Author Topic: App to send donations to MMM (or anyone) when you shop on Amazon  (Read 2443 times)

coreycoconut

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I just pulled the trigger and gave the boss my resignation a few weeks ago!

After a few weeks of decompressing and road tripping, I got back to work. I wanted to make a way for myself and my friends to say "thanks!" to MMM and the other FI bloggers that made this new life possible for me.

That's why I made and started using this browser extension called Biscuit. When I buy something at Amazon, they send the Mustache family a commission payment automatically using his affiliate link. This can be pretty big too: if you buy a new electric bike wheel, he could get enough to power his fancy coffee setup for a month, and it doesn't cost you anything (except clicking the button on the toolbar).

I don't personally get any money if you use it. I made it so that I could practice learning web development and programming (the next career that I want to have to finish getting to FI), to see a project like this through to completion, and as a way to say thank you to some of my favorite FI bloggers. I think it would be cool if other people used it too, and I don't feel ashamed of plugging it in my introduction here because I truly think that other FI-geared people would find it useful.

Biscuit for Chrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKHPJI81egU

retiringearly

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Re: App to send donations to MMM (or anyone) when you shop on Amazon
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2017, 02:28:12 PM »
I use Smile Always.  I installed it on Google Chrome.
Incredibly easy way to make a charitable donation.

http://www.smilealways.io/

Miss Piggy

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Re: App to send donations to MMM (or anyone) when you shop on Amazon
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2017, 02:55:03 PM »
smile.amazon.com will do the same thing. And I'm quite certain MMM doesn't need "donations" but many charities do.

ETA: I did not click the link above (user's first post, marketing something, etc.), so I suppose smile.amazon.com may not be exactly the same, but it does donate to my specified charity every time I make am amazon purchase.
« Last Edit: July 15, 2017, 03:10:47 PM by Miss Piggy »

StudentEngineer

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Re: App to send donations to MMM (or anyone) when you shop on Amazon
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2017, 12:12:27 PM »
Seems like a cool app, any other coders here that can verify his claims? 

I was also unaware of smile and that is a great idea, it's only 0.5% of qualified purchases but everything adds up!  I'll make sure to add that to my amazon account so that I can make just a bit of difference.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!