EASY $25!

Howtomakeadollar recently made the easiest $25 we have ever made!

How did we get this awesome $25 American Express Gift card???  Easy, one of us worked for the same company for 5 years!  Easy, easy, easy!  It only took us 10,400 hours to make an extra $25... but it has definitely been worth it.  $0.0024 per hour is not a bad bonus.  We can't wait to see what we get after 10 years!

On a side note, American Express is not taken at every store or restaurant like the amazing VISA.  It was rather disappointing the day I received the gift card and tried to use it to buy my lunch and was rejected because they did not take American Express.  On top of disappointing, it was embarrassing that I had to borrow money to pay for my lunch because I didn't have any other money.

Junk mail that can make you rich

Somehow I got on the March of Dimes mailing list.  March of Dimes sends out solicitations several times a year.  Most junk mail is worthless.  The March of Dimes "junk mail" that I just received came with $.10!  Thats right, the mailing had a dime attached to it.  Pretty sweet.  Easy money just for being on someone's mailing list.  So hurry up and add yourself to their mailing list so one day you too can open up your mailbox and find FREE MONEY!

Bacon Prices on the Rise

A few weeks ago Howtomakeadollar wrote that the world's best business idea would be a bacon delivery truck that drives around playing bacon-themed music and selling fresh, sizzling bacon. No one has disputed this claim, and it is unlikely that anyone ever will, because bacon is awesome. You can read the original blog here.

Well, just to demonstrate my point, bacon prices are now about 50% higher than they were last summer. For real. This is a news item in the Wall Street Journal. Read about it here. This means that you'd be looking at major profits right now if you had taken our advice in starting a bacon business.

Now think about this in terms of the broader economy. Bacon profits are way up. Meanwhile, cars, houses, banks, and newspapers are down. These are supposed to be some of the strongest, most reliable long term industries in the world. Here is a chart that shows what would happen if you invested money in bacon vs the rest of the market over the past year.

Bacon is going through the roof!

Who Will Take Care of Your Pets When the Sun Explodes?

Who will take care of your pets when the sun explodes?

You may have heard that scientists fully expect the sun to explode sometime later this evening or tomorrow. This is true. Howtomakeadollar is not lying. Read about here.

Ok, so now that you have read about it and have come to grips with this Tragic New Reality, you are no doubt trying to get your priorities straightened out for the next few hours. Do you have a lot of errands to run? Are you in the middle of some important stuff that can't wait? Maybe you were hoping to make some last minute fantasy baseball trades? If so, then you don't really have time to worry about the fate of your pets during the Supernova of 2010 do you?

A supernova is coming. Are your pets prepared?

Fortunately Howtomakeadollar offers Supernova Pet Insurance. If you are vaporized into a puff of carbon by a supernova, or are otherwise left incapacitated by a supernova, Howtomakeadollar will see to it that your pets are well fed and watered as they live out their final days on the wisps of smoke emitted by the annihilation of the solar system as it darkens, cools and slowly collects itself into an interstellar gas cloud.

You probably think that such a policy would cost billions of dollars, but Supernova Pet Insurance doesn't have to be expensive. For a limited time Howtomakeadollar is issuing Supernova Pet Insurance for $1.00 per pet. This is an absolute steal. Will you do that for your pet? Think about how Muffy will feel when she is blinded by a searing solar flare an instant before the entire world catches on fire and is condensed into a ball of metallic gasses. Without Supernova Pet Insurance she will feel frightened, hopeless, and alone.

For $1 you can get an official Howtomakeadollar Supernova Pet Insurance Policy. Your policy will guarantee your pet's safety and survival in the event of a supernova.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: SUN FAILS TO EXPLODE! PETS SAVED! PRICES SLASHED

China's trash island

So, it looks like China has taken our advice and decided to make their very own Trash Island.  Howtomakeadollar recommended making a trash island several months ago.  You can read the blog here.  It appears that from all of the storms and rain (caused by global warming) has been causing a large amount of trash and debris to collect at The Gorges Dam.  The thousands of tons of garbage are so thick that you can walk on them.

China has taken our idea!  We will be contacting our lawyers to sue them.  We've heard they have a lot of money.  We will let you know how much we get.

You can see the yahoo article about the Chinese Rip Off Our Idea Trash Island here.

Avoid Refinancing Scams!

A few weeks ago Howtomakeadollar wrote a blog about how you can save money by refinancing your home mortgage. This is still true. In fact, interest rates are slightly lower now than they were then, so if you haven't refinanced yet, you really should do so immediately. Read the original blog here. Howtomakeadollar is now saving $557 per month because we refinanced a house. Thats major money.

But you shouldn't just refinance with the first lender that sends you junk mail. Lots of these lenders are identity scams. For example, lots of people will watch realtor websites for homes that have recently been sold. Once they get the address, they will send an official looking letter to the address, and give themselves a respectable name like "American Mortgage Group Inc.*" and they will urge you to refinance. They will offer some kind of interest rate that looks believable, but is lower than the current going rate. 

The refinance process involves a lot of paperwork, including your social security no, your birthday, your W-2 forms, and all that stuff. So if you respond to the advertisement, they will ask you  for this info. Once you send it to them, they are gone, and they have your identity. Its a really simple scam, and its nearly impossible to detect because all loans require this info from you.

You will probably also get similar offers through email. You can't really look them up online either, because its pretty easy to set up a respectable website online. As soon as the name they are using starts getting associated with scams, they will just change the name. So its virtually impossible to tell the legitimate lenders from the scammers. Just go with a respected lender thats been around for a while. If you've heard of them, they are probably legit.

*I have no idea if "American Mortgage Group Inc." is a real company. I made it up. Hopefully I don't get sued for defamation. My point is that scammers will use very normal and believable names.

blogsvertise is not a scam!

So, believe it or not we received $20 for writing this blog.  It was a blog that we were assigned to write after signing up for blogsvertise.  Thats not bad at all... writing one blog for $20.  If we got paid that much for every single blog we have written we'd have about $5,000.  Unfortunately, we have only received one blog assignment from blogsvertise.  

Blogsvertise is good for about $20 every other month and thats about it.  So moral of the story is... don't get blacklisted from Google's Adsense!