Happy 3rd Birthday to DHTBB!

Hello readers!

Today Don't Hit the Backspace Button turns three! It is so incredible to see how far this blog has come. Although it's not a crazy popular phenomenon, it has grown so much in three years, and I am so proud of what it has become. I started with just posting about random life events and now have different series such as #BookWorm, Wifey Wednesday, DIY, and My Random Addictions. If you have just recently started reading DHTBB, thank you for checking it out! If you have been a loyal fan since 2012, thank you for your dedication! I truly enjoy sharing my thoughts with everyone, and hope that you all enjoy it too! Any suggestions for topics or anything at all, let me know. I love to hear feedback, and I LOVE when I see people and they tell me "I read your blog about such and such and I made my own thing" or even just telling me you read it and like it. It really means the world to me. So happy third birthday DHTBB, I can't wait for the years to come!

Thanks for reading over the years and for years to come,
- Olivia :)

#BookWorm: Devoted + True

Hello fellow readers!

And just like that, two more books checked off the list for the year! I have been loving this series by Hilary Duff as I just completed reading the last two books of her Elixir trilogy: Devoted and True. This series has been so much different than I expected. There is definitely a Twilight supernatural feel to it. If you haven't read Elixir skip over to the next bonded area! 

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Devoted starts off with Clea coming back after Sage was captured by the Saviors and she is trying to do everything she can to find him. While talking to her Dad at his grave she comes across a family of spirits that warn her to stay away from Sage. The rest of the book is finding out what happened to the family and the perspective goes back and forth between Clea and the ghost daughter Amelia. Clea finds out about the Cursed Vengeance and why the want Sage so badly.  

Skip to the bold if you haven't read Devoted. True starts out after Sage's soul was released from his body and put into Rayna's boyfriend Nico. The only difference in Nico's new appearance is his eyes. Sage starts having a weird reaction to taking over Nico's body and has random outbursts where he gets angry and can't remember past events. The story follows the group as they try to figure out how to get Sage's soul to take over the body without these crazy side effects. 

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Overall this series was very intriguing. It definitely kept me reading but got a little weird at times. If you are into shows like Supernatural you would love this book series. I like that show, but I am not super into magical and demonic books, however this one was tame enough that it kept my attention. I would rate Devoted and True both an 8/10. Definitely a good read but not INCREDIBLE. 

So have you ever read this series? Any thoughts as you came to the closing of it? I am hoping this may become a movie too! (Come on Hilary Duff). Let me just say that I have been LOVING the library here. So far I have only gone to the main library downtown on Roxboro street, and it isn't the nicest place ever, but just being around libraries again makes me happy. I know so sad I am such a nerd, I admit it. I really have been having a blast and now with technology advances I can go online, search for a book I might want to check out and place a hold on it if it is available or for when it becomes available at whichever location next! It truly makes me giddy just typing it because I have saved money on ordering books and still get to hold an actual book in my hand when I read. If you haven't ever been to your local library and are looking for a way to save money and still enjoy reading, go take a trip and visit! If you have kids a library is the best place to take them so they can pick out books they want to read on what interest them. I remember taking my niece to the library when she was only three and half to pick out books and she LOVED it. For some reason she had a fascination with bugs at the time (literally one of the smartest kids you will ever meet) and it was so fun watching her face as she picked out a new bug book she hadn't read yet. It's awesome. Anyways enough on my rant about reading ;). In other news I also started working now! Woohoo! Yay for paychecks and not being completely poor!

Thanks for reading with me,
- Olivia

Wifey Wednesday: How to Save a Quick Dollar Part II

Hello fellow savers,

Happy Wednesday fellow and future wifey-s (wifies? not sure, anyways...) ! Since my last post I have been finding other ways to save money pretty easily. I got some opinions from my friends and found some things on my own and wanted to share them with you! None of them will make you incredibly rich, but an extra $5-20/month never hurt anyone!

1) Swagbucks
This is an app for your phone and also you can use your laptop to earn more money. There are several different ways to earn money on it. You can watch videos, answer polls, discover things online, or even through online shopping. 1 Swagbuck = 1 penny, so 100 SB = $1! There are also goals so if your daily goal is 30SB and you hit it for a week then you get a bonus of 25SB. This can be time consuming if you sit on it all day, but you can quickly earn your daily goal and move on. If you earned 30SB/day for a month that is $9/month just for doing the minimum! Almost every day they send out a SwagCode that all you have to do is type in the code on your phone app and it gives you 2-6SB. Or answering the daily poll = 1SB. Super easy. So far I have earned upwards of $35 this month and I just do it when I am sitting down watching TV. Minimum cashout for this app can be as little a $3 to Amazon.com! They also have a deal right now where your first $25 giftcard each month is only 2200 SwagBucks instead of 2500! And if you shop online they give a lot of perks such as tonight I bought a plane ticket on Travelocity and got 8SB/1$ that I spent! Totally worth it :).

2) Perk Points
This one is a little less rewarding as 1 Perk Point = 1/10 of a cent. You can download their many apps to earn points and they have trivia games, scratch offs (that are free you just play for perk points), or Perk TV. You can literally leave Perk TV running and every two hours it will ask if you are still watching. I have only earned $5/month on this one and it feels like it takes a while but I don't spend every waking hour running this app or playing the games. On the scratch and win app you can do bidding for giftcards or Perk Points with coins (earned from games) and I have one 500 Perk Points on that before. Minimum cashout with this app is actually only $0.25 cents for an Amazon giftcard, but the more points you save the more you get for your points.

3) Ibotta
This app is bomb. My friend Summer told me about it and when I downloaded it I noticed a lot of people have used it before. It is a rebate app, but has a lot of general items such as "any gallon of milk" instead of specific brands. Some items have huge rebates while most are about 20 cents, but it adds up quickly and there are quite a few bonuses and such to gain more money back such as redeem three rebates for greater than 20 cents and get $3! So far since I started I have made $15 this month! Minimum cashout with this app is $10 to PayPal or select gift cards.

4) Panel Apps: Media Insiders and Nielsen
The last set of money earners I am going to talk about are Media Insiders and Nielsen Mobile Rewards. Nielsen is a panel app that looks at everything you do on your phone and uses it to better gauge which apps are popular right now etc. Same thing goes for Media Insiders except with this one you have to download it and do a couple steps to get it working. Both of them you literally just open and browse your phone as you do daily. Nielsen I have earned about $3-5/month and Media Insiders is about the same. For literally doing nothing you can make an extra $120 a year with both of these. So why not?

There you have it, just a few more ways to save a pretty precious penny. I am looking forward to seeing how my earnings on these apps change once I am working full time for a while, but with most of them being hassle free, it is easy to keep saving! Overall this month I have gotten giftcards/saved in total $60 from just these apps mentioned alone! To read my previous post for tips on other ways to save click this hyperlink!

Thanks for saving with me,
- Olivia