How to bring in that little bit extra you need this month!

It's a fact of life for the vast majority of us, sometimes we have too much month left at the end of our money! And it's easy for someone to advise us to just get a better job. Or tell a stay at home mom to get a job. It's not that easy, and sometimes you just need that little extra to make life easier! Over the years, I've found several ways to bring in a little extra to meet expenses, pay for an unexpected repair, or just use as fun money! And now I'll share them with you. InstaGC My favorite thing about Instagc is that you can cash out anytime you want if you have more than a dollar. And there are so many different ways to cash out! You can get gift cards to Amazon, Walmart and a ton of other stores. Or you can get Paypal and direct deposit. And you get it within a few hours, but generally within five minutes! It's a great way to save up for something you want, or to cash out for some extra grocery money. There are different ways to earn. You can take surveys, this seems to be the quickest way to me. Most surveys pay 70 or more points. Each point is a penny, so 100 points is a dollar and is very easy to get to! You can also sign up for free offers or try out apps. There are some offers that require a credit card, such as trials, but I never do these because there are more than enough free offers. Rev.com Rev is a lot of fun and pays you weekly via Paypal. Rev is a transcription site, but the application process is short and relatively easy as long as you are decent with grammar and spelling. Pay varies from file to file, but I can easily make $100 in a week just doing some short files in my free time. Anything completed prior to Midnight on Saturday is payed on Monday. I've never had any issues getting paid from Rev, and the farther up in level you go, the higher paying jobs you get access too. Some people treat this as a full time job! WeGoLook We Go Look pays you to do simple tasks such as take photos of car damage for an insurance company, or deliver a confidential document. They only send you places within 55 miles of home and you can choose which jobs you want to take. The pay ranges from $12 to $25 per job and even in our little town, I can generally pick up a job or two anytime I want! Be sure to follow the guidelines and you could make quite a bit doing this!

It's been years!

Hi there, fellow parents! I admit it, I abandoned this blog years ago. Life got busy and other things became more of a priority. But I've recently gotten back in to blogging over at www.mamauncrafty.com and since I still work at home, I thought this blog deserved to be revived! So I am back! You can look forward to knew posts focusing on companies that hire WAH employees and freelancers, as well as different ways to make money online if a set schedule isn't for you! I can't wait to interact with all of our wonderful readers again!!

Review of "Telling Lies" by Cathi Stoler

Imagine being on vacation in another country, and suddenly catching sight of a man who died several years ago. In Cathy Stoler's mystery novel, Telling Lies, that is exactly what happens to a woman named Laurel. While on vacation with her boyfriend, a police detective, she encounters the husband of a close friend. A man who died during the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and left behind a grieving wife. A man who was not, obviously, really dead. Laurel promptly enlists the help of another close friend, who also happens to be a private detective. While her boyfriend Aaron returns to New York to begin working on finding out the truth, Laurel stays in Italy to investigate there. What follows is a often confusing web of intrigue that puts Laurel and her family and friends in danger. Jeff Sargasso, the undead dead man, was an art dealer who was in the middle of a huge deal when the attacks occurred. There are dangerous people in the New York art world, and they all want the artwork and the money that was exchanged for it. Since Laurel is investigating, they are all now after her. The book is honestly a bit confusing and hard to get excited about in the beginning, but it definitely improves as it goes on. I found it an interesting read, and since the ending is somewhat vague and open ended, I am hoping there is a second book in the works!

Fire Men

As the wife of a volunteer firefighter, I've heard more than my fair share of stories and gained first hand knowledge of the ruined plans and sleepless nights that are a big part of being a volunteer. But while reading Fire Men: Stories From Three Generations of a Firefighting Family, written by Gary R. Ryman, I gained more insight into the life of a firefighter.

Gary R. Ryam is, in his own words, the creme filling in the middle of an oreo cookie of firefighters. His father started the family tradition and his son followed in his footsteps to make the third generation of firefighters. Mr. Ryman has a way with words, pulling you so far in to the scene of a structure fire that you can almost feel the heat of the flames on your face. The book starts with action on the first page, not leading up in to it like so many authors do. This grabs your attention from the start, and it will keep your attention until you get to the very last page.

While Mr. Ryman does omit any overly gory details, you get the gist of every situation that he writes about as you follow him through life, starting with childhood memories of dreaming of following in his fathers footsteps. The book chronicles calls from his fathers day all the way up to his sons time and it is fascinating to note how procedures and equipment changed over the years.

I highly recommend this book to anyone, but if you have a firefighter in your life, it is a must read. Follow Mr. Ryman on Facebook or on his website.

Mountain Bikers

Thanks for the guest post by Jonathan Curtis

My husband has gotten really into mountain biking and he’d been nagging me to do it with him for years. I simply wasn’t interested in such a dirty, dangerous sport but sometime last summer he convinced me to come up with him on one of the easy trails and now I’m completely hooked! I got my own bike and now we spend our weekends out and about finding new places to ride and new people to do it with. I got us HTTP://WWW.securitychoice.com for the house since we’re gone for big stretches of time and since we’re doing a lot more camping lately, too. I love being so athletic and I’ve never been this active before. Thanks, honey for making me get off my butt and come out there with you! I had no idea mountain biking would be so easy or so fun or I would have come out there and ridden along a very, very long time ago! Now if I can just get the mosquito problem under control I’ll be good…

Review of Stories From A Lifetime

Stories From A Lifetime by Hugh Aaron is a collection of short stories the author wrote over a period of 30 years. All of the stories are based at least loosely on a real event in Hugh Aaron's life and is, in the authors own words, "a disguised autobiography spanning eight decades."

I often find it difficult to read a chapter of any book in one sitting due to the hectic schedule of balancing work, family, home and everything else life throws my way, but this book eliminated that problem. The stories are quite short, often only two pages long and very well written so as to grab your interest quickly. There is a hidden lesson in most of the stories, much like the morals in old fairy tales. Many of the stories taught such a clear lesson in dealing with life that I shared them with my older children so that they could learn from them.

All in all, this book is excellent, and I highly recommend you add it to your list of must read books!

Review of Johnny Eye-One

I recently read the book Johnny One-Eye by Jerome Charyn and could not wait to review it to share with everyone else. Historical fiction is not generally my preferred reading material, but this book had me hooked from the first chapter and would not release me until I read the last sentence.

The book is set in 1776 during the Revolutionary war where the main character, John Stocking, flits between the two sides of the war with both amusing and enticing antics. Believing himself to be the illegitimate son of George Washington himself and the madam of a local brothel, he spends his free time mooning over a prostitute.

This book is history like you have never read it before. The mixture of fact and fiction along with the authors knack for overly descriptive writing will leave you feeling like you are standing there in person rather than reading words on the page.

I highly recommend this book, and if historical reading isn't your thing either you may well change your mind after reading this!