Reality Bites ... Financials

Despite the notions that you are “rolling in it” (and, no, I’m not referring to that, I’m referring to “money”) because you are running your own business, and, therefore, you have no need for a “real job”, being a WAHM can cause considerable financial stress. Usually, we are relying on one source of revenue to produce an income. Whether this is an online shop, selling products or your services, attending markets or whatever. It is not widely known to WAHMs that there are more often than not multiple streams of income.
Some of you have it, where you are selling products online and offline. Or you are offering business support as your main business and working or contracting for someone else. You may also have worked out you can produce more income by paying someone to do some of your work for you.

There are also additional streams, like affiliate marketing, where your promote the products and services of others and in return, you receive a percentage kickback, on-selling the products of other businesses at a rate higher than what you paid for it, or even dabbling in some e-bay style selling.
Then, there are the streams that we rarely consider, and most often completely forget about. These methods can generate you a nice little side income that keep you in coffees with the girls for quite a few months. If not the whole year.

Back of the couch – this is the method whereby, once every 6-8 months you either have a “quiet” workweek, or get the guilts so bad that you decide you should probably do some housework and a quick vacuum. As you now notice a weird life form growing from behind the couch cushions, you remove said cushions and locate … among things like toast from last June, your missing “good” lipstick and, um, not sure what that is … several dollars in coin lurking in the behind cushion. If you’ve left it long enough, the figure could even go into double figures.
The School Bag – again, it’s usually a bi-annual (if that often) event that can net you some decent dollars. Within the School Bag resides misplaced and forgotten lunch orders, coins that have fallen out of pockets and pencil cases, and usually some weird rubbish that you can whack onto e-bay and generate some profit.

The “Good” Handbag – the Good Handbag is often located under the shoes, at the back of the wardrobe or the bottom of the toy box. It will take you a week to locate, and is only required when you have an Important Meeting Coming up. Inside the bag you will find a note of considerable size, which, six years ago, you put in there for “emergencies” or when you had an Important Lunch Meeting. It will also contain multiple coin, and, if you’re really lucky, and entire wallet. It will also contain 17 train tickets that are no longer in use – but these are of no use to you at all.
There you have it – 3 cheap and easy ways to generate yourself the cream on top of your current income.

Now, get out and enjoy that coffee you have been longing for for years!

Article Source: http://www.therepozitory.com.au

Written by Mad Cow (aka Amanda Cox), wife, mother of three boys, WAHM and founder of fluff-free reality parenting website www.realmums.com.au and control freak who is unable to locate her desk under all the crap.

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