Category Archives: Money

Saving for a Goal with SmartyPig

If you haven’t used SmartyPig before and are comfortable with online savings accounts (like ING Direct), I highly recommend checking it out. SmartyPig is an online savings account that currently pays 2.01% APY. That rate isn’t much different from most of the other online (well, nearly double ING Direct’s at the moment), but how the [...]
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Savings Goals

Many months ago (June 2009), my wife and I set a goal for the amount of money we wanted to save. We wanted to save enough for a down payment on a modest house by May 1, 2010. Since then our plans for that money has changed somewhat, but the dollar amount and date of [...]
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Ridiculous Ad Networks

I have had the most frustrating problems with ad networks lately. First, Chitika. This is one of the harder networks to get into, and, according to everyone who is in it, can pay very very well. If it works. I was approved literally 1 1/2 years ago and have never been able to get it [...]
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Mobile Money

I’ve been wanting to make an iPhone app for the Fake Name Generator for months. The problem is, I don’t own a Mac, an iPhone, and the half dozen developers that have promised to make me an app haven’t actually done so. To make it worse, the Android has come out, creating yet another platform [...]
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I made it!

I made it! I’ve hit my earnings goal for Corban Works! Back in March 2009, I decided I’d start tracking my online earnings, and set a goal for where I wanted to be. My gross earnings at the time were about $160 per week with all my sites running off of a shared hosting account. [...]
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