Side Hustlin' Mommy

I think I can say that mystery shopping is beginning to add up. No, I don’t think I can…I know I can. Not that I’ve made a great deal of money from it, but I have made enough to convince me to continue on with it. Since March 2012 I have earned $296.92. My largest payment so far has been $170.48 that I received in April for the shops I completed in the month of March. My goal was to average about $50 per month in mystery shopping earnings to add some money to my savings account. Unfortu...
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I wrote this post a while back and I'm publishing it now to better establish what some of my goals are in all of this online activity. I hope any who reads this is able to benefit from it.

If you've ever done an internet search for ways to make money online, then you probably already have encountered several websites, articles and videos about paid surveys. They're everywhere, saturating the worldwide web and you're likely to read all kinds of opinions either for or against taking surveys onl...
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When you borrow money, you never really seem to be able to pay it back. Or at least that’s how I feel right now. I was short on my rent at the beginning of this month. I borrowed some money from my bank. Now my weekly payroll check is being used as a payment for my debt and I will not have enough money on my own to pay next month’s rent, which means I’ll have to borrow some more money. The fortunate thing, though, is that I did have sense enough to have my paychecks split into two diffe...
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So, recovering from my miscarriage, getting back into the groove of school and moving to a new apartment next week all have my plate pretty full right now, and right now I’m strapped for cash. What am I going to do? My rent is due next week as well as my payment for my Tae Kwon Do class and yesterday I had to spend some money I had no intentions of spending because of a flat tire. Well, here is what I’m doing to get as much extra cash in my pocket and hopefully make enough so that I wonâ€...
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This past week has not been the best of weeks…but I’m surviving it. It’s been almost a week since I had my miscarriage. I’ve done one secret shopping assignment, but I took off from my actual job this past weekend to stay with my dad while I recover physically and emotionally. A miscarriage is a terrible experience that I wouldn’t dare wish on anyone. It seems like when it didn’t hurt physically it hurt emotionally and I cry uncontrollably. Today is a new day, though. It’ll get ...
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The funniest thing happened. Yesterday I attempted to log into my blog reallifebusiness.weebly.com and saw that I had been deleted. Apparently, I had violated their terms of service by putting too many ads on my site. The thing is, I had just put up a post this past Thursday about a survey company and included a referral link to the survey for anyone interested in signing up. I only make posts like that once every couple of months. There were a few small badges and banners for other sites tha...
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