Work At Home Moms - Start Your Business With Found Money

David · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 51

Work At Home Moms - Start Your Business With Found Money
by: Debbie Reyes

Think you can't afford to start your own Home Business? Think again! I have been able to budget the start up expenses of my own Home Business. I have to admit in the beginning I thought I would not be able to afford starting my own Home Business knowing it would take a small investment to get it moving.

So what I did was kept track of all my spending habit for a couple of weeks. Was I surprised as too how much money I spent foolishly. Money I swore I didn't have because I could never afford anything. Well, Ladies and Gentlemen you would be in shock if you realized just how much money we spend on entertainment alone. That is where my biggest expenses were at. So I decided that I would rather put that money (the money I didn't even know I had) to better use and start my own business.

I would like to share just a few of these short cuts that I have taken to help budget my business.

First of all I realized I was spending way too much money on eating out. Every morning taking my son to school we made a stop at the local donut shop. I mean really, who can start a day without a donut? Well at the donut shop I usually spent around $4.00, cause you know we needed orange juice also. Then for lunch I was so busy running around doing errands that I would usually get me a meal deal at a local fast food restaurant which averaged out about $5.00. Now just that alone is already $9.00 for just one day. Well, 9 times the 5 days of the week is $45.00 for the week. Even scarier is that was $180.00 to $225.00 a month depending on if it was a four or five week month. My first initial thought was, NO WAY, I don't have that kind of money. But apparently I did. So now, what I have done is I buy the dozen donuts from the grocery store and that is what we have in the morning. The box cost about $3.00 and last the whole week. I no longer stop at the fast food places, I make it a point to eat lunch at home. So I cut that expensive tremendously. I now spend $12 to $15 a month. Much better!

Next, is movies. Who doesn't love to go see a movie on the big screen. I know I do. Well, we would go to the movies every Sunday night. Just for us to get into the movies was $26.00 for a family of four. Once we got in there it was straight to the snack bar. We had to have popcorn ($3.50) and a large soda ($3.50) and of course we all shared cause it was so expensive. So our Sunday trip to the movies was running about $33.00 a week. A month that was about $132.00 to $165.00. Wow, for someone who couldn't afford much I sure was spending alot. So now we rent a video ($3.50) and buy some microwave popcorn ($2.00). We now spend $5.50 a week.

Do you see where I'm going with this, I was spending well over $300.00 (that I never knew I had) a month, on things that were really not necessary. So not only have I drastically cut my expenses, but have also found other ways to make extra cash as well.

You know those aluminum cans that we throw out after we finish our soda's? Well I don't throw those out anymore. I began to save them just to see if I could really make any money on recycling them and to my surprise I get about $25 a month just from that. Also, I have put my sewing machine to work for me and have made some extra money just by hemming up pants for friends and neighbors.

So you see, if you think you can't afford to start your own business, then you should really evaluate your spending habit like I did and you will be amazed at how much money you have that you thought you didn't have. Next time you are at the movies or stopping at a fast food restaurant ask yourself, if any of that will help you become financially independent. Wouldn't you rather invest in "Your" future, instead of someone else's? But yet each and every time we stop at those places that is what we are doing, investing in their success. We are the one's making them successful, so why not turn it around and invest in yourself.

Don't get me wrong an occasional movie or burger is fine, just as long as you are investing into your future as well.

About The Author

This article was written by Debbie Reyes of South Texas, you can read my other articles at http://www.extra-income-work-at-home-mom.com
dreyes36@aol.com

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kay · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

You are reprinting copyrighted articles without giving proper credit to the authors. This is in violation of copyright law. Referencing articlecity does not protect you from copyright infringement.

You can post as many articles as you want....but you MUST include the credit lines of the author and an active link to their sites.

I have had several reports from my work at home team members about this.

This needs to be corrected immediately. Articlecity clearly states that articles may be reprinted ONLY with proper credit given to the author.

Thank you.

dreyes · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

Hello, my name is Debbie Reyes I am the author of this article. I don't mind that you have posted it on your forum, but as Kay mentioned you do need to include the credit line. I would appreciate it if you would make the proper corrections asap. Thank You

Debbie Reyes

John Carter · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

Hello Everyone,

I just came across this forum from a link on another forum. You could say that I love to visit forums. I spend a lot of time on them to learn and teach. This one seems to be new but they all had to start sometime.

Keep up the good work.

By the way.... The above 2 posts are absolutely correct. You cannot post an article on your site, forum, newsletter, anywhere... without giving the author proper credit and having a live link to their site. The only way that this rule does not apply is if the author states that it is OK and I don't think you will find that happening very often. Copyrights are nothing to take lightly. You can get in big trouble.

David · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 51

In the Terms of Service at articlecity.vom, it says:
"Copying of Contents, in whole or in part, is permitted provided that author by-lines are kept intact and unchanged. Hyperlinks and/or URLs provided by authors must remain active. "

Unfortunately, there is definitely room for difference of interpretation. Notice the second line of the post above says "by:Debbie Reyes". That could certainly be interpreted to be a "by-line". I say this only to be of help, not to argue with you. I have added the "About the Author" section to the end of this article, and will look for other instances on other posts.