Free Money: Part 1

Free Money: Part 1
By Wilma Ann Anderson

Okay, let’s get straight to the good stuff ‘cause I know you don’t want to hear a lot of fluff…especially since I’ve said the magic word—FREE.

They say you’ve got to spend money to make money. Well, if time equals money, I suppose they are correct. WAIT! Not a lot of time. Sometimes it’s just seconds a day. Here’s one way I have been bringing in extra money into my household for the last 7 years.

MyPoints.com
Do this; go to the website by clicking here. Sign up and during registration say “mahoganybaby” referred you (you don’t need to type the quotation marks). Indicate that you are willing to receive every type of offer in your e-mail box. Also check off that you are willing to receive offers by mail. You won’t get a lot of snail mail offers (I've actually never received any), but you will get a lot of e-mail offers and that’s EXACTLY what you want.

All you do is “click here” on the e-mail to click through to the advertiser’s website. In all cases you will earn at least 5 points towards gift cards to a slew of major retailers. Now I know you may not be interested in reading a lot of e-mail. That’s just it—you don’t have to read anything you don’t want to. Some pretty good offers for free magazines and trial products have come my way, though. I have even received a free color printer. But all you need to do is click for your points and move on if you want to. Just click to get your points and before you know it, you’ll have enough points to cash in for gift cards.

The list goes on. It doesn’t take 7 years to earn enough points—that’s just how long I’ve been racking up.

The key is “just click.” Don’t watch your MyPoints pot constantly; it’ll never seem to boil. "Just click" and move on with your day. Before you know it, you’ll earn $5, $10, $25 and $50 gift cards to buy things for which you would have paid cash. Why spend the cash you could use for your savings, bills, investments or vacations when you can use gift cards? "JUST CLICK" and get gift cards for diapers, electronics, day spas…the sky is the limit!

Go to www.MyPoints.com right now and support Mahogany Baby by telling ‘em “mahoganybaby” referred you! "JUST CLICK!”

Join me next issue for part two of this “Free Money” series and we’ll talk about how to get paid $75-$250 for giving your opinions in focus groups. No kidding. No lie. I'm going to one today.

Wilma Ann Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief and Cofounder of Mahogany Baby. She's also an accomplished singer, and works as a model and film executive. This mother of four has freelanced for ESSENCE and Working Mother magazines, enjoys crafting, and is based in New Jersey.