Hello world! I just realized that I made over $2000 last year from what I already do. $2k sounds like a small number, but when you actually look at it, it's a pretty big number.

Alright, lets get to business. I have 6 easy ways to earn money and I'll share them from easiest to most complicated.

1. This new one: Milesup app
-get points for driving.
-I already made $25

2. Use Ebates
-Shop online through the ebates link.
-You can shop in your cart
-But I always like to do a final click
-There are some stores that offer in store cashback too

Call it God, call it Allah, call it Jesus. This quote is so true, so that means I am an Einsteiner. I truly believe there's a higher power out there. I do believe in science ... and supernatural at the same time, even though it's complete opposites. Today, I'm going to share my experiences of "seeing (is believing)" this. I'm not a Christian, but I'll still make some references from there; at the end of the day, it's just words ... that the Christians were given credit/reference to.

1. Today, 1/13/17, I've been so stressed out about new duties at work; accounting! I don't have any background in it at all. Well, I was a bank teller, but that's just basic cashier duties - at the bank. I was so stressed out to the point that I wanted to quit because I was doing (and will be held accountable for) something I didn't know. (It's fricken accounting! Even real accountants have issues with accounting, that means I am at level -1 million). Anyway, I had to gather some reports for the training. I messed up on saving the files, and in accounting, shit needs to match up, especially numbers. Anyway, I was just like, "#### IT! This is what I've got to give them." So on 'training day' (LOL! - starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke), we opened these files. I had lost hope and felt like a POS when the first 2 files' names didn't match. This meant I had to look at all the files again and rename them, so it can be matched nicely. Then the following files, it magically worked out. For example, CHECK FILE - 12 and LIABILITY - 2 went together.

Scientifically, I happened to mistakenly name some files. But it was just too much of a coicidence. I had been stressed out about this, and the Almighty showed me that it will help me.

(My cropped and exaggerated version of the story) A photographer was invited to eat dinner and take photos of food with top of the line chefs of all time. She got ready for the day and attended the event. She sat at the dinner table and the chefs go, "You don't really take great photos. It's just your lens that does the work." Offended, the photographer felt. She wanted to blast them, but she just sat there and listened. When the food came out, she ate it and said, "You don't really cook good food. It's just your oven." She left the dinner feeling victorious. 

You decide what the moral of the story is.

I have always underestimated my photographer skills (because I'm just gifted to be naturally talented :D teehee, jk!) until this weekend's photo session with my family. When all the photos uploaded, you could tell who took which photos. I'm not putting down anyone, but it was just a really funny observation. I can say I took some good ones, and some of them admit to taking bad ones too, lol (life rule: don't be good at something you don't wanna do :D). Unfortunately, the one who didn't have the best results was the photographer, Pang Khang.

"Before you can start something, you have to have an idea of what you want."

Work: I picked up some weekend gigs this month and added 9 hrs during my full-time job M-F. It was really tiring, but the paychecks are rewarding and I was able to contribute $1k toward my student loans. Gigs I picked up from Craigslist were giving out samples at Wal-Mart ($18/hr+ mileage), Beer Samples ($20/hr+ mileage -traveled to Appleton & Milwaukee), holding a sign at a college game because it was going on ESPN ($22), "model" for $50, ask people to take surveys ($20/hr + mileage), and putting together a resume + cover letter for $50. The major key to making money is from mileage. Find jobs that needs you to go far and will pay you by the mileage too.

Student loans: If I can find ways to make an extra $1k/month, I can really reach my deadline of 09-24-18, 23 more months. My life isn't over if I don't pay it off by that time, but not only is it good to have goals, it's a real obstacle I can't wait to get rid of. This is my motivation from my last entry

I mean, I'm just really thinking ahead as a future mother. I don't want student loans to be my motivation to work and also be stuck at work. I love family and I want to be able to work part-time so I have time for my children; so my income goes to them and not loans

I paid off loan 01-12, which was borrowed at $815 + and idek how to calculate the interest I've paid.

And also loan 1-01 $1,434.08

This is the student loan I paid off today. End date goal of 09-24-18. The other day I paid off my first one, but the payoff amount to pay online didn't allow an over payemnt, so I just paid what it said that day (check photo below with green words). 2 days later, a small balance showed up. FUCK YOU NAVIENT! So I called and I'm like, "YOUR SYSTEM IS SHITTY. IT'S FALSE AS FUCK. FUCKEN TELL ME I OWE $1.18 AND DON'T ADD THE DAYS INTEREST WILL OCCUR, AND THEN FUCKEN BLAME ME FOR IT? FUCK YOU."

^Yas. Yea. Yes. That's a real request on Craigslist. I've gotten so many random jobs and gigs from Craigslist. It's amazing what people post up their needs and it's even more amazing that complete strangers meet up to work with each other.

If you don't know what Craigslist (CL) is, you are missing out on the web community. It's basically a place where people post up everything from selling, buying, jobs, car and house for sale/rent, and so much more. I first heard about CL when I was a senior in high school. My supervisor asked if we needed furniture for college, and I said maybe. She said to confirm with her or else whoever saw it on CL would buy it. Then it lead to me being me, which is asking 10 million questions: what is it? is is real? Do people really respond? Can you really sell things? I went home that night to check it out. I didn't utilize it that much at the time because I was an unambitious teenager. Then a movie about a CL killer came out too, but that wasn't a factor to my use of it.

The last time I posted about my finances, more than 300 readers tuned in! Thank you. I enjoy reading about how people make their decisions and also writing about my own.

It's already the 2/3 of September and I am happy to announce that I paid off my Paypal balance of $400 and $450 on my Sears card. The more blogs I read about paying off debt and using the snowball method, the more I disciplined myself to do it. My favorite blog I came across this month was the Millennial-Revolution, which also lead to this amazing one. Just check it out!