The 21 Best Ways to Grow Your Bank Account This Week


Our team of side-gig addicts and savings experts have tried literally dozens of money making (and money-saving) methods over the past 2 years.

Most of the methods you see online don’t work very well, but some are surprisingly high-paying.

Here are the money methods that have been most lucrative for us this year:

1. Get paid to fill out surveys (Earning potential: Up to $150/month)

There are companies that pay for you to give feedback. Really.

Sites like Survey Junkie are super simple. Sign up, set-up your profile with basic information about yourself, then you can start completing surveys.

In exchange for the time you spend responding to surveys, you’ll be rewarded with gift cards or cash.

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2. Stop overpaying when shopping online (Savings potential: huge).

You might be surprised how often you’re overpaying on Amazon and elsewhere.

Big stores like Amazon know that no one has time to price shop through dozens of sites, so there’s often no incentive for them to offer bargain prices.

I typically hate browser extensions with a fiery passion, but if you don’t have Capital One Shopping installed yet, do yourself a favor and grab it.

When you shop online (on Amazon or elsewhere) it will:

  1. Auto-apply coupon codes for you to save you money
  2. Compare prices from other sellers to make sure you’re not missing out on a better deal

It’s saved me a ton of money more than once. Here’s a quick example:

Savings will vary, this is just an example, of course.

That same exact blender was $26 cheaper at another store (with 2 day shipping) when I shopped.

Here’s a link to install Capital One Shopping, if you’re interested.

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3. Switch to a savings account that pays you 10x more interest.

If you’re like the average American, your savings account pays you virtually zero interest (typically under 0.3% a year, in my experience).

But believe it or not, plenty of banks are willing to offer you 10x that rate.

Barclays, for example, has an account that pays a whopping ~4%/year right now (with no minimums).

(E.g. if you store $100k in a 4% interest savings account today, in a year you’ll have netted $4,000 from interest alone)

If you’re interested, here are a few bank accounts with solid interest rates: