About Me

Patrick

46 year old,single male in Ohio. I'm "the toyguy" because I work in the toy dept. of a large retail store.

2009 Goals:
- Pay myself back $344 for muffler repairs on my car from December of 08.
- Add $400 to my E-Fund
- Hold off as much as possible on my smaller "funds" and goals till first 2 goals are done.
X- Continue saving for a total of $4000 for 2009 IRA.
- Start saving for total of $3000 for 2010 IRA.
- Have my first ever yard sale when the weather starts getting nice this spring.
- Try to take a real vacation around July or August possibly to Costa Rica.
- Pay at least $100 extra per month to Mortgage principal. I plan to pay off my mortgage completely before the 20 year mark which is about 3 years from now.

2008 Goals:
- Continue using Quicken to keep my checking and other accounts in order.
- Save at least an additional $400 into my
E-Fund (DONE) which currently has $1,200 in it. My overall goal for E-Fund is $12,000.
- Slowly work on building up a car fund. (VERY SLOWLY)
- Save enough into Travel Fund to take a good vacation in October. (Saved enough money but cannot travel this year)
Save $4000 for 2009 IRA contribution.
- Continue my "Paper (clutter) Challenge"
- More to come as I think it over.

anyone want to sign up for pinecone?

December 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

Pinecone sent me a link cause they need more membrs. Probably a lot of people have left them since they don't pay as much as they used to. It says only one person per hoousehold can sign up.

http://www.pineconeresearch.com/signup/ds530Referral1.asp

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8 Responses to “anyone want to sign up for pinecone?”

kdmoffett25 Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 05:20 am

Thanks I was hoping one day someone would put a referral link.
jillybean Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 06:08 am

Thanks---I've thought about joining them for awhile.
toyguy1963 Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 09:26 am

You are welcome. Glad I could help.
Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 10:14 am

No thank you. I did Pinecone while they were paying $5 per survey, and stayed with it while they gave a choice to take $3 per survey or be entered into a lottery. But the surveys they sent me shortly dropped off to zero, as they really wanted to push people into taking the surveys for a chance to win instead of for payment.

After they got "mean" about paying the $3, I filled out their household surveys over and over and over (those are not paid) without getting any further paid surveys sent to me.

Once, I had trouble with a paid survey and could not complete it. It was a tech problem. I communicated with Pinecone and started the survey over three times, communicating with them each time about the problem, for a total of four attempts that were all thwarted close to the end of the survey. Since I never was able to complete it, they did not pay me. I had spent a lot of time on their survey, not to be paid.
cptacek Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 08:06 pm

I quit when they changed to $3 and a chance to win as well.
toyguy1963 Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 09:08 pm

I can relate that they aren't as good as they used to be. I used to get good surveys that paid $5 each time and often got free samples to try stuff. Now I get a lot more of the non- paying household surveys and when I get paid its only $3. But aside from that I've had
a good relationship with Pinecone.
crazyliblady Says:
December 13th, 2008 at 05:44 pm

Thanks for the referral. I don't know how much money it will net me, but that's okay. I do a lot of surveys and it's actually kind of interesting and fun. Any money I get is just gravey.
toyguy1963 Says:
December 13th, 2008 at 09:16 pm

Your welcome crazyliblady. You have the right attitude about the extra money being just gravy. Some of them are fun.

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anyone want to sign up for pinecone?

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