Just received a $40 bonus on a $5 shop.
Earlier this morning, I received a phone call with a $20 bonus on another shop that has a $5 shop fee, but a $30 reimbursement. I rarely get bonuses from this company, but they have regularly gone out of their way to give me a little route of these shops.
Also received a call from a scheduler asking to do a dinner and a movie shop this weekend. Both shops each have a bonus ($20 and $15) but she's offering to throw in another $20 if I take both.
One is a location which I know was shopped pretty recently (My husband did it) so I'm not understanding the high bonus on it, but I'm not complaining!!
October has been an awesome month for bonuses! Even with feeling ill pretty much this whole month, I've made my monthly goal, caught up from last month (Didn't meet my goal last month) and am 1/4 of the way towards next month's goal!
Shop swag-wise, this month hasn't been bad at all, considering I'd planned to take less reimbursement shops than normal, but ultimately couldn't resist some when they reached a decent bonus. Found a handheld Shark vaccuum cleaner on a Goodwill shop for $4, new in box, and my car is MUCH happier for it! Kids have six new pairs of shoes, I scored some awesome wool slippers, two baskets of bath supplies, clearanced jogging tights, and I'm stocked on prenatals for the next few months. Dogs scored some bison steaks, new collars, and a cargo liner for the SUV (clearanced from $60 to $11) and, one of my favorite swags for the month, I found a new (to me) frame shop, and will be reimbursed for the beautiful, double-framed shadow box that I had made, and will be filling with saved childhood mementos and photos and gifting to my sister for Christmas. Some of the items have already been mounted in it, and the framer took an additional hour educating me on how to mount the rest, and invited me to return if I needed help, free of charge!
The best bonus this month though, has been taking a learning center shop as a favor to my scheduler. I was so impressed with this center and the staff and children I interacted with there, that I returned two days later and enrolled my daughter. She's now finished her first week there and I've already noticed a huge improvement in her. An unexpected bonus has been that she's absolutely exhausted at night from her activity-filled days there, that she's going to bed early without fussing.
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