#smarterbucks

Try one of these services to help you make some extra payments - Gradible (https://gradible.com/signup?referer=804f5a26-dda1-477c-99f9-a923b04d047e) and SmarterBucks (http://bit.ly/12grJka) 

(I promise, promise, promise this is me, Maryann, and not spam.)

I shared this on Facebook and I thought I'd post it here as well. SmarterBucks is one of my favourite things as a poor college student because they make automatic payments on my Parent Plus loan. I rent and buy my textbooks from Valore Books, their partner site, and they take a percentage of that money and put it towards repayment. I want to buy something online, I go to the SmarterBucks Marketplace, take the link to the store I want to shop at, and a percentage of what I spent (depending on the rate the store offers) goes towards repaying my loan. It's beautiful. Plus my friends and family who don't have loans of their own they want to pay off with this site can register as gifters and their rewards go to me. (I got a few dollars from my mum's Christmas shopping which was nice.) And if you have no money to spend on books or other things, they'll give you small amounts for completing surveys on their website. I haven't bothered doing any because I do enough online shopping. But hey, free money towards paying off your loans! How cool is that?

http://smarterbucks.com/how_smarterbucks_works

So my sister just told me about SmarterBucks. If you're familiar with online survey sites like MyPoints where you complete surveys and shop online to earn points toward rewards, it's exactly like that, except your points go directly toward your student loan payment every month. They also have a sell-back program where you can sell your used textbooks for additional credit, plus friends and family can gift you points they earn through their own SmarterBucks accounts. And you don't have to request a reward, as long as you have the minimum balance, SmarterBucks automatically sends a payment to your loan provider