Hi Everyone

I am a little late in asking for sponsorship this year but have just participated in the Sutherland Shire 2008 Relay For Life fundraising event for The Cancer Council held today at Sylvania Athletics Track.  Funds raised through Relay For Life are spent on cancer research, education, support services and advocacy.  

So far, today by the time of this email, my team has completed more than 160 laps of the 400m track.  Our last runner and team organiser is Bob Fickel who has been competing and organising a team in the event for several years since the loss of his sister to cancer.  He is a seasoned ultra-marathoner and will be running from midnight tonight until 6am tomorrow morning.  He is hoping to cover about 50km or more in that time.

My plight for involvement in Relay for Life became personal this year following recent surgery for treatment of advanced stages of precancerous cells of the cervix.  I consider myself lucky that cervical cancer has so much research available that we women are able to diagnosed early, can take advantage of early treatment and now our daughters and granddaughters can even be immunised against it.  Wouldn't it be great if all forms of cancer could diagnosed, treated and prevented so effectively?

If you are interested in supporting this cause, please donate money towards my team fundraising by clicking here which will take you directly to my page on the Relay for Life site. 

Thank you for your support of my team's fundraising and The Cancer Council.  http://www.relay.cancercouncil.com.au/?2008/sutherland_shire_2008/southside_masters/

Regards

Sally

Ps...  Please also forward this message on to anyone else you think may interested in supporting Relay for Life this year or in the future.

Hi Everyone     On 23rd September, I am participating in the annual Blackmores Run the Bridge (Sydney) 9km fun run to raise funds for Osteoporosis Australia and I would welcome any contribution, great or small, that you could make!   To sponsor me and make a donation to Osteoporosis Australia, please click on my page http://gofundraise.com.au/sluxton and donate using your credit or debit card via secure transaction.  All donations to this site are electronically wired to Osteoporosis Australia  via PayPal a secure online transaction agent.   Alternatively, if you would rather send a cheque, please   1) make payable to "Osteoporosis Australia" & 2) post to 23 Alkaringa Rd, Miranda NSW 2228 with 3) your return address so a receipt can be mailed to you.   If you are a tax paying Australian Citizen all donations over $2AUD are fully tax deductible.
. For more info on prevention of osteoporosis, please visit their website http://www.osteoporosis.org.au.   Please forward this to as many people as possible.  Thankyou in advance for your support.     Sally

Hi Everyone!

I've been doing "other stuff" since last on.  As you do.  Trying to buy a house, but didn't get that one.  Not to worry, it wasn't the most fantastic house or anything, but the best we had seen in a while.  Nevertheless, things happen for a reason, and could be a blessing in disguise.

Finally got a job where I can work from home!  And none of this clicking to get paid 2 cents an email or any of the other crap that is out there that I just still dont believe can ever give you a decent income.  They are all scams and I've yet to be proven wrong.  More on that in a moment.  I got a job reviewing a subject for a financial services education organisation and really love it.  I used to like my job before I had kids and do miss it but could never give up the time away from the kids to go back to it, so this job is great to be back in some sort of contact with financial markets again.

Now back to the online money making schemes.  You know what I'd really like to do.....if all these people are really making that much money by doing what they do - signing up every one on the internet to click for them....etc, why dont we band together and set up a fund and test it out.  If 1 person can make x amount of thousands per month, then imagine what 10000 people could do with an hour a day for 6 months and donate all that money to wiping out world poverty.

Who thinks that this would work?  I think I'll put this in a group discussion.

 

As you all know, I am trying to find scam free ways of earning money at home on the internet.  So far, all I have come across is a load of crap.  The standard lines are:

Paid surveys

Search the net and get paid

Get paid to read emails

blah blah blah - you've all heard about them and that you can join for free but then when you do and get through all the rubbish - there it is again, asking for your $29.95 or $39.95 all on special though!  Oh you can pay by paypal in some of them.........FAT CHANCE!

Others are just link farms or webrings (see Wikepedia for these definitions). 

So instead of doing a google search for "earn online", I decided to do a search on "scams online" and came up with the reputable pcworld magazine article which describes a perfect scenario on phishing and now I think I've been phished out many a time - although luckily, I never put my credit card online, I usually use paypal, especially on ebay, not that I go to ebay all that often now.

Here's a link to the article http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,116186-page,1/article.html .  It's definitely worth a read and if you are registering your name and email on sites for surveys and all the crap I'm experimenting with, make sure you are using a separate free email.  I use my hotmail one for that as then all the extra stuff that comes through will not clog up my personal email where I get genuine emails from friends etc.

If anyone finds any sites that really are worth a look like Emailcash, which I'm already on, please reply to my blog.  I'm very interested.  I really want to know if it is possible to make money online other than via affiliate marketing or by having an actual business online.