Purple Piggy Bank

My experiment on what happens when we collect those little pockets of cash and put them together in an interest-bearing account.

So here's what's in my piggy bank:

2-11-10
$53 in coins that's been sitting around on our kitchen counter
$50 1% cash back check from our credit card rewards
$12 from doing online surveys
$1.40 from redeemed bottles/cans
$2 from selling my old laptop to Gazelle.

2-15-10
$20 from Bed Bath and Beyond rebate. The perfect storm of happy thriftiness transpired-- gift card plus coupon plus rebate = fancy food processor and $20 back. I just had a little "o."

3-3-10
$10 from Survey Spot
$1.70 from YouData

3-6-10
$6 from cool Columbia University survey.

3-9-10
$5 from SC Johnson Rebate
$3 refund from stupid photo booth at the mall malfunctioning yet still charging us
$3.39 from Marzetti hummus rebate

3-12-10
$3 from Pinecone research survey
$9.25 from closing an old bank account
$.02 interest (woohoo!)
$7 from Columbia U survey
$.28 from YouData

3-20-10
$10 from Swagbucks
$.41 YouData

3-25-10
$25 cashback from credit card
$8 Opinion Outpost surveys
$2 Rite Aid single check rebates

4-4-10
$5 from Lightspeed Panel Surveys
$.20 from YouData

4-9-10

$.03 interest


4-14-10
$15 from SurveySpot surveys

4-16-10
$25 cash back from credit card
$6 from Pinecone surveys

4-24-10
$5 from Swagbucks

5-4-10
$5 from Lightspeed Survey Panel
$.29 from YouData

5-6-10
$.03 interest

5-27-10
$6 Pinecone Research surveys
$14 mystery shopping
$5 SC Johnson rebate
$3.50 Rite Aid Single Check Rebate

6-4-10
$5 from Lightspeed Panel surveys
$8 from Columbia Research survey

6-9-10
$.04 interest

6-24-10
$10 SurveySpot surveys
$9.40 Opinion Outpost surveys
$10 Ipsos Isay surveys
$9 Pine Cone surveys
$50 cash back from credit card
$7 mystery shopping
$1.50 Rite Aid Single Check Rebate

7-14-10
$7 mystery shopping
$5 7th Generation rebate
$3 Pine Cone survey

8-1-10
$5 mystery shopping
$6 Pine Cone surveys
$5 SC Johnson rebate

8-5-10
$15 Lightspeed panel surveys

8-17-10

$25 credit card rewards
$15 survey (I think this was an American Spirits survey)
$10 Global Market research surveys
$10 Neutrogena rebate
$7 mystery shopping
$3 Pine Cone survey

9-12-10
$10 Ipsos surveys
$6 Pine Cone surveys
$4 Mystery shopping

9-21-10
$10 Ipsos surveys
$10 Rite Aid rebate
$3 Pine Cone survey

10-30-10
$6 Pine Cone Surveys
$3 Rite Aid rebate

12-1-10
$3 Pine Cone Survey
$10 Ipsos surveys
$1 Rite Aid Rebate

12-18-10
$5 from Columbia U survey
$.29 from YouData
Total: $591.44

12-31-10
$23.82 balance on old LL Bean gift certificate from 2002
$1 Rite Aid single check rebate
$6 Pine Cone surveys
$25 credit card rewards
$7 mystery shopping payment

1-28-11
$50 credit card rewards
$52 mystery shopping
$6 Pine Cone surveys
$5 Rite Aid rebate

3-2-11
$10 Ipsos surveys
$6 Pine Cone surveys
$3 Crayola rebate
$6 Budweiser rebate

3-22-11
$15 mystery shopping
$4 Columbia U survey

5-27-11
$15 Pine Cone surveys