This is going to be one of those blog posts where I tell you what happened this week and you wonder why I am telling you. Still I hope it gives some inspiration to some.

Winner 1

Back on April 4th I posted about wanting to get a Macbook Pro for free . After checking round the internet it became apparent that if I wanted a free Macbook Pro I should move to America or wait a couple of years.

OK so that wasn’t going to work so I decided to get creative and look around for what would be the easiest way to earn cash online to be able to achieve my goal. I "fell into" Knewsroom after reading about the Kluster guys in some news feed or other. I soon became heavily involved and made USD$3300-ish in about a month. Enough for a Macbook Pro. Yay.

Australia pays about $1000 more per machine retail than the US, and I just could not justify to myself paying the extra for absolutely nothing more. Then the research started again either I could get one of my friends who was in/going to the USA to grab me one and send back; or I could get lucky on eBay. Turns out I got lucky on eBay and this post is being written from my new baby. I also bought an Apple Care plan for $300 less than retail in Australia.

So all up everything came in at AU$3K ($1200 under local retail) and none of it out of my savings (Knewsroom will be paying out next week)

3 months from go to woah, made up of 5 weeks of writing about an hour a day tops, 1 week stuck in a hotel room, and 6 weeks of research, bidding and more research.

Winner 2

You may have noticed in my side bar reviews section the book review for a chapter of Pete (man hunk) Williams’ How to Make Your Million Dollar Idea a Reality I did for a competition he was running. It was lovely to receive in the mail my prize this week. Mmmm lots of reading material yummy! Thanks Pete I look forward to reading your book in full, and so is my son who has some interesting ideas of his own sometimes

Winner 3

Also announced during the week was the Mr_Gadget haiku competition. That involved writing a haiku about the great Blue Ant Supertooth 3 hands free speaker thing for your car. I won yay! I actually desperately need this gadget as I do not have handsfree in the car (and I hate having to pull over every 5 minutes to take work calls).

This little beauty should appear in the mail in the next couple of days *excited*.

Now for everyone that will tell me that I am "lucky" I will point out that I actually worked for every one of these windfalls by writing something and swapping my time for the chance to get something in return. For people considering doing the same, think carefully about what time you have and what skills you have. If I knew I could be earning more money elsewhere than my writing, or that I would not have a good chance entering, then I probably would not enter (competitions are HIGHLY addictive).