Angie – Page 974 – Luv Saving Money

Wanna become a ChaCha guide?

I’ve been working as a ChaCha guide from home for about a year and a half now. I tried it out while on maternity leave from work. I thought it might be a good way to supplement my income. After my 3rd child I went from working full-time outside the home to part-time.

ChaCha is a question answering service. People text or call in questions and you help answer them. This is not a good choice for you if you are easily offended though. You’ll get everyday questions like: What’s the state capital of Minnesota, What’s 554-35 equal?, what’s the boiling point of water?. Then you get crazy questions like: How many teaspoons of sugar would it take to reach the moon? (seriously I got that question once). Then you get rather offensive or colorful questions. I won’t bother to post them here.

There are several guide positions: Transcribers that take the phone and text questions sent in and transcibe them for the next guide that would be the Expediters. I’m actually an Expediter. They have a history of answer from the same or similar question that have been answered. There are a lot of resources to help you answer questions. I try to answer with a provided answer. If it is a question that requires some research or an appropriate quick answer is not available for me I sent it off to either a Generalist or Specialist. These guys do the work of researching and sending an answer.

You can work as little or as much as you want. You can choose to get paid per question OR use a points system where you are in a pool. I can explain that more to you if you are seriously considering.

I only maybe work ChaCha about 10 hours a week. Generally after the kids go to bed or while the baby naps if I feel like it. You are not required to work daily. You make your own hours. In fact, I hadn’t done it myself for several months then got back into it.

ChaCha is having a guide referral contest this month. If you’d like to join go to:
http://becomeaguide.chacha.com please use my email as the person who referred you:

angiewith3 at live dot com (use the @ and . when putting in referral field. I wrote it this way here to cut down on spammers emailing me)

Not only will I get credit for referring you but you’ll be placed on my team so I can help you if you have questions or need guidance.

Also please feel free to email me if you have further questions on becoming a guide.

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Some Christmas Nostalgia shows

My dad loves these. He grew up with them. I like seeing them too. Just thought I’d share with you.

Hard Rock, Coco, and Joe “The three little dwarves”

Suzy Snowflake

Frosty the Snowman

Hope you enjoy them. Found them on Youtube.

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Some low or no cost ways to donate to charity

I try to donate to charities throughout the year. Each person has their own favorites that are near and dear to their hearts. While others just really strike a chord, and compel you to give. I think a lot of people have tendency to want to do more around the holidays. Sometimes some of us are in a tight spot ourselves and wish we could do more.

There are lots of ways to donate to charity and causes for little or no cost. Or by doing things you already do. Here are some examples:

1. One of my favorite charities to donate to during the holidays is Toys for Tots. One way you can give without really spending extra money is through mycokerewards.com. If you collect coke points on mycokerewards.com you can choose to donate some of your coke points to toys for tots. Anywhere from 1 point to all of your points if you wish.

2. Yoplait lids. Around September yoplait has the pink lid campaign. Send in your pink lids for breast cancer research.

3. If you visit one of these sites: www.thebreastcancersite.com you can click on a pink button on the top of their page daily to help fund free mammograms. Also there are other tabs on the site for www.thechildhealthsite.com, www.theanimalrescuesite.com, www.theliteracysite.com, www.therainforestsite.com, and www.thehungersite.com. All of these have different goals for what they do when they raise money with your clicks. All of these can be done daily. Also, if shop through their site a percent of the sale goes to the charity of the site you are shopping on.

4. Donating items to women’s shelters. I know each year, especially around the holidays, they place an ad in the paper asking for donations of clothing, toiletries, beauty products, alarm clocks, diapers, toys, and lot of other stuff to the local women’s shelter. How many of us have clothes we don’t fit into anymore, samples of body products we get in the mail, giveaway prizes, etc that we can donate.

5. Other ideas could be something as simple as shoveling an elderly or disabled neighbors sidewalk, volunteering time, and as bloggers placing an add for a charity, fundraiser, or cause on our site free of charge or doing a blog post about it.

This is only a couple ways. I’d love to hear some of your ideas or some of your favorite charities to donate to.

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Python Printable Games–Christmas pack

Two years ago I was picked to help with my son’s Christmas party at school. I was very excited. I had made pin-the-nose on Rudolph. While it worked I would have like to have had some more different games.

Python Printable Games offer printable games like crosswords, word searches, trivia, matching games and more for your holiday parties, classroom parties, or whatever. I also like the paper dolls that were super cute!

I was given the opportunity to try the Christmas Printables game pack. One of the games I found the most different and interesting was the “No!”-El Weird Phobias Game. It was a matching game for holiday phobias.

There was a list of phobias down the left side and your guest would draw a line to a list of description in the Right column.

Do you know what holiday fears: Aeroacrophobia, Leukophobia, or Philemaphobia are? You will after you play the game. The cool part is all games come with a master answer key.

Another fun game i enjoyed was the “Charlie Brown Christmas Trivia” with questions about the classic Charlie Brown Christmas show and multiple choice answers. Here is an example of one of the questions:

In what year was “A Charlie Brown Christmas” released?

There are 70 games in the Printable Christmas Games pack. The Christmas Game pack is $19.95 for all the games. Print as many as you like. Instantly delivered to your email so you can have it in time for your child’s Holiday party at school, your own holiday party, a fun holiday break at work, or whatever else you can think of.

Included in this pack is also some New Year’s games like: New Year’s trivia, New Year’s mad libs and more.

I think this is a great value. If you consider buying things to make games, the time it takes to put together a game, or buying puzzle books this definitely beats the alternatives.

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ReBinder Office Products Review and Giveaway 12/28 US/CAN–CLOSED

Original winner did not respond to winning email. (I allowed 72 hrs given the holiday) So a new winner has been chosen and emailed. Random.org drew number 31 Mommy D.

I’ve mentioned a number of times how I’m making a conscious effort to live greener. As I’ve been learning and exploring more in the “green” world, I’m amazed at what some companies ARE actually doing to help our environment.

ReBinder Office Products is one of these eco-conscious companies. ReBinder Office Products makes all kinds of green office products from recycled binders, to ReBadge which is a reusable name badge, to ReWrite mini which is a 5″ X 8″ lined recycled notepad, and many more items.

ReBinder is the only ZERO waste office supply manufacturer.

I received a kit with samples of:

RePocket: Our two pocket folder is ideal for presentations, media and press kits or back to school. RePockets are thicker and more rigid than traditional folders. Made from 100% Recycled 20 point FSC Certified bending chipboard.

1″ ReBinder

RePouch

ReTab

1.5″ ReBinder

ReSleeve

RePlay

ReBadge

ReWrite mini

ReBound

One of the things I was most impressed with as far as the individual products was the ReBadge. I have my own pic here because you don’t really see it too well in the press photo above:

It looks like a name badge. It also looks and feels like a plastic cover. Plastic cover? Wait a minute I thought this was supposed to be eco-friendly. Well, it is. Very much so actually. The “plastic”-like material is actually a clear Poly Lactic Acid that is made from plants. Pretty cool huh?

So if you’re looking for new three ring binders for your business, school or organization and wanting to make the effort to work greener. You should try them out.

Maybe you’re looking to green up your cd collection by using Rebinder’s cd sleeves made from 100% recycled chip board.

Perhaps you want a bunch of environmentally friendly pocket folders for your classroom or your own home office organization, they have those too.

It’s kind of scary when you read some of the numbers of what actually goes into our landfills. What we, as consumers are throwing out on a daily basis. Every little bit helps. Visit http://www.rebinder.com/ to see all the green product ReBinder offers.

GIVEAWAY

ReBinder is offering one of my readers some of their own green office supplies. US/CAN

Mandatory Entry: Follow ReBinder on twitter and leave a comment with your twitter id.

(Don’t forget to leave your email so I can contact you if you win.)

Bonus Entries: Please leave a separate comment for each entry.

1. Visit http://www.rebinder.com/ and tell me in a comment 1 product you’d be interested to try. (+1)

2. Follow FFCM with GFC, RSS feed, Email subscription, and/or Networked Blogs. (+1 for each one completed. Please leave a separate comment for each one)

3. Follow me on twitter as @LuvSavingMoney and leave a comment with our twitter id. (+1)

4. Tweet this giveaway using the RT button in the upper Left corner of this post or use this message:

” I want to make my workspace greener with @ReBinder #giveaway on http://bit.ly/dDXqxs @angiewith3 12/28 US/CAN “

Can tweet 2 X per day at least 2 hours apart. (+1 for each tweet)

5. Like FFCM on facebook. (+1)

6. Visit this link and tell me one company that uses ReBinder Office Products: http://www.rebinder.com/customers (+1)

7. Enter any of my other current giveaways and leave a comment telling me which one(s) (+1 for each one entered)

***Giveaway will end 12/28 at 10 PM EST. Open to US and Canada. 1 winner will be chosen using random.org. Winner will be emailed and have 48 hours to reply to winning email. If no reply within 48 hrs, a new winner will be chosen.***