My Cell Phone Broke So I Turned It Into a Money Maker

Have you ever had one of those days?

Where nothing goes right and then on top of it you drop your cell phone and crack the glass on it?

You know? Where it's all THAT bad but then you think about it and it's even worse because you just finished paying off the phone, you're not on contract with it anymore to have it replaced and you let your warranty expire? AND....... the cost for replacing the face/glass on your phone is way more than what your service provider is offering to get a new phone on contract?

So you go get a new phone from your provider and are now stuck with this piece of junk that you have to put tape on so you don't cut your fingers on if you slide 'em across the face of the phone..... now you can just toss your broken phone into the junk drawer.

That's what I did a while back...and my cracked-glass phone sat in the junk box for quite some time, pretty much forgotten.

UNTIL I got some tips from some teens who are using cell phones legitimately to make decent amounts of cash/rewards from their phones - mostly cheap, crappy, old and broken phones. Not non-functional phones, but phones that are broken in the way described above.

In early June 2015, I replaced a phone because it has given me 3+ years of service, is paid off, and started functioning like absolute YUK with what I need for it to do nowadays - which is more than I needed it to do when I first bought it. After service was taken away from this particular phone, I went to put it in my "gadget junk box" and realized I have a couple of devices that are past prime. They are still functional but they aren't up to par for what people now do via cell phone. All of this coincided with me also finding some cool forums about making Perk and Swagbucks money and earnings via phone apps, so I grabbed my cracked-glass phone, put tape on it so I don't cut my fingers on it, loaded this one and my recently retired Samsung up with apps and started letting 'em make me some credits/money.

There are a few r/l friends who I know are laughin' their arses off at me 'cos I explained what I am doing and to them, the number of apps I use and my explanation of how they work, along with with details of the earning programs just seems ludicrous, complicated for the amount of earnings.

Here's the rebuttal on that issue: the explanations are necessary but it's like learning computer stuff for the first time. At first computers are confusing and it seems like there's too much to learn and that the early steps aren't worth the effort. However, once the basics are set, things are easy, and computers save us a lot of time - once we've learned the basics and are no longer overwhelmed by explanations of functions, etc.

Same thing here. If I take out the explanations and simplify everything, it works out like this:

Broken phone but still functional/online-capable + load apps + run apps = credits.
Credits = convert to Paypal cash or to gift cards so my money stays in my pocket

That's it!

And I've turned my NEW Phone into a money-maker, too... with Shopping apps and by getting any apps onto my phone that are associated with stores I shop at/use. Sometimes money saved is the same as money earned, isn't it? If it all comes down to me having to spend less of my pocket money - so that I can bank that elsewhere, it's all beneficial to me. I didn't know, until I did a dedicated search, just how many store apps are available and how their rewards work.

In Canada SUPERSTORE/No Frills has an outstanding savings program, store card, cell phone apps.

There's a shopping app I use aside from the Superstore/No Frills app and card that is allowed to be used in conjunction with any Superstore/No Frills sales and offers, and this new app actually pays for you to buy certain items. When your balance reaches $20, this app/business sends you out $20! And that is aside from any deals you get from Superstore/No Frills offers. No Frills happens to be the nearest major grocery store near my house, so this is great for me!

I haven't done any major extra work here to earn money - I just made some major changes in how I go about doing daily things!

I took a broken but still functional phone out of a drawer, paired it with another out of service, still functional cell phone and run two different site app programs on them, and I check phone apps before doing my necessary shopping... ch-ching. Money!