I figured out how to get the Ravelry-powered progress bars working on my blog last night. No more manual updating for me!
I also finished the Alberta Socks. I brought them with me to work today, hopefully I can get a photo. Luckily my coworkers are all pretty tolerant of my knitting and photo-taking. :)
In non-knitting news…My coworker is getting really into couponing and making/saving money. She’s doing all the crazy stuff at Walgreens and CVS, and taking advantage of money-earning deals at the stores. I’ve always cut coupons and matched them up to sales as best I can, so we’ve been swapping ideas and coupons and anything else. I told her of a few things I’ve been doing to earn money/giftcards. And I found some more in the past few weeks. Once I know they’re valid and good, I’ll pass them along here! But here is the first one I already know is a good thing:
I added a little ad-box to my sidebar. Now, before you get all upset that I’m putting advertising on my blog, hear me out. This one is pretty cool! It’s called YouData, and if you don’t want to see ads, then you don’t. You have to sign up to see any ads. You create a “MeFile” and then you get ads if you want. Then they PAY YOU for looking at the ads. Seriously! Every Friday, they deposit the amount you’ve earned into your PayPal account. I signed up last Friday morning. Set up my MeFile, clicked on the ads they had for me, and then later that afternoon, got a deposit of $4.11 in my PayPal account! I already have another $5.35 earned this week. Now, if you do sign up, and choose to look at your ads on my blog here, instead of on the YouData site, then I will earn an extra few cents. I even like the advertisers they have! I found a new blog to watch, and have poked around at some other very interesting sites (Soap Nuts – ever heard of those? I’m tempted to buy some just to see how they work!).
So, if you sign up, I’d appreciate it if you look at your ads via my blog. It helps pay for my time updating & hosting for the KnitAlongs site. And if I earn enough, I can use it to hold contests and buy prizes!
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I buy 4 coupons every week for the coupons – if you ever need anything, just let me know.
Both the Progress Bars and the MeData thing are very cool.
I am still trying to figure out how to insert the progress bars on my blog…*sigh* no luck yet.
The MeData thing sounds really neat. :) I can’t get the ravelry progress bars to work either.
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