Tips for Organizing a Successful Garage Sale

It is officially garage sale season! For the past month I have been organizing, cleaning and sorting through my house in an attempt to gather as much garage sale inventory as possible. Last Saturday was my big garage sale day and I made $150! Not a bad profit considering I only spent $15 on advertising. That included an ad in the local newspaper and the cost of poster board for roadside advertising.

Garage sales are a great way to make some extra cash this summer. Click on the link below for some tips on organizing a successful garage sale.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/255777/tips_for_organizing_a_successful_garage.html

Opportunity for Stay at Home/Work at Home Moms

I stumbled upon this website the other day and decided to take a shot at it. Basically, it allows you to submit articles, product reviews, etc. for payment consideration. For example, I had written an article on spring cleaning your house and they offered my $5 for it! Anyway, check it out and see if it could work for you:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/join.html?refer=81462

A Book for Moms

In the chaos that is my everyday life, I try to take at least five minutes out of everyday to do something for me. Reading, scrapbooking, a brisk walk-anything to clear my head and get me back on track for the next day. Last week, I caught a couple of minutes of a news special that featured controversial authors of "I was a Really Good Mom, Until I had Kids." The title of the book alone was enough to spark my interest so the next day, I brought my daughter to her grandma long enough for me to run to Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy.

This book is well worth the read and I would recommend it to any mom who has had a rough day, week, month, or year with her children. The authors interviewed 100 different moms including: stay at home moms, full-time working moms, part-time working moms, etc. This really allows some insight into the REAL world of motherhood and it helped make me feel like I wasn't alone in thinking that this was the toughest job on Earth.

If you get a chance to read it...I would love to know what you think!