Ebates Paid For My Thanksgiving!

If you're not familiar with Ebates then this article is for you! First let me explain what Ebates is, then I'll tell you how they paid for my Thanksgiving! Ebates is an online shopping site that if you use their link before making a purchase you earn cash back! The amount varies from store to store and not every store you love to shop at will participate. Ebates also finds you promo codes that might be available saving you even more money on your purchase. You can visit Ebates website and search for a store you plan to do some online shopping with, just click the link for that store and you are on your way to earning cash back. You can also get the Ebates button and it reminds you to use the link automatically when you visit online retailers. This feature saves me a ton of money since I can't always remember to use their links before visiting a store online. Ebates pays out quarterly, so purchases I made from July first through September 30th make up my 'Big Fat Check' payment. The money that I earned from that period was estimated to be paid on November 15 but it actually came on November 7. If you don't earn the required ten dollars to get your payment it will roll over to the next quarter until you've reached that amount. As you can see from the above photo I'm already at $12.63 for this quarter, so I will qualify for my next payment! You can also see that since I first joined I've earned a total of just over $106, not too shabby for just clicking a link and buying things I was going to buy anyway!

Now let's get to how Ebates paid for my Thanksgiving this year. As I mentioned above the money I earned for the 'summer' quarter was paid out to me the first week of November. That 'Big Fat check' payment was $60.14! I will say that part of the reason my earnings were so high this quarter was that we did a remodel and had to buy a new refrigerator and stove and a few portable air conditioners. I made that purchase through Lowe's online with the Ebates link and just like that earned my cash back! The money comes via PayPal and I did some online shopping with mine. I went to Target and got a lot of my essentials like the makings for green bean casserole, boxed stuffing and the cranberry sauce all with free shipping and great prices. I spent a total of $31 with Target on those essentials leaving me with about $29 left in my PayPal account. In case you didn't know you can get a PayPal card which will allow you to spend your PayPal money anywhere. So I used my card and took it to my local supermarket and shopped the sales. I scored my turkey, two pies and a few other needed items all for $27! So basically Ebates paid for my Thanksgiving!

It's free and easy to sign up for Ebates and if you haven't done it yet now is the perfect time. It's almost Black Friday and I'm sure tons of online retailers will be offering amazing deals. Using Ebates not only gives you cash back on purchases you were going to make anyway, it also helps save you the most money! Wanna know what's even better? If you sign up now you can earn $10! Simply click this link and start shopping! It's that easy! If you already are a Ebates member I'd love to hear how much you've earned by shopping with them, just leave me comment! Happy Shopping...and Saving!