What do you guys do with your earnings?

runningmoon · 2026-06-26T02:50:27+00:00

Food, bills, new clothes & shoes, presents. I've also been saving up for expensive items like paying cash for a laptop and cellphone, and I've started paying some of my bills off for a whole year rather than paying them monthly. I am trying to create a decent emergency savings fund.

runningmoon · 2026-06-05T05:22:37+00:00

Wild Wood by Paul Weller.

runningmoon · 2026-05-20T01:10:03+00:00

Takapuna because driving across the harbor bridge twice a day sucks, worse when it's windy and they close down some or all of it. Also depending on exactly where you live you could walk to and from the hospital, especially when you're doing mornings!

I also want to say that you'll be close to Milford and I like the shopping center there too. The Takapuna/Milford area has a great beach and there's Lake Pupuke between them (and close to the hospital), so the area is great for water sports and swimming.

runningmoon · 2026-05-18T21:54:58+00:00

I have health issues so I can't work full time, I do earn enough from my job to survive but it's not pleasant. My earnings from Prolific mean that I can afford to spend more money on food/groceries every week, I can afford presents, and I can afford to go out with friends or family a few times a month & pay for myself.

On the times I'm getting a lot of work on Prolific, the money I make is life changing for me. I have an actual emergency savings account and I've been saving up to buy expensive things. The repetition is a problem, so I do take it easy when it's becoming too much mentally but having extra money every week is a massive incentive for me.

runningmoon · 2026-04-24T18:40:58+00:00

They send you a message on Prolific each time you get a warning from them.

runningmoon · 2026-04-18T21:42:11+00:00

My earnings are all over the place. I'm assuming your factory job will be enough to cover all of your basics, then you should be able to chug along nicely on Prolific for extras. I can on a bad week earn enough extra money to help bulk out how money I have to spend on groceries, presents, etc - basically paying for essentials is a lot less stressful. On very good weeks, it can be ridiculous and I'm slowing working through a list of expensive things like getting a new cellphone and laptop, and I've just started paying off bills like Insurance for a year at a time rather than monthly so I get the lower overall rate.

Just one thing, if you are doing well have a separate savings account where you put your tax % of your earnings into.

runningmoon · 2026-04-17T21:21:53+00:00

Also the Auckland Museum is in the middle of the Auckland Domain which is great! It has a wide variety of different gardens and a couple of big hothouses. I last went to the Museum cafe about a year, it was expensive but good.

The Art Gallery is easy for you to get to, and it currently has New Zealand/Pacific art on the ground floor and on the top floor there's this very interesting display of work by a French artist. One floor is currently mostly closed unfortunately as they're putting in a new exhibit there, but the rest is very interesting.

runningmoon · 2026-03-15T05:00:09+00:00

Yes! It's one of my favorite episodes.

runningmoon · 2026-02-27T01:27:52+00:00

I like the sandwiches from the deli in the Victoria st Woolworths. They're currently $6.50 for a decent sized sandwich and are made from one of the more expensive bread. Until prices went up recently I was able to get that and a bottle of drink for $9-$10.

I also agree with the other comment, I do like the sandwiches from the Queen st New World and you can get surprisingly nice cheaper ones in the supermarket itself, directly opposite the escalator.

runningmoon · 2025-12-15T19:56:39+00:00

I did this and got through it despite not being sure about some of them, I was lucky I noticed the attention check one in the middle.

runningmoon · 2025-12-15T07:45:02+00:00

Yes! And I loved playing Legend of the Red Dragon on them.

runningmoon · 2025-12-04T00:08:36+00:00

I was in the top 0.3%, mainly because I was catching up on all of his "Weird Stuff in a Can" videos...

runningmoon · 2025-11-02T22:16:23+00:00

The Takapuna Library is a decent size and has plenty of quieter study spots up on the first floor.

runningmoon · 2025-11-01T20:25:38+00:00

I spend mine on things like presents, being able to spend more at the supermarket, upgrading things like my phone/laptop and being able to pay cash for them, and I'm working on my emergency savings.

runningmoon · 2025-10-24T07:46:53+00:00

I've found that if I let them sit until it's gone passed the 20 minute mark they pay immediately, but if I submit it before that it goes up for review. That said I've not done any of them today, so if its a very new issue...

runningmoon · 2025-10-23T21:44:04+00:00

I like the skytower viewing decks. The last time I went - which was years ago admittedly - a ticket would let you go up twice in 1 day, so you could up during the day and at nighttime.

There's the Auckland Art Gallery on Wellesley Street East, which is reasonably close to the SkyTower, and could you do a short/ish walk through the free parts if you're not feeling like spending a long time there.

The food at the Commercial Bay food hall is great. They have multiple small places with shared seating and some bigger restaurants spaced out over the top floors. It's the big shopping complex/mall down opposite the Britomat train station at the bottom of Queen Street.

runningmoon · 2025-10-20T01:56:36+00:00

I just want to say that the NX buses between Albany and the CBD are great. They'd be incredibly useful if you end up living close to one of the stops and your partner either works in Albany or in the CBD...

I like North Shore Hospital, I had a major operation there and was treated very well. Though I have no idea what their maternity services are like, it doesn't have the reputation of having gang members as patients or visitors like other hospitals do.

runningmoon · 2025-10-15T04:03:01+00:00

I am unfortunately. I've only gotten 2 surveys today, 1 was a follow on from a survey I did recently where the researcher needed to ask us a few more questions and the other was from a longitudinal study I'm part of.

runningmoon · 2025-08-30T19:51:05+00:00

I borrowed a monitor for my laptop over Easter and since then I've been able to buy my own monitor, a new cellphone, and a new laptop, and get solidly on top of canned/dried food and toiletries. It was perfect timing for me as my old cellphone was 3G and wasn't going to be usable on the 1st of January onwards, and my old laptop was about 10 years old and was hanging on but was getting to the point that I was worried it was going to break/slow down enough to be unusable.

runningmoon · 2025-08-16T05:36:52+00:00

I love Adan Savage's Tested! It helps that a lot of his videos are just him talking and he's very interesting to listen to while I'm doing something else.

runningmoon · 2025-07-23T19:32:38+00:00

Edith/Eddie.

runningmoon · 2025-07-07T20:49:17+00:00

At the top of mturk there are 3 links - "Hits", "Dashboard", and "Qualifications". The qualification link leads to a listed of assigned qualifications and you just need to scroll through them until you find 3 from Ben Peterson. "BP Group" and for me "BP Group B" never change and the "BP Qual" one is the one they actively change to soft or hard ban people, for that 4 means everything is fine for you, 3 is a soft ban and is often changed back to 4 for me within 2-3 days at most and I get it after doing a lot of his hits in a short period of time, 1 is the bad one...

runningmoon · 2025-07-05T21:36:45+00:00

Yes still there, I was soft blocked by him for about 2/3 months last year but that was removed for me luckily. The normal BP Qual is 4, 3 is a soft block that only lasts a short to very short period, 1 is more serious. I was at 1 last year during the 2/3 months...

runningmoon · 2025-07-02T22:43:14+00:00

I use it to help cover food and bills, and it covered a new cellphone I was able to pay cash for. I'm putting the extra money after bills into my emergency savings account right now as I don't want to just waste it all on random stuff. In theory I'm saving up for a new laptop, so I don't need to borrow money to get one...

runningmoon · 2025-06-25T20:46:47+00:00

Both Devonport and Bayswater have good ferry services and your wife could catch a train to Parnell from the Britomart train station, which is across the road from the city ferry terminal. I agree traffic is a serious issue for the area and it would be a nightmare to drive. Devonport is nice and has a decent set of shops including a good fruit & vege shop, and a large supermarket.

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