Yeah, I cashed out for the month on two sites!

I am very excited to have just cashed out on Cashcrate for the month for $10.19 so far and My Cash Safari is up to $23.25 right now, with some offers still pending which may go through by midnight, then I will request payout by 11:30pm or so for whatever I have earned. I sure did miss these checks this month because I did not reach payouts for Aug. They do come in handy for gas money.

New site I am signing up for is Bowling for cash, I am getting a ref link from a friend tonight, will check it out. And the creators of My Cash Safari have opened a new site too, I'll post it when I sign up with them. I really need to work on surf bounty, though, they have nice higher payouts for surveys.

Merchandising, Mystery Shopping, & ECS

I went to Waynesburg yesterday for a McCormick spices reset. We worked 6.2 hours and were paid for 8 hours + 2 hours driving time for a total of 10 hrs. Not a bad day, but today I am feeling it, great workout!

Jobslinger.com is a great place to sign up for free and search for mystery shops and merchandising jobs available all over the country. I found some great ones there.

Like today, I am doing two bank mystery shops. They pay $14.75 each!!! And from the paperwork, it looks like I'll be there about 30 minutes each. Not bad getting $29.50 for one hours work. They are a nice 20 minute drive away, but since I get to do two, that will make it definitely worth the trip. That is one thing about mystery shopping/merchandising. Get signed up with quite a few companies and schedule ones that are located near each other on the same day. Just the other day, I scheduled 5 merchandising jobs for the same day for a total payment of 7 hours of work + driving time because two of them are in a town that is an hour away, so I'll get 1 hour of driving time (30mins to and 30 mins back) as long as it only takes an hour to get there. 4 of the 5 jobs are going to take me about 10 min's each but i'll get paid for the whole hour. it is great to get into. I turned down a Campbell's soup reset(resetting the whole campbell's soup section in the supermarket) because it was too far away and I have plenty of stores around me where this will need done in the near future, so that work will keep me busy.

ECS - I received this email from the company that I do the site reviews for, I have only done the 1 review, no other ones have come available in my area yet. You get paid $45.00 to go and review doctors offices for a healthcare network. You tour the facility and ask 32 questions, fax the form in, and your done. Here is the email: "ECS has recently taken on several more states and I am recruiting reviewers for these areas. Many of you have referred family and friends in other states to me in the past, and at that time ECS did not have a need in that location. These are the states I am currently recruiting for. If you know of anyone in these states who would be interested in reviewing for ECS, have them send me a resume and e-mail of interest as soon as possible and a recruiter will be in touch with them.

The states I am currently recruiting for are: PA, WI, MO, KS, NY, NJ, AZ, IL, CO, IN."
**email me if you are interested in forwarding your information to her. My email is: ecr1eah@yahoo.com.

Merchandising, Couponing, and Mystery Shopping

Most of the things I have been doing lately are outside the house, haven't been paid yet, though, in a few weeks. I did some Mystery shops last month for McDonald's, they reimburse you your food purchase and give you anywhere from $7.50 - $10 for doing the shop, they are fun, I did a bunch of them. I did a few cellular shops, they pay $9 - $10 each, no purchase necessary. I am now looking into a few websites that I found for more mystery shopping jobs, jobslinger.com is one. They seem to list merchandising jobs and mystery shopping jobs for free. I got in on a banking one for next week that pays around $15, no purchase necessary. The problem is that you just do not get paid for what you do for a month to month and a half.

I have done two merchandising jobs so far, 1 last week, huge one, and 1 the week before. I go this week to Waynesburg, get paid for driving though, since it is 1.5 hours away, to do a McCormick spices reset. These pay $10 an hour. They pay every two weeks so I will get paid in a few weeks for the two I have done so far. The first one I did was nice and easy, Starbuck's coffee. I went and rotated stock, made sure nothing was out of date, turned anything out of date into the manager, and then wrote down on my form what I turned in and what was now out of stock. I did this at two stores. Nice and easy, $10 at each stop and it did not take me quite as long. One store did, but it was packed with product that is why. The second job I did, HORrible!!@! I was to meet another person at KMart and we were to reset the whole pet food aisle except litter and non food items. The other person did not show up. This was my first reset, so I did not know exactly what I was doing, I did resets at Staples back in 1999!! So, the first hour I gathered my thoughts, got the planogram and labels from the manager and looked for the products that were discontinued. After an hour I realized the other person was not going to show up. So I call my manager, no answer, what to do? This was a 13 hour job for one person, two of us were supposed to be done in 6.5 hours. So I called my DH(dear husband) Who had just gotten 1 hour of sleep after getting home from working all night. Mom was babysitting, so he walked to moms house, mom drove him to help me. I started at 8am and got done at 7:30pm, only to find I had put the labels on wrong, so dead tired, only having a 15 minute break and sharing a granola bar for lunch, we fixed the labels and were home at 8:10pm. Not a fun day. So being crazy, I signed up for the McCormick reset this week being assured that people will be there this time. I hope so.

So I am expecting $20 soon from Project Payday, I'm trying to get a little bit of that done, but Riley keeps me busy and these last two weeks were crazy sales at Kroger and I was able to get a ton of stuff free and very cheap, like I MADE $20 to use on my other groceries AND got 60 crescent rolls 4 packs for free!! insane, I know. I just got back from two kroger trips and got a TON of stuff for $14.00. that is on my other blog, though, link at top left of this page. so those things take a lot of time and planning so I have not been able to do too much online work. oh well, at least I am trying.