Random Encounters of We: November 2006

Thursday, November 30, 2006

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Which finger are you willing to lose?

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Earn Money by Participating in a Discussion Board

I recently came across a site called myLot . This site is an online community established so people could discuss all topics they ever desired. It is a type of forum or discussion board where you get paid to participate. Registration is free. Once you have your username you can start participating in discussions or start your own discussion. For each comment made or discussion started you get paid a certain amount. You can also upload pictures and insert pictures into your comments and get paid additionally for those. Your earnings are updated once a day, so when you first begin it will take a day to see where you are at. It is very easy, simple and there is no maximum amount of money to you can earn. You can earn as much as you'd like, you just have to participate more. If you bring in referrals you get 25% of what they make, that adds up quickly. That is a good way to keep your income coming and keep you working at a pace that suits your time constraints. I'm loving this site. So check it out... myLot! Any money made is better than nothing right? But it adds up quickly!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Wii still have some!

Well unlike a PS3 you can still find Wii's (what's the plural of Wii?) out there. The day before the Wii came out I saw some people waiting in line at the typical places... Best buy, Target, Circuit City, but last night I was at Toys R Us and sitting on the shelf were a couple Wii's. So if you think they are gone and you are going to pay a TON of money on ebay, but down the mouse, and do a little more searching at stores near you, I'm sure it's out there.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Thank You Captain Obvious

Funny Pictures

I love the small print... that's often where the important message is!

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Are the "make money by taking surveys online" scams?

I would say most of these paid survey sites are scams. A lot of these sites want you to pay them anywhere from $25 up and they will give you a list of survey websites that pay you for taking surveys. A couple years ago when I was in college I fell for this and I paid $35 to get this magical list filled with money making opportunities. After joining about 100 survey websites, I figured out that I had been scammed out of $35. I emailed the website I had paid and demanded a refund. They did refund my money, while all the while I was still enrolled in these survey sites. I participated in as many surveys I could in hopes of receiving check after check. The checks never came so I slowly opted out of a lot of the sites. 3 years later my survey list is down to 3 that I participate in regularly and I do receive money.
The first website is Lightspeed Consumer Panel. At this site you take surveys for points (on average about 75 pts per survey) when you get a certain number of points you can cash in for gifts, gift cards, electronics, and money via paypal. For example to get $10 on paypal (which you can transfer into your bank account) is costs 1150 points. I usually save up my points until Christmas time and then cash in to help pay for my presents. This year I choose not to cash in but if I would have cashed in last December I would have gotten $40 which is 4600 points. It isn't much and it took me 11 months, but it is money that I haven't had to work very hard for and its better than nothing.
The second website is MySurvey . This website also does points for surveys but the point to money ratio is a lot better. Here 1000 points is equal to $10. This website sends you a check. If I would have cashed in my points I would have gotten $50 for my 5000 points. Here you can also cash in for other things such as gifts, electronics, tools, a grill, you can also donate to a charity with your points, it is great!
The third website doesn't give you points, it only enters you into a raffle and they have like 25 winners a month or so. Oh I should mention the other two sites also do raffles on top of the point system for more chances to win things. The third website is NPD Online Research . I take these surveys because I don't mind doing it. They only take about 5-10 minutes and so it isn't a big deal to me that I'm only getting a "chance" to win. Last May I did win $100 which they sent in check form after having been a member and taking surveys for 2+ years, so it balanced out with about as much money as I'm making with the other sites.
None of these sites will get you rich quick, I haven't figured out how to do that yet, but they will get you about an extra $100 a year which is nice for some mad money. And all of you may have more qualifying factors in your life to provide you with more surveys. You fill out a little questionnaire about yourself so they know what surveys apply to you, so everyone's opportunities are different. I don't drink or smoke or have pets or have multiple cars or many kids and so there's only so much to ask me, others with those things probably get more surveys than I do. I hope this helps and will provide you with a little extra money. If you have some other good surveys sites I'd love to know about them!!

Friday, November 24, 2006

Why Does Vacation Fly By?

We are home from our cruise to Mexico! It was very sad leaving the ship this morning, I almost cried. We cruised from Long Beach to Catalina Island to Ensenada Mexico and then back to long beach! The time flew by. We had an excellent time. This was our first cruise and we are really looking forward to taking more! Any suggestions? We traveled on carnival and it was very nice. I think I would like to try another cruise line next time. We are now starting the "detox" part of life after vacation. There isn't wonderful food available 24 hours a day here and no one to clean up our messes but ourselves. I think it will be hard to adjust. I've already been craving chocolate cheese cake, but there is none to be found. We were very good as far as not spending way more than the budget would allow so I am proud of us for that. Other than that I'm kind of in a fog as to what to do now. I guess back to normal life, laundry, cleaning, cooking... I don't think I'll be participating in the hype of black Friday today, so all you holiday shoppers enjoy!!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Bon Voyage

Tomorrow My husband and I and some other family members are headed on a cruise to Mexico. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do any blogging on the ship, I might be too busy relaxing!! We will be back on Friday so the fun can begin again! Thanks! Stay tuned...

Santa is in the Building

Merry Christmas... oh wait it's not even Thanksgiving. Well Happy Thanksgiving then. I may be one of the few saying this to you because when you head to your local mall Santa may already be on his throne. On Thursday night we were driving around town when all of the sudden we saw a ton of fireworks going off in the general direction of the mall. My husband stepped on the gas almost getting us in a couple of accidents, but we really wanted to know where the fireworks were coming from. We are far enough away from the 4th of July that this was a very strange occurrence. Especially since they crack down on fireworks when it is out of the allowable week. When we finally got to the mall the fireworks had stopped and so we got out of the car and ran inside to see if anything spectacular was going on inside. When we got inside we found ourselves face to face with Santa and some very tall elves. What is Santa doing in the mall before Thanksgiving? Soon he will be there before Halloween? Maybe he'll dress up for Halloween!! I'm very disappointed in the level of commercialization that has come into Christmas and that the retailers feel that now we need a couple extra weeks to shop (haven't they heard of black Friday? that's crazy enough without adding extra weeks onto holiday shopping) Anyway, I'm very annoyed at this! I want to write a letter. Letters seem to get things done. Who would I address it to? The mayor? My congressman? Arnold himself? I want all thing Christmas to come in the month of the holiday or at least wait until Thanksgiving is over. GEEZ! What's it to ya?

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Vacation Homes

Recently my retired parents have been thinking about perhaps purchasing a vacation home. They love Hawaii so of course that is where my mom wants to go. I was researching different possibilities for them seeing as Hawaii is a very expensive place to buy a home since they are in low supply and high demand. I looked at this website on hawaii condos because it seems to be a good place to find availabilities. This website is call the Condo Company and they will help you sell your condo or buy one, it's multi functional. I doubt my parents will really end up there, but it was fun finding out about places they could purchase.

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A Face Lift

How do you like the new look of Random Encounters of We? We wanted to have 3 columns but not change the template so we (probably took the hard route) and messed with the html. My smart husband has been studying for days trying to learn how to do the html to change 2 columns to 3. He knows other computer languages but not html. So there are a few things that aren't perfect. For all your smart html people out there any tips for cleaning up the rough spots would be greatly appreciated! As for me, I love the 3 columns and really appreciate all his effort.

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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Play Station 3 Predicaments

Now I'm not really into the latest video game systems. I have a gamecube and a regular old xbox so besides that I don't really know much about them, but apparently there aren't enough to go around... hence the earlier post about waiting in line for one. So today at our local Walmart there was a riot about where the line was. There were some people lined up in the front, outside of the store where those kind of lines typically are. Then later some people went inside and decided to set up a line. One guy from the line outside went inside to use the restroom and saw what was going on in there. There was a confrontation resulting in a riot. 17 police cars showed up, 11 people got arrested and 4 got hurt. If you read my earlier post about PS3's you know how I stand on this, if you didn't read it then let me tell you... I think this is DUMB. It's just a game. I was thinking about what I would rather have instead of a $500-$600 game system and this is what I came up with: I'd rather have IN N OUT everyday for a year, you know what that comes to? $602.25 A much better deal in my opinion (except perhaps for the weight I would gain). What's it to ya?

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

I'm getting gray hairs from telemarketers

Was the National Do Not Call list a big joke on me or what? I just looked at my caller ID and I recieved 15 calls from people I don't want to talk to (telemarkerters, mortgage people with better loans to offer, people starting out the conversation with "Boy, have I got a deal for you") What am I living in the bizzaro world? Most of the time the people aren't even real, it is a recording. At least when it is a person I can either 1. Tell them to take us off their list (as politely as I can while all the while I'm fuming) or 2. Get the satisfaction of hanging up on them mid sentence. I really feel bad for the people that have to make these calls. I used to be one of them - telephone surveys that is. It's a crappy job, but when your in college you'll take what you can get. And this occurance isn't just today. This is everyday. We get more phone calls from telemarketers than from people we actually know (don't judge). Sometimes I just don't answer my phone. What am I to do? Some days it doesn't bother me, but some days (like today) it does. I'm too young to get gray hair. Do you get telemarketing calls? Maybe I'm the only person on their list and that is why this happens everyday! Well it bugs me... what's it to ya?

P.S. As I was about to push the post button, Golden State Finance called, ironic eh?

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You Tell 'em

Everyone has those days where you just want to tell the world "it sucks to be you", unfortunately we don't all have the job where we can do it!

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

PS3 Queues

Would you wait in line for 4 days to be one of the first for a PS3? Personally I think it is a waste of time and money. Why buy something that expensive? Why isn't a PS2 good enough? Or any other game system? Why can't you wait for a month or two and get it when you don't need to camp outside of best buy for days? Where are the people in line going to use the bathroom for 4 days? Are they going to take showers? Are they gonna tag team with other people so they can take a break from the humiliation? Perhaps I just don't understand the utter awesomeness of these new video games systems to lower my dignity enough to camp outside of best buy or some other retailer for the release of PS3. I think it's dumb... What's it to ya?

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All you Blog Mad users Pause!

And please take a minute to look around. I know you are probably in a hurry to keep clicking the numbers to get more credits, but please take a look around. Vote in the poll a couple posts down, watch the youtube movie clip- it isn't very long. Just please don't click past me, take a look around for a minute. When I'm surfing your blogs I look around, read some articles, leave comments every once in a while. Please just take 60 seconds and look. Thank you!

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To Commercialize or Not to Commercialize?

That is a lot of bloggers questions. Lately as I have been surfing many blogs I have found a common theme among many of them. They are unsure whether to participate in programs such as adsense, creamaid, or payperpost, and the list goes on. All these programs either put ads on your blog or you write posts (advertisements) about products or websites. Some people are very passionate about their blog being personal and the "real them" while others may just have a blog to keep in touch with others, some have blogs to write about what they know, others try to do that, but they really know nothing (I'm afraid I fall into that category). So what are your feelings? I personally have a family blog that is kept as private as something can be on the Internet. My family doesn't understand using the blog to make money and they don't want to be bothered with my paid posts. For that reason I started this blog where I could talk about everything without infringing on them and I can put paid posts on or not. Whatever I want. I see nothing wrong with making money by using your blog. For me it is a way for me to help with the family income. I am a stay at home mom and I want to contribute (or at least have some mad money that isn't taking away from the household). But if it is greatly disturbing to monetize your blog, stay far from it and don't click on the links in this post! How do you see things? Have you ever thought about it? What's it to ya?

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Monday, November 13, 2006

This "Burned" on YouTube

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

A Tip for Making Money by Blogging

I recently stumbled upon a site that pays you for a simple thing as a blog post. This site is all about helping the avid blogger make money online. Registration is free to join this site. Once you become a member there are many topics to choose from. You read a paragraph about the site or product they want you to blog about and then you blog it. Included in your post you will put a link to the website so others interested will be able to visit that website also. It is easy, takes just minutes, and on average you get paid $5 per post. Easy as cake right! So if you are interested, just click the link on "make money" and you too can become a member of this great program! Some people don't believe in commercializing their blog. I have a personal blog for family and this one that was meant to be commercialized. How do you feel? What's it to ya?

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Technorati

We just discovered Technorati which is a website to help get your blog out there to more people. In order for us to reach our goal of sharing our random encounter with the world and in return to get the worlds opinions and takes on those encounters we are now open for business on Technorati! What's it to ya?

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Got Melk?

As Thanksgiving approaches, I recall last year. I had just had a baby so we weren't going to be traveling to our families houses. I was going to make my first turkey. As we prepared our Thanksgiving feast and the turkey came out of the oven looking beautifully golden brown, horror suddenly struck me. What if this turkey turns out like the turkey on National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. What if my husband cut into the turkey and it exploded open. In the movie everyone has some turkey but they are crunching it and gnawing on it. I was very nervous as the time came for my husband to carve the turkey. Lucky the turkey did not explode. It was moist as it should have been. I was very relieved at having a great first experience making my first Thanksgiving dinner. As you also may remember from the movie those glorious "melk mugs." You may get a tingle during the holidays that eggnog would just taste so much better if only you had it in a moose mug. Now you can have one. So enjoy your holidays to the fullest, and bring on the eggnog!

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So what's it to ya?

So what's it to ya!!OK so we are starting this new blog where we just talk about things we like, don't like, are mad at, want to change... pretty much anything we want. At the end of some posts we will ask "so what's it to ya?" meaning please share any thoughts, comments, or insights you may have about that particular subject. We want to hear what you have to say about what we just said. Did ya catch that? So keep tuning in for more Random encounters of we and tell us: What's it to ya?
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

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