

The crazy part was that I literally wasn’t doing any “work” – I just clicked through Ebates first and I automatically earned a percentage of my purchase back in cash! What is Ebates?Įbates is a site that allows you to earn cash back by shopping through their links. Every quarter Ebates sends out what they all a “Big Fat Check” and our first check was more than I had made doing the wooden nursery letter side gig. I’m totally not kidding when I say we earned dollars either. Here are some of the other ways we’ve talked about making money at home: This post is part of a How to Make Money series, because sometimes it’s not a budget thing, but an income thing. I figured why not, right? We were trying to become debt free and every penny counted.Įxcept that we didn’t earn pennies. The fact that you could have stuff you wanted delivered to your front door and you didn’t have to get dressed, pack up kids, drive, fight traffic OR pay for gas was like Christmas every day.īack then I had heard about a relatively new rewards program called Ebates and signed up. Many years ago, shortly after creating a grocery budget and starting a side business at home to help the family pay off our debt, online shopping became popular.
