If you’ve watched daytime television you’ve heard every get rich quick scheme, start your own business and make $3,000 this month………I’m getting off track. I enjoy making money! I keep it simple by making money on purchases I’m already making. There are tons of apps that do coupons, check prices and anything imaginable if you want to be a SUPER SHOPPER.
I use two apps, Rakuten.com formerly Ebates and Honey.com. Both are installed in my browser and recognize when I shop at one of their partners. An Rakuten.com pop-up ask you to activate by clicking and it shows % of sale received on purchase.
Rakuten.com is my long-term favorite, it’s easy and they partner with all the places I shop. To date I’ve earned approximately $800.00. Rakuten.com pays out every quarter for your previous purchases. The big money days are when their partners offer double percent back and 10% days make me very happy. Small sales add up over the year.
Honey.com works based on finding coupon codes for your purchase. It runs thru a long list of coupon codes to see if one applies. You’ll see a pop up that says there are coupons codes. You click and it does it trick. I have not used Honey.com very long but received free shipping on several purchases.
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THREDUP.COM
ThredUp.com is a site for women’s clothing, shoes and accessesories. You can find new items with tags, almost new and used, all priced accordingly. You can also clean out your closet and send items to ThredUp to sale. They also accept some designer items for resale.
USE MY REFFERRAL LINK AND RECEIVE $20 CREDIT WITH FIRST ORDER.
If you are a Prime Member at Amazon.com you have a world of free goodies offered movies, bookes…..on and on. I rely on Amazon.com since I don’t drive and Prime Members get two-day free shipping.
The best discovery I’ve made is the Amazon Prime Member Card. It’s a credit card that can only be used at Amazon.com, it’s offered with no fees. You receive 5% back on every purchase you make on Amazon.com. WOW!!!!!
To give my husband down time on weekends, we get our groceries delivered. Prime Members get free delivery. The amount of time saved has surprised him, the money has brought a smile to my face. The grocery section is AmazonFresh, they have thousands of products including fresh bread.
Another up side to the delivery AmazonFresh uses frozen bottled water to keep items cold. Each week we receive 6-8 bottles of water free.
If you really want to save money, work all the coupon apps and be a Super Shopper. You have to be organized to handle that many coupons and will need lots of extra storage space.
The team from Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest independent charity evaluator and leading donor advocate, shares their thoughts on emerging nonprofit-sector issues and offers tips to better inform your intelligent giving decisions.
I don’t know about you, but I love this time of year. For a few weeks, it feels like we’re largely able to put aside our differences for a renewed spirit of goodwill, hospitality, and generosity.
For many of us, the holiday spirit manifests itself in gifts to loved ones, as well as charities working on the causes close to our hearts. This year, make the most of those gifts by using Charity Navigator to inform your charitable giving.
Keep reading for tips on how to get the most of our (forever) free charity ratings and donation resources this holiday season.
Discover an Organization
Has the holiday spirit ignited your inspiration and generosity? If you already have a favorite charity, or charities, you can skip down to “Review their Rating.” If you’re looking for a charity that aligns with your philanthropic interests, stay here.
Charity Navigator provides in-depth evaluations for more than 9,000 of America’s largest and most well-known organizations. We understand that you’re busy, especially this time of year, which is why we’ve made discovering the right charity for you quick and easy.
Through our Discover tool, you can find a charity working on a current issue (or Hot Topic), or begin your search with the cause you care most about. Simply select your favorite cause and sub-cause, and use the search filters in the left corner to filter your results. Some donors filter their search by a charity’s size, regional scope, or star rating.
Take some time to review your results–read through the charities’ mission statements to understand where and how an organization is tackling the issue it set out to solve. You can also scroll to the bottom of the charities’ profiles to view a list of charities performing similar kinds of work.
Review their Rating
Charity Navigator’s free charity ratings make it easy to determine whether or not a charity is worthy of your support. Our multidimensional ratingsconsider a charity’s financial health and accountability/transparency: two important indicators of an organization’s efficiency and efficacy.
Organizations receive a 0-4 star rating for their financial health, accountability and transparency, and overall performance. Charity Navigator strongly encourages donors to consider 3- and 4-star rated organizations, which we consider to be highly-rated and meeting or exceeding industry standards. Organizations that receive 0-, 1-, or 2-star ratings are in need of varying degrees of improvement to come in line with best practices.
Charity Navigator provides the information and data you need to do as deep a dive into a charity’s health and performance as you’d like. We have found that all some donors need to make their donation is a quick glance at our evaluations. Others prefer to spend time reviewing how much a charity spends on things like programs and fundraising, or what policies they have in place to protect their staff, constituents, and donors. Whichever route you decide, Charity Navigator has what you need to feel confident giving generously this holiday season.
Make your Donation
Once you’ve discovered a charity and reviewed its rating to determine that its worthy of your support, you’re ready to make a donation. Charity Navigator’s Giving Basket makes it easy to support the charity, or charities, you’ve been researching without having to leave our site.
Charity Navigator’s Giving Basket is an easy, secure way to support the causes you’re passionate about. To initiate your donation, click on the green “Donate to this Charity” button at the top of the organization’s rating profile. A pop-up window will guide you through the donation process.
There are two additional features our users love about the Giving Basket. The first is their ability to give anonymously. Before you finalize your donation through the Giving Basket you have the opportunity to elect how much personal information you want to share with the organization you’re supporting. Whether you choose to share full information or remain anonymous, your gift will be properly receipted fully tax-deductible.
The second is their ability to support multiple charities in one, easy transaction. This saves time, keeping you from having to bounce from charity website to charity website to make all of your donations. It also eliminates the hassle of tracking down and saving all of those donation receipts. You will immediately receive an electronic receipt that reflects your individual and total contributions and the tax-deductible nature of your gifts.
Since its launch in October 2015, donors have used Charity Navigator’s Giving Basket to direct more than $67 million dollars to efficient and effective organizations. Join this community of satisfied donors by using the Giving Basket to make your year-end donations this holiday season.
More Tips and Tools
Charity Navigator helps America’s donors give confidently by providing them with the resources they need to make better-informed giving decisions. Thanks to the generous support of our users, we continue to offer all of our resources for free, all year round.
To our loyal readers who continue to use Charity Navigator to inform your charitable giving: thank you. Thank you for making us America’s largest and most-trust charity evaluator. To our new readers or first-time users: welcome. We hope you find our service and resources helpful, and welcome your thoughts and feedback. Please contact info@charitynavigator.org to ask questions and share comments with our team.
Written by Ashley Post, Communications Manager at Charity Navigator.
As we close in on the end of the year, it makes me stop and think about how thankful I am for you, for following and your helpful and often funny comments. You don’t have to celebrate Thanksgiving to be thankful, I pray you have much to be thankful for in your life.
We wanted to let you know about an opportunity to take action on a federal bill that would expand and coordinate scientific research of cannabidiol (CBD) or marijuana-derived products, allowing researchers to better understand their potential efficacy and safety. While medical cannabis is increasingly available in a number of states nationwide, too often, there is little clinical data available to help patients and health care providers make informed decisions about whether it would work well for their specific condition, or how much and what type to use. Introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley, and Brian Schatz, The Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act (S. 2032) would streamline the research process, eliminating the lengthy delays and roadblocks researchers face when trying to study medical marijuana and CBD-derived products. Why U.S. Pain supports S. 2032 We believe people with chronic illness and pain should have access to all safe, effective treatments, including medical cannabis. Research is critical as it would lead to increased understanding about cannabis as a therapeutic option (including efficacy, safety, proper dosing, best delivery methods, etc.) and may lead to new, FDA-approved treatment options for people with pain. Now is the time to take action U.S. Pain has created two online campaigns for advocates on this issue because we’d like to accomplish two goals: 1. Have the Senate Committee on the Judiciary schedule a hearing on the bill2. Gain additional cosponsors of the bill Click here and see if your Senator sits on the Committee on the Judiciary. If they do, use the button below. Urge your Senator to hold a hearing >>If your Senator doesn’t sit on the committee, you can still help support medical marijuana and CBD research by requesting he/she becomes a cosponsor.Get your Senator to cosponsor the bill >>To learn more about U.S. Pain’s views on medical cannabis, read our position statement here. Thank you for supporting us as we fight to open up research opportunities surrounding complementary and integrative therapy options for people with pain.
Sincerely,
Ellen Lenox Smith Co-Director for Medicinal CannabisU.S. Pain Foundation
It’s hard to believe it’s been seventeen years, so many have been spent caring for loved ones or being sick. I’ve lost so many years, no they weren’t technically lost, I was present during the first three years of our marriage, we had fun cooking together, enjoying a late-night swim and grocery shopping together.
When your vows say for better or worse you don’t think the worst will come so soon. You also don’t realize those years aren’t the worst, they get worse.
I was caring for my ill and dying grandparents over an eight-year period during the last years of their life. I stayed for weeks at a time. Absent, absent from my husband, our life and myself. It’s not a pity party today, it’s a real reflection of how marriage can be so different than you plan.
The year my gramps died I started getting sick and a year-long journey with a neurologist started. Every test was abnormal but she could not make a diagnosis. Luckily, I learned Internet search skills from my previous job and could start my research. I narrowed my guesses to eight autoimmune diseases and took a wild guess at Lyme. This is one of those times I wish I were wrong. Lyme and the illnesses it brings along have been in the driver seat since 2012.
This post isn’t about me, it’s about my husband. I’ve been absent, mentally unavailable, sick and dying since the early years of our marriage. I do think he got short-changed. We don’t know what we are committing to when we make our vows. The difference is those who stay committed to the vows no matter how shitty life gets.
I still expect the other shoe to fall, he’s never given me any reason to feel this way, it comes from from my traumatic childhood. Complete trust is impossible for me but I continue to build towards 100%.
When you’re chronically ill quilt is constantly over your shoulder, as I approach our anniversary day guilt has tainted my feeling of celebration. It angers me I’m not up to going to a restaurant for dinner, enjoy a bottle of wine or hold hands walking thru a park under the stars.
I am blessed to find someone who stands by their vows no matter how hard it gets.
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