Category Archives: Side Hustles

Common side hustles will often include work in the Gig Economy. These can be app-based services such as DoorDash, Uber, or GoPuff. Other options may be developing apps for Apple and Android devices, or creating eBooks and stationary to sell on Amazon. Further opportunities are available in closed-captioning work, AI prompt designer, completing surveys, playing games for cash, and In-Home Product Testing (iHUT).

Deals, Gaming

Swagbucks – myVEGAS Bingo

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Swagbucks Offer Terms: Have a Bingo party with your friends as you daub your way through the Las Vegas strip! Play free bingo and other casino games in real casinos like the MGM Grand and Bellagio! Unlock the Mirage Casino and reach Level 20 within 10 days to receive 2,000 SB*, and don’t forget to have fun while doing it.

  • 1. You Must install the app and reach the level to earn a reward.
  • 2. The award will pend for 14 days.
  • 3. Must be a new user of the app.

The key point with this offer is that it completes when you unlock the Mirage Casino at level 15. The offer may either be coded improperly or the offer terms are incorrect.

The offer is pretty straightforward though the time limit is short. A Reddit user had posted that it took 2.5 hours to complete the offer so I jumped in. I’m sitting at 9 hours played and still only at level 12. I get maybe 175-200 experience points per game while playing the 4-card bingo at the Excalibur location. That is 15% of the level-up bar on experience points. It will probably take a few days to complete the offer so long as the numbers don’t change.

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Reddit user MrCrxzy said: Easiest 20$ of my life! Took me about 2 and a half hours. Highly recommend! Also credited at level 15 instead of 20.

As you play, you will get Silver Tickets which can be used to play the Rapid Diamonds slot game. This will earn you Diamonds which can be used to buy Power Up cards. You won’t be able to win any games without power cards, so don’t bother trying to play without them. You also get diamonds for completing the Daily, Weekly, and Event Tasks. At level 10 you will be prompted to join a Club (Alliance/Guild) which will get you a few more diamonds each day by playing more bingo.

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Collections

I had the best return on tickets using the Double option on the Rapid Diamond Slots. You get rewards for completing Collections from Present tiles on the bingo board as you play rounds. Once you reach the 3rd star it unlocks the High Roller table for the Location you are playing at. I really don’t suggest doing the High Roller as it will wipe out your chips right away. Stay on the normal bingo and just play the 4-card game and use the 100 Diamonds option for power-up cards.

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Abra: Crypto Wallet and Exchange (Inactive)

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This offer is no longer active.

How to invest in Altcoins?

Abra has been around for a few years now, but recently, there has been an offer on Swagbucks to sign up. You can use Abra as a crypto wallet and also to swap USD for various cryptocurrencies.

The wallet supports interest payments on some of the coins, including CPRX. After making a $15 deposit, you will get a matching deposit of CPRX, and you can move it into the interest wallet right away.

Deals, Gaming

Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War

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Update 01/09/25: New Terms and competing offers from FreeCash and Swagbucks.

  1. FreeCash Terms
    1. Main Goals
    2. Daily Rewards
  2. Swagbucks Terms
    1. Offer Goals
  3. Game Strategy
    1. Gathering Resources vs Production at Island
    2. Monster Hunting
    3. Alliances
    4. VIP System

FreeCash Terms

This offer is available on FreeCash for $357 with a 90-Day time limit.

Main Goals

Meet the following milestones within the 90 day offer period to receive corresponding cash rewards.

Limited Reward: Reach Castle Level 26 in first 7 days to earn $87 prize.

RewardGoal
$0.00Install and open the game
$0.17Complete Castle Level 3
$0.43Complete Castle Level 5
$0.90Complete Castle Level 8
$1.73Complete Castle Level 12
$3.45Complete Castle Level 16
$6.97Complete Castle Level 20
$12.75Complete Castle Level 24
$30.75Complete Castle Level 27
$60.75Complete Castle Level 29
$130.50Complete Castle Level 31

Daily Rewards

Log in and play for each of the 90 days of this offer to receive the following cash rewards.

RewardGoal
$0.90Play on 15 Different Days
$2.63Play on 30 Different Days
$6.08Play on 60 Different Days
$12.75Play on 90 Different Days

Alternatively, the offer is available on Swagbucks at a reduced value and with restricted time limits.

Swagbucks Terms

Play Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War and complete Castle Level 30 to earn 5,215 SB! There is a 30-Day time limit for this offer.

  • Must be installing Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time to receive SB.
  • In-app purchases and upgrades are available.
  • BONUS REWARD – Complete Castle Level 25 Within 7 Days
  • Award will pend for 10 days

SB Offer Link: https://www.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1672713/pirates-of-the-caribbean?rb=69384823

Offer Goals

GoalReward
Install–
Complete Castle Level 5$0.10
Complete Castle Level 8$0.20
Complete Castle Level 13$0.35
Complete Castle Level 16$0.50
Complete Castle Level 18$1.00
Complete Castle Level 21$2.00
Complete Castle Level 23$4.00
BONUS REWARD: Complete Castle Level 25 within 7 Days.$10.00
Complete Castle Level 27$8.00
Complete Castle Level 29$10.00
Complete Castle Level 30$15.00
Make First Purchase$1.00

Game Strategy

The game runs top-down like similar games in the genre. Your town is located on a small island and you will use Ships to battle monsters, gather resources, and complete storyline missions.

Your ships will be crewed by pirates that you train at the Pub. You’ll need to make weapons for the pirates, and cannons for any ships you build as well as cannons for upgrades to your Gate (town wall).

You will be limited in the number of ships you can have in your harbor depending on the level of your Dock. Ships are built at the Shipyard and then launched into the port.

I wouldn’t suggest replacing your ships with higher-tier ones unless a mission objective requires it. You will get upgrade parchments later on that can be used with Gold to tier up your ships to Galleons.

Every day you can speed up any construction timer by 100 minutes, up to 10 times by watching a short 20-second advertisement.

You also get similar advertisement speedup options available when healing pirates, upgrading ships, crafting gear, and the Free Daily Rewards.

The daily rewards have 10 stages that will reward you with 100 Gold each on the first 9 and then 1,000 Gold on the last one for a total of 1,900 Gold each day.

Sink attacking ships at your Gate (Wall) to earn speed-up items

Gathering Resources vs Production at Island

The basic resources in the game are Food, Lumber, and Silver.

The silver mostly gets used to upgrade ships and gear until the later stages of the game.

I found gathering resources to be incredibly slow, the same can be said for Producing resources in your town. The skill boosts you get from leveling up barely make a difference in the speed.

If you look below, you can see that a level 10 Farm produces much more resources than the upgraded Lumber Mill and the Silver Mine.

Resource Production on the island

I would suggest only building Farms. You can build a single Lumber Mill and Silver Mine to complete the corresponding missions.

You can handle most of your early game Food needs this way and then you only need to focus on Gathering Lumber from islands. You should get plenty of Silver from mission rewards and Events.

When your power level sparkles tap on it to get chests with loot

Monster Hunting

The best way I found to get resources was by using the Monster Hunting function.

You can send out your ships to hunt critters or merchant ships and you will get good rewards when you win. Better yet, you can turn on the Hunting Streak which sets your ships on auto-pilot, they will keep hunting monsters of a set level until you either run out of Stamina or use Auto-mode.

Some Events run weekly and require you to hunt monsters using Tacticians of set Elements like Fire or Wind. I received a chest with 100,000 Gold from this Event.

I was able to skip a couple levels with all the Gold I got.

Use stamina refills whenever you utilize the Auto-Hunt function

Alliances

Alliance: Your guild or clan will be able to help with speed-ups and boosts to gathering within the territory of the alliance fortress.

You will also receive Chests every time someone completes various tasks in the game or buys something from the Store. It’s also good to keep plunderers away if you are in an active Alliance.

VIP System

VIP: You will start the game at VIP level 1.

At the basic level, you get a 5-minute free speed-up to complete buildings. At level 2, this speed increases to 7 minutes. It’s not particularly appealing.

A good thing though is that you will get all of the Gold rewards from the previous tier that were unclaimed. So about 3,000 Gold, which can be very useful in the early game for upgrading your Castle.

In addition, you will be able to use the “Claim All” function on Alliance chests so that you are not tapping forever claiming them.

To reach VIP 2, you will need to acquire 50 VIP Points.

When I first checked my VIP level it said I had 30 Points accrued, although I couldn’t remember how I got the first 30 points.

You will get 45 Gems as part of the Tutorial which can be spent on a Shop item that gets you 10 VIP points.

Theoretically, this would mean that you would only need to spend $1 on a basic pack in the Shop to level up your VIP ranking.

For just a dollar you can raise your VIP level and get 3,000 gold

Deals

Shutdown: Ugami Debit

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I had signed up for this offer through Swagbucks and not 5 days later they shutdown my account. They said there was suspicious activity and froze the account pending termination. I had just scheduled my first deposit the night before.

The offer terms were to open an account and deposit $10 to earn 1,600 SB.

They run sweepstakes and you can spin a wheel each day to earn Ugli Points which can be used to exchange for Raffle Entry’s. You will earn points by using the Debit card to make purchases as well as paying for streaming services and gaming related merchandise.

I think what did it was my posting of the link here on my blog, using bitly to shorten the link (which was terribly long), and perhaps posting the link to reddit. The bitly link only got 9 clicks through. I’m really disappointed since I thought the card was a great idea and i was looking forward to actually using it.

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Swagbucks: Q.AI Investing

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Q.AI Invest – 5,000 SB ($50)

The Q.AI offer is back and it has now increased from $30 to $50. You just need to Deposit $100 to earn the reward.

Q.ai helps you build wealth the way the pros do. Maximize your returns, invest in trends, and grow your money effortlessly with AI-powered investing. No fees and as little as $100 to get started. Install the app and complete your registration today! Once approved, connect your bank and fund your account with a minimum of $100 to earn 5,000 SB!

https://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=20511&rb=69384823
Link to Offer

There are a number of different ways to earn Swagbucks rewards or SB points that you can easily redeem for Amazon gift cards, PayPal, and other gift cards and great prizes. https://bit.ly/SwagbucksAce

InboxDollars is an online rewards club that pays members cash for their online and mobile activities. https://bit.ly/inboxdollarsace

MyPoints is an online shopping rewards program that, has helped its over 9 million members earn Points and cash-back shopping rewards for over two decades. https://bit.ly/mypointsace

Investing

Monthly Paying Stock Dividends

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Other than some speculation on Space and Green Technologies I primarily invest in Dividend stocks to make a living. I keep portfolio’s on Robinhood, Webull, Charles Schwab, Firstrade, Vanguard, Sofi, and Blockfi.

I have five portfolio’s with different mixes of stocks and a Vanguard account with a ROTH IRA and a regular IRA. I rolled my HSA and 401k from when I used to work into these two IRA accounts.

I primarily invest in REITs which are modeled after mutual funds. REITs pool the capital of numerous investors. This makes it possible for individual investors to earn dividends from real estate investments—without having to buy, manage, or finance any properties themselves.

For monthly dividends, the following are my picks:

  • Orchid Island Capital ($ORC) 19.33%
  • Credit Suisse X-Links Silver ($SLVO) 17.77%
  • Credit Suisse X-Links Oil ($USOI) 41.76%
  • Armour Residental ($ARR) 13.86%
  • Prospect Capital ($PSEC) 9.05%
  • Horizon Technology Finance ($HRZN) 8.17%

I also keep a portfolio that mimics the funds held in the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund. A bit of professional diversification in case my own picks fail.

Side Hustles

MyPoints: A Detailed Guide for New Users

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MyPoints is from the same parent company as Swagbucks and InboxDollars. The main difference I have found is the point values are lower than the other two platforms. You are allowed to have a single account with each platform.

You can earn Points in a bunch of ways. For example:
Shopping online, using the site as a starting point
Clicking on emails they send out on behalf of partners
Booking travel with the sites you already trust
Taking surveys
Playing online games

Welcome Bonus for new users: Spend $20 or more (excluding taxes, shipping & handling, and special processing fees) through the MyPoints.com website, the Score! browser extension or Bonus Mail emails in the first 30 days of membership to receive a $10 Bonus in your account. A $10 Bonus will be awarded in the form of Points deposited into your MyPoints account: $10 Bonus = 1,750 Points. Full terms of the offer here.

Here is my Referral link MyPoints, which will get you an extra bonus, or if you prefer, you can use this non-referral MyPoints link.

  1. Click, sign up, register, and verify your account via email.
  2. You will also be prompted to verify via text message when you redeem your points.
  3. Complete some initial demographic questions to build your survey profile.
  4. Make sure to complete the signup on the landing page before navigating away, or it won’t count.

Completing your To-Do list each day can earn 10 points plus a little more for each task you complete.

A. Vote in the Daily Poll
Weigh in on the daily poll and see what other MyPoint members think.

B. Magic Receipts
Add an In-Store Deal to your shopping list.

C. Deal of the Day
Get Free Shipping On $85+ Order Earn 8 Points Per Dollar

D. Complete a Watch Activity
Earn 2 points while being entertained and informed.

E. Earn Points from Discover
Over 50,000 Points are waiting for you with MyPoints Deals.

F. Attempt A Survey
Earn up to 5 points for attempting a survey, even if you don’t qualify, up to 5 times a day.

G. Complete a Survey
Provide your opinions to partners and earn Points for completing a survey.

H.
Meet Your Daily Goal
Meet your personalized Daily Goal every day to earn 10 additional Bonus Points.

There are many other ways you can earn points that can be redeemed for gift cards.

  1. Shop: With the In-Store shopping, when you shop at participating local stores and pay with your eligible linked card, you will automatically earn points on qualifying purchases. You can also add items to your shopping list and then, after purchasing in-store, submit your receipts to get points for the corresponding items.
  2. Deals: On the top menu of the site, there is a Deals tab, and you can view Deals by category. You can search by category, including electronics, Health and Wellness, Home, Sports and Leisure, and Toys and Hobbies.
  3. Coupons: Earn 25 Points for each coupon you redeem at your local grocery store. Plus, earn 1 Point per coupon printed. A maximum of 500 coupon prints per month are eligible for Points, but there is no limit on the 25 Points per redemption. Points for the coupon print activity will be posted the next business day.
  4. Surveys: You can earn up to 5 points for attempting a survey. The surveys are sorted by Estimated time to complete, and they list the number of points you can earn if you qualify.
  5. Watch: Once you start the playlist, it will auto-play until completion or until paused by the user. You must complete this playlist to receive the points. It’s usually 5-10 videos.
    Videos are only available on the site via desktop or laptop, but you can earn additional Points for watching videos on your smartphone or tablet with the MyPoints TV app. Available in iOS and Android.
  6. Games: You can play “Cash” games that require a deposit and earn rewards. Cash Competitions is operated by WorldWinner.com. WorldWinner Rewards Points are different from the Points earned in the MyPoints program and may not be used for MyPoints rewards.
  7. Travel: You can use the MyPoints portal and links to book flights and hotel stays and earn points for the bookings. There are travel offers and travel deals available regularly.
  8. More: Some other options are the 7-Day Challenge, Search and Earn: using MyPoints as your default search engine will give you a chance at earning more points, and the Score! The browser extension will pop up offers and deals when visiting sites with a corresponding offer.

Side Hustles

Free Cash

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Free Cash is another Get Paid To (GPT) site similar to Swagbucks, InboxDollars, and MyPoints. It uses many of the same offer walls available on the other platforms. The main difference is that the point values are different. At FreeCash 1,000 “coins” are equal to $1.

At Swagbucks 100 SB is $1. So, for instance, the welcome bonus of 100 coins is actually a small $0.10 reward; you get an additional 150 coins for installing the mobile app.

You will get a 100-coin bonus for signing up using the referral link. Remember to also download the app, log in, and go to the Reward page to claim your 150 coin bonus.

It may take up to 24 hours to get the app bonus. Anyone who signs up using your referral code will get 100 coins, plus you will earn 5% of any points they earn using the service.

Investing

Investing Update for 2022

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Hello everyone, I am Kasanje-카산제.

I just wanted to give an update on my current portfolios and generally where I am with my varied investments. Gains and Losses and how I am planning on investing in this new year of the black tiger.

First, though, I should offer some background information for context. I am currently living essentially rent-free in a family home owned by a relative.

I try to live simply and keep my expenses low. I resigned from my retail job of 11+ years in 2020 and have been unemployed since.

I decided to go back to college last year and am currently enrolled full-time at a local community college.

The FAFSA, plus other financial aid, more than covered my tuition needs and left me with a sizeable chunk of change left over.

I know it has been some time since I last posted anything about , but I had some good news today, so I will get right into it.

Webull

I use five different brokerage apps to manage my portfolios.

On Webull, I have all of my speculative stocks, including picks from Green Energy, Hotels, Space, IPOs, Electric Cars, and DOGE/SHIB.

This account started out with around $3,000 back in 2019, and currently, it sits at a value of $1,884.

It was mostly downhill until COVID-19 hit, and then I started to crawl my way back up.

Still, though I am looking at everything I hold being RED.

On Sofi, I have two dividend-paying stocks: Credit Suisse Silver (SLVO) and Orchid Island (ORC).

The rest of the portfolio includes SPACs that I thought had potential and a few Meme stocks, including Genius Brands International (GNUS) and Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT).

I’ve had the account since July 2019 and am down 42% unfortunately. Last year, I liquidated my HSA account from work and tossed the lot into Sofi, which put me at around $25k account value.

That number has dropped, and I now sit around $15k, which has been somewhat painful. I have earned around $1,990 in dividends, though.

My Charles Schwab brokerage includes funding from a home business mining the cryptocurrency Litecoin (LTC).

Sadly, I had to stop mining in 2020 and eventually shut down in 2021. I have an SBA loan from disaster relief financing that I am currently paying off using the dividends from Schwab. (Schwab won’t let you take screenshots as a security precaution.)

I have an account with Firstrade, which holds all of my OTC market stock.

I have small investments in ClickStream (CLIS), Farmmi (FAMI), Hyper Solar (HYSR), Envirotech Vehicles (EVTV), and Unrivaled Brands (UNRV).

These are all long-term plays, and I don’t check in on them all that often.

The last one is Robinhood.

I had some Green Energy stocks and Cannabis stuff in here for a long time, and they really didn’t fare well.

I also did crypto for a bit and failed. It is very RED in this portfolio. I think back in November 2021, I heard about Renaissance Technologies and the dividend stocks that were included in their portfolio.

That got me inspired, and I made a Watchlist on Webull that included all of those stocks.

I have started closing my GREEN positions at Robinhood and moving the funds into the Renaissance Dividend list.

Robinhood started with $1,935 in 2017 and is currently UP 3.32%, but used to be much higher.

For my future plans around investing, I recently threw the bulk of my Schwab cash into Retail Value (RVI), which is paying out a special dividend tomorrow of $3.27 per share.

I was able to buy 780 shares and am expecting a return of $2,550.50 from that, which should be enough to clear the SBA loan in full.

I will continue to chase dividends with the Schwab account. I have also been playing around with new YouTube and Instagram accounts to explore other topics I am interested in.

The Game Girls Gallery is one of the more popular pages that gets a lot of traffic, and so I made YouTube/Instagram pages for it.

If you are not already a member of Swagbucks, MyPoints, or InboxDollars, I strongly suggest you sign up. These sites are a great source of extra income for spontaneous purchases.

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Adgem, False Positive VPN Detection

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I recently got a nice offer in my Swagbucks mail for “Plague of Z” which is an Evony reskin made to look like State of Survival. The offer is for 3,360 SB, and to get/craft a Gold Gear (equipment) with 4 attribute slots in 30 days.

Evony has the exact same offer terms for getting a gold gear. Really shouldn’t be hard. Problem is I can’t download the game. All the AdGem redirects lead me to a page saying that they detected a VPN/Proxy, which of course I don’t have. Trying to access the offer wall returned a “api.adgem.com refused to connect” message.

After asking around on Reddit the general response was, that I have been banned. Trying to access using just Cellular data was a no go, same message.

My last successful offer completion with AdGem was 2 weeks ago when I finished Kingdoms of Heckfire. I had no issues with the offer and it credited right away without any messy ticket submissions. If it sticks, this will painfully cut into my earnings potential going forward.

I sent email to AdGem with a general support request, but I am not hopeful at this point.

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