the mall or a shopping plaza. Many stores may give you points for simply walking by the entrance or going in and out of the store.
- Check the Discover tab every day, you may get points for watching videos.
Sign up to earn gift cards with ShopKick here. Use the shopkick code SAVE335258 to get 500 bonus kicks when you sign up.
Ibotta
Ibotta is an online and in-store cash back app. Some months we qualify for many offers, others we don't, but we always check because Ibotta adds up. You can even get Lowes and Home Depot gift cards which is great for buying plants or garden supplies.
At Ibotta you can redeem for a gift card once you have accumulated $20 in cashback.
Ibotta Bonus
You get cashback for shopping on Etsy! One of our favorites places to shop for plants.
Ibotta Tips
- Open up your Ibotta app while you go over your grocery list and add any cashback offer you may ever use. You have to add the offers before you shop, or your receipt won't qualify.
- Before you head to the register, do a double check to see if any of your purchases qualify for Ibotta cashback.
- Always check the "any" offers, sometimes you can offers on produce, meats, and just for scanning your receipt.
Sign up to earn gift cards with Ibotta here. Use the Ibotta code bjzzgw to get $5 when you sign up and submit your first receipt.
Receipt Hog
We have used Receipt Hog for about a decade, although we did stop using it for a several years after switching phones. Thankfully, we were back on the same reward level once we returned.
At Receipt Hog you receive either coins and a raffle ticket or a raffle ticket and spins on the wheel (where you can earn coins). It all depends on the kind of receipt you scan, but we recommend that you scan almost all receipts, even thrift store receipts, because sometimes they qualify too.
Receipt Hog Tip
- For every week you scan receipts with Receipt Hog, you earn bonus spins, and the more weeks you scan the higher the level you reach, and the more weekly spins you get.
- Each time you level up, you get bonus coins, and the higher the level, the more bonus coins you get. As an example, we're on level 28 and we level up in 5 weeks we get 420 coins.
Sign up to earn gift cards with Receipt Hog here. Download and enter the Receipt Hog code yah54683 to earn a special bonus when you upload your first receipt.
Fetch
Fetch is a nice little surprise cashback app. We never really know what points we get until after we scan our receipts, as there are special bonuses on certain products. The great part is that many of the brands we buy gives us bonuses, and we don't buy that many brand name items.
Fetch Tips
- Every receipt earns 25 points, even restaurants and fast food places, which adds up.
- At Fetch you don't have the option to take a second photo of a long receipt, so we usually fold over unnecessary info and snap a photo of the receipt even if it is not a complete close up.
Sign up to earn gift cards with Fetch here. enter the Fetch code E2EXF to earn a special bonus when you upload your first receipt.
CoinOut
Coinout is another receipt scanning apps that'll pay you for your receipts. It simple to use and very straightforward.
CoinOut Tip:
- Check the missions tab for special coin-earning opportunities before you go shopping.
Sign up to earn gift cards with CoinOut here.
As gardeners, we have enough to do in the garden, so over the years, we've focused on a few apps and websites that work for us. We especially love gift card earning apps and websites that can give us points for something we already do and online earning sites we can use while multitasking.
If you have any questions about any of the sites mentioned above, please don't hesitate to leave a comment or send us an email.
If you haven't already done so, sign up for the Dancing Treetops Family Farm YouTube Channel, where we will soon post a video about our favorite Amazon plant purchases.
Disclaimer: This post contains referral links, and if you sign up through one of the links, we will be compensated with points.
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