It’s time for a book giveaway: Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free
The book is written by Jordan E. Goodman. You’re best off clicking the link to read the reviews to see what the book is all about because I haven’t read it yet to be perfectly honest.
How can you win this book?
By answering the following question in the comments section over the next week:
What’s the most creative way you’ve ever made money? Keep it legal folks.
Bad news- There will only be one winner.
Good news- I will include the top ideas in a post next week. If you’re a blogger then that means free link for you.
Time for some links:
Squawkfox gives us free cover letter examples & tips. If you want to get job you’re definitely going to have to fix up that annoying cover letter.
Budgets Are Sexy talks about losing $24,000 last year. If you want to know how expensive home ownership is then you need to read this article.
Erica.Biz shows us how to get through the fear or failure. This is a guest post from Flexo of Consumerism Commentary and his ten venue tour.
Amateur Asset Allocator tackles the always popular topic of paying down debt vs. saving for retirement. A great take on this never-ending debate.
Wisdom Journal asks if you would rather be right or employed? We can all relate to this. Do you tell your boss off or do you collect your pay check?
College Candy talks about blackout mistakes. I’m sure many of us have done things we regret after a few too many drinks.
Good Financial Cents gives us 3 subscription tools that can save us money on the web. A few helpful tools to help out the ol’ wallet.
Carnivals:
Festival of Frugality @ Ultimate Money Blog
Carnival of Personal Finance @ My Journey To millions
- Win the mortgage game: avoid foreclosure, obtain the best refi, and modify your mortgage even if it is “under water”
- Clean up your credit report and dramatically boost your credit score
- Negotiate new terms and payments for burdensome medical bills, student loans, and credit cards
- Protect yourself from the devastation of identity theft
- Master the new credit card rules, and avoid the rate and fee traps
- Learn a revolutionary strategy that will help you become mortgage free in 5 to 7 years, change the way you pay all your bills, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars
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As I said in my guest post here yesterday, playing free cell for money was lucrative, easy, and fun. I took what everyone was doing but practiced hard and made some decent money!
I used to sell “air heads” the candy to my school mates in high school. I’d buy them in bulk from Sam’s Club and distribute at school for a quarter each. I made a killing in grade school!
I loved air heads!!
They were so good and chewy =)
Good stuff. I remember selling some pop band gum back in grade 5. I made like 10 cents a gum until the teacher shut it down.
Focus Groups. Getting paid a huge wad of cash per hour for talking about your opinion is amazing.
I use to sell video game saves to make extra cash. A lot of people either thought it was the real game or they were too lazy to beat it themselves.
I love it. Actually no I don’t. I just remembered how my brother once used my credit card to buy some video game save or something off eBay and he got ripped off.
Great book review MD!
Most creative way I’ve made money is teaching tennis for $50/hr. Sorry, I know, not that creative, but it’s pretty lucrative, gotta admit!
Kind of hard to review a book that apparently hasn’t been released yet. I would pay you $1,000 /hr if you could teach me how to play tennis or golf. Two sports that I just can’t excel at!
Hmm when I was in grade 4 I made beaded necklaces with my best friend and was only able to sell it to my younger sisters. At that time, they had no concept of math and thought that if she gave me $10 for a necklace and I gave her ‘change’ back (e.g. 25 cents) then it would balance out somehow.
*hangs head in shame for exploiting her sisters at such a young age*
Has revenge been served to you yet?
I can’t wait for the book to come out! Whether I win it or not it is going on my financial reading list.
My Dad used to do product reviews for a fishing magazine for extra cash. When I became a little older I found a local company that would occasionally look for young teenagers to test new products. I remember testing a jello product, gum, and crackers. They were not on the market yet which was pretty cool. I believe I got paid around $100 per test. I bought my own bike with the money I saved from testing.
I have to give the idea and creativity to my Dad though, as he showed me that people will pay you to do things you love.
When I was a kid, our youth choir from church would go on tours for 10 days to 2 weeks, visiting other churches and singing in their services. Of course this was during the summer and it was always hot on the bus. I brought a cooler with a 6 pack of sodas my second year for myself. But when other kids started offering me 2 – 3 times what I paid for them, I bought a bigger cooler and loaded up every time we would stop. I made out like a bandit and for the next three years, came home with a couple of hundred dollars more than I left with.
Probably the MOST creative thing was starting my own shaved ice business. In 1992, I did a little research, found some suppliers, built an 8×12 building, had it wired properly, installed shelving, sliding windows, a bathroom, a three compartment sink, and a hot water heater. I set up across from the practice field at a major college (Roll Tide), and consistently made $300 to $500 per day in profit. Sadly I lost my lease and had to sell, but it was good while it lasted.