Making and keeping New Years resolutions- saving my online earnings

I made a few New Years resolutions for 2009. Normally I don't make any resolutions so this is a big deal for me!
The first resolution I made was that this year I will try to save as much of my online earnings as possible to use for Christmas and maybe birthdays. Some of the sites I belong to only give out gift cards and merchandise as prizes and those are the ones I am mainly focusing on for saving. On the sites where I earn cash only I will try to save it in my Paypal account but will use that for bills if it becomes necessary. Over the past few years when I have earned points or whatever I have immediately redeemed them for whatever gifts I could get. Sites like Gather and MyPoints gift some great gift cards and I like to spoil myself sometimes! It's hard to just leave the points there to accumulate when you could get a $10 Olive Garden gift card or a $25 Target gift card and use it right away. But now I am going to leave it alone. Or at least try to leave it alone more than I have in the past!
I have been successful so far but it is only January. I have enough points at Swag Bucks to get a $5 Amazon.com or $5 Starbucks gift card but I am not going to redeem it. I am about 200 points away from a $10 MyPoints gift card and will be there probably in about 2 weeks or so. I will NOT be redeeming it right away! I am getting close to cashing out at a few different sites and I am going to try my hardest to keep everything in my account and save it.

I'll keep an update so everyone (including ME) can see how I am doing. I seem to do a better job when I keep track like this. Wish me luck!

Poor, Party of 5 (about me)

I am a 26 year old mom of 3 kids that range in age from 7-under 1.  I love to talk about their lives and the stuff that we like to do.  We live with their father, my boyfriend. We are not married...I don't really have an excuse for that but things work the way they are.  We have a sign on the molding above our dining room entrance that says, "We may not have it all together but together we have it all."  And it is SO true!

We are a party of 5 on a crappy income. Hence the POOR.

I have been spending a few years trying to figure out how to supplement our income and have a goal of making enough money to never have to feel the need to go back to work. Even better would be to figure out a way for us both to stay at home full time.

I do it all, try it all, or so it seems. I blog, do GPT sites, surveys.  It also seems that with my cluttered mind I can never stick to just one thing and end up never doing really well with anything I do.  I try though, and the more time that passes the more I realize how much we NEED to do this in addition to WANTING to do it.  

Maybe my ideas will help out others. Maybe your ideas will help us! We'd love to hear them!

Read on to see how we manage.