Publishers Clearing House Contest

I keep getting e-mails from Publishers Clearing House about how I could be the next winner of $5000.00 per week for the rest of my life. Or, I could be the next $10,000,000 winner! Publishers Clearing House has sure come a long way from the olden days when I was a kid. Do you remember when your mom would get the Publishers Clearing House packet in the mail? It had tiny pictures of the magazines you could order, and then you would be entered into the contest for whatever amount of money was a huge amount back then. It all seemed so exciting. Not too long ago, it seems to me they would award their big prize during the Super Bowl. Now, I can enter the PCH Lotto, and PCH Search & Win, PCH Scratch Cards in addition to the standard $10,000,000 prize. You can even win by watching video clips of the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol (you know, the gray haired guy, Dave Sayer, in the van). I guess people really do win the prizes. If I won, we live so far out that the Prize Patrol probably wouldn't be able to find us, and none of our neighbors are ever home, so there would be very little drama surrounding the prize delivery. Even so, I wouldn't mind winning a prize from PCH. If I won, I would be able to move back home and send my kids to college without any money worries. Ahhh. If only!

Earning Money with CashCrate--It's Real

I am always on the lookout for ways to make a little extra money. I thought that anyone reading my blog might want to too. I joined CashCrate and what is so good about it is that all you have to do is earn $10.00 and they will pay you. Depending on how much time you have to waste. . . er spend on answering survey questions or completing forms, you can make at least the $10.00 in one sitting. There are some other things on the site like opportunities to spend points you also earn to get gifts. So, if you don't have anything better to do, go check it out! Please scroll down to the very bottom of my blog and click on the pencil banner to get there.

Selling Gold

Recently, I have been seeing a commercial for http://www.goldkit.com on television. I haven't really been paying much attention to what gold prices are doing, but I thought that maybe, times being what they are, people are starting to sell their gold. It is sort of a strange yet intriguing commercial because it implies that we all have old gold jewelry stashed away in our homes. I really don't believe that regular people have all that much old gold in their homes. It really started me thinking, so I decided to go through my jewelry box. Sure enough, I actually found a few gold pieces that are broken or things that I don't wear and never will wear. I checked out the GoldKit website and a few others that popped up in my search. I just don't understand how this process works. What happens if you have gold jewelry and it has some diamonds in it? What do they do with them? What happens if you send your stuff off and never hear a word from the company again? What happens if you send your stuff and it is intercepted somewhere in the mail? I just don't get it. I do understand that it is an attractive offer; money for your gold. You may have thousands of dollars just sitting in your jewelry box. All very enticing, but I am skeptical. Maybe it is better to take your stuff to a local jeweler to see if your stuff is worth anything. Not sure about this one. . .