1 Way Grown Stay-at-Home Daughters Make Money

Olivia has decided to make coupon/deal shopping for our family her part time job. The thing about a job is that you have to be committed, you have to do it even if you don’t ‘feel’ like it. I have shopped the deals from time to time, and there really is no excuse for why I don’t do it now, other than TIME. But if I were on Facebook less and surf the deals more I could make it work (there is today’s confession).

Anyway, Olivia is committed to adding to our family’s economy by shopping the deals. She spent about 4 hours making list, clipping and printing coupons, devising her shopping trip. You can’t save or make money without a good plan!

For us it is about a 45 minute drive to the good stores (which is another reason why I quit the deals). So Olivia and Emma decided to make a day of it. The two of them set out for a day of adventure, deal shopping and memory making!

You can read more about their adventure and memory making at Olivia’s blog.

She bought $191.00 worth of stuff for $41.00!!!

They make money by saving us money! This is the real stuff of life, this is what they will use when they marry!

People are always asking our daughters (21 and 18) what they do now that they are “graduated”. I want to say, “How much time do you have?” They do things just like this. Things like this free me up to spend more time with the younger children and not be so frazzled when my husband comes in from his work. Working together as a family is not easy, but it sure is good when everyone is on the same page.

I’ve written about how Family Life Makes Good Cents and this is one way to prove that!

Building a Family Economy- More Than Making Maple Syrup DVD Giveaway!

I just viewed the Moore Family’s latest DVD, More than Making Maple Syrup and I love it! Whether you really do want to learn how to make maple syrup yourself to save money or make it to sell to help build your family economy; or if you just want to see how it is done as part of your homeschool curriculum this is the video for you.

What I love most about this video is that it is made by a down-to-earth family that really does work together. What a blessing it is to see that.

Again the more skills you have, the more marketable/profitable you and your family can be.

Every Christmas my mom and grandma gives us a jug of maple syrup that comes from the tapping of the trees on my grandmother’s farm. It’s like liquid gold.

This is a great film that shows everything from the tapping, to the cooking down, to the canning of the sap/syrup.

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More Than Making Maple Syrup

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5 Survival Skills Your Kids Should Know Before They Turn 12!

When our son was about 12, a fellow homeschool dad did a Survival Camp. They met once a week for 6 weeks and learned some very basic survival skills. They learned how to build a basic shelter in the woods, how to skin a fish, how to coat matches to keep them dry, how to start a fire without matches, how to cook over an open fire, how to purify water and more. It was a great time for them!

As you prepare your kids for real life do they have basic survival skills in case they were lost or stranded? If you can’t teach the skills, find someone that can. Perhaps several families could go in together and do a Survival Camp?

What would your list of most needful skills be? Make it a priority to learn them, you never know when you may need them.

Here is some good food for thought.

Great Hair Cutting Tutorials

Here is a wonderful, detailed tutorial about cutting your little boy’s hair.

And another tutorial for little girl’s hair.

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We have this DVD and it is excellent:

Bring It Home Beauty Hair Edition Volume 1

It shows how to style hair, how to cut long hair, bangs and a men’s cut.

It also shows how to do highlights!

You can buy this for less than you would pay for ONE hair cut!

Furniture from Pallets

The ways to use pallets is endless! Here are some ways to make furniture with them:

I love the practicality of storage here too!

Here is a site with a bunch of ideas!

Here are 4 other ways to use pallets as furniture.

This one has a video to show you how.

I love this bed and desk!

And more furniture!

Free Pattern

How to Take Pallets Apart

Sheds and other Buildings

Sheds and Other Buildings from Pallets

Last week I shared about a really cool bench.

Did you know that:

Approximately 40% of all hardwood harvested in the U.S. is for making shipping pallets
About two-thirds of pallets are used only once before being thrown out
1/4 of all wood in landfills is from used pallets

You’ve got to look at this guy’s website and all of the different pallet sheds that people have sent him pictures of! Some are simple and some are simply amazing! There is everything from a woodshed, a hen house, to a children’s fort, to a get-a-way cabin, to an outhouse! Scroll all the way down!

I love pallet projects!

How to Dismantle a Wooden Pallet – Free Videos

I LOVE the whole using wooden pallets to make things for almost free! Not only that, but it is a great way to keep your high energy boys busy! Learning how to use a hammer and drive, in this case remove nails is something every guy needs to know.

OR you could do it this way, but I think you would not be able to salvage as much wood.

If you don’t reclaim the pallets this happens to them:

I love pallet projects!

A God-centered health care plan- Samaritans Ministries

Being self-employed makes buying insurance VERY expensive. A couple of years ago we decided to use Samaritan Ministries for our health care needs. Jeff is not on our family plan because he uses tobacco (cigars), so we carry a separate insurance policy for him, but our girls and myself are on a family plan. The cost for Samaritans is much less than if we had to carry a normal health insurance policy. We pay $320 a month, even if Jeff were on it the cost would be the same.

Samaritans is not insurance, but rather a Biblical alternative to health insurance.

Every month when I write out my check for $320, I write it to an individual. Samaritans sends me a letter with a name and address of who I am suppose to send the ‘share’ to. They also tell what the medical issue was so we know how to pray for that person’s healing.

I LOVE the satisfaction of knowing that the money is going straight to a person and directly to their medical cost, rather than an insurance company with a LOT of strings attached and people in offices to pay!

I love that this is actually sharing the cost of medical bills of other Believers.

My mother who also lives with us, uses Samaritans now that she is retired, rather than buying an insurance policy. I know several other people that use Samaritans.

Even if we were wealthy I would still want to be a part of Samaritans because I believe that paying for medical care should not be big business, and insurance companies should not be influencing the cost of medical care as much as they do.

If you would like to know more about how Samaritans works, go here.

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Want to Make Money? This is how…

If you want to make money you need to be skilled.

The more skills you have,

the more opportunities you will have to make money!

You need to know more than one thing.

You need multiple streams of income.

Not to mention, the more you can do for yourself,

the more money you can save by not paying others!

You should NEVER stop learning!!!!!

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How to Make Corn Husk Dolls – Video Tutorial

It won’t be long and most of us will have some fresh corn that we just husked. Turn off the TV and turn on come CREATIVITY by letting the kids make corn husk dolls, or flowers or anything else they can think of.