Mom Needs A Break! Tips, Ideas, Help….For Those Hard Working Moms!

I would like to wish all ghouls, goblins, witches, superheros, & princesses a very happy and safe Halloween!

Kerry

Mom Needs A Break!

Woody Allen:

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” 

High - Blowing my trumpet from the football game

Low - The Argos football game 

If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay. 

Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that’s eBay’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month! 

The fact that these people exist gives you some idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now. Can you imagine that? Once they’ve bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people - they don’t need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million dollar businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do. 

Even if you don’t want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential. 

What’s more, eBay doesn’t care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There’s no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you can do it. 

Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheap that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that’s not exactly difficult. Buy a lot of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you’re making money already, with no set-up costs. 

If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you’ve got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you’ll probably find you’ve got a few hundred dollars’ worth of stuff lying around in there! This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you’re selling, whatever it might be, and since they’ve come looking for you, you don’t even need to do anything to get them to buy it. 

So, go ahead and give it a shot. You may be the next PowerSeller! 

I work full time and my son goes to SK 2 full days a week and every other Friday. The daycare facility that he attends takes care of walking him to and from school on his scheduled days. Today, I left the office in just enough time to surprise Mitchell and pick him up from SK instead of the daycare. It is Friday and I was quite excited to surprise him. Well …wasn’t I the one that was completely surprised when his SK teacher saw me at the door. She hurries over to the door and greets me with a half smile and an “I’m glad you’re here! I need to discuss something with you. It seems that Mitchell pulled down one the girl’s pants today at recess and she was quite upset!” 

If there was a black hole in the floor that had a sign on it saying “JUMP!” I would have! I could feel the 15 different shades of red cascading across my face. What do I say??? What could I say??? The only words I was able to speak were “Oh my GOD! Is the girl o.k.?” Mitchell’s teacher explained that it was innocent and harmless playing but that we needed to stress that that sort of playing is inappropriate. Well, of course it is!! 

I apologized for my son’s actions and headed for the door. I needed to get some air. My next thought was, all those times when I say “do as I say, not as I do” I really mean it this time. There have been a few instances at home of horse playing where I have pulled Mitch’s pants down as a joke so I can run away from him!! How was I supposed to know that he was going to take it to the field at recess???? 

Mom Need’s a Break!! 

Keep smiling!