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7 Side Hustle Ideas for Stay-At-Home Parents

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Sure, you may be saving on daycare costs, but sometimes it would be nice to bring in a little extra cash. Blogging is hard work, but it can also be super flexible, especially if you run your own blog. You select your topics, you decide when you work, and you are responsible for your blog’s performance. Photographer.

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Wait, Don’t Buy That Yet!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I own a blog and some other websites and have been wanting a new camera to take pictures and videos for them. Since my blog is set up as a business, I could deduct the expense – or at least depreciate the asset over time – reducing my taxes. However, I wait until spring and summer to buy decorations – and get them at garage sales.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Together they blog about becoming debt free and location independence in order to serve the world at Life with a Mission. Daniel is a WordPress plugin developer at grow development and blogs at [link]. She blogs about books at [link]. We sold extra items that we weren’t using through Craigslist and garage sales.

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10 Reasons You’re Broke

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you always have more month than cash and never seem to get ahead or even to even, it’s time to look at some reasons you may be broke. You go weekend e-baying, garage-saling or to the flea markets. As you can see there are many reasons why we may not have the money we need. You spend your money on the wrong stuff.

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Should You Learn To Sew?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Type in ‘sewing’ into your search engine and you will get a tremendous number of results, all the way from companies selling sewing machines, patterns, and material, to blogs, class offerings, books, magazines, videos and events! The Frugal Girl blog does a great job of discussing this point! Sewing is an art. To decorate.

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Should You Spend Your Money on Home Re-Decorating?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Have you ever shopped at neighborhood garage sales? You may have self-image problems , they suggest that you might be obsessive if you redecorate often. I’ve used these finds to help furnish and decorate a vacation rental and to fill in pieces we lacked at home. and still have the wedding furniture we bought 44 years ago!

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My Multiple Incomes: Blogging and Freedom of Speech – A look at where your freedom of speech ends when you blog. My Retirement Blog : Retirement Planning Requires Action – If you are starting to think about your own retirement, you are on the right path. It is very easy to lose everything with just one trade.