05/14 - Smooth Sunday!

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 606

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 536
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $2.95
- HIT reward earned: $135.13
- Total Amount earned this week: $138.08

Most of this was Mon/Tues... could've hit $200 if I'd worked a little harder. Hopefully I can have some more $50 days this week!

 

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 476

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 482
- Number of HITs rejected: 2
- Bonus reward earned: $23.24
- HIT reward earned: $219.24
- Total Amount earned this week: $242.48

 

Yes, they should. It's rare, but there have definitely been a glitch here or there when transfers have stopped working for hours and even a day or two. There's no need to be in the situation where you can't transfer money yet it's already been paid out to you.

 

1) My monthly expenses are quite low as my boyfriend pays for all the rent, utilities and most of the food/entertainment. I eat out for lunch at work once a week, pay my cell bill (MVNO),car/motorcycle insurance, my cats expensive LID food and try to buy all my own toys (ie video games, pc upgrades, motorcycle gear etc.) I do have a car payment for another 6 months or so and then it'll be paid off So, maybe $500/mo which is what I make at my part-time job + insurance.

2) Yes, immensely. It has helped me to put money in a ROTH IRA, buy the gaming PC I really wanted, and toys. I'm a total geek for gadgets, video games and PC stuff. I always want the next amazing thing that's going to come out. lol.

3) Some have already been said, use a MVNO, buy clothes second hand etc. I do suggest setting up a separate savings account somewhere like Discover which currently has a 1% interest rate and set it automatically transfer some money to it every month. Pay yourself first; even if it's just $5. Start saving now, don't be like me and wait until you're almost 40 to start saving for retirement. Even if it's just a little each month starting in your 20's or early 30's makes a big difference when you're 60 than if you start at 40 -_- Another is to start a ROTH IRA and contribute as much as you can. I have mine at Capital One 360. It is after tax money and grows tax free. You can withdrawl up to your contribution amount without penalties in case you need it for an emergency (with some limitations). Lastly, if you have a "real" w-2 job and have access to a HSA account, take advantage of it. It's pre-tax contributions that can be used for medical expenses and if you don't use it then it's like a retirement account. *gets down off the retirement savings soap box*

 

That's a sexy story!

I wanted to do that as well. Our current neighbors have them installed and I keep getting inspired to do so. So, if you get things set up, you don't need a middle company to go through anymore?

 

You could hire a contractor to do it yourself, but I went with Solar City. They'll try to get to to lease your shit (don't do it!) but I got a decent rate on the 10 year loan, and knew if I put my nose to the grindstone I could get it paid off sooner. The reason I went with Solar city is because they have good reviews, and recently were aquired by Tesla. I love Tesla. I want one so bad (maybe in the future...)

The biggest reason I jumped on doing it now is I just recently bought this house, and its definitely one we're going to live in at minimum 10 years. The electric company rates are only going to keep climbing higher, and as of July 1st of this year if you get into contract with a solar company you'll be grandfathered into the APS credit system. After that, it goes bye bye, and the only way to use solar effectively would be to buy a battery with your system. I'll be grandfathered into the Credit program for 20 years, and the panels are fully insured for 20 years. I plan to have them paid off in 5, so from that point on It'll be nothing but savings. From using a calculator program I estimate a total savings of roughly almost 60k during that time frame (but most likely much higher as the rates will just climb more during the years)

 

I have been turking for a year and a half and I think it has improved the quality of my life considerably. The longer I did it, the faster and better I got at it. The best part is when people wonder where I got "the extra money" to do fun things like shop. I've bought everything from a new home office printer, to paying for healthcare for my family.

I tried to get a friend of mine, who is sometimes envious of my shopping trips, to join Mturk. She laughed at the idea and said she wasn't interested in "such little money". A week later, I went to a very prestigious luxury store and bought my favorite bottle of perfume that cost $150. My friend saw the bottle sitting on my dresser and asked how I was "able to afford that". I told her I got it with the "little money" she laughed at.

 

Dear Surveys,

How the hell am I supposed to know what OTHER people think about me? I'm not a mind reader.

 

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 1,458

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 1,268
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $6.32
- HIT reward earned: $224.93
- Total Amount earned this week: $231.25

Plus other monies (gig, laptop repair). Solid week!

 

Anyway, don't work TOO hard guys. I knew this fellow he worked so fast and so hard on MTurk, he lost his mind.

I guess you could say he went

(puts on sunglasses)

batch shit crazy.


(YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!)

 

These savings include the cost of my 100% full coverage system, which is 17k. I also forgot to mention there is a huge tax credit associated with this (I'll probably get about 8k), but I'm just going to throw it at paying off the system, so no big trip or anything lol.

 

Thanks @un_in for starting this discussion! It's interesting to hear about everyone's different situations.

 

1. Our mortgage is 2250/month for an older 4BR house with about an acre of land but the schools here are awesome so that's why we moved here. We have two car payments, utilities, internet and cable, insurance and a bunch of debt. My husband makes good money as a developer and works for a great company. We have a lot of debt still from when we first got married and had a baby as broke college students and were dirt poor, and a bunch of medical debt from crappy insurance. This past year alone we had about $10k in unexpected emergency expenses.

2. My current youngest, soon to be middle child, went off to kindergarten this year. I haven't worked a regular job in 10 years do to being a stay at home mom who couldn't afford child care. I loved being at home but always wanted to contribute somehow. So mturk lets me feel like I'm contributing and really helps us pay for things like kids' activities, groceries and small extras. It's a relief that it's there for times like when we had to drain our bank account to replace our furnace.

3. Not sure if this counts but I take cash out of the bank at every pay period and somehow it's always still in my wallet two weeks later because I forget about it.