Making Extra Money

Extra money is a constant need in any family or lifestyle. With taxes, loans, credit cards, and other unavoidable expenses, a little extra cash would be pretty helpful, especially with the upcoming holidays around the corner. Consider these following tips when finding motivation and new means of getting extra cash.

In most cases, it’s almost a bad idea not to have multiple streams of income coming in. A great way to make extra money is to utilize your skills and talents and make money off of that. Doing things that you are passionate about to make extra money is good motivation, and a rewarding side hustle. If you don’t have anything you’re passionate about, try to do services or create services that people need (or want) and fulfill them. Another way to make money is by taking a class on starting your own business through your local Chamber of Commerce; you don’t have to have an MBA to run a business.

Making extra money doesn’t have to be consistent at first as long as it’s helping to meet what you need or want. Either way, having extra money can always help towards your savings or rainy day funds like mentioned in a previous article. For more ideas check out: richsinglemomma.com/weblog/category/side-hustles.

Research, Research Before Making Purchase Decisions

As mentioned in the previous article on banking basics, society is too caught up in mainstream ways of thinking that they end up missing better opportunities! The same way you can find better banking and saving opportunities, you can find better products and services in general. What all of these things have in common is research, research, and research. Before you purchase another service or product, check out these research tips below.

Before you purchase another product or service, make sure you research online about the quality and price. This step is highly advised, because it makes a world of difference when comparing your options. When you research on websites like google.com, amazon.com, ePinions.com, Znet.com, Cnet.com, and more, you save yourself time, frustration, and money! Who wouldn’t want to do that? Even sometimes ebay.com has better deals than major retail stores.

If you’re not in your own corner, who will be? Get an idea about the quality of the product and/or service you are seeking and an idea of a roundabout price for it first. A little research never hurt anyone.

Single Mom Success Tips For Physical Success

It is very important for each of us to take  good care of our health as wells our body and physical looks in order for us to achieve physical success and to be able to continue living because it is the foundation of our life. Physical Success can be achieved not only by big plans and complicated goals but by simple common sense actions in what you eat, how you move and what you do daily. And if you want to achieve physical success, a happy and healthy lifestyle you should set some plans for all your daily activities.
You should start your morning to go for a walk or have a jogging exercise besides your home, in an open park in your place or in seashore to inhale fresh air… It is also very important that you must eat good food daily and eat healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. It is ideal and advisable that you should have the regular visits to the doctor every month especially if you have little children so that you would be able to know how to care and maintain your kid’s health according to their ages. And as a mother, it is very important that you must prepare a very delicious and healthy breakfast daily because it is very important to all of us especially to the kids to eat breakfast daily before going to school. And after eating, do not forget to drink your vitamins because it helps you to boost your immune system and fights all kinds of diseases.

As a single mom, it is very important that you must have a good quality time to bond with your kids like chatting daily or just by playing around with your kids so that they will be having a healthy and happy lifestyle. Lastly, you must take a break once in a while from a very tiring and stressful week at the office so that you will get refreshed again and best way to relax is to get a massage (from a professional or a friend) to relieve physical stress.

 

Check Your Kid’s Fever with Your Cell Phone?

Check Your Kid’s Fever with Your Cell Phone?

I don’t usually talk about technology or apps even though I love all things techie. But I had to share info about a new infrared thermometer invention for smartphones. Just the other day I wondered if that kind of technology would ever happen. You know like they do it in Star Trek.

Seems the inventor, Dr. Jacob Fraden, of the popular ThermoScan thermometers has done that. I can’t explain all the juicy details so here it is from Dr. Fraden:

the Fraden Smartphone Sensing patented technology and IP (Intellectual Property) employs a non-contact infrared sensor built into a smartphone or tablet to instantly and accurately measure patient temperature in less than one second with absolutely no contact with the human body.  A priceless feature for parents with small children, nurses, doctors, caregivers or anyone that has ever had trouble taking a temperature, the sensor accurately detects infrared signals that naturally emanate from any surface.  Just aim the smartphone at the face and it automatically takes the internal body temperature.  A small infrared lens is positioned near the camera lens, with no protruding parts, making the device appear identical to existing smartphones. 

 

The sensor’s wide range, from -22 ºF to +400ºF, offers broad applications in taking temperatures of not only humans, but also of inanimate objects in the home environment, such as kitchen (cooking and refrigeration), bathroom (baby bath water temperature), school (science class), and industry (automotive and production machinery, chemical processes, energy management, and construction).

             

“Most smartphone models differ little from one another, with only small evolutionary changes.  The vendor with breakthrough functions for real world everyday use, like reading a child’s temperature, can distance themselves from their competitors.  We believe this new patent can be a significant competitive differentiator for a smartphone manufacturer,” said Dr. Jacob Fraden, President of Fraden Corporation, a co-inventor of the technology and expert in non-contact temperature measurements, a holder of over 50 patents and the inventor of the popular Thermoscan ear thermometer.”

I don’t know when it will become widely available so keep a look out for it. Pretty cool, huh?

Here are some basic and mom-friendly details:

Fraden Infrared Thermometer for Smartphone Technology Features:

·        Patented technology – U.S. issued and world pending patents.

·        No comparable products on the market – a great differentiator for the smartphone industry.

·        Minimal incremental cost.

·        Non-protruding, works with digital camera in smartphone.

·        Quick time to market.

·        Very easy to use.

·        Instant response, less than 1 second.

·        Computes the body’s inner temperature (medical mode).

·        Clinical accuracy meets ISO standards.

·        Measures temperatures of inanimate objects (food, water, buildings, machinery, circuit boards, etc.).

·        Small (2.5 mm) infrared (IR) lens is located next to the digital camera lens.

·        Technology is expandable to thermal imaging, UV and EMF pollution exposure and others.

Banking Basics

A lot of times, we as a nation are unable to look outside mainstream products and services. We tend to end up missing better opportunities for ourselves and our family when we follow the crowd, or “do as we are told”. One of the things that America struggles with is finding a secure bank or “cheap” bank to put our money in. Putting your money in a “safer” and “free” place is to your best interest.

Joining a Credit Union can help avoid outrageous bank fees and limitations of how much money you need to have in your own account. Banks are notorious for finding a reason to nickel and dime you, and most times there are penalties and fees. This, most times, is due to the fact that banks make money off of your money by lending it out to others through loans; how unfair is that?! Sometimes a credit union may be available through your employer, your state, or your school, like Georgia’s Own Credit Union and The Delta Credit Union with Delta Airlines.

Wouldn’t it be nice to hold on to ever cent that you earn instead of handing it over to someone else? Why be charged to save money and earn money? If you follow these steps, you will be on a better track to becoming financially fit!