Paid to Shop, EBates, Swagbucks and Wikibuy

As a mom of 3 I am finding it very difficult to shop for very long without one of the kids either crying or running off.  How many of you can relate to that?

My favorite resources to earn money while online shopping are Swagbucks, Wikibuy and Ebates. 

How they work and how easy/hard it is to earn:

• Swagbucks: I've used this the longest.  The easiest way to earn is using the swag search as your default search engine instead of googling it.  I usually get 1 a day and it averages as 7 swagbucks (SB).  They have a daily poll that earns a swagbuck plus videos, surveys and games that you can do to earn points.  Another easy way is shopping!  You can add Google Chrome extension (what is that? click here) on your browser so anytime you visit a eligible store it tells you how much you can earn for example at Target.com you can earn 2 for every $1 spent. Each store is different and sometimes they'll have bonuses.  In about 7 years I've earned 36000 SB. Generally it is 500 SB is a $5 gift card.  I've roughly earned $50 a year and I don't even try very hard to earn.
• Recent Example: On hotels.com I earned 20 SB per $1 spent for a 3 night stay we spent $240 which converted to 4800 SB. I then used 2200 SB to get a $25 Amazon gift card and another 2200 for a Starbucks gift card!!! That's $55 I received back for one purchase! 
• Wikibuy and Ebates.  These can link together.  Wikibuy is also an extension that can be added similar to swagbucks.  Ebates is very similar to the Swagbucks shopping however It doesn't have as much variation as Swagbucks but depending on the store can earn more or less. Through Wikibuy it shows: 
• Ebates earning multiplier
• Promo codes for many stores
• When searching on Amazon it tells you if you can buy the item from another company for a cheaper price.  
• Does it work? Yes,  The promo codes you get the instant discount without having to do work of searching for a promo code! For Ebates last month I received an $11 check in the mail.  I have only been using this for a few months.

These two work really well to compare. Please note you can't uses both Ebates and Swagbucks at the same time however you can use the promo codes plus Swagbucks.  Please note you can earn for having friends sign up. Listed above I used referral links.