For the newbies: I'm a doctor. I get to do various online surveys for doctors only, not available to the general public. They pay well. Some are easy. Some are quite tedious. Most pay me in cash. Some pay with Amazon gift cards. Some shorter ones give me some type of merchandise (books, USB drives, laser pointers, computer accessories, etc.). I also do Harris polls, Pinecone and AOL Opinion Place surveys that are open to everyone.
For the month of December, I earned $429.00 in cash and Amazon credit.
For 2008, I earned $5,068.50 in cash and Amazon credit.
It is a little hard to track the non-monetary rewards. Some of them, I've sold on ebay or half.com. Others, I've kept and used for myself or given to friends or family. There was probably at least another $200-300 worth of stuff like that.
All in all, a pretty good year. I slacked off on doing the surveys in late summer because we were busy getting ready for our daughter's Bat Mitzvah in September. In fact, my lowest income for the year was $160 in September. My best month was June with $760.50.
Here's to 2009 being at least as good if not better.
December and year-end survey income
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We don't have anything definitely planned yet. We did have to cancel our annual Disney World visit in 2008 due to a schedule conflict. We plan to make up for that by making a 2-week visit in late August right before DD goes back to school. We hate the idea of going in the summer but we love the idea of having more than 6 days there.
On the short-trip list, we spent the day yesterday at Longwood Gardens in Kennet Square, PA. While driving through the area, we realized there was a lot to do around there and we plan to do a long weekend in the area. In fact, we got annual passes to Longwood Gardens so we'll go back there in the spring or summer and explore the area a little more.
We would love to take a cruise in 09 but if we do Disney in August, I'm not sure when we would do that. We wouldn't cruise the Caribbean in November due to hurricanes and you can only do Alaska in the summer. If we could find a New England/Canada cruise that wouldn't involve pulling DD out of school, that's a possibility.
Many of our trips are planned at the last minute, so who knows where we will actually end up.
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