HACK 168 Sell Your Junk Mail

You can actually gather up your junk mail like credit card offers, restaurant flyers, and other advertisements and exchange them for gift cards.

The program is run by SBKCenter.com, a market research company. It sends you prepaid envelopes, into which you can tuck your junk mail as you receive it. After a few weeks, seal up the envelope and send it off to get points in exchange for your mail. Once you earn 2,000 points, you get a prepaid gift card that you can use like a debit card. It’s that easy!

You won’t be able to change your lifestyle if you apply to this program and start “selling” your mail. Panelists typically earn a few $20 gift cards per year. But surely you can think of a few things you’d like to do if you had a few extra twenties in your wallet?