Friday, July 27, 2007

Slogging Through Surveys

Well my friends, just finding good Surveys on line is a 40 hour a week job. Let me save you some time, OK?
Anytime, anywhere in the Ad the word CASH is spelled with a dollar sign, CA$H, flee! Flee to the Lake for safety! Anytime, anywhere the word FREE has an asterisk, like this, FREE*, head for the hills, run, run!!
SurveySpot is straight forward, kinda fun, usually hooks me up with what looks like legit Business Surveys. And the look of the Web is cute, lil' doggy paw prints.
TikTik cash can be at times OK and annoying. They send you an e-mail and sometimes you do get paid just for clicking onto an Ad and hangin' around long enough to make the computer believe you actually read the thing. Sometimes, however, once you click on the Ad in the e-mail, you have to actually sign up for something. Oh sure, "You can always cancel" as soon as you get the "whatever" at the Special Introductory Price and get good money for having signed up for the "Special Offer" but what a pain in the butt!
I am tellin' yunz, to make any kind of living from on line surveys is a full time 40 hour a week job!
I do it for fun, and hey if I really do win that "SuperPrize" of $$$$$$ well that's just frosting on the cake.
"PaidE-MailsFromGetPaidToTry" is only slightly less annoying than TikTik.
Vindale Research is good, I don't expect to actually get paid anything. But if you like the idea of being among those quoted by Talking Heads and Researchers on TV and Radio that, "......40% of Divorced Women over the age of 45 prefer.....", well, you get the idea.
Don't EVEN try to slog through winning a FREE* (there's that asterisk) : lap top computer, iPhone, luxury vacation, Gift Certificates for Target/Kmart/a Famous Restaurant or FREE* Gift Certificates of any kind.
Now, with some of the surveys that tell me I'll get money or points or whatever if I sign up for just one, or two, offers, I look for any offers of e-Newsletters. Yeah, my mail box gets filled with stuff and some of it is interesting. But I usually "unsubscribe" as soon as the first e-Newsletter arrives.
Opinion Outpost is another one that looks legit. Oh yeah, and Polling Point also looks to be serious.
OH yeah, with some of the Survey Sites that have pages of little boxes of offers for which you choose "yes" or "no", just scroll all the way to the bottom and you might find the option to SKIP, so do that, scroll and look for the SKIP before you spend time clicking on "No" several dozen times.
Not all the Offers are bogus. I am pleased with the "Learn a Language" CDs. But that's just me. There may be offers that you really want and that is cool. Just, as ALWAYS, with ANYTHING, read the Fine Print, taking the time to read the entire Survey Ad AND the "Terms and Conditions" will save you a LOT of time and Frustration later.
Well, in closing it is possible to make real Money, I can see that based on my experience so far. But it IS a lot of work, you will be spending LOTS o' hours at your computer. Yeah OK the upside is you don't have to get dressed, you can take breaks anytime you want, and, well, it's a pretty good hobby for insomniacs!

MaryAlice

Friday, July 20, 2007

Thank you's

OK, I promised "Slogging Thru On-Line Surveys" and that will be up coming. But first I gotta practice what I preach.
I sent individual, personal e-mails to certain friends saying THANK YOU for the FWDs they send to me! Some folks see such things as "Bulk Mail Junk". Well, I don't, I feel happy to be included in my friends' lists. Those e-mails are at times Silly, Funny, Inspiring, Thought Provoking. So I told my friends how much those e-mails just "make my day".
It's sad really, Folks rarely bother to say thank you, yet don't waste a nano second saying how annoyed they are. Oh well, all that anger and negativity is their Gunny Sack of Sorrow to carry around, not mine.
So, you are wondering, if this gal says she refuses to carry that gunny sack, why does she seem to be obsessing about it? Perhaps I'm obsessing about it, only because I really want to get the message out. Maybe I'll cause some readers' eyes to open up and thereby help them to drop their Gunny Sacks.
Well, it is around noon here in Alaska Land, don't know what time of day it is wherever you are, so I'll just wish you a happy, blessed and peaceful Time :D

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Senior Breakfast

Hey, I got this funny FWD from a good friend:

We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the "seniors' special" was
two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $1.99.

Sounds good," my wife said. "But I don't want the eggs."

Then I'll have to charge you two dollars and forty-nine cents
because you're ordering a la carte," the waitress warned her.

You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?"
My wife asked incredulously.

YES!!" stated the waitress.

"I'll take the special."

"How do you want your eggs?"

"Raw and in the shell," my wife replied.

She took the two eggs home.


DON'T MESS WITH SENIORS!!!
We've been around the block more than once.
Send this to the Seniors in your life...I'm sure they'll appreciate it!!

Yeah I'm Ranting

But Hy, these Webdings Are Cool! So, like, I send e-mails to my family to keep them up to date on news, you know. I send FWDs that are funny, inspiring, "Brighten yer day" sorta thing. Do I ever get a "thanks for brightening my day"? No. But let me send one itty bitty teeny FWD that I failed to pass by SCOPES for veracity, or something not PC and WOW do I hear about it, along with insults like, oh, hypocrite!
Folks just don't bother to say "Thank you" these days (oh Lawdy have Mercy am I channeling that old fart from 60 Minutes?)
As you may or may not know, I am certified Crazy. I find that rather "freeing". I mean, now when I say what ever pops into my head, however looney it sounds, friends and relatives just give that insincere I-Hope_she_isn't_going_ to Explode_a_Spleen look :D As RockHound said in the movie "Armageddon" "Embrace the insanity"!
So, I see my Psychiatrist the other day. We chat a bit. He asks me why do I think I'm doing the things I'm doing. DUH? I look this guy in the eye, I put on my best Madelyn Kahn Imitation and I say, "You went to Standford on a I-got-more-brains-than-god Scholarship, ditto George Mason, you been in this gig for 25 years, and YOU'RE asking ME?"!! I think that every time a Shrink or Therapist asks you that question, you know, "...what do you think about...." you should respond with, "MY fee is double whatever YOUR fee is, for answering questions" ROFLMAO!!
It is true that the EMTs and Firemen in this town are handsome hunks, but I gotta think of a better way to meet them than looking up from the floor after another attempt to immolate myself. Gotta love that word, immolate, I learned it from Mr Spock in that Star Trek Episode in which these 2 planets where fighting their war by computer, and if your town got "hit" you had to report to this place to get vaporized.
Am I really the only Original Trekkie in the Cosmos who really digs "Enterprise"?? Just when those idjuts decided to cancel the Show was around the "Star Trek History of the Future" timeframe of the beginning of the Romulan Wars. geeeeesh why did DS9 have all the glory, with The Dominion Wars?
Have I actually heard some say that they are getting burned out on all things Star Trek? Huh? For a True Trekkie, well, that's like looking for a woman who says "No, thank you, I've had enough chocolate, I really don't want another pair of shoes, I have all the handbags I need" !!
I just watched the DVD "Snakes on a Plane", loved the movie. It got me to thinking, all those things that law abiding AirLine Passengers are NOT allowed to carry on board are the very things that could have killed many of those snakes! Like, my aerosol can of hairspray and a Bic Lighter. Or, how about a few bottles of cologne, that would mess up those snakes' sense of smell for those pheromones. Pepper Spray?? Yup, our GuvMint forbids us law abiding folks from carrying around things, stuff, we can defend ourselves with, so only the Bad Guys have 'em! UH, Hello?
Oh, in case you're worried about my family getting pissed off because I am venting on this very public forum, don't. They never read my Blogs, never even read or contribute to the Family Home Page and Web Site I had set up so we could communicate.
Yup, it is true that sometimes the Best Family is the Friends you choose :D
yaaawwwnn time for my midnight snack then beddy by.

Next post will be Adventures in Slogging Through Get Paid to Take Surveys!!

So have a good day Webdings laugh alot decodethis if youcan!


Pebble (remember the contest to name the baby of Fred and Wilma Flintstone?)