Never started using scales until I was 38 years old, old and growing. Luckily I never really needed to. Alas, my metabolism is slowing and I am growing, sideways. I actually like to see the number change every now and again, but only when it goes down.
Here is a great website for all things scales. For your weighing pleasure of all things, you and beyond!
In the last 20 minutes, I have managed to snag three paid posts in a row.
Maybe it's because it's Friday night, maybe it's because they don't pay very much and no one else wanted them, maybe it's because I have no life and maybe I am only writing this quick note because I have to have a personal blog post in between paid posts. I posted my other two opps I snagged on two other blogs of mine; downwriteblog and falconsays. Read and enjoy. Now I have to go git busy posting that third paid op.
I've always wanted one of these walk-in showers!
I used to help take care of an elderly friend that had one of these great masterpieces. I love how it is so deep and comfortable, yet stylish and practical all at the same time.
These beautiful walk in bath is a smart addition to every home. They are cherished for years and add exceptional quality to your valued home.
I could help my elderly friend in and out of the bath so easily. We would visit while I could work in confidence knowing my friend was very comfortable and safe in the seat surrounded with convenient support at arms' length.
Even on days when I was not scheduled to be there at my friend's house, I was at ease knowing my friend had the fabulous walk-in bath to refresh in the highest of safety standards and excellence. I have never forgotten that friend, or that gorgeous work of art. I loved that tub so much, I wished I could bring it home with me. Now I know the perfect website, Seabridge Bathing, to get my own!
One of the coveted paid blog posts that I almost always miss, this time I snagged it!
Perfect timing too. I just finished blogging about a little extra monthly income by blogging and surfing. Well, after sending off a pina colada to my facebook friends . . . . . I resumed my surfing and refreshed my PPP (pay per post) website opportunities listing and the beautiful green bar of availability was there before my eyes.
I grabbed that sucker so fast and waited as my cable modem communicated. YES! I got it. Sometimes other bloggers manage to lock on to the links. We all click like mad on the open paid 'ops' and it's a waiting game 
of seconds before we see if our computer grabbed the link first. I suspect it is because no one tried to click/refresh the open ops list at '12:08'. I have learned that particular times of the day is when PPP gets a little slower to refresh and react to my mousie clickies. That is because all of us bloggers have learned standard times of day when they (may) have an automated system that releases advertisers paid ops onto the board list.
My strategy is two-fold. I hover around my computer on the standard PPP times, but also, while I'm bs'ing around on facebook, my other blogs, email, etc.....I have several tabs open to surf for change and simply 'surf' PPP tab to refresh it every few seconds or minutes or however short or long it takes me to get over to that tab. That means many several times throughout the day, I get to see that list refresh various paid opportunity posts and many different odd times.
I have grabbed $20, $25, $10, $15, $5 and mere pocket change link paid 'ops.' But it has been a while since I locked a $17.50. May not sound like much, but these ad up and help pay my internet cable bill that I am so fond of :-) and helps to put gas in the car. 
I love blogging anyway and love (maybe too much) being on the computer and surfing the internet. So, it tickles me to get paid a little to have a little fun. Besides, I've never subscribed to World of Warcraft, I think I am still in the safe zone of internet addicts . . . . . . . . .
I am cutting corners right and left to reduce monthly expenses. I unplugged the cable box and dragged that $15 xtra per month monstrosity to the Charter downtown office. When I walked in the door and there were already other cable subscribers there.....the clerk gave me a somewhat sad look. I assured her, "I'm not canceling. I just don't want to pay extra for this thang anymore."
She was nice and helpful. She pulled up my account and pointed out another area where I could reduce my bill and still enjoy our regular programs. My bill went from $109/mo to $88 from now on. Woo Hoo! I told her she's my new best friend.
Other ways I am reducing the outpouring of cha-ching?
1.)I don't buy paper towels anymore. Just use rags and wash them in the machine along with the full loads I need to wash anyway. If it weren't so disgusting, I probably wouldn't buy toilet paper either! It goes so fast and adds up so much. But, I can't very well live like a Sasquatch!
2.)I buy less meat and I'm feeling lighter anyway.
3.)I clean house with ammonia and stop buying those "made for every other purpose" cleaners.
4.)Driving less, 5.)less on-line shopping, 6.)no more buying used dvds for the shelves at home, 7.)old microwave finally gave out and I haven't replaced it for months. We just heat stuff up the old fashioned way.(but I really want a microwave!)
I could probably think of many more ways we are finding recently to save money. On the flip-side, I am bringing in a little extra spending money to further help ends meet. I consider it help with the gas money and goes toward the internet cable bill, I find sponsorship support with paid advertise posts on my little blogs. It doesn't pay much, but it adds up. And I found another sponsor that pays bloggers to post advertisements on their blog site. Although, the paid opportunities by them are few and far between. I have yet to get my fingers on one through 'blogsvertise.'
And, since I am on the computer anyway, I keep many tabs open and surf the sites. The change just keeps adding up over and over. The surfing rotation of sites provides my blogs exposure to all the other surfers that have joined these many traffic exchanges too! Here is a list of paid-to-surf sites that I am loyal to, some others I have cropped off the list that have turned out to be questionable in business practice, or others simply went out of business.
If you have a website/splash sign-up page you need to promote - I highly recommend free traffic. You have nothing to lose and subscribers to gain.
The top .50cent post has been open all day.
No one wants to spend time writing a 100 word post to advertise on their blog for a cheapskate.
Hmmm, ok, maybe too harsh a word. But I wonder what the other bloggers are thinking.
Nearly every evening at 9pm there are fresh opportunity listings. You can count on being glued to the computer for a bit because all the bloggers are trying to snap the open ops.
Usually by 9:02, if you haven't managed to grab an op by your good graces or by your good cable speed (forget dial up and dsl, we'll beat you out every time), by 9:02 and you haven't grab one for yourself, you'll see a sea of grey.....'all spoken for.'
Here, you see the first el-cheapo is still open all day, and the other one is still open as of 9:25. Sure, we can add up a little change here, a little change there and get some gas money. But that is what they're counting on. You can see, one of the .50centers is at least only a 25 word post....reasonable. It only takes a minute to post a 25 word blurb for pay. I have grabbed several of those myself because it's easy and it is money that does ad up, eventually.
I am hoping the other bloggers are thinking along these same lines, "If we all hold out, and none of us give in to the measly scraps their throwing our way for (but they want our valued written word out there on the internet on our own blogs) - they better get the hint that they better step up the offer!
