Picture this, you come home from work and check the mail. You get back inside sit down on your recliner while popping open a beer. You start sorting through your mail and you open up a letter from your mortgage company. What does that letter say, well of course it says you are two months […]
Entries from August 2008
Sometimes things just appear wrong
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Finance
Alternative Income- Freebies
August 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Every one likes free, but how many people actually look for free items or services? There are many opportunities out there that people do not realise. Free goods and services are a great way to increase those dollars.
If you only watch a few different shows on cable and are never home to watch them then […]
My financial health update.
August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So last month I was at $3000 in debt and about 530’s for my credit score. I have been able to decrease my overall debt by $300 even with having to take a plane to my grandfather’s funeral last week($500). My credit scores have climbed about 16 points across all three credit reports. And I […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Gaming · Goals · debt
Alternative Income- Get paid to read emails
August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So we all get spam in our email, so just have it better filtered then others. We recieve email messages every day so why not start making some money off of your email account or accounts. Personally if you are going to go this route I would suggest opening up a seperate email account just […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance
Can you make money with credit cards?
August 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Some people say you can make money with credit cards. Well if you can get the 0% apr offers for a period of time you can float money, and some people get the 0% apr balance transfers and then take the money and invest it making the minimum payments until the 0% period ends. Of […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · debt
Alternative income- Paid to click
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments
So your watching television, have a laptop in front of you and a commercial comes up what are you going to do? Well why not go to a paid to click advertising site and start clicking ads. Its pretty easy and there are a bunch of different sites out there.
Some of the sites […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance
What you should know about life insurance
August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have not really written this week as I found out on Monday morning that my grandfather passed away. His wake will be tomorrow with the funeral on Friday but I thought I should cover my thoughts on life insurance. There are two basic types of life insurance cash value, term and annuity.
Cash value insurance […]
Alternative Income-Sell yourself
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Looking for ways to make some extra cash? Why don’t you try selling yourself, no I don’t mean really selling yourself but selling what can be sold and you still be you. You can sell your hair as I mentioned in an earlier topic, sell your plasma, sell your sperm/eggs to fertility clinics, sell your […]
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Is money growing on your head?
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Many people know about Locks of Love where you donate your hair to get turned into wigs. What most people don’t realize is you can sell your hair too. If you go to the Hair Trader you can place an ad to auction off your hair. There are restriction for selling your hair though.
Generally it […]
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Living cheap in Portland Oregon
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sometimes you just have to love those free local newspapers. Most of the time its just interesting and random to pass the time and then you come across some article that just makes you go hmm. I found that in the Willamette Weekly newspaper article of “How to live cheap in Portland” by Corey Pein.
While […]
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