How to SAVE money Going to the Movies!

How to save money on going to the movies

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From any search engine, if you type in “How to save money at the movies” your first 25 listings will have these 10 saving tips;

1.      Eat First

2.      Want Candy? Bring your own.

3.      Join your Local Theater

4.      Buy bulk tickets

5.      Credit discounts

6.      Buy at Costco

7.      Wait until the Movie is out of theatres

8.      Grab Group discounts

9.      Divy up the snacks you do buy

10.  Go to a 2^nd tier theater

That’s the skinny from about 15 different bloggers, articles and websites and Google still has 900,000 entries to read through. Let start with the obvious ten and add a couple more that you may not know about.

Moviephone.com - offers discounts to their members, and membership is free. Also with this program (sign up via the internet) you get free passes to movie screenings at different locations in your area. That’s an opportunity to see a movie that isn’t released yet! You may also receive an opportunity to rate it for the box office, plus it’s an outing that creates memories.

Local street rags, by that I mean newspapers; I have the New Times here which is the local music, theater and art scene with a liberal political standpoint. It comes out every Thursday and I have found admissions to free events every week. We even scored free movie tickets to Rango, prior to release from the Tempe Rock Gym all we had to do was show up.

-Don’t forget 2$ movie theaters, the order for new releases is Opening day in major theaters, after about 6 weeks they move the movie to a 2^nd rate theater, then it goes to Netflix, Red box, Amazon, etc. after which you can purchase the DVD at your local retailer.

Research your movie choices which would you prefer? Big theater, 2^nd theater, Rental or wait to own;  if you really are not sure you can always wait for the free listing through memberships like Amazon Prime or Netflix. The choice is up to you!

Know your 3D movie, sometimes movies are offered in 3D in order to jack up the price which is usually about 3 or 4$, not all movies are shot for 3D. Check your movie out at -  RealorFake3D.com to see whether something was shot in 3D or retrofitted to save yourself the headache and some cash!

Do you have a credit card with Chase?  They have some nice offers from time to time. Three months out of the year you get 5% cash back for any money spent at movie theaters. A great idea to time bulk ticket purchases and save even more money.

 

 

 

Here is a list of movie chains and their discounts

Regal Entertainment Group (Regal Cinemas, United Artists, Edwards Theatres)

Offers:

Regal Crown Club - Regal Crown Club members earn rewards just for going to the movies. Use your credits to earn FREE popcorn, soft drinks, movies and more.

Gift Cards – Volume Discounts

E-gift Cards – Volume Discounts

Discount Movie Tickets – Buy in Bulk and save hundreds!

Rave Cinemas

$5 Tuesdays and more

Check http://www.ravecinemas.com/promotions_bargaindays.aspx for more information

Amc Amazing

 If you see a movie at AMC before Noon on any day, it's only $6. That's less than half of the regular ticket price. If it's 3D or IMAX, the regular added charge gets added to that. Not only is this a good way to save money, it's also the best time to see a movie - the auditoriums are quieter and it's less likely to fill up.

Some theaters also have special weekday pricing. Outside of big cities, matinee pricing is even more prevalent and extends throughout the afternoon, and that's at almost all theaters, not just AMC

AMC Stubs is an all-new program that we are offering to our guests as a way to reward them for going to AMC Theatres. It will replace the previous MovieWatcher® program and provide bigger, better and more exciting benefits than ever before.

• $10 AMC Stubs Reward for every $100 you spend
• Free upgrades on concessions anytime
• Online ticket purchase fees waived
• Access to your online ticket stub collection

AMC Stubs has an annual fee of $12 (that’s only $1 a month).

Bring Your Baby Matinees - First Tuesday of Every Month at Noon

·         Student Day

If you’re a student, you can’t go wrong on Thursdays at select AMC theatres because you get a lower ticket price when you show a current high school or college ID. Make the smart choice and choose AMC every Thursday for Student Day and broaden your entertainment mind.

 

CineMark (Century Theatres, CineArts, &Tinsletown)

This chain offers amazing deals for the snack bar, tickets, discounts on Tuesdays and free coupons weekly! Sign up is a snap and free, if you have a local Cinemark Theater in your area I highly recommend this jewel for saving money at the movies.

Offers:

·         Discounted Tickets

·         Discount Tickets : 7.50$ Platinum Tickets good for ANY movie, additional premiums may be applied for 3d or Imax which are priced higer than normal box office pricing.

·         Discount Food : $6 each buy in bulk – Do you need the large size? Then get these great discounts which amount up 3$ in savings per visit to the snack counter.

·         Discounts

·         Weekly Email – Signu up Cinemark’s Weekly email, and enjoy FREE weekly Concession Coupons along with Featured Films, Events, Contests ad Special offers. First coupon the day you sign up!

·         Seniors Day: Every Monday! Take your mom, dad or grandparents to a movie and they get a discounted price and YOU get valuable memories that you can’t put on a price tag.

·         Discount Tuesday – All Films discounted, All Day Each Tuesday at Partcipating Theatres. Don’t  need to go opening day or the opening week? Wait a little bit and see the same movie at a discounted rate! Doesn’t include 3d, Imax or Speical Engagements

·         Early Bird – Special Discount Price for the First Matinee showtime of the the day! All MOVIES!

Learn more at http://www.cinemark.com

What about Harkins? If you live in Arizona, Texas, Colorado California or Oklahoma then you know Harkins is a family owned company that plays by their own rules. So what’s in it for you?

Even MORE discounts!

Students pay the same matinee price ALL Day  - just show a student ID which can be from any college, university or primary education institution.

·         Ultimate VIP Discount Tickets - -Perfect for employee incentives, customer appreciation or the ultimate moviegoer. Tickets are sold in bundles of 50 and do not expire. Cost : $375, price per movie at regular price $10.00 (non 3d or Imax , add 3.50)

·         375$ divided by 50 Tickets = 7.50$ per ticket

·         Savings  for 50 movies? = $125

·         Classic VIP Discount Tickets -  Perfect for employee incentives, customer appreciation or the ultimate moviegoer. Tickets are sold in bundles of 50 and do not expire

·         Medium Popcorn Discount Value bundles

·         And over 4 more discount pricing option for drinks, kids and more!

 

Great ways to enjoy the experience of movie going AND save you some money! Happy Watching!

 

 

Change your Brain, get some new training wheels!

Can't wait to make money? Need to find a way through those internal blocks? Well we all have them and its not to worry, those are just old tapes that create obstacles which you can erase, junk or upgrade.

Wait I can upgrade my brain?

~Of course you can, its a biological computer so like any computer new software is always available, intergration of more ram and amazing video cards can create your beautiful top of the line computer brain.

Its called Quantum Jumping:

Quantum Jumping is an advanced visualization exercise that will enable you to tap into your subconscious mind and discover infinite number of realities and possibilities. After spending decades studying meditation, yoga, hypnosis, and a variety of other spiritual and metaphysical disciplines, Burt Goldman invented Quantum Jumping in 2008. We now have over 180,000 Quantum Jumpers from all over the world who continue to change their lives in incredible ways! Become a part of this global personal growth movement and practice Quantum Jumping to get ahead with your career, enrich your relationships, learn new skills and improve your wellbeing.

Expiration Date: October 11, 2015

Countries: All Countries/Regions

What could you do with a new and improved brain?

The Bad Surveys

This is the page dedicated to bad surveys, *shakes a finger* and you know who you are but just in case the reset of the internet is unfamiliar lets go ahead and make a list:

First is the Survey site that sends you to other survey sites, we call this linking and clicking, because you click the link, fill out the registration form, click another link to have twelve more registration forms to fill out. If by chance you made it through that mess then you get 50 emails a day for new surveys. Second is Spammers, which you sign in and create a free account but then are inundated with 25 + emails for surveys that you may not qualify for (1out of 20). No you won't qualify for every survey because companies are looking for different demographics but creating a residual income off of surveys is the point.

The Black List: Avoid them if you can because of the spamming issue..

Nielsen Digital Voice (Panels, Survey Panels or Downloads) The link will take you to their FAQ page you can explore their wesite.
   This company will send out surveys through various other sites, taking the surveys aren't an issue but BEWARE of the downloads. This company will do a software download for 5$ reward that tracks where you go and what you do on the net (for collection data.) Now whether or not they actually do that for the intended purposes I can't say. Who gets the information is also not listed.
The downloadable software however comes with issues. I have had a malware attack after ten days of being tracked, computer crashes and viruses from this software. Do NOT download, period. Remember taking the surveys is fine, just dont do the "extra research opportunitiy for an extra reward."

Inbox Dollars - Ever been to Pogo.com? Great online gaming site with cash games, tournaments, avators and a general hang out place for people? Inbox Dollars is set up just like that where they advertise you can get paid for reading emails, playing games, clicking on video's etc. What they don't tell you is how many emails you get in a day (25 - 35) regardless of checking the options for daily digest or weekly digest. Once you sign up for Inbox dollars then you keep getting offers from third parties, other survey sites and occaisionally recieve some video's to watch. The catch here is to keep you online with their site to keep creating money the bad news is the money is minimal (literally pennies or subscription fees out of your pocket).  Inbox Dollars is similliar in set up to FushionCash however you will find on the FushionCash website a cleaner look, updated material and NO spam. Check out our Good Girl List for Survey sites to sign up for.

Survey Money Machine - the registration to get the registration forms.... yeah the big circle jerk. If you type "Surveys" into Google then you will get this site at the top because it pays for the listing. The link will take you to their "How this works page", which incidently is another way to make money (becoming a site that connects people to other sites).  Not nessecarily a bad thing except for the constant emails, sifting through surveys and of course the ever popular sites you have never heard of emailing you for their program. Not the greatest idea in the book but there is a small grain of truth here, how to get the most money from your survey taking.

Other sites that I have found not worth the time for creating money are:

Panda Research - qualifying for surveys is 1 in 20
Survey Spot - 1 - 10 (if this was the only one you did then maybe I only made 2 $20 cash outs in two years due to not meeting qualifications.)

Another Survey scam is buy and recieve points, these companies like Cash Back Research will provid you with opportunites to earn points and money from testing products, trials and surveys. The idea here is to get you in the door with an outlandish claim " Make 40$ a day, you won't rich but you will get paid." Now if you think about the statement $40 bucks a day is $1200 a month which middle class income so no you wont get rich but HOW do you get $40 a day? By buying into trials or products for points to redeem for gift cards. Thats the catch you don't see in the fine print.
Other companies that advertise like this are:
www.cashcrate.com
www.getpaidsurveys.com/
www.onlycashsurveys.com/

Think before you register for a survey company, know your limits for time to partcipate in the programs and above all find a company or company that works for you.

These are the only survey companies I partcipate in and for the last two years I have made 908$ extra cash for about ten minutes of work 5 days a week.

Click here for my GOOD GIRL list

The Secret to Getting and staying Rich

Creating a residual income is how the rich people stay rich, making money work for you is how the rich people keep getting richer. - Robert T. Kioskvy Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad

Thats the million dollar secret, right there. Every book that you can find through google, your kindle, your nook, barnes $ noble, or just a random thrift store library will advertise this secret;

Know how the RICH stay Ri$h and what you can do to be one of them!!

Thats the secret right there for you, free of charge and you got if from the Queen of Free Money. So if you would like to Google +1 me or Digg this post that would be awesome.

I have read over 15 different books and 200 blogs about how to make money online, recieve residuals, and create a money making enterprise that will have you living the high life. What I have discovered is that every program is pretty much a system to create residual income and have your money work for you.

Every single one. Read about the secrets to survey taking here from an ABC report

Fushion Cash - works awesome for aobut $50 bucks a month, the $300 - 500 range is in the referals
Adsense by Google - create great content and every person that clicks on an ad you get paid, easy save the great content part.
Surveys - The most amazing idea ever invented sign up for a survey sight to recieve another survey site. These are great for real or play money (rewards that get you something, like E-Rewards). To make the money they advertise ($150 a week or more) there is a trick to it. Read more about that here
 My View
My Soapbox
Harris Poll
NPDOR Survey ... just to name a few
Then there is advertising for companies through social media websites
 Those are a pyramid scheme to create multiple lines of income
Scholarship contests (generally for students)
 Scholarshippoints.com , College Prowler, Zinc, and FastWeb to name a few

Then there is selling online through
Ebay
Craigslist
Backpage
Amazon
Etsy
Craftori
and many, many others...

So what is the point for all of these sites? You guessed it to create residual income, through you and then through others.

So we have a few ideas, lets look at some survey sites

Click here to learn more.

The Good Girl List - Survey sites I make money from!

You have reveiwed the bad survey list now its time to talk about how to make money with Surveys! There are many great blogs written about surveys which can help you determine your best options.

There are three simple keys to making money online with Surveys

1. Get the highest paying surveys available (look for how much is given for the survey before clicking on the link.) Know what a high paying survey looks like!
     For example, How do you take a survey? Sitting in front of the computer with your mouse in the right or left hand and you make some clicks for demographic information and then some qualifying questions and finally the meat of the what the surveyor is looking for. Right?  Time to take a survey can range from 2 - 15 minutes ( Surveys longer than 15 minutes will have larger rewards in the 20 - 75$ range but they are few and far between.)

OK so a good paying survey is Minimun 1.5 - 3.00 dollars.

A great survey will  be $3.50 - 8.50 dollars

Awesome surveys will be 9.00 or more but are fewer in number (Highest  I have completed was 75$ at Erewards which netted me 25$ which I have only recieved twice in two years.)

Know the limits.

2. Find the highest paying survey sites, in other words how much money do you have to earn before cashing out and receiving the money in your hands or bank account? For example, Fushion Cash requires you make 25$ in offers and bonuses before recieving a cash out payment.  ( Which I did in a week with only 10 minutes a day for a 5 day week, my first cash out was for 45$ and I only put in 23 days at ten minutes a day).
  Global test Market asks for 10,000 points for $50 in cash out (still havent' hit that level yet but Global Test Market is the highest paying suryvey site for points to dollars ratio).   Now Panda Research asks for 20,000 points to get $10, see the difference?

3. Know the rewards and how they are calculated before taking surveys. You may have to sign up to see the inner workings of some survey sites, like Inbox Dollars (which is a reason I don't use them.) But the best way to learn about how the company pays you (money, points, or rewards) is to check the FAQ page or click on their rewards page to see what is available.

  Great examples of this is My SoapBox, CokeRewards, and Harrispoll Surveys, their rewards consist of 5 to 50$ gift cards to places like Gap, Target, Best Buy, Olive Garden, Red Lobster and various restaraunts and retail stores. The point ratio is between 20,000 to 35,000 points to recieve the gift card. Now remember rule #1, how long does it take? For My Soapbox the rewards per survey are 1500 and up, which makes it a good place to put some time in for free gift cards. CokeRewards takes 330 points for 50$ in movie tickets and snack bar food (which incidently is about 65 cases of coke products but you can take caps from your friends and redeem them without having to buy the product).

Remember a good rule of thumb: the more points or money you get per survey the faster you recieve rewards.

Knowing where to get those high paying surveys and sites is the key to making money in this game:

Here are my list of favorites:

Fushion Cash
HarrisPoll.com
MySoapBox
YouGov

For Students:
Scholarshippoints.com
CollegeProwler
Zinc
Fastweb.com

Swag Bucks... and the Easy money road

Have you seen this Logo?


It's worth a second look, as an author I enjoy writing but one of my favorite concepts to write about is Truth in advertising, truth in politics and well anything to do with Truth. I have a philosphy about the word, truth and I believe there are two different kinds of truth.

First there is the Truth

Second there is truth.

The only difference between the two words is a capital "t", which infers a deeper meaning behind the word's meaning and its definition.

Swag Bucks is another one of those online sites that allows you to make some money in the form of "swag bucks" while doing what you ordinarily do while online. The upside to this particular site is the trade in and games additions.

Amazon.com, offers a similliar program for college students which is an awesome way to ensure you sell ALL your textbooks, (Even the ones that your college is no longer taking because of  textbook change or course change.)
Between both sites one can make a killing in trading in books!

The Truth is a societal concept called, "The American Dream" which states "If you work hard, putin your dues then you too can make it to the top."

The truth is while most people have bought into this version of the events for the last 60 years many people (about 1% according to Forbes magazine) ever do make it.  Checking into your own ideas about money remember the one universal law; The only constant is Change.

Change your view and you change your world.

Truth:
You can have everything in the world you dream of, everything. Period.

Vintage Fisher Price Toys!!! Another way to make some money

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The blog above is one of the best I have seen for creating great pictures, background information about fisher price toys. Now why is that important? Recycling saves more than just the planet, it saves your POCKETBOOK!

Check out your local Goodwill or Savers and browse the toy section. When you see a fisher price toy that  is priced for only 2 or 3 dollars take a picture and go home to your Amazon account. Check out the prices for the used toy you found.

AMAZING!
 Learn about Town by Fisher Price is $120 on Amazon, I picked up the same toy for 3.50$ at my local Goodwill during their half off day. You can find it at my website on Etsy!

Opening an amazon selling account costs nothing and they take care of the shipping right there! You reiceve your money 14 days after the sale. Almost nothing in effort and a check in your pocket every week!
Get your selling cap on because there is many more ways to make money!!