{"id":47251,"date":"2020-09-08T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47251"},"modified":"2020-09-08T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:29:35","slug":"blet-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47251","title":{"rendered":"Blet Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the last two months, whenever I\u2019ve had any downtime, I\u2019ve been doing online surveys for mostly pocket change.\u00a0 Jokingly, I declared that all of the piddly change I\u2019d make would eventually feed into a larger pot, and that the goal would be to get enough money to where I could get myself a new replica wrestling belt for my collection, and hopefully by then, the WWE Shop will get their heads out of their asses and release an NXT UK Tag Team Championship<\/a> replica.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, as you can see above, I\u2019ve done quite a lot of surveys, and the pot has filled up way faster than I would have ever imagined, and I\u2019ve more or less got enough money socked away to where I could be ready to pull the trigger most any available belt out there.\u00a0 Shocking nobody, the WWE has still yet to release the one belt that I really want, but I\u2019m hoping that perhaps the re-launching of NXT UK in mid-September might jog someone\u2019s memory that there\u2019s still an active belt out there that still has no replica available.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funny thing is that a long time ago, I used to do random surveys on pen and paper, when companies would send them to me, with pre-paid postage envelopes, which made it easier.\u00a0 I remember the first time I got actual currency in an envelope, which inspired me to keep going with it for a little bit longer.\u00a0 Jen on the other hand, got a free pack of toilet paper to sample and judge, which was always funny since I was getting cash for doing surveys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, it was mythical wife who introduced me to 1Q<\/a> (yes that is my referral link<\/em>), as an app that provided digital surveys, and the payouts were immediate and through PayPal.\u00a0 Sure, they were only quarters, but still, a bunch of quarters turns into a bunch of dollars over time, and every little bit helps, when there\u2019s one pot all this change is getting dumped into.<\/span><\/p>\n

I say ironically, because this clearly re-ignited this compulsion to do surveys for pocket change, because it lets me at least be making something, in my downtime, as opposed to making nothing when I\u2019m bored and doing nothing, although that\u2019s hardly the case this day and age, seeing as how there\u2019s a baby in the equation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then one of my friends introduced me to Qmee<\/a> (yes that\u2019s another referral link<\/em>), another app where users do random surveys and get paid basically change.\u00a0 But the difference with Qmee was that I could keep doing surveys as long as they were available, and it wasn\u2019t like 1Q where I had to wait on the beck and call for them for one to pop up, and I\u2019d have like five minutes to do it before it got enough responses and closed.\u00a0 Sure, the vast majority of Qmee surveys are horseshit, take way longer sometimes, and the decline rate is pretty high, but with enough tenacity and determination, it was wholly possible to make surprising amounts of side scratch on the app.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest thing to me is that I have a pretty extensive background in marketing throughout my career, so that would ordinarily disqualify me from the vast majority of survey taking.\u00a0 So, because I sure as fuck am not going to give away too much personal identification for coins, I\u2019ve kind of created this survey-taking persona, where I\u2019m an IT director, who\u2019s child is whatever age it needs to be in order not get disqualified from the survey.<\/span><\/p>\n

And whenever I have some down time, or a free hand where I\u2019m feeding baby in the other, I\u2019m basically doing surveys.\u00a0 General topics, finance, entertainment, you name it, I\u2019ve got opinions.\u00a0 Ironically, doing some of these surveys has made me feel compelled to try all sorts of things I hadn\u2019t tried before, like hard seltzers, and it turns out that I kind of like White Claws, as obnoxiously popular they\u2019d become over the last two years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Every time I hit $17, I cash out, so that I can make the all-important 17 dollars meme<\/a> reference, and the friend that referred me, is probably sick to death of all the times I\u2019d send him the picture, because I\u2019ve blown past him in terms of gross earning.<\/span><\/p>\n

But anyway, as bullshit as online survey taking for pocket change might seem, for those with tenacity and the innate ability to do monotonous button pushing over and over again, I can vouch that the shit actually can pay out some substantial coin, for those willing to put forth the effort in doing so.\u00a0 Nobody\u2019s paying me to write any of this, it\u2019s mostly just an interesting topic and opportunity to humblebrag over the fact that I\u2019ve made over $400 in mindless survey taking, and that the next belt I get, will basically be completely paid for by doing such.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019ll unofficially be the World Championship of internet survey taking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last two months, whenever I\u2019ve had any downtime, I\u2019ve been doing online surveys for mostly pocket change.\u00a0 Jokingly, I declared that all of the piddly change I\u2019d make would eventually feed into a larger pot, and that the goal would be to get enough money to where I could get myself a new … Continue reading Blet Money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,79,192,52,25],"class_list":["post-47251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-cashmoney","tag-kids","tag-owned","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47254,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47251\/revisions\/47254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}