The Future is Now: Flying Cars Have Been Invented

Howtomakeadollar has been a staunch advocate of the future for a long time, but I have to admit that lately we have been getting a little bit impatient. The future is always being put off until tomorrow or next year, and after a while, you tend to get a little bit jaded about the whole thing. So if, like us, you have been waiting for the future for your entire life, then you will be excited to learn that it has finally arrived.

I'm referring, or course, to the invention of a flying car. People have been talking about flying cars since the days of horses and buggies. Of course, they always called them "flying horses and buggies," but the concept, give or take an internal combustion engine, was the same. However, despite all the talk, flying cars and flying horses have always remained elusive. Until now.

read all about the flying car at the company website: http://www.terrafugia.com/

We are living in interesting times. For thousands of years people always thought about flying cars when they thought about the future. Now what will we think about? Beats me. The end of the world must be getting close. There is no more future left to imagine.*

*except for global warming, which is always being put off to the future... But global warming is boring, so thats out. Maybe we can dream up a flying elephant or something. That might inspire people.

The flying car is called "Transition," and it is made by a company called Terrafugia. Just yesterday, June 29, 2010, it was approved in the U.S. for both air and road travel. Its wings are able to unfold electronically while the car is driving, allowing it to take off into the air straight off the highway. When it lands the wings can fold back up and it can drive down the road just like any other car, and it can park in an ordinary garage. Of course, it looks extremely goofy driving down the road, but honestly I don't think it looks much stupider than lots of other cars that people drive, and it can fly, so there.

Yep, its ugly, but at least it can fly. Now what about the rest of you? 

Ok great, but how do I make a dollar off this? 

There are probably lots of good ways to make money off this, but the easiest way to do it would be to change the name. The people at Terrafugia are obviously geniuses, but they have totally missed the boat on the name. Its called "Transition." What a dumb name. You've invented the flying car. The crowing moment of all of history is upon us, and you call it "Transition?" Really? That sounds like the name of menopause pill. No. You need to get a job in the branding dept. of Terrafugia and change this name now. You will sell millions more of these by simply naming it "The Flying Car."

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http://camera-and-photo.become.com/ is a website for finding out information about cameras and photography gear.  The site allows you to shop conveniently online, compare prices of products you are interested in, and ultimately save you money.

Howtomakeadollar believes that pictures are a key component of a successful blog.  For years howtomakeadollar has been trying to increase the quality of our pictures.  We have tried almost everything in an attempt to take a good picture.  It was not until we realized we were not using a good camera.  After we bought a digital SLR our pictures turned out amazing.  They have a really cool feature called "automatic."  The automatic feature does all of the work for you.  You point the camera at what you want to take a picture of and click the button.  The camera does the rest.  It's that simple.  Well, maybe its not that simple... but this site has all the information you need to help you find the camera that is right for you.  Remember... the more expensive, the better picture it will take.

http://camera-and-photo.become.com/ helps you to capture your life on film.  Well, you can choose either on film or digitally.  Howtomakeadollar recommends digitally.  So there you have it.  Go check out the website and buy cameras.  You will be happy you did.

This blog entry is our first blogsvertise entry.  Hopefully letting you know about this website to buy cameras and camera gear will earn us some money!

Make money playing the circle game!

Most people have either played or heard of the circle game.  Usually this game is an immature game played by middle schoolers or freshman in high school.  According to the urban dictionary, the circle game is "a game of peripheral vision, trickery and motor skills."  The rules of the game are quite simple.  Make a circle with your index finger and thumb like so:

Get someone to look at the circle.  Punch the person that looks at it in the arm.  Since howtomakeadollar is all about making money and not all about punching people, we suggest you change the rules of the game.  Make the unsuspecting person pay you a dollar each time they look at your hand or have them take you out to lunch after they look at your hand a certain number of times.

Note: make sure you are good at the game, otherwise you may have to take someone out to lunch or pay them a lot of money.

There is also a circlegame.org website.  The website has not been updated since 2005.  2005 was about the end of the circle game craze.  So, its time to bring it back and make some money doing it!

Make Money by Selling Pieces of Junk

A few days ago the Red Cross came to my work and I donated blood because I am a moderately good person. When you are donating blood, they usually give you a little heart-shaped squeezy toy to hold in your hand. They tell you to squeeze the thing every 10 seconds. This helps keep your blood flowing while you donate. I can usually squeeze out a pint of blood in about 30 seconds. MY HEART IS STRONG AND FILLED WITH COURAGE. But for other slow-blooded people I suppose the little heart toy helps. They don't let you keep the heart-shaped squeezy toy either. After you are done giving blood they take it away and send you on yours.

Well, the other day when I gave blood, they gave me a little five inch piece of PVC pipe to squeeze. I asked the nurse what happened to all the little squeezy hearts and she told me they "ran out." A guy donating near me was given a Bic pen to squeeze. Times are tough at the Red Cross. I can only presume that they were forced to sell off their heart shaped squeeze toys. I would rate the PVC squeezing experience as about a 5. Squeezing a PVC pipe is simply not as satisfying as squeezing a squeezy toy. I would have thought that squeezing a pen would be more fun because of all the clicking you could do, but it turned out that is was just a regular pen, not one of those clickable pens. So it seems that the Red Cross has been reduced to handing out old pens and pieces of discarded plumbing. They have fallen on bad times, and are in need of various household items that can be held in the palm of your hand.

All this talk about pens and pipes makes Howtomakeadollar want to donate blood

Now, I'm not saying that you will get paid very much money for your childhood rock collection or your old broken cell phone, but I am saying that these items are exactly what the Red Cross needs right now, and you probably aren't going to find anyone else who needs them. You need to strike while the iron is hot!

If you do not have any such items, Howtomakeadollar will gladly sell a bunch of them to you.

Ride Shotgun for Life!

Howtomakeadollar is pleased to announce yet another groundbreaking and exciting product. We are now offering, for a limited time, the nation's only official Shotgun Riding Pass. With this pass in your pocket you can always ride shotgun in any car, any time. It is the only pass that is officially endorsed and recognized by the United States Federal Bureau of Motor Vehicle Passengers. 

Your card is printed on high quality glossy card stock, with an official U.S. government seal printed on the bottom left, verifying that the cardholder is officially licensed to ride shotgun anytime he or she enters a motor vehicle.

Howtomakeadollar's partnership with the Federal Bureau of Motor Vehicle Passengers is strictly regulated, and there is only a limited number of these cards available, so we cannot guarantee your order will be met unless you order immediately. Each card is one dollar, but orders of five or more will receive an additional five cards for free. YOU CANNOT BEAT A 10 FOR $5 DEAL!

Howtomakeadollar recommends buying as many cards as you can get, because the supply is low, and demand is expected to be extremely high. Multiple orders have already come in from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland (really). Once they are gone there will be none left. You can keep one for yourself and give another to your spouse for his/her birthday. Nothing says "I love you" more than a lifetime guarantee in the passenger seat. This is like telling your special someone that you never want to ride with anyone else. 

If you get the 10 for $5 deal, this will leave you with eight cards left over that you can give to friends (this will make you all the more popular) or sell on Ebay. Remember, low supply equals high prices, so its quite likely that you would get your money right back, with a little profit on the side.

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Shotgun Riding Pass

1 Pass $1.00 2 Passes $2.00 3 Passes $3.00 4 Passes $4.00 10 passes $5.00

What to do when you are rich and powerful

Lots of people want to be millionaires right? But what do they do when they make their millions? They buy cookie cutter McMansions and few nice cars, and they play golf a lot. Howtomakeadollar thinks this is boring. We have lots of other recommendations, but today we will be focusing on pranks. Anyone can prank his friends, but a rich person can afford to prank them in ways that the rest of us can only dream of. Here are a few ideas.


1. The "Dude, Where's My House?" missing house prank: You know that prank where you come out to the parking lot to get in your car, but your car is gone because a bunch of your friends moved it? Usually they moved it to some annoying place like Bed Bath & Beyond. Thats just a tip for you in case you haven't found yours yet. Anyway, if you are rich you could take this classic prank up to a higher notch: Move their house. Wait until they go away for a while, then hire a crew of house movers, and have them tow your friend's house out to the middle of a lake or a desert somewhere. When your friend comes back he will be in for a big surprise. He will never see it coming, and you can all share a good laugh about it later.


2. The champagne prank. You know that prank where you come home and somebody has filled up thousands of little pixie cups full of water and covered the entire floor and every flat surface in your house with them? Well, if you are rich you can do this same prank, only fill all the cups up with champagne instead of water. This doesn't really add anything significant to the prank, but you should do it anyway since you're rich.


3. The sweepstakes prank. I'm sure you've heard about those Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes that occasionally show up at people's houses and pay out big prize money. Right? Well, this is a good setup for a prank you could do. Just hire somebody to show up at your friend's house and tell him he's won a million dollars from a sweepstake. Make sure the guy you hire is really convincing, and give him an actual check for one million dollars to give your friend. Your friend will be ecstatic and will call up everyone and tell them he won big in the sweepstakes.  But the joke is on him because it wasn't really a sweepstake! It was just you pretending to be a sweepstake. He will never live this one down.


4. The stock market prank. If you are rich enough, you can buy a controlling interest in a large corporation. Once you do this, you can then sell all your stocks on the open market for like ten cents each. This will cause a dramatic crash on the company. If you bought a large enough company, such as Wal-Mart or Google, it could even cause the entire stock market to crash for a day or two. This would be a hilarious prank and would probably make international news. The whole world would find out about your prank and they would all just shake their heads and laugh. "What a funny guy," they would say. If you do this prank, try to let us know ahead of time so we can buy all the cheap stocks that you dump off.

Blogsvertise?

Ever since howtomakeadollar was blacklisted from Google's Adsense... we have been searching for an alternative source of advertising revenue.  There doesn't really seem to be much out there besides Google Adsense.  The moral of the story is: do not get blacklisted by Adsense.  But for those who have been rejected by Adsense there appears to be a couple of additional options.  We are in the process of testing them out.

The first alternative option to Adsense is Blogsvertise.  Blogsvertise (yes, that is really their name) is a website that you can sign up for and they will give you "assignments."  These assignments are to write a review of whatever item, website, or service they provide you with.  You write a blog about the item assigned to you, Blogsvertise approves your blog, post the blog, and they pay you.  Supposedly the payout is between $5 and $15 per blog post.  Not too bad considering we usually blog for free.  Unless it is for our PromoteME or SHOW YOUR LOVE features.

Keep your eyes open for our Blogsvertise featured blogs!  We have also read on the "internet" that Blogsvertise is a huge scam.  But since we are experts in ethical grey areas and unsubstantiated claims... we should probably fit in well with the Blogsvertise crew.