Save Money And Have Fun With Guests In Winter

Kamila is staying in Yambol town this weekend, hence the Entrecard drops to all her friends was made throughout the weekend. This wasn’t the reason for not going to the village; there were many other reasons behind it, mainly the cost. It is with a little wonder Kamila has as to how many other people have a little village retreat they can turn to after a hard week of work.

The cost of spending a weekend in the village is amazingly high. Such as car fuel for 75 kilometres of travel, food, time which involve at least 4 hours with the travel, unpacking, cleaning (vacuuming and dusting inside and sweeping outside) and of course fuel costs namely electric for the immersion boiler for hot water and wood for the wood burner. Kamila had her calculator out and worked out that all these cost put together come to a staggering 40 BGN leva. When you consider that the weekly wage for working a 45-hour a week is less than 100 BGN leva, then that puts it into real perspective.

So it is home that Kamila and her family have opted for this weekend. And that is what this post is all about form Kamila this week. Making savings on fuel food and the like. How much could you save by sharing your home with friends or family for a weekend? What is the cost of heating your home for a weekend when you could share the costs of heating and electric/gas with visitors and reciprocated the following weekend? This is a sensible camel’s thought here in mid-winter and the worry of fuel bills always looming.

So why don’t you invite guest to stay for a weekend? Not only will you save on energy costs, but it would also be great fun. Kamila has found that this is common in Bulgaria throughout the winter months and the benefits are endless, such as saving on phone bills as news can be exchanged face to face.

Winter is hard enough anyway, so to help get through this relatively new experience of a cold season Kamila finds that sharing it with guest really does help the time tick away faster and the savings are a massive bonus.

Kamila says, “Share your home with friends or family this weekend – It makes good sense.”

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Weekend Blogging And Dropping To Stop?

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Kamila is in a bit of a dilemma from a frugal point of view. Here in Bulgaria Kamila uses the Internet in two places. The first in the City of Yambol in the family home, then at weekends she uses the Internet at the farmhouse in the village. The problem lies in that there are two lots of Internet bills.

The town house monthly Internet connection is 22 leva per month and the farmhouse connection 25 leva per month. Even though the village connection is more expensive it substantially slower than the town connection, it takes hours and hours for sites to be downloaded to drop on and of course only used two days of the week. Kamila doesn’t earn enough to cover the cost of both Internet connections so she is seriously think of just being a 5-day-a week blogger and is trying to weigh up what will be lost by not blogging or dropping on Saturday and Sundays.

It seems such a simple decision to make, but there is a sense of letting the side down by not dropping and clicking on 51 Adgitize ads on those weekend days of the week. This will mean her team’s position will drop like a lead balloon in most communities.

Kamila will be thinking about this all today. The bill for August’s Internet connection is due on the 11th August. Will it be paid or will is be discontinued. It can be started up any time again in the future without penalty, that a bonus. I think we know what the decision will be, after all, there is a life outside Entrecard and Kamila thinks that too many bloggers should get out more at weekend especially in glorious summer days as we have right now.

“Bring back free weekends again!” Kamila says.

PS
The holiday break is now booked. Kamila will let you know when she is off.

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Nearly Top Of Pile With Adgitize

Kamila has found that she and her team under ‘Bulgarian Scrapbook’ is now is second place to Cornymans Moneypage on Adgitize. We had been lingering between 3rd and 4th place for a few weeks now, but we now find ourselves moving up even further nearer to the top the pile and we are all a bit excited seeing us there.

1 Blog Name: Cornymans Moneypage Total Points: 4066

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2 Blog Name: Bulgarian Scrapbook Total Points: 4060

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3 Blog Name: nuke it dot org Total Points: 4040

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4 Blog Name: Positive Men Total Points: 4032

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5 Blog Name: Gas Savers Total Points: 4030

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6 Blog Name: Healthy Lifestyle Blogzine Total Points: 3950

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7 Blog Name: Wishing On A Falling Star Total Points: 3850

Kamila realises that being right next to the top doesn’t mean we earn more than others. Just getting 300 points a day will guarantee the fee back for advertising and profit on top. This is of course without any affiliate commissions taken on at a rate of $5 per new signing on.

All in all Kamila finds that this is probably the best advertising system on the Internet right now. Where else would you get paid to have you site advertised!? It takes only some 10 minutes each day to click on the 51 ads need to get that extra 100 points in addition to your daily blog post (100 points) and advertising reward of another 100 points. This brings the total to a guaranteed 300 plus further points for clicks on your ads meaning full revenue paid each day covering more than the advertising cost of $0.50.

So it is a weekend of celebration in the Bulgarian, household as Kamila and her family toast to being oin silver medal position with Adgitize right now. Kamila realises however that could all change tomorrow as it is to tight with points accumulated at the top and we could drop as quickly as we rise.

The box is waiting below to anyone who wants to join the Adgitize system.

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Kamila Remains A Blogspot Blogger

Kamila has decided to remain under the blogspot banner. This wasn’t an easy decision and it was based on the fact that she has seen many other esteemed bloggers happily running blogs on the same format. At the end of the day a re-run of building up her PR from scratch and looking many back links is a step too far and she does intend to become a blogging empire. She just wants to earn a few dollars a day to help out the Bulgarian family she lives with. What she should have done was get her own domain when starting up, that is the advice that comes out loud and clear from more experienced bloggers.

So, Kamila is not changing anything right now and is quite content with that.

On another front, Kamila tried out the ‘Entrebar’ system where you can drop from a menu bar without having to go into the Entrecard site. She found it useful but there were little bugs in the system that caused the bar to mix up with the existing navigation bar when not actively in use. Also she couldn’t drop on cards that had been dropped on her from the day before. As the new day starts at 7:00 in the morning in Bulgaria, Kamila likes to do her drops just after the day kicks in and there are only a couple of droppers for that new day. She doesn’t like the idea of dropping in the evening as she joins the Bulgarian family outside each evening. With this in mind she does not use the system, but feels it would be good for others who have different routines.

“Have a lovely weekend,” says Kamila.

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Kamila Earns Enough To Feed The Family

Kamila took her first ever pay for post yesterday, Blogsvertise asked if she would like to write a post for one of their advertisers and Kamila accepted. She is really happy, as the money she got for this is enough to feed the whole family here for two or three days. She may have to wait for the post to be approved and get the money through Pay pal, but it will be money in the bank and really helps.

This is the first time Kamila has been asked to work for Blogsvertise and Kamila is sure that the extra traffic she has got over the last couple of weeks has caught their eye. She now hopes that more job may come around as she quite enjoys the work.

Blogsvertise pays a decent fee compared to some other similar pay for post sites and Kamila is more than glad that she has got off the mark with them. She may have had to write at least two or three posts for other sites for the same fee!

“Have a good day” says Kamila

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Geri - Kamila's Monkey Friend

Kamila had been on the farm for a few weeks and found herself back in Yambol this weekend. She will be there fore a few weeks then the work really begins on the farm once April and the growing season starts. Kamila is keen that we don't go hungry this year and will be helping wherever she can.

There was a new friend waiting to meet her in Yambol, Geri the monkey who was also from London, she had arrived a few weeks ago as she was fed up with UK life. the price of bananas had doubled in the last year and you are not allowed to say monkey business as it offends minority communities living there. She had read about what happens here in Bulgaria and even though there isn't much much to live on we were always happy and free.

Kamila took to Geri straight away and before long they were bonded friends alongside Eli Kamila's best friend. It may be that Geri might get a taste of village life with Kamila in a few weeks as she had heard from Kamila that there are sliva (plum) apple and pear trees that she can swing from as long as we took a supply of bananas with us.

Kamila also has been in deep though recently as she has seen her family struggle a bit with their health. We think that she has something up her sleeve, but she won't let on yet. We'll just have to find out what it is in due course.

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