Pale Rose: Week Four
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 25, 2007
After a two week hiatus, I’m back with the next update. I’ve completed another page of the chart, which means 34 more to go. This thing is going to take me forever.
First, here’s what it will look like when done:
Here are the last two updates:
And what it looks like now:
It’s a little tough to see the background as it blends in with the canvas and I’m using my cameraphone for this because I can’t find the camera. Next week’s update will be shot with a real camera so you can really see the detail.
I win again!!!
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 16, 2007
Looks like Blingo is working for me again. Another friend signed up through my Blingo link to the left and with 24 hours had won a free movie ticket through Fandango, which led to me winning a free movie ticket. Which is awesome since I had plans to go to a movie tonight anyway. :D
Winning is easy. Just click the Blingo link to the left and sign up. Then use Blingo instead of Google for all your searching needs. And since it’s powered by Google, you’ll get the same search results. Sign up and start winning now.
College is expensive - help me pay for it
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 14, 2007
College costs a lot of money. Most people have to borrow an insane amount of money to cover costs. With that in mind, a company called Upromise was created. “Upromise is a free service that helps families earn extra money for education,” according to their Web site. How do they do this? By partnering with other companies that people use every day. These companies give you rewards in the form of money saved into an account that can be used for your child’s education. Generally this amount is based on a percentage of what you spend at this various companies, which include travel sites like Expedia and Priceline and thousands of retailers and restaurants. Since I don’t have children, I never really explored the site. Figured it didn’t apply to me.
But that’s changed with a new addition someone recently told me about. It would seem that Sallie Mae, one of the largest college loan lenders, is a parent company of Upromise and has started a new program where instead of putting the money earned into a 529 plan for a child’s college education, it’ll apply it directly to any college loans held by Sallie Mae. I happen to have a fair amount of my college loans through Sallie Mae. Works out great. So I signed up for an account, figuring I do most of my shopping online anyway, so why not earn a little to pay off my loans while I’m at it.
Even better, it turns out you can link friends and family to your account as well so anything they earn will come back to you. Which brings me to my point. Help me pay for college. Please. All you have to do is send me your email address, and I will send you the invite. Then when you are doing some online shopping, just go through the links to the stores on the Upromise Web site. It’s as simple as that.
Even if you don’t want to help me pay for college, help a child in your life. You can set up an account to save for you own child or for multiple children by designating certain percentages of earnings to go to various people. For those who want to save for others, click here. But if you have no one to save for, please help me out. I’d really appreciate it.
Edit: Here is a list of all the online retailers who participate in Upromise.
Pale Rose: Hiatus
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 12, 2007
No update this week since I’m out of town living it up on the West coast. Love SoCal so much. I never want to leave. Mainly because there is going to be snow on the ground by the time I return. I’m sure of it.
