I posted a while back about going down to one car. I’ve had some people express some curiosity about how I’m handling it, so I thought I’d update the situation. I’ll try and do this every here and there.

I’ll be honest. It’s not easy. But there are only two days most weeks where it takes any extra effort.

The first is on Thursday mornings. That’s the day we had already had Ariel signed up for gymnastics classes. They aren’t within walking distance and taking a cab is impractical when you think about dealing with car seats for two children.

So I take my husband to work first. The trick is that he is supposed to have a car, so I have to return it to him and have him drive us home after class. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people who want to work from home consider mystery shopping. The idea of being paid to shop sounds wonderful. But then you hear about some of the scams and just have to wonder if it’s really worthwhile.

Mystery shoppers go to assigned stores, restaurants, apartments and more to evaluate the service at each place. They may or may not be required to make a purchase. The shopper must carefully remember as many details as possible about the shop, most especially the names they deal with, and write a detailed report about it.

Despite it sounding pretty easy, not everyone will succeed as a mystery shopper. Sometimes you’re one of too many available mystery shoppers in your area, and the demand just isn’t there. Other times the available jobs just aren’t close enough. Read the rest of this entry »

Second time I’ve seen this on my own forum. Someone tried to spam it by making a post and creating a second account to reply to it, trying to make it look like someone was interested in the post.

Folks, these things just don’t work that well. Especially today’s, which was about something to carry laptops. Don’t bother looking for the post; I deleted it.

The first people who tried it fared somewhat better. I didn’t delete the post, just the link. You see, the post in that case would have been entirely acceptable if the link had been in the signature, rather than an obvious ad in the post.

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Just kind of fun to see it up and about. Just follow this link if you want to see the Postie Carnival. Kind of fun to figure out what these carnivals are.

I’ll have to keep an eye on the carnivals to see how well they generate traffic and such. That’s always been one of the things I need to work harder on, so I’m always glad for a new tool in that area.

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This is an interesting idea, and I want to see how it will go.

I’ve submitted a couple posts to blog carnivals. One is a blog carnival just for people with PayPerPost, and if you want to join in, you just have to be a Postie. The deadline for this one is Sunday, 6 p.m., I think, so you’d have to hurry to join in.

If I like how these go I may try starting one for myself. It’s an interesting idea and it looks like people have a lot of fun with it.

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