My Frugal Ways

Haagen Dazs is offering free scoop of any Bee Built ice cream on 5/12.

Here is the official words:
“Come in for a FREE scoop of any Bee-Built ice cream flavor at participating Häagen-Dazs® Shops between 4-8 pm. * Please call your nearest shop in advance to check that they are participating in the offer.”

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.  Being a mom is the toughest job there is.  I still can’t imagine my grandparents’ generation where a family of six or more kids were the norm.

The CareerBuilder.com Stimulus Hiring Virtual Career Fair will be live on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. EDT to 8:00 p.m. EDT. Register now so you can participate in the event where you will learn about various companies participating and the employment opportunities they have available.

Participating Companies
Futurestep
Lakeshore Engineering Services
Personified
Companies will be exhibiting in a variety of pavilions such as:
Construction (buildings, bridges, infrastructure)
Education (buildings, equipment)
Energy (electrical grid and renewable energy)
Engineering
Health care
Law Enforcement
Science (research and development)
Technology (IT, high-tech, communications)

Make sure to take advantage of the free resume printing and fax offer from Office Depot/Staples.

Real Working Homemade Wolverine Claws – X-Men – Click here for more amazing videos

X-Men is one of the comic/cartoon shows that I watched while growing up. Personally I really enjoyed the comics in addition to the movies. So with the new movie coming out, what should a frugal fan do to show support? Well, create his own real working Wolverine Claws! I have to hand to this guy, but it does look awfully dangerous to be walking around.

Kids, don’t try this at home.  Instead, go watch some kids friendly movies at AMC for $1 on these Wednesdays:
June 25:Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
July 2:The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
July 9:Alvin & The Chipmunks
July 16:Shrek The Third
July 23:Bee Movie
July 30:Surf’s Up
August 6:TMNT

YouData is a program that I would classify under “boring money”.  It is very small amount money for a small amount of time.  The website that was launched in 2008 and it is similar to other pay to click websites where it pays its user for viewing ads and visiting different websites.  After you sign up, you will fill out some basic profiles regarding yourself that called it MFiles.  Base on the MFiles, they will pay you to see some of the advertisements their advertisers are currently running.

The program is open to US resident 13 or older with a unique cell phone number and email address.  I have signed up for a month or so and I really like the fact that you are not required to give out real name, address, or SSN but they do need a valid cell phone number to send you a text message with a confirm code.

Here are some of the things I liked about their website:

- Clean look and feel.

- The payment is send to you through Paypal every Friday.

- The ads they have tends to be actual stores selling products instead of some get rich online Internet scheme or multiple level marketing scheme.

- The pay is decent per ad.  So far I have been getting 15 ~ 20 cents per ad.  This is much better than some of the other PTC sites where you earn 1 cent per click.

- It is not time consuming.  I usually receive 4~5 ads and it only takes me a few minutes a week to go through the ads targeted for me.

The only bad thing about YouData is their referral program.  It pays up to $1 for each of your referrals with 1 cent per ad the person you referred clicked on.