Shopkick and Swagbucks

Have a smartphone? Love free stuff? Then you need to get Shopkick right now! Shopkick is a free app that gives you "kicks" for simply walking into stores, scanning items, spending money in certain stores and sometimes just by clicking on the instant surprise! Once you have saved up your "kicks" you can turn them in for rewards by clicking on "Rewards" in the Shopkick app. They have things like movie tickets, gift cards, Facebook credits, sunglasses, etc.

Basically, anytime you're out in town, be that couponing or just chilling, open up Shopkick and check out what's going on around you. There are usually about 50 "kicks" per store with about 10 participating stores at a given time. Again all you have to do to get them is scan the specified items with your phone or walk into a certain store. Shopkick explains how to do everything and it's very easy to get those kicks fast! As of this very moment there are 415 kicks at Target and 310 kicks at Walmart!

Now wait a second. Is it going to take a ridiculously long time to save up for those gift cards and other rewards? NO! That's probably the best part the costs of giftcards start at 500 kicks! I don't always remember to use Shopkick when I'm out but it has only taken me about 2 weeks to get to 300 kicks!


And now you're wondering, what is Swagbucks? Swagbucks is a website dedicated to rewarding you for what you do every day on the internet! If you can search the web, take surveys, play games or watch videos, you can earn Swagbucks!

As for rewards, if you can imagine it, Swagbucks has it! I was just skimming through the rewards and they range from trading cards to tvs and shampoo to gift cards with just as varying price ranges. Now if you're like me and planning on getting bigger items like gift cards or tvs, it will take a while to save up to that amount. Your best bet is to always do the Daily Poll, NOSO offer, use the Swagbucks search engine instead of Google and take as many surveys as you can!

Since Swagbucks is such a big site with so much to do and much more to explain, I feel it's best if you just went ahead and checked it out for yourself. Play around and just explore the site, you'll get a better feel for it that way.

So go ahead and take advantage of those two things. As an added bonus tip: while you're downloading Shopkick for your smartphone, go ahead and look for the Free Stuff Times app as well, I promise you'll love it!