putting the "her" back in motherhood
This is the third post in this series on how to use your tax refund to start a home business. If you’ve ever wanted to start an Etsy business, this interview is for you! Etsy is the marketplace for creative types who want to showcase their goods to the world. Etsy business owners sell all […]
This month, I’m doing a series on how moms can use their tax return to start a business from home. This first interview is about making money with Rover. If you’re unfamiliar, Rover.com is like the Uber of dog-sitting. It matches pet owners with caretakers. Pet lovers go to Rover.com to find someone trustworthy to […]
This post is the first in a series. The topic? How to use your tax return to start a business at home. Why am I talking about this? Why Use Your Tax Return To Start a Business at Home? As I have written about before, economic dependence is dangerous. A home business allows a woman […]
Let’s face it. Sometimes we get the urge to shop when we don’t need anything. Or when it’s just plain not in the budget! What can we do to scratch the itch to spend money when we shouldn’t? Here is a list of 10 things to do instead of shop. But first, why do we […]
It’s embarrassing to talk about your biggest money mistakes, but I’m writing this anyway. Hopefully it will help others avoid the blunders I made. My husband and I sometimes talk about the fact that we’ve spent the last several years undoing the damage we did from poor decisions in early adulthood. For example, we spent 5 […]
Although I’ve been writing on the internet since 2002, publishing an ebook for Amazon was brand new to me. The process was initially intimidating, but I learned how to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle and went on to write 6 ebooks for the Amazon marketplace. It isn’t as difficult as you may think. This […]
Part Two of this tutorial on how to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle. 6) Format your ebook for Kindle Your ebook has to be formatted in such a way so as to read cleanly in an e-reader. Word processing programs add code of their own that can cause the ebook to appear wonky. No […]
A nasty virus (probably the flu, since the stricken are bedridden for days with high fevers and severe joint/muscle aches), is currently making its way through my family. I haven’t slept properly in nearly a week, thanks to a feverish, coughing baby who has made me the human pacifier (I’ve been nursing and carrying him […]
One of the regrets I have about how I’ve handled money in my life? That I didn’t start investing earlier. I didn’t know how to invest small amounts of money. (Because small amounts were all I had!) Wait, I take that back. When I was very young I worked at Starbucks. A portion of my […]
After hearing about TING mobile over and over for the last few years, and reading happy reviews from their customers, I am now publishing my very own TING mobile review. I signed up a few months ago. But I waited until I had more experience with TING’s mobile service before sharing here. So without further […]
