Woolies shopper's simple trick to get $279 grocery haul for just $16: 'Cash out'
Bec Jane has been getting paid to do online surveys for years and recently discovered she could put her earnings directly towards saving money off her grocery shop. The 24-year-old Sunshine Coast woman told Yahoo Finance she'd noticed her grocery bill had been getting more expensive for her and her partner.
'In the cost-of-living crisis, every dollar counts. It's another way I think to get ahead and feel like you can get on top of things,' she said.
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'I'm doing surveys at 5am when I wake up and I'm having my coffee instead of scrolling TikTok or Instagram, which we're all guilty of … And then just at night when I'm literally just scrolling on my phone and I've got the TV on."
Jane primarily uses Octopus and Pure Profile to do online surveys, but said there were a bunch of different platforms available.
Surveys generally take between 5 to 10 minutes and can pay between $1 to $8, depending on how long the survey takes and which platform you are using.'As your balance builds, you can then either choose to cash out directly to your bank account, which I was doing until I found out that you can actually cash out into gift cards,' Jane said.
'I was like, well, this could be a good way to do my grocery budget every week.'
Jane earned $250 worth of Woolworths gift cards by just doing online surveys over the last two weeks.
She is also a member of Woolworths' Every Extra program, which gives her 10 per cent off one grocery shop each month.
Using her discount and gift cards, she was able to reduce a recent $279 grocery shop to just $16.
How do paid online surveys work?
Online surveys can be an easy way to earn a bit of extra cash.
You'll usually need to input your demographic data, including your age, gender and location.
You'll then be offered surveys that match your profile that you can complete for money, usually either cash through PayPal or gift cards. Pure Profile also partners with Flybuys and allows users to earn Flybuys points by completing surveys.
Survey companies are usually engaged by businesses that use the data for marketing or other research.
Extra cash helps dollar 'stretch' further
Jane said she's found paid online surveys to be an easy side hustle.
She does surveys every day and usually will complete about 50 each week across various platforms. The amount she earns can vary. For example, she earned roughly $370 in June and $292 in May.
'I've literally gotten all my friends, all my family to sign up. I've been doing them for years and it's just nice to know that you can make some extra money and it's not hard,' she told Yahoo Finance.
Jane and her partner usually budget $100 to $150 per week for groceries, but will stock up on cleaning products, laundry detergent and pasta when they are on sale.
Jane said she usually tracks the price of products within the Woolworths app and waits for products to go on sale.
'Toilet paper, laundry detergent, I wait until they are half price,' she said.
She also opts for homebrand grocery items and buys items that can have a longer shelf life, like tomato sauce, in bulk.
Jane and her partner bought a block of land last year and are currently paying both rent and mortgage repayments on the land, while they prepare to build their home.
'Rent and mortgage would take up 65 per cent of our net income. So it's massive every single week, the majority of our money is going to that,' she said.
'We've also got electricity, rates on our block of land because you still have to pay rates, and just insurances.
'So doing the surveys to, at the moment, I'm cashing out for gift cards, makes it feel like you have that tiny bit more money left in your pocket at the end of the week to actually use it on going out for a nice dinner, putting it towards a holiday, it just makes you feel like your dollar stretches that tiny bit further.'
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