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Hey folks!  Sorry to all of my readers (yes, both of you) for my absence over the last day or so.  Yesterday was the Apple Butter Festival at my fire department.  The volunteer firefigthers, with a lot of help from the community, make and can about 3,000 quarts of apple butter in one day.  It’s […]

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AdBux is a combination GPT/PTR site.  I had high hopes for this one going in.  It’s an attractive site and it looked very promising.
Viewing the PTR e-mails is easy in a clean and clear window and only takes a few seconds each for most of them - unlike some sites that require you to […]

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Well folks, I’m nearly going cross-eyed from staring at the computer screen so long, but I guess that comes with the territory.  Anyhow, here’s the skinny on InboxDollars.  It’s a “Paid To Read” (PTR) site that also includes “Get Paid To” (GPT) offers, Surveys, and games.  The site is easy to navigate and […]

Well, after a little whining yesterday I found some inspiration from a fellow blogger who put things in perspective and made me laugh.  Then, after the disappointment of AC declining to buy an article I had written, they bought two others - ok, I’m back. 
More good news, thanks to the help of my wonderful wife […]

Good morning folks.  I’m having a little trouble diving into things today. 
Yesterday I submitted a news article to Associated Content and I thought it was pretty good, but they declined up-front payment because it didn’t have “broad enough appeal” and while I submitted it an hour after the info becoming available it “wansn’t necessarily timely.”  […]

Yuwie, one of the latest competitors in the social bookmarking crowd, offers to pay folks for using their site.  They claim you don’t need to do anything special to earn some cash, just view pages, post content, and have your pages view.  But, will it work? 
 After joining the site and spending a few hours poking […]

There are a lot of folks on the internet and TV making money promising to teach you how to make money.  See the problem there?  If someone wants to sell you a ‘program’ or ‘course’ to teach you how to make money the best thing you can do is change the channel or get off […]