During my April challenge to generate extra cash, I tried # 100 of the “102 Ways To Generate Extra Cash” from SavingAdvice.com.
“#100. Sign up with Mechanical Turk (Mturk.com) from Amazon.com and take on tasks that interest you.”
I had signed up late last year and did enough tasks to earn $10.00 and posted about it, but [...]
Although my goals are to get out of credit card debt and I haven’t been too happy with the way some companies have been treating their customers lately, I do see times when you can use them as a tool to get a better deal.
I know some people get good rewards by putting purchases on [...]
At the beginning of the month I wrote that I would be trying to us several of the “102 Ways To Generate Extra Cash” that I read about on SavingAdvice.com to make some extra money to put toward debt. I’ve been trying them, but haven’t posted about them until now.
I was planning to do #9 [...]
Today I received a letter from a credit card company informing me that my Annual Percentage Rate would increase from 16.24% to 27.99% unless I reject the increase. By rejecting the increase, I will be unable to use this card anymore. If I do use the card again, the rate increase will go into effect then.
When I started this spreadsheet in January the minimums added up to $3920 (If I went back to November it would’ve been worse, but I don’t have complete records of that). Last month the minimums added up to $3177. That’s a difference of $743 per month. When I was trying to pay $3920, I was coming up short and having to go further in debt to pay for other needs like food and gas. There was also a lot of borrowing from one account to pay another. Needless to say there wasn’t anything extra to pay down the debts. That $743 dollar difference makes it a lot easier to pay cash for everything and apply extra payments toward debt.
