What do you do with survey earnings?

DaveTheGeordie

I basically have a hierarchy of paypal > Amazon > Love2shop. Translates into cash/cash savings well. Don't waste time with gifts generally unless you're sure it's a good offer.

Aniallation

Started back in September last year with Valued Opinions and have added many different sites and quit others on the way to today. Started off saving some extra money for home improvement items like paint, filler etc as I have a new house that needs a lot of work.

DooYoo - Started end of May and am nearing my second £20 threshold, however I did have a gap of about a month where I didn't do anything on there.

Valued Opinions - My favourite "survey" site as I get approx 35 survey invites a month and tend to hit £10 every 3-4 weeks with the odd survey that yields £5-£10 in itself. I even had a great participation survey where I had to discuss products in a chat room for 10-15 mins a day for a week that gave me £25. I cash out VO as Sainsburys vouchers to go towards the food shopping.

PanelBase - Not as many invites as VO but I do hit £10 every 7-8 weeks. They give you £3 for joining too and the first £10 can come quickly. I choose Sainsburys vouchers again to go with food shopping.

Swagbucks - Use this for Amazon and started in January - had a period where I hit every required threshold for a whole month and then went off it for aaaages. If you use it religiously and hit your threshold every day you can make about £25-£30 in vouchers per month. My Amazon vouchers went towards the DIY items.

YouGov - Gave up on this after hearing it takes two years to hit the threshold...

Have used other sites on and off but don't have much free time so am focussing on the 3 right now which are VO, SB and PB. Have also just started on Crowdology this week and am already halfway to the £4 threshold which you cash out as Paypal - not too bad.

Oh, I also have the Nurago bar on my browser which has given me a suprising amount of money - you get given surveys based on the websites you go on and the advertising you are exposed to. You also get paid regularly for just having the bar there. Doesn't slow down anything on my internet and I must have had £40 from this in 4-5 months into my Paypal as well.

From now all the money I make is going on Amazon towards Christmas presents.