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Scott Adams published a post titled Rounders vs Accumulators. It is one of those oversimplifications of humans that makes life so much easier to handle for some of us.

I did find the simplification striking though. I am definitively a rounder. The main problem I have with my rounding life style is that I can’t handle a level two problem escalating with time. In my binary book any problem will stay a zero until it is a ten.

As Scott says; the rounder normally lives a happier life. I think most people getting stress related symptoms are accumulators. We are faced with level one and two problems every day. By accumulating them the critical problem level will be passed because of lots of small things.

I would like to know if these characteristics are inherited or if they they are brought upon us when we grow up. I’ll keep an eye on my children. If it is a social issue then maybe we can use this metaphor to convert accumulators that has hit the roof.

The savings are usually not as big as they seem at first glance since home made food also costs money but they are still substancial. Living in Stockholm Sweden it is not unrealistic to save $5 a day. That’s about $100 a month you can spend of fun things instead of bad food.

Apart from saving a lot of money per year you will probably make better food at home than the one you can eat at the lunch restaurant.

Since it’s faster to heat your own food than standing in line at a crowded restaurant you will also save a lot of time.At my work I can go home earlier if I take a shorter lunch brake. If you do not have flexible working hours that half hour each day is well spent taking a brisk walk. That is free and good exercise. If you’re not the moving type, but a regular reader of this blog the saved time is a splendid opportunity to write for your blog. Bring pen and paper from home so that there is no ground for discussions of making private money with company resources.

Here is the list of all submissions to Blog Project Three:

Blogging

• Top 3+1 Sites about Blog Contests by Lovedeep Wadhwa
• Why I am Still Addicted to Blogging After 3 Years by Ajay
• Increase Your Blog’s Stickiness by Jordan
• L’Amour De Blog: 3 reasons why blogging is like being in love by Phil
• 3 Trends that Shaped up the Blogosphere this Year by Ashwin
• 3 Times A Blogger by Rich
• 3 Ways To Get Back In The Blogging Spirit by Scott
• 3 Ways to Increase your Blog Stats by Ant
• Three Things to Do Before You Click Publish (and One Thing to Do After) by Jacqueline
• Three Things That I’ve Yet To Achieve as a Blogger by Rhys
• 3 Secrets of Writing for Blogs by Tejvan
• 3 Tips to Increase Blog Readership by Kyle
• 3 reasons why comment relish is not good for your blog by Vijay
• Top 3 Reasons You Should Stop Reading Blogs by George
• 3 Reasons Why You Should Use Storytelling by Daniel
• Top 3 tips to pick up girls/boys using blogs by Mario
• Three Reasons Why Group Blogging is Great by Mike
• 3 Ways To Get Me To Not Visit Your Blog Again by Sean
• 3+1 Things Blogger’s Should Never Ever Do. by Arpit
• How To Sell Your Blog in 3 Easy Steps by Ahmed Bilal
• Three essential steps to great blog posts by Corner Scribe
• 3 Sure Fire Way to Advertise Your Blog on a Shoe String by Engtech
• Three Steps to Keeping your RSS Feed Readers by Matthew
• 3 Fatal Errors of Blogging by Tillerman
• Three reasons why I like contest by Ashok
• 3 Reasons I Stayed On With Blogging by Tine
• July Blogtipping by Rob
• Top 3 Things Kermit The Frog Can Teach You About Blogging (and Life) by Dee
• 3 Good Blog Habits To Get Huge Traffic For Your Blog by Amey
• What “The 3 Little Pigs” Can Teach You About Blogging by Jan
• 3 roads to blogging stardom by Jayson
• I’m Engaged! Now What? by Brittany
• Blogging in Three Numbers by Francesco
• 3 Reasons why I suck as a blogger by Ben
• 3 Ways to Track Your Comments by David
• 3 Reasons Why Daily Blog Tips Sucks by Bes

Business & Career

• 3 Easy Steps to Becoming More Effective by Ron
• 3 Great Alternatives to Paper by Using Web-based Solutions by Ryan
• 3 Signs that You are in the Wrong Company by Anne
• Top 3 Reasons Why You Have to Work from Home by Alfa
• 3 Reasons to Persevere by Anne
• Three Mistakes made by teen Online Entrepreneurs by Nick
• 3 Reasons Job Search Spam Should Scare You by Jacob
• 3 Reason Why Entrepreneurs Succeed! by Ray
• Finding Work and Steve, the Maintenance Man and That Third Thing by Hoffman
• Reducing Debt: 3 different Ways by Richard

Entertainment

• Three Things Wrong with Transformers by Nathania
• 3 movies that can change you by WebStuffScan
• The Three That I Miss The Most! by Jimbo
• Got Independence? 3 things you should do this July 4th by Joe
• Magnetic 3D Globe Jigsaw Puzzle by Marcel
• Three Free Willie Nelson Songs by Liz
• Three Great Anime Blogs and Maybe Anime? by Carlie

Health & Fitness

• Get Healthy In Three Minutes by Gal
• 3 Things I Have Done To Save My Own Life by Eric
• Top Three USA Worst Cities for Losing Weight by Cherry
• 3 Things I Miss About Being Fat by Anna Farmery
• 3 Reasons Why PowerTap SL is so Popular by Jasper
• The Top Three Reasons Why I hate Diets by Joey
• Three reasons to try a marathon… by Shane
• 3 Reasons Running is Good for You Alexander

Make Money Online

• 3 ways to use Digital Point Forums to Earn Money Online by Adheeth
• 3 Costly Internet Business Mistakes to Avoid by John
• 3 Things no one told you about web monetizing by Pedro

Technology

• Three Reasons You Should Hate the Prius by Michael
• 3 Ways to Use Social Networking For Your Podcast by The Freq
• 3 Reasons Why I dont Like GMail by Nirmal
• 3+3 free tools for moving your life and your stuff online by Tanya
• Add Impact To Your Photos With “The Rule Of Three” by Brian
• 3 coolest PC Mods by Madhur
• 30 curiosities about number 3 in the games by Marcelo
• Free PDF Readers by Deepak
• 3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags, Life Quotes, & Traffic Generators by Adam Pieniazek

Travel

• Top 3 Ways to Avoid a Crowd at Disney World by Winnetta
• The three places in Japan I would love to visit by Jamaipanese
• 3 Ways to Have a Luxurious Hawaii Vacation on the Cheap by Sheila
• Three reasons to Visit Cyprus by Rajaram
• 3 wonders of the world that designers should have voted for by Mirko

Web Development & Design

• 3 Huge SEO Mistakes I have Made by Jeremy
• How I built 10,000 links in 3 weeks by Patrick
• 3 Ways to Improve the Comment Styles on Your Blog (With Examples) by Ryan
• My three best traffic generators by Johan
• 3 really simple ways to speed up your blog by Hans
• Make your WordPress blog more Search Engine friendly by Shankar
• 3 Must Do Things For A New Blogger by Ramkarthik
• The 3 P’s for Creating a Successful Website - Passion, Persistence, and Patients by Sarah
• The 3 kinds of web statistic tools (or site traffic counters) by Planet Apex
• 3+1 Ways to Make Your Website Load Faster by Pallab
• 3 + 3 + 3 Places Where You Can Get Free Icons For All Seasons And Reasons by Joel
• 3 reasons why you must learn ruby language by Ruby Tips
• 3 Reasons Why I shifted from Blogger to Wordpress! by Ashfame
• 3 + 2 Most Sexy and Stylish Firefox Themes For You by DJ Flush
• Top 3 Mistakes of Rookie Web Designers by Kevin

Random Topics

• Three things I want my kids to refrain from saying on our upcoming road trip by Juggling Frogs
• 3 Reasons to be Hopeful of the Future by Anna
• The 3 Easiest Ways To Ruin Your Truck’s Transmission by Jason
• The last three times I lost my wallet… by Johan
• The 3 Most Common Types of Collections by Jason
• Three bad foods that are really good by Graham
• 3 Reasons Why I Love the Bar Exam by Andrew
• Memorials to three dead bridges by Graham Richardson
• 3 Tips for Staying Focused with Small Children by Genesis
• What Happens When Three is Almost Enough: Go Irrational! by Simmone
• Me and three by John
• 3 Sexy Cover Ladies = Infinite Hotness by Celebrienne
• 3 little words by Paris
• 3 Things you can do to have a great sick day by Rich
• 3 things I want to do before I die by Just Me
• Three Reasons Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside by Brown Baron
• Ten things i didn’t know about the number 3 until now by Blaiq
• 3 Reasons to Play EVE Online by Adam
• The 3 Email Newsletters No Church Site Should Be Without by Mark Alves
• Three is a Magic Number by Mary
• Three Cheers for T-Shirts by Jay Wagers

Since this blog is new and lacks a decent page rank the traffic based revenue opportunities are quite limited. Even if I have a high click through rate on contextual ads and affiliate links the absolute numbers are low.

I have found that writing reviews for those review networks accepting low ranking blogs is the best initial monetizer. Since every review is also a post it will increase your search engine surface and generate more future traffic.

A big mistake I believe I made when writing my initial reviews is that I focused only on the requirements of the opportunity. If the requirement was 100 words I wrote 101 words and submitted the post without giving it a second thought.

Now that I have thought about it a little more I am a bit sorry I didn’t do more. Future advertisers will read those reviews and only see some words surrounding the advertisers link. My uninspired writing made the reviews look more like bought links than real reviews. By writing good reviews the price will be higher than other blogs with the same page ranking. The reviews will be more than just paid links.

Submit posts to Blog Carnivals
Go to Blog Carnival and submit your post to all carnivals you can find that matches your niche. If you have several posts you want to publish, save them for later carnivals. Since many of the carnivals are hosted by a new blogger every week you will spread your back links among more blogs that way. Even if a carnival is hosted by the same blogger every time your back links will be on more pages if you submit articles over a longer period of time. Since the primary reason to submit an article to a carnival is to get readers it must be better to have one link in five issues than five links in one issue.

Participate in contests and group writing projects
This post is submitted to Blog Project: Three and I have participated in the Top 5 - Group Writing Project with my other blog. Even though the Top 5 post was done in May I still see some traffic from the other participants. It made a huge impact on the amount of incoming links to idstam.com. Since you know your post will reach a broader audience than you usual posts it is an inspiration to do a litter better than average.

Take part in a controversial discussion.
This is something I did at idstam.com when the legal status of TestDriven.NET was questioned by Microsoft. That post gave me more comments than anything else and I still get some traffic from Google to those pages. Be careful though. Everything you write online is saved so make sure you write things you can defend and take responsibility for. Your blog is on big billboard for advertising yourself. A couple of years down the line a controversial post might become like a smelly shoe you can’t get rid of.

(At first I was going to add self submitting posts to reddit.com to this list but that traffic makes the Google Analytics graph look like a roller coaster.)

I find writing paid reviews actually help me becoming a better writer. It forces me to think in other ways when writing. It also gives me ideas for posts, both the actual paid review and related areas I find interesting.

Blogsvertise is the latest service for paid reviews I submitted this blog to.

What I really like about Blogsvertise is that they accept blogs that do not have high Alexa and Google rankings. Both PayPerPost and ReviewMe wants to have blogs that are already mature in their network.

So if your blog is new and you still want to earn money by writing reviews sign up for Blogsvertise.

Now that Microsoft offers 500 MB free storage with their beta of Live Drive it is worth noticing that Diino offers 2GB for free.

I have not tried both services yet, but since Microsoft doesn’t accept all submissions to their beta I think you should give Diino a chance. At least Diino is out of beta.

Either way, it doesn’t hurt to use the storage at both Microsoft Live Drive and Diino since they are both free.

I have to stop doing things in the mornings. It fails more often than succeds.

While reordering things in my bike bag I had put the wallet in my bookshelf among the CD-covers. Yes, I know; I am not a very bright person in the morning.

I should probably train the kids to take care of me instead of the other way round.

To become a better writer you need to read a lot. The magazine business these days is all about writing in a way that will make both readers and advertisers happy so MagsDirect can surely help you making more money from your blog.

Since writers for magazines are treated as journalists, in contrast to bloggers, there is still lots of information that you will read first in a magazine.

MagsDirect is a site that sells subscriptions to a wide vareity of magazines. Whithin their 100% satisfaction guarantee they credit an ammount coresponding to the outstanding issues to the original payment.

If you are dissatisfied for any reason, you can cancel your subscription and we will credit you via your original payment for all issues that haven’t yet been sent to you.

Your contact and personal information will never be sold or rented or used for direct marketing or spamming.

The business section offers almost a hundred different publications. That may be a bit overwhelming to browse, but I found the full category listing on the first page to be well balanced.

The recent frugality and tidiness commitment really got a blow yesterday. I lost my wallet at the train station when I pulled some rain protection out of my bag. My sleeping habits and lack of routines with the children in the mornings makes me a nerve wreck until I get to work.

Fortunately no one had used the cards. All cards but the drivers license are canceled. I am going to wait a couple of days to apply for a new drivers license since it is a real hassle to get a new one when I have no other means of identification.  At least that is the experience I have from the last time I had to renew it. At that time the Swedish passports weren’t accepted as domestic identification. Hopefully they are now.

There weren’t much money in the wallet, but I had some parking receipts that I won’t get paid for now.

To be continued…