Going for Not Broke

I have a rather busy week this week, so I'm going to take a short vacation from blogging. My next new post will be Dec. 3. Have a good week, everyone!

I have an arts & crafts festival I plan to attend next week, so for this coming week, I'd like to spend all of my extra time working on my crafts projects. Hopefully, I can sell enough to make back the money I put into it. If not, that's OK, but I just won't sign up for any more arts & crafts festivals until I KNOW I have enough stock to make it work my time financially. After this coming week, I plan to shift focus to a different type of extra income. I'll start practicing transcribing audio. Hopefully, it works out, because the work does something like something I'd be interested in.

Have a great -- and safe -- time with family and friends today! I've checked all of the Black Friday preview ads for stores that might carry the items I'd like to buy, and none has them. So, I won't be venturing out for the Black Friday crush this year.

My husband recently read through a book that listed some interesting opportunities for extra income. One is limu.com , a site through which people can teach (or take) classes in a wide variety of subjects, or even offer tutoring. So, if any readers out there are handy with knitting or knows a lot about the history of Country music, or any other topic, they might be able to earn some extra income through the site. The other site is www.trialjuries.com . Through this site, lawyers can test out their case on real people. The people who sign up to review the cases can receive payment for their effort. The lawyers look for people from within their own districts, so I imagine that the opportunities to serve on one of the "trial juries" are few and far between unless you live in a big city, which I don't, so I'm going to pass on this one. I might offer some tutoring through Limu, though.

I've mentioned several times that one thing I'd like to start doing is unplugging the computer when I'm not using it. It's a habit I've been hoping to get into for months now, because I really think it would make a noticeable difference in our electric bill. Well, I go through spells where I remember. But quite often, I don't. And then, there are the times when  I get distracted while I'm working at the computer, so I walk away from it, leaving it on because I intend to come right back to it but don't. At these times, the computer winds up not only being plugged in when not in use, but even on and running. The monitor will fade out, but the computer is still drawing power. My husband, on the other hand, remembers to shut it down and cut the power to it most of the time he uses it. That makes me smile.

I don't know why, but I like buying kids meals for my daughter whenever we go out to eat at a fast food restaurant. When I was a little girl, I loved getting kids meals, but my mom and dad hardly ever bought them for us. Perhaps that's why I buy them for my daughter even when I know she's barely going to eat from it. She eats just the bun off of a burger or other sandwich, just the hot dog out of corn dogs, and she's yet to finish a serving of Arby's mac-n-cheese. (She does, however, eat Chicken McNuggets like they're going out of style.) All she does is make a mess. She's also usually too small for the toy and she's too young to read the box it came in and play any games. At her age, it's just a waste of money. I'm vowing now not to buy her another. She can just share my meals with me.

I've been a little under the weather, so this blog will return Monday.