Money Matters
Golden42
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Sallie Mae UPromise?
Anyone sign up for this? I keep getting asked about it when I log on to manage my student loans. From what I can see, there are two different things: the first is a new credit card, which I have no interest in. But the second is where you can register cards you already have and when you make purchases at certain places you get cash back to apply towards student loans.
I guess I just wonder if it is a gimmick? Scam? I do shop at many of the places listed, so I thought about giving it a shot.
Re: Sallie Mae UPromise?
It's not a gimmick.
It is truly easy, free money.
If you do a lot of online shopping you can earn lots of money.
You begin at the UPromise site and from there you search for merchants that you want to buy from. You follow the link to the merchant's website and do your shopping. Then, after awhile the money you earned (a set % of your purcahse amount [ some merchants are as high as 11% others do around 3%]) appears in your UPromise account and you can then transfer the funds to your kids' 529s or student loans.
DH and I signed up for it in 2010 when DS was born. To date, we have probably earned over $200.
We don't do the credit card. Just online shopping.
I love upromise.
It's really beneficial if you do a lot of online shopping, or get the CC. (I know you said you didn't want to go this route though)
As a PP said, you start shopping through the upromise site (there's a toolbar you can download for your browser that indicates whether or not a site is a participating vendor.)
I know that you said you didn't want to get the CC but that's where the bulk of my money comes from. I have most of my expenses linked to the CC (electric, cable, phone, pet food, gas for the cars etc) and the balance gets paid every month, and I make $8-10 a month on the CC contributions alone, depending upon what I buy.
It definitely doesn't fall into the windfall category, but it is an additional couple of bucks that I didn't have before. Mine is linked to my Sallie Mae loan and it automatically transfers the money over and it's applied to my loan.