make some extra money? we really need to pay off our credit cards. we don't use them anymore but we have debt and we pay way more than the minimum every month. i just want to be able to do something to help out.

what can i do?

wouldn't that be funny though..a 31 week preggie stripper! LOL!

Originally posted by juliebelle
wouldn't that be funny though..a 31 week preggie stripper! LOL!

Ya know, there'd probably be a whole lotta guys up for that!

That said, I wish I could give you some ideas, but most of them would involve part-time employment. I've never figured out how to bring in more $$ without getting a side job (and I've almost always had one).

:joker: :joker: :joker:

Man what a visual!!!!!

We did debt consolidation and it is woeking out great. Have you two looked into that?

I proofread for a ocal weekly newspaper. If you are into that sort of thing, try contacting small newspapers in your area & ask.

Tutoring?


Be creative & think outside the box. Good luck!

I think tutoring is a great idea. You used to be a french teacher didn't you?

I spent a long time trying to figure out how to pay off the bills...everything took so long...then we sold the house....the market is so good right now-we got all the debt gone. even with another fulltime job, we could never have gotten out that fast.

given, we don't have a house....but all the cars and credit cards are paid off..lol:rolleyes:

ETA- pregnant strippers make a fortune I hear...;cool:

rotflmao :) i love that idea.

seriously, from time to time some of the larger wahm businesses are looking for a little help. i know susie little (is it natural home?) is looking for someone to do cold call sales and answer phones. could you find something like that where you could work part time from home?

I always thought house cleaning would be a decent way to make a bit of money. You could set your own schedule, quit doing it if you got bored, and not really have any start up costs. And you'd make way more than minimum wage (if you work for yourself--probably $40-75 or so per house on a weekly basis or $80-100 for one time cleaning, depending on your area, I know that's what it is around here for about 2-6 hours worth of cleaning.). All you have to do is put up some flyers at the library or something, or put in a classified ad, or ask friends and neighbors.

I think tutoring or offering lessons is a good idea too. You could even have something like a playgroup with activities, either in your home or at a local place that will have you. (like mom and toddler time with stories, music, craft, etc). Or teach something like French, piano lessons, cloth diapering, etc. I usually pay around $5-10 per toddler type activity, and I've had cloth diapering classes in my home and I charge approx. $12-$15 for the class. I did one as a set of 3 classes: cloth diapering, sling wearing, and baby food making, and charged like $30 for the set of classes.
Or if you want something regular, maybe after school care. You're not tied up with all day daycare, but it'd be a regular thing.
Anyway just food for thought...

I do housecleaning, charge $20/hr. Works great for me.

Also if you are looking for a one time gig, look into market research in your area, they do focus groups, product testing, things like that. IMO they are fun and usually pay $25-$50/hr. Sessions range from 1-4 hours in my experience. Just call up a market research company and see what they have going on.

If your area is anything like mine, the Mother's Morning Out thing mentioned above is a great idea. My former neighbor used to work 3 mornings a week, and I think she pretty much covered her oldest DD's private school tuition. You could really bust it on the debt that way. (hmmm... this is giving me ideas....)

Originally posted by mamaxt
If your area is anything like mine, the Mother's Morning Out thing mentioned above is a great idea. My former neighbor used to work 3 mornings a week, and I think she pretty much covered her oldest DD's private school tuition. You could really bust it on the debt that way. (hmmm... this is giving me ideas....)

i missed that..mothers morning out? looking but don't see it.

Originally posted by Sunflower_Momma
Ya know, there'd probably be a whole lotta guys up for that!

That said, I wish I could give you some ideas, but most of them would involve part-time employment. I've never figured out how to bring in more $$ without getting a side job (and I've almost always had one).

i'm trying to think of a side job that would make enough money to actually be worth it. of course this might be the wrong time to be thinking about it...seeing that in about 8 weeks i'm going to have a new baby.

Originally posted by juliebelle
i missed that..mothers morning out? looking but don't see it.

Well, I misread the tutoring post where she was talking about playgroup type activities.

What my neighbor did was MWF from 9-1. $20 per kid per day. Lots of neighborhood moms wanted the time to run out and shop, get their hair done, work PT from home, whatever. She never took on more than she could handle - she'd turn people away.

Susan took in 4-5 kids, all walking age to about 3 years old. Let's see - 5 kids x $20 x 3 days = $300 a week for your kids to have play buddies. She had us pack lunch for the kids, and she served it at 12:30, and sent them home ready for a nap. And I used her fine services a couple of days a week to work PT from home. ;) Her daughter was my Dylan's best friend, and he loved going to play.

She did playgroup type activities (singing, painting, playing out back). All the moms were SAHMs and WAHMs, so she didn't have a lot of the problems that full-time daycare providers deal with - like people having to work really late, bad traffic, etc. Most people just stayed in the neighborhood since it was just 4 hours.

I used to have pregnant anxiety dreams about trying to get a job stripping with my post-partum body and schedule. Something about all those pregnant hormones surging through you about now may make you think a bit extreme, kwim?
I just started working a tutoring job at a learning center (grade school reading and math), and its a really good part time gig, fwiw. I work one evening a week, for $50/week. Places like that have a program all lined out already, so its pretty easy yet you still use your brain.
Then again... if you really want to take your clothes off may I recommend a job as an artists' model? I did it for years, including when I was pregnant. Artists looove to draw preggo nudies, lol. Check your areas colleges for that one.

Originally posted by brooken
Then again... if you really want to take your clothes off may I recommend a job as an artists' model? I did it for years, including when I was pregnant. Artists looove to draw preggo nudies, lol. Check your areas colleges for that one.

i know WAY too many local college kids to do that! LOL!

I work at a church based Mother's Day Out program for 13 hours a week. I get paid $8 an hour. My DD (almost 2 and a half) loves it. I have to pay $30 a month for her tuition but that just started this year because there are so many teacher's kids. Some programs would likely be free for your child to attend.

It comes out to almost $500 a month. I started subbing originally so my DD could play with other kids but I started full time to help with debt, the same as you're wanting to do.

I wouldn't suggest it in your current "state" ;) but pizza delivery is great money. I did it for about a year when Jacob was younger, so I could be home during the day with him. Maybe your dh could do that a night or two per week?

Would someone need any kind of business license or child care license to do a weekly "Mothers Day Out" Program? I think that is a wonderful idea and I am very interested in doing something like that in my area.

My neighbor was licensed. I remember because she asked for emergency numbers and vaccination records, and I explained that I didn't have any. Since (as it turned out) she didn't vax either, she gave me the exemption form to fill out. ;)

Here's a site with links to state regs:
http://nrc.uchsc.edu/STATES/states.htm

They don't look impossible to deal with or anything. There are enough home daycares in my SD and the one across the street that I don't really think the paperwork and regulations are so bad as to keep people from doing it.

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Originally posted by Sunflower_Momma
Ya know, there'd probably be a whole lotta guys up for that!

That said, I wish I could give you some ideas, but most of them would involve part-time employment. I've never figured out how to bring in more $$ without getting a side job (and I've almost always had one).

I was thinking the same thing! When I was preggo with Branden I accidently found sites aimed at that type of fetish thing...naked preggo women among other "things".

I used to be a mystery shopper for extra $$. You can take the children and you are allowed to turn down jobs when it is not convenient for you.

where would I find info about the mystery shopping thing?

about the mystery shopper thing:I signed up with 2 different companies and they give you jobs near your home or however far you are willing to travel. One job I did was to get an estimate for a new window in my home and fill out a survey online how the service was and I got $15 for it. My sis did a job at T.J.Maxx just to go and see if their lingerie section was neat and clean. Some jobs require you to buy a small item to evaluate the service (My sis did one like that for a hardware store).

My friend sells Body Shop at home and makes a lot of $$$$.

It's still really new....not a saturated market like Creative Memories and Pampered Chef...

And It's consumable...meaning they will use it and want more!!
Let me know if you are interested and I'll get you in touch with my friend!