Must have at least 3 friends to make money

For all of the loyal howtomakeadollar readers out there, I want to first apologize for the agony you have been experiencing over the past six months waiting for a new blog entry!  I'm sorry for the long wait.  Howtomakeadollar has learned a valuable lesson over the past 6 months.

Previously we blogged about how to have a successful blog by having friends.  Unfortunately, we did not specify how many friends you need.  We have recently learned that you need at least 3 friends.  

3 friends = maximum money making potential

Howtomakeadollar is one friend short of what is needed for wild-world-wide success.  One of our friends went missing and the other one has decided to vicariously run for president of the united states in 2012.  Needless to say these two friends are unavailable to blog, thus the lack of blogging for the past 6 months.  We are one friend short of keeping things going.  

In the meantime, we will try and make 3 new friends to help us be successful. 

Make Money by Suing McDonald's

It seems that McDonald's has a history of being sued by its customers.  McDonald's has been sued for making their coffee too hot, making kids want their happy meal toys too much, and for making people fat.  It seems like everyone is suing McDonald's.  It must be the cool thing to do.

Since howtomakeadollar is in negotiations to be sponsored by McDonald's... we don't want to see McDonald's loose any lawsuits.  But most likely we will get more money from winning a lawsuit against McDonald's than being sponsored by them.

As regular McDonald's patrons, we have noticed a disturbing trend at McDonald's.  McDonalds is trying to stay up on the competition (as if there is any... nothing can come close to McDonald's) by offering ice coffee drinks and smoothies.  Many people seem to be enjoying these iced coffee drinks and smoothies.  How do we know?  Because it is SO RIDICULOUSLY LOUD!

Seriously, the noise from the huge blender that grinds these drinks into a nice liquid form is unbelievable.

So here's the plan...

1) Get a job at McDonald's

2) Volunteer to work at the smoothy/ ice coffee bar

3) After one week of work SUE MCDONALD'S for your loss of hearing

4) Collect a lot of money

5) Eat McDonald's food, get fat, spill coffee and sue them several more times

6) optional step: while working at McDonald's during the Monopoly campaign take off all of the stickers until you get something good.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone!  We hope that you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Christmas cards from shutterfly

Christmas is almost here!  It is now less than two weeks away.  Where has the year gone?  Well, now that it is Christmas time... it is time to send out Christmas cards.  Everyone loves Christmas cards!  Especially all of your relatives you only get to see once or twice a year.  Most people hang them on the refrigerator or display them on the wall.  This is quite a lot of pressure... because you and your family will be up against all of the other picture perfect families.  If you don't have a picture perfect family, its okay.
Example of perfect family:

You can make up for it with a beautiful Christmas card!  Where can you get a beautiful Christmas card?  SHUTTERFLY!


I have used Shutterfly in the past and they have been fabulous.  There are a wide variety of cards you can choose from.

This is super easy.  All you need is a picture and a computer.  Choose the one you want, upload your picture and your good to go.  The shipping is fast and the cards look great!

Check it out!!!!!  Thank you shutterfly for making such a great product.

Along with Christmas cards they also have birth announcements (it helps if you have a baby), calendars (it helps if the world has not ended), and oh so much more!

Merry Christmas from howtomakeadollar!!!!!

FREE Christmas cards from Shutterfly!

Celebrate Christmas?  Send Christmas cards?  How about saving some money by getting FREE christmas cards!  

With Shutterfly you can sign up and blog about Shutterfly's Christmas cards and they will give you 50 FREE!  Thats worth about $60.  Not too bad.  

Sign up here:  http://blog.shutterfly.com/5358/holiday2010-blog-submission-form/

But you have to sign up by December 15th... so don't wait!

Blogsvertise keeps paying us money

Howtomakeadollar has been trying to make money not only from our business ideas... but also from our blog.  We haven't really been to successful since we lost $107 because of our "invalid" clicks through our google adsense account.  But, we have found some success with blogsvertise.  

We have been signed up with blogsvertise now for a couple of months.  We seem to only get an assignment every three months or so.  Not very often.  But, blogsvertise is the only company that has actually paid us for blogging!  And for some reason they paid us again.  We have not had an assignment for a long time... but for some reason, WE GOT PAID!

Granted... it was not a lot of money, but it was money non the less.  THANKS BLOGSVERTISE!

Another stolen idea

So it looks like howtomakeadollar is full of good ideas.  One of our ideas... which we actually didn't blog about because we were working out the details of our idea... was to start a website called "whatwillyoudoforadollar."  Kind of a long name and not very catchy... but the idea behind the website would be to have people post things they are willing to do for $1 and/or post things they are willing to pay people to do for $1.

Well... it looks like this idea has been stolen from us!  Somehow, even though we never blogged about it, someone found out about our idea and made it better.  Sort of the like the pot head guy and the jesus toaster.  The better/cooler/very well executed website that stole our idea is FIVERR.COM

They one-uped us by charging $4 instead of $1... and they actually created a cool website... we did not.