I’ve mentioned that part of my morning routine is catching up on the financial blogs that have been published since the following morning. I find which blogs I’ll read through twitter. I have a twitter list that only includes my financial bloggers and it’s very helpful to keep up not only with their blog posts, but latest news. It’s how I found out one of my favorite and most inspiring bloggers was having a meet up in Seattle and I ended up hanging out with him (and others) all night. It was amazing.
Twitter is also how I found out that another one of my favorite bloggers GoCurryCracker was giving away a promo code to get $500 from opening a BECU checking account. BECU is a local Seattle credit union. I messaged him directly and got his promo code. I then sent my promo code to my partner for him to use to open his own account. I called BECU, set it up and saw the money be depositied in my new account. For 10 minutes of work I made $500. That’s a great per hour rate ($3,000/hr)! Too bad it’s not sustainable :). Just another quick entry in the weird things I’ve done for money.