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Are you a Recyclebank member yet?  If not now is the time to join and earn 30 points in the latest promotion!  Join The 20% Who Recycle In Their Bathrooms & Get Rewarded!  Recyclebank is a great way to do something good for the planet while earning points that you can redeem toward prizes!  Recycling in your bathroom is so easy to do!  It’s nothing gross – simply saving the plastic shampoo, conditioner and body wash containers, rinsing them out until clean and then taking to your plastics donation center is a great way to recycle in your home.  Just a few items a year from one person can make a huge difference in the health of the earth.

Head over and sign up for Recyclebank today and pledge to recycle in your bathroom!

Earn extra money for Christmas! An easy way to earn extra money for Christmas is to sell your used books. You can earn extra money for Christmas at Cash4Books. They buy all types of books, including textbooks.

Here’s how to earn extra money for Christmas using Cash4Books:

• Go to Cash4Books
• Input the ISBN (found in the first few pages of the books)
• Accept the cash offer for your books
• Print a prepaid mailing label & mail your books to them (They cover all shipping costs!)
• Get paid via Paypal or check

We have personally been paid by Paypal many times from this site!

We also earn extra cash from paid surveys & by searching the internet!

Cloud Crowd: Make Money Online! We’ve received several comments now from readers about Cloud Crowd as a great way to make money online. I have not had time to personally use Cloud Crowd yet, but we do know that people have been paid by this site and it is a legitimate site to earn extra money online from home. Cloud Crowd was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “100 Most Brilliant Companies”. You can sign up for Cloud Crowd here & give it a try for yourself! Cloud Crowd is run through Facebook, and here’s what Cloud Crowd says on their site:

Get paid for Christmas shopping: Yup, you read that right! You can get PAID to do your Christmas shopping, and it’s easier than you think! Whenever you shop online through cash back shopping sites, you are literally getting paid to shop! There are several sites that will pay you cash back for shopping at online stores. You get a certain percentage of your total purchase back via paypal or check, and the amount of cash back varies from site to site and from store to store. The key is to sign up with all the cash back sites you can and then look to see which one offers the most cash back when shopping online at a particular store. If you take advantage of cash back shopping sites, you will be surprised how quickly the cash back can add up, especially when doing your holiday shopping!

1) Cashbaq – $5 sign up bonus, they automatically pay you via check or paypal when you’ve reached $10 in cash back. Your $5 sign up bonus counts toward your $10 minimum when cashing out. They pay every month around the 20th. We have personally been paid by this site.

2) Mr. Rebates – $5 sign up bonus, you must request a check or paypal when you’ve reached $10 in cash back. Your $5 sign up bonus counts toward your $10 minimum when cashing out. They pay at the beginning of every month for the previous month. So if you request a check in October, you will be paid in early November. We have personally been paid by this site.

3) Ebates – $5 sign up bonus, you get paid after you have $5.01 in cash back in your account. Your $5 sign up bonus counts toward your $5.01 cash out minimum. They automatically pay your cash back every 3 months. We have personally been paid by this site.

4) Shop at Home – $5 sign up bonus. You can cash out when you’ve received $20 in cash back. We signed up for this site a few months ago and have not cashed out yet.

5) Big Crumbs – You can sign up as a Crumb Saver or Crumb Earner. Crumb Savers get a higher cash back percentage, but receive less cash back when referring friends. Crumb Earners receive a lower cash back percentage, but earn cash up to 5 referral generations away! (So if you have a lot of friends, I recommend signing up as a Crumb Earner! Otherwise start with Crumb Saver, as you can always switch to Crumb Earner later.) We signed up for this site several months ago and have not cashed out yet.

—>Be sure to check out the other posts in our Christmas Cash series and learn how to make $200 online in 2 months!

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How we made extra money for debt:

Several readers have asked us how we scrape up an extra $1000 now and then to put towards principal on debt, so I (“Engineer”) thought I would show you.

For this example, here is how we got $1000 scraped up recently to send towards debt. Some of the payments had been a month or a couple months in the works, so this is not a typical month.

• $35.50 – Sold books to Cash4books
• $13.00 – Survey Savvy payment (a couple months in the making)
• $32.25 – Cashcrate payment (took two months to get enough to payout)
• $25.00 – Surveyhead payment (My favorite survey site, hit the payout this month – For those of you unfamiliar with surveyhead surveys, you get $5 free via Paypal just to sign up, plus it’s free to sign up. We have lots of readers making $50+ a month on this site.)
• $227.00 – Overtime money from paychecks
• $342.60 – Items sold on ebay, this was unusual, happened to have a large item
• $330.00 – Payment from weekend work on the side
• =================================
• $1005.35 – Grand total

This month was an accumulation of a lot of hard work on the side and overtime, but you can see that even just doing simple things like doing a few surveys or selling some unused books all adds up. Some months we are able to scrape up an extra couple hundred just from being frugal… while that doesn’t directly “make money”, it does save money… and at the end of the month when I look at the checking account, it shows up as extra money in the checking account.

Making extra money is not just about one thing/one source, it’s doing many things… little things… that add up.

For example, most months we can count on about 50 dollars extra from surveys, etc, add to that an extra 100 or 150 dollars from being under-budget on utilities and grocery and suddenly there is an extra 200 to pay towards principal. It all adds up.

As they say, a penny saved is a penny earned…