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Boosting Your Finances As A Stay At Home Parent

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If you want to boost your income, you’re not alone; a recent study found that 76 million Americans are struggling financially – and it can be even harder for single parents who have to pay child maintenance costs, especially if they are taking time off work. Thankfully there are a few ways to boost your income – and you don’t have to sacrifice the time that you spend at home looking after your children. Based on many blackout bingo reviews, you can even have fun playing games for real money. After all, there is very little point getting a job outside of the home if it only covers child care costs, as you won’t actually be earning any extra money for your family. Here are three ways that you can earn money as a stay at home parent.

Look For A Work From Home Job

There are lots of great jobs that you can do from home, including freelance writing and web design. While both of these jobs require some level of skill, there are other jobs that are easier to walk into, such as working as a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant is someone who helps an individual or a business with basic admin tasks, from booking trips to responding to emails. If you want to have a little fun at the same time, you can even play games for real money. All of these jobs allow you to work from home and set your own schedule, which is ideal for a busy parent who needs to spend most of the day with their child.

Become A Seller

You can sell unwanted items from your home on eBay for a little extra cash, or if you are feeling creative you could try making things to sell (such as accessories, handmade ornaments or jewelry). Lots of people prefer to buy things online now because it is more convenient, so if you are selling a quality product someone is sure to buy it! This is an easy way to start a new income stream, but be aware if you are selling second-hand items you probably won’t get as much as you originally paid for the item.

Access Money Tied Up In Your Home

Most Americans have a lot of money tied up in their home, even if they have a mortgage; a recent study found that the average American has around $150,506 built up in their home. If you are a homeowner and you want to access the money tied up in your home, you can consider taking out an equity loan or a reverse mortgage. Both of these options can really help if you are struggling financially, but they are only available to homeowners. If you want to try and improve your financial state even more, you could try and learn more about the many investment options by visiting sites similar to https://www.sofi.com/investing-101-center/ where you’ll find guidance on many investing topics and goal setting strategies to see what’s right for you.

No-one likes worrying about money, especially if they have children to provide for. Thankfully these options make it a little easier for stay at home parents to get by.

My Teespring Shirt: See Ya Later Excavator

When your kid finds and interest in things, you naturally want to support it, right? For me, I’ve been wanting to create an excavator shirt for months, and finally did so through Teespring.

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The design took me longer than I expected, and I’m still not completely happy with the end result. Going Mom said it should be more cartoonish. The more I think about it, I have to agree. I still like what I created and hope it sells, but as of right now, with 10 days left, 0 purchases have been made.

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But here’s your chance to help a fellow dad and all around good guy (or so I think…..right?) and get yourself a unique shirt for the construction truck loving kid in your life.

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I even made another Teespring campaign so adults can get in on the action with their own shirt too.

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There are several colors to choose from and I’ll even throw in 50 virtual high-fives for free. That’s right, FREE!

If the design is not your style, I’m working on another one for the future. Not sure if I’ll use Teespring, but one way or another, it’ll be available.

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Let me know what you think, please. Would you buy any of these?

Something I should do different? Just give up?