Down On Our Luck

My goal is to become financially independent of my husband in terms of finances and these are the sites that I have been using to work towards my goals. All sites are listed in terms of my success with them and how easy it is to start earning money. Come back often, we’ll be updating this list as we find more sites that we like for their ease of use and time consumed.

In terms of success, ease of use and time spent, Big Crumbs is my favorite site overall. My goal is to get 1,000,000 direct referrals. I’m at 43 right now, but if you like to get cash back for your shopping, then I highly recommend that you sign up.

eBay is still a great way to clean out your closets and make some extra cash to help pay the bills. If Q can learn how to list stuff on eBay then you can too.

Amazon is a much better place to get rid of your used DVD’s, video games, and CD’s. It’s free to put up new listings, and if your items doesn’t sell, you’re not out any money.

Squidoo - Do you consider yourself an expert on a subject? Tell the world about it and maybe you can make a couple of extra dollars on the side. If you own a website, Squidoo is a great way to build back links to your site.

MyLot.com - I signed up for MyLot about a year ago and then totally forgot about it. Just recently they started sending out reminder digest emails so I started posting to the discussions there again. I don’t have a lot of time to spend there, but I respond to or start about two discussions a day.

The Up Down - I casually trade at theupdown.com when I think of it. You receive $1,000,000 in play money to start trading with. If you beat the S&P for the month you get paid. You can also make money by writing stock analyses and referring your friends. I haven’t made a ton there, but I have beat the S&P 3 months in a row so I have $1.15 waiting for me to claim as of 2/3/08.

Bux3.com - I know I usually don’t recommend pay per click, but I don’t mind this site because I’m not forced to view the ad the whole time. If they ever find a way to force this, I will definitely delete Bux3 from this page.

Bux.to Just like the site above, if they ever start forcing a person to actually look at that ad, I’ll probably stop using them. I just don’t have time for that. As long as I can just click and come back later, they’ll stay. Of course, if they stop paying, I’ll drop them faster than my cat runs up and down the stairs.