Promising Birthday: Rewarded Play

My middle son's birthday is tomorrow. I feel bad because this is the second year that I haven't been able to do all the bells and whistles or throw him a party. Last year I was working so hard by the time his birthday came around I was so exhausted we literally couldn't go. I had the money to take him to the indoor amusement park but I was literally too tired to sit there and watch him, let alone drive. It was a literal hazard how tired I was. I felt bad because I couldn't even find anybody to take him even though I had the money for him to go. This year I don't have the money to go because I have a warrant out for my arrest because of A stupid speeding ticket in a crappy community that thinks that it's okay to issue warrants for people's arrest for a speeding ticket. I will never drive in that area again.  That's aggravating and I'm not paying that ticket because that's just egregious, coercive, unnecessary, over the top behavior. Speed traps need to be outlawed. Why on earth is the speed 25 miles per hour on a car dealership auto mile, literally a mile long strip of car dealerships. I'm contesting the ticket and that's taking time. He agrees with my decision to fight the ticket. I talk to my children at least about things like this, since it impacts him and something important to him. Since I homeschool, everything I do is a teachable moment in forming my children to be informed decision makers. 

In all this drama, the good part is that I do have money to take him to Target and get him a few things it's not what he REALLY wanted, (A gaming chair, new monitor, and controller), but at least it's something. I have to say considering that my attempt to scale my online business has flopped, and Shopify failed me, driving for Lyft to fill in the gaps has gobbled up all my money covering new expenses.  It's just getting to the point that I am not making enough money to do anything. The wear and tear on my car has got me seeking other alternative forms of income and since I've been basically so depressed that I've been playing games on my phone, I started using Rewarded Play which is actually helped us right now. I'm honestly amazed that I've made $75 in the past couple of months.

Granted when I show these screenshots it's going to show the ones still available. I have two accounts since I have two phones. 

The reality of the matter is that I was using those gift cards in between for toiletries. I don't really play a lot of games, so it is nice that you get points for playing a game for as little as 4 minutes a day, and bonus points for reaching level milestones.

I play nine games a day for 4 minutes each, so for 36 minutes I can make about 1000 points alone, but if you play five days in a row you get extra points. There are surveys as well. 

If you sign up here I get a $5 gift card, and that helps me make more money in the future, hopefully making my son's 13th birthday better. I want his 13th birthday to be epic because he's no longer going to be a tween. He will officially be a teenager and that is more important to me than 11 or 12. Although 11 and 12 is important to him, and he expects awesome for his birthday, this year I failed to make it epic. I give myself grace, granted I did make 10 his first double digit birthday freaking awesome it sucks because I was able to do better for my oldest son's birthday because his birthday is in May December birthdays suck so close to Christmas. I know well because mine is in January. I'm turning 40 and I can't even have a big to do for my own birthday so it's like I feel bad for him, I remember how crappy my birthday parties were. My 40th is a big birthday and I can't even afford to take myself to dinner yay car note. Honestly, I feel worse letting my son down. I work so hard to give all my children the world, but when it matters most to them I fail. Thankfully, Rewarded Play gift cards can make this 12 year olds birthday promising with a set of themed holiday PJs for him and his brothers. That is what he said he wanted.