Another Downside of Surveys

Aaaahhhh!!!

*take a deep breath*

Yeah, doing surveys online makes a tad of money, but good grief!  I have soooo much stuff now coming into my inbox that there are mornings (like today) where I just don't know where to start!

So I start by taking a deep breath and then drinking my coffee while reading my family's latest goings-on on Facebook.  Then I look for all my personal emails to read and respond to,  along the way deleting what is clearly not even worth opening.  These are the ones that don't even pay me to open them, but somehow I got signed up for them in the process of doing some of the surveys (yes, that's one of the downsides of doing surveys, like somehow getting signed up for newsletters for things that have nothing to do with me -- like arthritis or dementia.  Maybe because I'm "old" that they assume I need this stuff????  lol).

Then I go through all the emails that pay me for reading them (something like a penny to 5 cents just to open them).  But these, I found out (like Panda and Inbox Dollars) generate more emails -- which, although when trying to clean out my inbox makes it irritating, I have to keep in mind that it's one more penny or nickel that has just come my way.  These, by the way, look like they're going to take forever to build up to the cash-out level... :(

Then I've got all those emails for "make $4500 a month in your pajamas" type of emails.  Okay, I confess...  I actually keep some of these "just in case".  I have no clue whether any of them work or not, but I'm on the side that they're just scams.  Some day I just may plop down $50 to see if one of them do work.  If they do, you'd better believe I'll be back here reporting on it!

Then I get down to the surveys.  Since I'm writing on my blog, I obviously haven't started my surveys yet this morning.  It seems I ended up signing myself up for even more surveys yesterday from doing surveys yesterday.  Sometimes that happens.  It's like a snowball effect -- sign up for one, and you end up signing up for five more.

What I do when I'm ready to start my surveys is to go through my printed list of surveys (yes, I have a printed list similar to the one in my last post) and first do the ones that I get paid for in cash -- especially the ones that go to my PayPal account.  Those may take me the entire day, by the way.  It's like I start one, either am disqualified or actually get to finish and get paid for it, and that survey company then has others ready for me.  So I can actually be on one survey site for several hours.  And sometimes I only end up making 75 cents!  lol  ...oh, well...

At least it's SOMEthing.  I'm currently unemployed with a gazillion job aps out there and no bites.  boo-hoo.  'Course, $20 isn't even paying my cell phone bill, which I upgraded to an actual plan.  sheesh  But it does look like it's going to be change every now and then.

Back to doing surveys...