Responsible Free Money
Everyone loves free stuff. Give out a free lunch, or complimentary pen or T-shirt and you can get people to sign up for junk credit cards or possibly physicians to prescribe your drugs. But for some reason, people have a hard time earning free money the responsible way. Here are several ways you can make some free money:
- Keep your money in a High Interest Savings Account! Yes, interest rates have plummeted with the economy, but anything is better than the zero percent checking account or 0.1% savings account at your brick and mortar banks. Keep your loan money or hard earned income in a High Interest Savings Account and you'll make a small amount on the interest. It may not be a large sum, but it requires no work to let your money grow. If you would take the effort to pick up a dollar bill off the ground, then you should take the effort to open a high interest savings account.
- Plug the leaks! Look, it's not a sexy way to make free money, but the quickest and easiest way to have more money is to stop wasting it. If a patient is hemorrhaging from multiple bleeds, all the blood transfusions in the world are not going to do much good until you stop the bleeding. So financially speaking, find out where you are hemorrhaging money, and stop the bleeding. Here's a quick and dirty way to increase your savings and decrease spending in less than 10 minutes!
- Earn free money for things you already do! How great would it be if I could get a free $100 gift card or free $50 check or free plane ticket just for using a credit card on purchases I would otherwise normally make? Well you can! And in fact, all those free things I listed earlier are rewards I get from my credit cards every few months! Shop around for credit cards at Bankrate.com or Creditnet.com.