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About Me:

Patrick

Single male in Ohio born in 1963. I'm "the toyguy" because I work in the toy dept. of a large retail store.

2011 Goals:

- Pay myself back into my savings account the money that I used to pay off my mortgage.
- Put $3000 into a Traditional IRA again.
- Put $1000 into a Roth IRA.
- Add at least $2000 to my Antarctica fund.
- Add $400 to Emergency Fund (At end of 2010 I have $2526 in this fund)
- Put at least some money into my car fund. I have a car fund created at ING with about $25 in it but need to start saving for a future car purchase.
- Go to Scotland for a week in May for a ghost tour and stay a few days in New York city.
- Might have to have another expensive roof repair. Last year or so I had to have half the roof done and was very satisfied. But I think I have to have the rest of the roof done now.
- Take a short trip to New Orleans for Halloween.

2010 Goals:

X- Pay myself back for latest car repair (rear breaks)
X- Add $400 to my E-Fund
(Added $410)
X- Continue putting whatever money I can into IRA fund for 2010 and 2011.
X- Put $3000 into IRA for 2010
X- Have income taxes done before end of March
X- Continue paying at least $100 extra on Principal of my mortgage each month
X- Continue putting whatever extra I can afford into my Travel Fund
X- Have to call Tours of Terror to make arrangements for Ghost Tour in Scotland for next year.
X- Try to take a trip to west Virginia in Spring or early summer.
- Take a short trip to Phoenix Arizona if I can get very low cost tickets. (FAILED. Couldn't get cheap enough airfare)
X- Figure out exactly when I can pay off the rest of my mortgage. It might be this year or the end of next year.

"Lofty" 2010 Goals:

X- Pay off my house completely by November. This one is not so lofty cause I will be paying it off sometime regardless. November will be the absolute earliest though.
(Paid off end of October)
X- Start an Antarctica Fund and save at least $1000 in it. I want to go there someday but its very expensive and my Travel Fund alone will never be able to handle it. (Put in $1200)
- Put at least an extra $1000 into my 2010 IRA than stated above but put it into a Roth instead of a Traditional.
(Failed. Never got around to this one)

2009 Goals:
X- Pay myself back $344 for muffler repairs on my car from December of 08.
X- Add $400 to my E-Fund.
X- Continue saving for a total of $4000 for 2009 IRA.
X- Start saving for total of $3000 for 2010 IRA. (Saved $690)
X- Have my first ever yard sale when the weather starts getting nice this spring.
X- Try to take a real vacation around July or August possibly to Costa Rica.
X- 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 11th, 2008 at 07:05 am

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

Posted in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »

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

kdmoffett25 Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 01:20 pm 1229001639
1229001639

Thanks I was hoping one day someone would put a referral link.
jillybean Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 02:08 pm 1229004539
1229004539

Thanks---I've thought about joining them for awhile.
toyguy1963 Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 05:26 pm 1229016364
1229016364

You are welcome. Glad I could help.
Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 06:14 pm 1229019265
1229019265

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 12th, 2008 at 04:06 am 1229054816
1229054816

I quit when they changed to $3 and a chance to win as well.
toyguy1963 Says:
December 12th, 2008 at 05:08 am 1229058514
1229058514

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 14th, 2008 at 01:44 am 1229219090
1229219090

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 14th, 2008 at 05:16 am 1229231809
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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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