Well this Christmas week has been wonderful! We spent lots of time with Family! Over Christmas our families all did slightly different things to try and keep costs down for everyone and concentrated on spending time together instead.
My side of the family each bought a used board game that we played together during Christmas and then had a contest to see who could raise the most money in pure change! No cheating and changing out $100 bill, it had to be the extra pocket change. We ended up with over $100 in change and my brother and his wife brought the most change so they get to take all the money and donate it to a charity of their choice. (It was our way of giving to a charity without starting a war as to which charity it would go to)
My husbands side of the family typically doesn't spend a lot but with his moms side we did pictures. We gave family pictures that were taken at our wedding and his sister is giving pictures of their family (with a brand new baby girl) in January.
Ahhhh, now with Christmas over it's time to clean house! I've already sold a few things on our garage sale facebook site for the city and am going through all of our stuff and packing what we won't need any time soon, throwing away the junk, selling the good stuff, and donating the ok stuff :-)
Gotta make ends meet until I start the new job so any other suggestions would be cool! Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Things I've Tried....
Hey everyone,
So here's the first list of things I've tried to do to make extra money:
1) Baking for Christmas. I posted an ad on our local facebook garage sale group. I offered to make perogies, cabbage rolls, and baking trays. This was good for a few weeks, I made about $150 after costs, which compared to the amount of work it took was not a lot, but it was a lot of fun!
2) I'm currently trying the adsense, putting an ad on my blog to see if it will actually pay and how long it takes to pay (click on the ad for fun so I can find out!!! :-) ) I'll keep you posted on how well that works.
3) I've done music lessons and child care as well but this takes a very firm time commitment and I am looking for something that is a light commitment or just something to do while I'm unemployed for the next month!
4) Get a casual job at a daycare/school/etc. This is pretty decent cash, you go, do your job, and come home. The only problem is often when they say casual, they actually mean part-time so you really need to stay on top of when they schedule you as often they won't ask!
5) Mary-Kay or any home party sales. This is a really tough gig. I'm not the type of person to bug people to have parties because I know most people hate them! It's great though if you want to stock up on make-up, tupperware, or something for yourself for a lower cost!
Any more ideas??? Please comment away! I'll keep looking and post any other options I've found.
Comming Soon: Energy Saving Ideas, Reuse to lower cost, Homemade gifts
So here's the first list of things I've tried to do to make extra money:
1) Baking for Christmas. I posted an ad on our local facebook garage sale group. I offered to make perogies, cabbage rolls, and baking trays. This was good for a few weeks, I made about $150 after costs, which compared to the amount of work it took was not a lot, but it was a lot of fun!
2) I'm currently trying the adsense, putting an ad on my blog to see if it will actually pay and how long it takes to pay (click on the ad for fun so I can find out!!! :-) ) I'll keep you posted on how well that works.
3) I've done music lessons and child care as well but this takes a very firm time commitment and I am looking for something that is a light commitment or just something to do while I'm unemployed for the next month!
4) Get a casual job at a daycare/school/etc. This is pretty decent cash, you go, do your job, and come home. The only problem is often when they say casual, they actually mean part-time so you really need to stay on top of when they schedule you as often they won't ask!
5) Mary-Kay or any home party sales. This is a really tough gig. I'm not the type of person to bug people to have parties because I know most people hate them! It's great though if you want to stock up on make-up, tupperware, or something for yourself for a lower cost!
Any more ideas??? Please comment away! I'll keep looking and post any other options I've found.
Comming Soon: Energy Saving Ideas, Reuse to lower cost, Homemade gifts
Money doesn't make you happy?
While sitting here, wondering how the bills will get paid in the next month, I realized there are a lot of people out there in the same situation I'm sure! I am going to research ways to make some extra cash and let you know what I come up with and I want any ideas you may have!
With the economy in the rocky shape that it is in I realized as a person starting out my life with a lot of school/consumer debt that it may be more imperative than ever to stay on top of this debt in case there are no jobs to turn to later. While the saying goes that money doesn't make you happy, I think the saying could easily be switched, not having money can make you depressed. I think we can all agree that not having enough to make ends meet or just having enough, or even just being unsure about it is a huge weight on anyone's shoulders. We can all scrimp and save and make do with what we have but to not have to worry about whether you can buy groceries or make payments would sure make me happy. Hence my thought, maybe having money will make you happy (as long as you aren't depending on money alone to fill your life).
Post any suggestions you have for money-making ideas, especially fun ones! Or comment on the ideas I post to give suggestions to make it better!
With the economy in the rocky shape that it is in I realized as a person starting out my life with a lot of school/consumer debt that it may be more imperative than ever to stay on top of this debt in case there are no jobs to turn to later. While the saying goes that money doesn't make you happy, I think the saying could easily be switched, not having money can make you depressed. I think we can all agree that not having enough to make ends meet or just having enough, or even just being unsure about it is a huge weight on anyone's shoulders. We can all scrimp and save and make do with what we have but to not have to worry about whether you can buy groceries or make payments would sure make me happy. Hence my thought, maybe having money will make you happy (as long as you aren't depending on money alone to fill your life).
Post any suggestions you have for money-making ideas, especially fun ones! Or comment on the ideas I post to give suggestions to make it better!
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