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How to Use FreeCycle

Imagine getting everything from furniture to baby clothes for free? How about the opportunity to avoid dump fees on items you no longer want (and keeping them out of the landfill in the first place) while blessing others. That is the beauty of Freecycle. What is Freecycle All About? Freecycle is an organization that is broken into smaller, local groups. Each group is made up of freecycle members that live in a certain area. It is absolutely free to join, and each group usually uses Yahoo Groups to manage things. Volunteer monitors make sure that everything stays fair and safe, … Continue reading →

Green Tips For Your Home Business

When you make the switch from working outside of the home to working from home, you do something wonderful for the environment by cutting out your daily commute to and from work. Even if you were not driving a very long way to go to work, cutting out that vehicle trip five days each week does reduce your effect on the environment. Now that you work from home, you may be spending a lot more time at your house than you did before. This is a great opportunity to take some time to learn a few new habits that can … Continue reading →

Know Before You Go – Does That Hotel Have Free Wireless Internet?

For the past week, I have been on vacation with my family on Cape Cod. I had a great time, and I was even able to get some work done in the evenings after the kids were in bed. Taking my home – based businesses on the go has always been fairly easy. For the law office, I take my smartphone, laptop, and whatever files I need. For my freelance writing business, all I need is my laptop and my day planner. All of these things fit neatly into one bag. Of course, one other thing that I need for … Continue reading →

The Farmer’s Market Part II

As it turns out my daughter was fairing better than reported while I was taking my weekly early morning “mommy break” at the farmer’s market with my sister. I am not against taking the kids with me to the farmer’s market but being able to go by myself serves two purposes. First, I finally get a much needed break from my adorable children. Second, I am able to talk with the farmer’s about how they produce their food to ensure that I am getting truly local and chemical free products (it is shocking at how many vendors are not selling … Continue reading →

Ideas For Putting Together Your Family History

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Part of genealogy research includes finding interesting stories from the history of your family. These types of stories are often handed down by “word of mouth”. It is important to save them before they are forgotten. Here are a few ideas on how to put together your family history before it disappears. There are plenty of good reasons why you should make some sort of record of your family history. Doing so preserves it for future generations. It is a way of making sure that those interesting stories, photos, and voices don’t get lost over time. The way you choose … Continue reading →

The Line Between Work and Home

One of the biggest issues facing home – based professionals is defining the boundary between work and home. It is both a physical boundary, as well as one made up of your time and attention. It can be challenging to keep your work and home separate from one another, but if you can make and implement a plan for doing so both you and your family will be happier. One of the best strategies that I have found for keeping work and home separate is to avoid multitasking. Since I work only a limited amount of hours each day, I … Continue reading →

Tethered To A Cell Phone

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I don’t know how mothers did this single mom thing before cell phones. I’m tethered to mine and so is Hailey. I don’t know what I would do if I could not reach her at any time. Being a working single mother meant that Hailey has always been on her own a lot. Thanks to cell phones she could call me anytime she was frightened and I could call her anytime I just wanted to know she was ok. Hailey got her first phone when she was twelve. Lots of people told me that was too young but for us, … Continue reading →

Freelance Work Is Going Strong

Today, I read the latest newsletter from my favorite place for finding online freelance writing work – Elance. The newsletter had interesting information about the current state of freelance employment, and the news is encouraging especially considering the dismal state of employment in general. Freelance business is booming and, in total, Elance contractors earned 43 million dollars in the first quarter of financial year 2012 – the strongest quarterly earnings to date. What are these contractors doing to earn all of that money? The skills that were in highest demand during the first quarter of 2012 were information technology and … Continue reading →

Top 10 Ways to Get Your Kids Excited About Reading: Reading’s Delicious!

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Do you want to get your kids excited about reading? If so, get ready for the countdown: ten days of ideas that will get you and yours into reading! Here’s day two! We all love dessert. Even if it’s “just” fruit, dessert is special because it is dessert. Call a bowl of brussels sprouts dessert and I might just be inclined to eat it, almost. Ok, maybe not brussels sprouts. What if you made reading dessert too? Too often we have a tendency to make reading something that we have to do. Kids need to read for a certain number … Continue reading →

Home Based Work As A Summer Job

If you are the parent of a high school or college student who is feeling stressed out because there are not many summer jobs in your local area, you are not alone. The job market is full of people looking for work, and any position that becomes available receives a ton of applicants. The good news is that your teen or college student could spend his or her summer working online and learning what it is like to be a home based professional. Many teens and college students have computer skills, writing skills, and other types of skills that qualify … Continue reading →