My goal is to try to accomplish something each week for my family, to add to our earnings, or savings. I'm not going to go into detail on the savings, because I posted about most of those, but I'm going to let you know how I made some money.
I made Eric, Cara and Micah each $45 (so a total of $135!). I already had an (old) sharebuilder account, but Sharebuilder is currently offering $50 sign up bonus for each new account. And each person counts in a family! Read here about the current offer from MSM. There was also a new code online at sharebuilder's own website! You can easily set up a one time trade of $5 (that's why I only made $45 net-you have to do one investment to get the $50 in 4 weeks--which you can then take out or invest again).
Also, my $500 visa gift card will be in my hands in 4 weeks. I mentioned this to a few friends, and they all thought I was crazy, but I did it anyways! Click here to read about MSM's online offers (she basically has a tutorial for in general, and then for each specific parent company). I did an I-deal, and spent $40.62. You have to pay to order a few products, and have to pay to ship some back, but I still made a net profit of $459.38 for maybe 3 hours work. My advice is to have a good 1.5-2 hours to sit down and go through MSM's steps exactly and do the sign ups. After that is a waiting and cancelling game. It may take another 1-1.5 hours total to cancel all you need to cancel and ship back the few products, but it is well worth it. If you don't believe me, I will post a picture when I receive the gift card!! :)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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Here's some Betty Crocker coupons I received in my e-mail. Let me know if the link doesn't work and I will forward the e-mail to you.
http://www.bettycrocker.com/coupons-promotions/coupons/default.aspx?WT.dcsvid=MjA5NjgzNDQ0NgS2&WT.mc_id=Newsletter_BettyCrocker_01_21_2009
Thanks for sharing all your money-saving ideas...
Great tips! Your baby is adorable!
I just found your blog and love it! I'm looking forward to reading more.
which website did you use? I want to try it!
Can you tell me how you did this for only $5? I am trying to do this and it says that it is $9.95 per online trade? Thanks for the help!
Thanks Erin, I had actually already signed up :)
Melissa,
You don't sign up for an online trade (real time), you actually click on set up automatic investment, and then do a 1 time (and make sure you're on the basic plan) plan. I did it for the very next Tuesday, had $5 transferred from our checking (or my kids savings). I picked a stock that's less than a $1, adn then $4 is the commission. Email me if you need more info :)
OK - I finally figure it out. Thanks for your help! Are you leaving your Sharebuilder account open and do you have to have it open for a certain amount of time before you get your $? Thanks again for the help!
Hey Melissa,
I probably will leave it open I'm not sure. You have to leave it open until you get the money, it says it'll be posted 4-6 weeks after your qualifying trade. Once it's posted, I'll probably keep the stock I bought (Like $1), but transfer the $50 to my kids/hubbies savings account (hubbies=ours!) :)
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