This Is Faux

I guess I feel compelled to start bloging today out of sheer boredom. I’m exhausted from the weekend and all of the high school kids have school tomorrow. Anyway, the weekend was definitely eventful. Friday we headed down to Savannah for the St. Patrick’s day celebration. I had barely gotten the car put back together when Matt arrived at my dorm on Friday ready to go. So we hopped in the car, picked up John Nelson and drove on down.Upon arrival, we picked up Thomas from a sketchy mall and made our way downtown. I must admit, it was pretty fun. Theres something great about just being a general college asshat, driving through a city while your friends yell at people, decked out in green, stumbling down the sidewalk. I guess there aren’t really many exciting details of this trip though, other than I got hit on by some drunk 24 year old woman and we saw a black dude get arrested by a horse cop. Anyway, the rest of the weekend was spent working on Matt’s car(which sucked) so that’s in no way blogworthy.

Random side thought:

While eating dinner with my parents today I was thinking about how awesome it would be if everything I wanted instantly happened. I looked at a peperoncini on moms plate and wanted it. Strangely, she offered it to me. Needless to say, that was the only event of that kinda that took place today.

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So just a little update on the Revolution Money Exchange website: I have the  funds transferred safely into my bank account. I must admit, until I actually got the money I was a little skeptical, but everything is complete and I’m $35 better for it.

Once again, if you’d like to sign up, help a guy out and let me refer you! Post your email in the comments and I’ll send you a referral!

I’m pretty much a sucker for free money any day of the week, but when a site asks me for things like my SSN it usually sends me packing. I’ve tried a few sites for the free money thing, namely sendearnings.com, which turned out to be a sham. Not a sham because they don’t pay, but really because you have to make $30 before they’ll send you a check, which one learns quickly, would take forever regardless of the $5 sign-up bonus. Every “paid email” shells out about a penny, and many of the paid surveys allow you to spend 15 minutes taking the whole thing and then tell you you’re the wrong demographic at the very end. Infuriating.

So with this in mind, I hear about Revolution Money Exchange, a service targeting facebook users, etc that want to send money to each other. This service is shelling out $25 to everyone that signs up, with an additional $10 going to every referral. This certainly seemed too good to be true, so I did a little research. I find out there are supposedly some big hitters on the board and that this is really a front to try to garner potential users for the Revolution Card. With this in mind I begin the sign-up process, but stop dead in my tracks when I see a “Social Security Number” box. Time for more research before I put that kind of information anywhere. The San Francisco Business Times put my mind to ease the most with this article, but articles like this certainly helped.

I would suggest reading those links for your own edification, but long story short, the site is actually legit and its credit card seems really interesting and innovative. I’m not going to lie, I wanted this to be real and useful so bad because I seriously hate PayPal after they jacked $430 from me without warning. Regardless, I have an account, so if you’d be so kind as to post your email in the comments I’ll send you a referral email so we both win! I’m waiting for my bank account to clear, but I’ll post as soon as that happens.