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STORIES AND POSTS ABOUT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Walking apps for money

    Walking apps for money

    Now this is going to be a ongoing mini series I’m doing about getting money from apps to increase my income and maybe pay a bill.

    This going to be about walking apps. Now i doubt i will be able to make a lot of money in a month and i’m starting the tracking a lil late for this month of December. starting January if i stay on track i will get a better idea of how much i can make since i barely hit 6000 steps a day and the apps require advertisement to get the points or coins to trade for gift card or money.

    One thing that is good is that most apps will take data from the smart watch and sync to it server so if i put the phone down it will still keep track and vice versa. Not all of the apps track the watch. So the apps i have down loaded so far is some foreign walking apps like BitWalk, WeWard, Scrambly, MoneyWalk, and a moving app as in walking and driving is GeoSmile.

    Now Bit walk gives you BTCp which are Bitcoin points and you have to watch videos every about 500 steps to get so manny BTCps which over time will convert to a Bit Coin is what it says. Now as a average of BTCp this equals about .000025 points I am right now watching a Add for 5x BTCps to .000125 for 2000 steps and after that my daily would be about 0.001041 BTCp’s. The app does have extra ways of getting points like predicting if the original Bit Coin Price would be up or down by a certain time a day. It also has another option to get extra points by doing the lucky spin and this can give you extra points if you get higher than 4th place like 3rd place and up. The down fall is their is only two wallets it will allow you to withdrawal from and they are gemini exchange and Rockwallet, Now i don’t know about those but i will update as i go. To start withdrawal you have to be at .2 btcps. I have a ways to go as all time I’m at .06019 today the 16th of December.

    Next is WeWard app this app is panda design and another walking type app that will track your steps and you collect wecards and weward points. Now to get points you will have to walk so many steps like 2500,5000,10,000 and increments of 5000. Now to redeem it starts at 500 for actual cash rewards or smaller for in app reward. Like most apps it does Venmo or PayPal and virtual gift cards. The we cards at more for you to walk around and collect or watch a add 4 times and receive 4 cards after a completed collection of cards receive a gift of some sort i do not know as I haven’t completed a deck yet.

    The next app i am using is Scramberly and same premise as we ward 2500 steps to 5000 and increments of 5000 steps before you get a scramberly coin. This app also offers to get more coins by downloading and using other apps either games of shopping. This app has more exchange apps than weward with cash app visa and others redemption starts at about 1000 coins for a dollar and maxes at $50 dollars for 50,000 coins. It does have other options to sign up. Every 2500 to 5000 steps you get 10 6 coins.

    Next up is is MoneyWalk this app has more ways to get points besides walking it lets you track sleep schedule and gives random amount of points between 1 and 10 points. It offered to watch an add to receive double the points. For every 50 steps you get 1 point to collect and the offers a 500 step bonus to collect every 500 steps could be between 1 and 15 with a chance to bonus by 2 or 3 if it is not 10 points or above. It also has health questions and water drink daily to flip a bottle even a food tracker for more points and the app game download so a lot of options to get points. Now to get the gifts need between 1,625 for a dollar to 16,250 for $10 virtual gift card depending on the brand or store.

    now the last last one i have been using is GeoSmile. This app is interesting as you can get rewards from walking and driving but the down fall is their is so many blocks to fill is limited. You start out with three bars for driving and 10 bars for walking indicating the 10,000 step marker. Once you achieve a bar you can either clam it for 10 points and or watch a video to get 50 up to 100000 for a golden penguin never seen it yet lol. You scratch these cards and get a chance to get 50 if missed all three on the scratch card only get 50 gems and a second chance to get a penguin on another scratcher of 3×3. Scratch 1 get 100, 2 penguins and get 200 get three and a big boost of 1000 find the golden penguin and a huge jump 100000 gems. This app also has other ways to get gems and those are lucky wheel spin and get more 50, 100, 200, 1k and grand prize 100k gems after watching a add, next would be the slot machine get points by checking in and use those to spin the slot machine and match 3 penguin fish watermelon and triple 7, 100, 500, 1000 and 5000 grand prize. After that is has missions surveys and offers and referrals. This apps give you the ability to get items like accelerator and extra bars and the the gift cards start at $3, $5, and $10 for 30,000, 50,000, and 100,000 gems

    that’s it for the intro to the apps, I’m not gonna lie keeping up with all is hard and doing it daily can be hard to remember. Thank you for reading and what are your thoughts? Im going to be trying to keep up dating these as I go but I’m also a forgetful busy person and i like doing this to focus my brain

  • How to start

    How to start

    I am a very curious about how to do things and learn knew skills or trades. The thing is i have started a blog website as you can see im posting this to it but i am trying to improve this but my attention span for items can be short so ill start and cycle to another item and or project. So ill will stop working on one thing and start another and eventually come back to the item i was working on.

    Right now I have been working on the blog but i also have been trying to create downloadable products for my blog sight and i have creating a bunch of them but i have not posted them. I have one for money and work outs and other topics but I haven’t yet figured out how to create the pay wall for the website.

    Besides that I have also been interested in making a YouTube series. The thing is i have a lot of different ideas to post but I haven’t set one thing down to start. I have been thinking about a A.I. Mini book series and or a how to series for using A.I. and or basic things around the house. Their is other topics bouncing around in my head just got to make categories and produce them.

    The thing is im a big planner and or organizer but i can not seem to start to get it going either staying on topic for this blog and or a YouTube series. What should be done is what need s to be done as i am a busy person and this is my side project plus i have no quite space to work on it.

    I would like some feedback back from someone on what they think I should try?

    A.I. mini series (any topic)

    A video of me fixing my electric bike?

    Video of exorcise like me trying to get in shape

    I don’t know i have ideas coming and going shoot me some of yours to try

  • Apps for money

    Apps for money

    Hello all, I have been having money issues, probably like most in the world right now, and keeping up with this crazy economy. Now, I have been listing and/ or looking at these apps that can get you money. You know the survey apps, the game and win apps, there are betting apps, but I would rather make money by not investing or buying products to get a return. I don’t know about you, but I would rather get money from watching and answering survey questions. Now, none of this is an endorsement or I receive revenue from this post.

    OK, people, the thing with these apps is that they are all to make the creator or company money and share some profit revenue to the consumer. Now, I know I can’t get a lot of money, but if I can get something to cover a bill a month, that would be great. Now, I don’t know how Thea’s able to do this, but I am a busy person. I have a full-time job and a house I try to take care of, but since my wife had to step down from working due to mental health issues, the bills have come down to me supporting, and with the prices keeping on increasing over the years and the pay staying the same, it has been getting hard to stay ahead. I already had to give up a few of my credit cards as if I would keep paying them, I would not be able to pay the main bills of the house, so yeah, now I’m in collections with a few cards and still not able to climb my way back up.

    Now, I have been trying these random money apps for a few months, and I have tried some in the past, so let’s talk about a few and I would go in deeper with the ones I have been using.

    So let’s start with the cash back apps now. The ones that I know are the biggest are Upside, Fetch,and Ibotta apps. Now I have used Upside and Rakuten before and know these apps either require you to select some sort of deal first and then scan the receipt of purchase with your smartphone to get some percentage of cash back, sometimes dollars depending on the size of purchase. Now Upside I used when it was only gas, so I would have to log on and select the gas station and then go and pump the gas and get like .25 cents a gallon back max, and others were like .01 or .10 cents a gallon back after purchase. Some places would require you to scan the receipt if not linked digitally to the gas station and/ or debit/ credit cards linked to the app. Upside started adding restaurants and grocery stores. Now I haven’t used it in a year or so. As life got busy, I started to forget and to use the app or it was only for expensive gas stations, and I would save the same amount of money by just going to a cheaper station, so it did not make sense for me to keep using the app as I don’t mind going to lower quality gas stations to get gas and I’m not brand specific for my vehicle fuel. I do plan on downloading these apps again and trying to use them to give an average Joe review.

    If there is an app you think I should try or you have tried, let me know. I will try to be more active on this blog as I can, but with work and my kids and foster kids, I am busy, so I will try is all I can say.

    Thank you for reading, and this is my beginning to app money refund reviews and make money with apps.

  • Pain & Awake or Waking up

    Pain & Awake or Waking up

    Now I don’t know how many of you have pain but chronic pain is on so many levels and depends where it is originated. Now i am in the process of living with chronic pain from my lower back. Back pain to some is on a even higher level of pain and when it becomes chronic pain it is even worse. I hear a lot of people complain about pulling a muscle in their back or they have a twinge / twist our slight ache in their back. Im just off to the side like welcome to my world but they only feel it for a days. While i just feel the pain all the time all at different times of day or days and at different levels of pain.
    Now i can fall asleep most nights but their are times when the pain is just their and consistent all in different forms from aches in low back to sharp stabbing and or tight pinching in my back to my legs.
    Their is times i can sleep and their are days i do not have a severe pain. These days are few but their is days very few that i would say my pain level is a low level like a 4 i guess. These days are the days i still take it easy since i do not know how long i am going to be in so little pain. Now if i do not take it easy since i am feeling good and i would rather get things done i just might keep up the moment and pray i do not feel horrible the next day or the next few days or longer their really is no telling.
    The worst part is the amount of work does not really matter their has been days were i would do some yard work and felt like i was hit by a bus and in pain and haveing a hard time walking for a week or so. The best part is i also have done nothing but relax with my family and same thing felt like a truck hit me. Their have also been times i have did some labor intensive work and felt good the next day. Chronic pain and or chronic back pain is almost like playing Russian roulette. Russian Roulette is and old bravery and stupidity game of chance take a six shooter place a bullet in and spin the mag then place the gun to your head and squeeze the trigger and pray the bullet is not in the chamber, if it is lets say you just met your maker. That is how i feel chronic pain can be.
    Now theory about chronic pain has been from mental to emotional physical pain. I do not know what to consider it my self as i feel emotional when I can’t do things and or can’t play with my kids/ Grandchildren, physically when i can not walk or run at all and their are some people that think im just trying to get sympathy. Huh yeah like i like being dependent to carry groceries in and or even walking when im at my worse.
    I struggle all the time with things like should i tell the people how bad i am around me or just try and struggle? This is the hard part since some people believe their is no way i could be in pain randomly some days or hours in the day and not always in sever pain. I have days that are good like everyone else, I question most days, I am in a constant guard to be in pain. Classes are not the same as you think, these Kaiser pain management classes only teach you how to cope with and live with the pain like deep breathing or box breathing these are all great techniques to lower heart rate and possible lower the pain level as anxiety can make pain worse.
    The thing with the human body is like a maze mixed with a puzzle, their are times you may think you have taken the right turn and found the puzzle peice that fits just to run in to a obsticale or the peice is not fitting perfectly. Now maybe for some the peice that barely fits might be good enough but i have always been active. As a kid I would be the one climbing trees and jumping on roofs just because and now not being aable to walk some days is just not the thing for me. I love doing my best and getting alot done and being depended on so haveing to depend on others and not being able to tire myself out is like a sqeeky wheel for me it is the gear that just cant shift up and stuck.
    Sleeping is the way the body and mind rest and process the day they had expereinced and reset for the next day. with out sleep your mind cant process emotional and intelectual things that happened and starts to creats a blockage and or an anxiety build up of the information that needs to be processed. Physically lack of sleep is draining body doesnt get enough sleep to reset certian functions might get harder thru the week and more strain gets put on the inner functions of muscles and or bones depending on the tasks completed.
    To be in pain is a real obsticall and to not get sleep and or wakee up from sleep is a real pain as the body doesnt reapir it self and the equallibrium of the mind and body get mest up and then the next day is harder and maybe more pain this is just me ranting but what do you think?

  • Time and hobby

    Time and hobby

    Now i havent posted in a while and that is something that has been on my mind but I have been busy with life and barely had time to breath. Now my life is not as busy as some but for my chronic issues and work life it can be hard. Now my main job is a daily 9-6 shift and and after that is my famaily. Now most people might take some time to their selves I do not really do that as I take pleasure in making my wife and kids happy. I come home and cook dinner for my wife and kids help feed my 1 year old and autistic 3 year old that are actually my foster kids but i see them as mine and would do anything for my babies. This is the fun part since I have had them for a year now and the baby baby was only a few months old, but our actuall youngest child was 11.5 years old . Now that is starting over if you you would say so. Almost a decade since I had a baby and some things have changed not to mention the extra strictions that are placed for foster parents, this can keep you busy. Now to add on to the work my wife runs a family style daycare as our oldest daughters are in their mid 20’s with kids bolth 4 or younger with multiple babies and that means makeing sure the house is clean and kids ar occupied and up to date with doctors visits and enough social interaction to make the babies become good human beings. Now to have a hobbie or pastime is great but can be expensive so my past time is playing with my babies and trying to keep my house up to date, during these times and this era of time things are tuff and expensive and money is tight for us so we focus on the kids and not really fun time for us adults. The main thing i have been working on is trying to get extra cash so that is one reason as I was not posting but i will try and keep up and hopefully you enjoy the read of a my ranting. give me some thought on this i would love the input thank you.