August 5, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $255 in dividends from the stocks portfolio.
Litter watch. 28 stray litter receipts this month resulted in $1.425 cents in Fetch (1 receipt was a big winner at 86.8 cents). Lots of receipt (and non) litter was properly disposed of.
Evidation. I finally earned 10K points and redeemed it for a $10 gift card to pay for future home maintenance. We need to re-grout and re-caulk all the things. The counter is reset to 63 points (earned since redemption).
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July 1, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $492 in dividends from the stocks portfolio.
I finally had enough Fetch points to redeem for a $50 IKEA gift card. PiC has a notion about allowing JB to personalize their room a bit this summer so this will cover that and any Swedish meatballs we encounter. That gave me a baseline for calculating the average value of a receipt: 2.3 cents per 25 points. My last redemption was for $50 in November, 7 months ago.
Ibotta is a much slower earning site. My last redemption was August 2024 for $40; I just redeemed $35 in cash this month.
Litter watch: we picked up 6 receipts for a total of 14.2 cents at Fetch and 60 cents at Ibotta. Just a teeny bonus for getting trash off the street.
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June 3, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $1,108.90 in dividends from the stocks portfolio which all gets reinvested.
Litter 1: JB and I picked up litter and found 4 extra Safeway receipts which netted 100 Fetch points and $2.85. I appreciate every penny!
Litter 2: We picked up trash on our way out of a store and ended up with 5 random receipts that scored big at Fetch: 5500 and 1100 points in addition to the usual points for the more mundane receipts (75). Yay for cleaning up and getting points for things I don’t normally buy. That’s about $6 worth of points.
Litter 3: Grocery shopping yielded 2 extra receipts on the sidewalk (50 points).
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May 6, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $255.80 in dividends from the stocks portfolio.
I’m doing my research into unemployment and pulling all the numbers that I will need when submitting my application later this year. Sure would be nice to have more information, and more money, to ride out this period.
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April 8, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $544 in dividends from the stocks portfolio.
A couple of our local restaurants are giving 60 points per dollar on purchases now in Fetch so we got $2 cashback through TMobile dining and 2300 Fetch points on the $40 of dumplings. (I don’t know what the conversion rate on the Fetch points is off the top of my head, I’m too tired to figure it out.)
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March 4, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $1156 in dividends from the stocks portfolio.
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February 4, 2026
On Money
Income
Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop and Amazon sometimes pay a micro-commission to keep the blog running. The sidebar has ways to support the blog and our charitable giving.
Our long term goal is to replace our day job income with passive income before my health prevents me from working. I know from my Mom’s experience that qualifying for or relying on disability is incredibly tough or near impossible here in CA. Aside from that, I aim to do my best to make the most of what we can do while we can.
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Dividend income. We received $222 in dividends from the stocks portfolio.
I’ve been working with JB to build their business little bits at a time. When we initially started this, we agreed we would be partners and share everything, costs and profit. But I’ve really been doing all the admin, site design and legal work and letting them keep all the money. After we upped the ante at last year’s little craft fair, having them pay for their materials out of their earnings so that they understand more about how a real business works, they noticed that I’d been letting them have all the proceeds. I admitted that I had been spoiling them a bit. We agreed that we’d split the proceeds of any future shows since I’m doing a whole lot of the legwork for these shows. I’m also working on adding my own little craft contributions to the table in hopes of beefing up our application.
Unfortunately we got hit by scammers testing stolen credit cards on the site this month. It’s cost us $55 in fees so far and it’s not over yet. This is really frustrating.
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