Tightening the belt...OUCH!

I sent you a friend request. I am afraid that I cannot send you a message until you accept my friend request. I was going to contact you on your blog but it says that it is up for sale? I also have my blog posted on my profile here and several of the companies I mentioned in this post I have blogged about.

Finally friendship approval is working again! I am going to subscribe to your blog. Sending you a PM with more info.

"Gather, InboxDollars, SendEarnings, SlicethePie, SuperPoints, Beezag, MatesGate, Hits4Pay, DealsNCash, RewardPort, SideTick" are not on my list that I'm working. I had tried InboxDollars and SendEarnings in the past but I guess I never figured out how to make any money on them. The others in this list I have never heard of. Are you really making money with them? Thanks for the tip. You can PM me and maybe we can figure something out between us, eh?

One of the things about swagbucks I like is that they partner with coupons.com so that you basically get an extra 10 cents per coupon redeemed (though it takes a long time for it to show up). I like to think of income as being both offensive and defensive. Here we are talking all about offensive income (adding to the coffer), but I think the internet offers much better ways to have defensive income (not spending money in the first place). I love all the sites out there that basically do the work of extreme couponing for you.

Just to let you know, tech, I have not been avoiding responding to you. I tried to the other day and it just would not post. Sorry this is taking so long. Anyway, I am active with Swagbucks and recently my daughter turned 18 and has opened an account on mylot and Swagbucks for herself so that she can help a little with the finances. I am also currently active on Quick Rewards, Neobux, Clixsense, Wordlinx and Prizelive. I bring in about enough each month to pay for my internet, on average. Some months I bring in more. As for being frugal, I don't think I know anyone who is more frugal than I am. I just wish I could have managed the money from my trailer sale better while I had it. I have a problem, though, in my perception of large sums of money and I tend to get a little lost when I have over $1000 to manage. lol...I know it sound weird but my brain just cannot get around larger sums of money and so I tend to spend it without thinking. Oh, well. Knowing this and doing something about it are two different things and I blame no one but myself for my financial woes. I am tightening my belt, though, rest assured. I don't run my a/c unless I have to, I don't turn on lights unless absolutely necessary, I'm growing my own food as much as possible, and I'm having a yard sale this weekend. Wish me luck! At least this setback is temporary and by September I'll have the $55 that I won't have this next two months. At any rate, I'm sure we'll be okay. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into some of them. Have a great day!

Yes, when I switched to Safeway from Walmart pharmacy they gave me a nice incentive, as well. I'm trying to figure out some way to get a cooler for my room because our a/c doesn't really cool the house as it should. Still, we are managing and while my budget has never been tighter, we are still able to make the ends meet somewhere...even if not in the middle.

Say whaaat? Okay, that was about as nebuloid as you could get. What was your point and how does this relate to my discussion?

lol...well, my friend, I think you just get the bad news because that's when the wheel squeaks. The fact is that we are actually doing quite well, despite the setback. I called Social Security last week because they were counting November as one of the months that they overpaid me and actually we didn't move until the 22nd of November so they should not have included that month. The good news is that they cut me a check for that month. I still have to pay them $110 but they will pay me $22 so in actuality they are only getting $88. Now I have to come up with receipts or a statement of some kind to show them that I have, indeed, spent all the money I got from my trailer and then they'll reinstate my SSI. Then I'll be back up to a nice fat $718 per month income. In the meantime my daughter has joined Swagbucks and Mylot and she is making money to help out that way. Unfortunately, she can't joing many of the sites I work because they only allow one person per household/IP address. Bummer, eh? Oh, well. She'll be able to start looking for work in October and I will be signing my trailer over to her so if we find ourselves in another situation like the last one, this trailer won't be in my name so they won't be able to hold it against me as a "resource".

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into that.