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.

Hi - I've been looking for ways to earn money from home and when looking though all the job sites like seek.com.au, jobsearch etc there are just so many "work from home, own your own business, earn lots and lots of money etc etc" , we've all heard the stories but never really know what the business is until we get 3 or 4 emails and long winded blurbs about how much money we make.  I'm so sick of it! 

I want to perform real tasks, utilise my administration skills, my it skills, my knowledge.  I'm not into partyplan, I'm not into network marketing, I'm not into telemarketing, I'm not into cold sales or face to face stuff which starts at recruiting your friends and family.

I am happy to do contract work, temp work, be paid for my real skills.  Sound familiar?  Sorry if I have offeneded any successful network marketers, this is not the intention of my blog.  If it's for you and you have done well out of it - that's great, but it's not for me.

So I have stumbled across this site DoMyStuff.com.  I've listed myself and have found there are lots of things I can do - just have to bid on it and see what happens.  So any other mums out there looking to be paid for "doing something", have a look!  You can sign on to put tasks you need done and also sign on to do tasks.

Good Luck!  By the way, this is not my site, but thought it might help some of you, so put it in my blog instead of advice as it is not really parenting stuff.

but I have still certainly cut down.  Only 1 glass of wine per night over the last 3 nights.  A semillon just goes so well with pan fried fish.  A cab sav goes so well with a nice bit of steak on a cold winters' night.  But I did limit myself to 1 only.  Tonight I'll have none. 

Over the last 2-3 weeks, on average, I have had about half to 1 unit per night instead of 5 or 6 units per night.  I'm getting there.  My body is feeling so much healthier and I am sleeping better and running better!