Hey everyone! Happy Monday and Memorial Day. We had a BBQ on Saturday for my birthday and BBQed at W’s parents’ house yesterday. We also went to a winery yesterday and drove around wine country. It has been a fun weekend so far! I have today off from work and will probably just spend it at home.
My birthday was last week and I wanted to say thank you to everyone who said Happy Birthday to me. Love you all!
Last week, I published my Pursuing What I Love or What Brings in the (Stable) Money post and all of you said very nice things. A lot of you had awesome tips that I will have to keep in mind when I make the switch.
So, yes, you heard it, I will be making the switch. I have a date in mind and have told some of you. It’s not within the next month, and that’s because I want to be better prepared. I need to start focusing on becoming more diversified. If you have any other tips on self-employment, please share below!
Student Loan Update
My student loans are still scheduled to be paid off completely in June. I can’t wait! I know that I’ve had some delays, but I am still of course very happy with my progress. Also, not putting thousands of dollars (my minimum payment was less than $500 but I’ve been throwing a lot of extra money towards the loans) towards student loans every single month will feel awesome!
Spending
We spent a decent amount last week. We were going to replace all of our patio furniture but couldn’t find anything that we liked. We went to over 5 stores and didn’t find anything. Then we had the idea to use Rustoleum on the patio furniture that we currently have and it all turned out awesome. We painted the table a bright coral and the chairs white. We also bought a lot of big plants and that helped spruce up the patio. Then strung up some lights around the whole patio and now it looks awesome!
We spent only around $100 out-of-pocket (the rest came from a gift card), which isn’t bad at all!
Extra Income (does not include income from our main jobs)
Extra income was good last week. I’m expecting a couple of payments this week. I probably need a better system for this because I have a good amount outstanding that need to be collected.
Affiliate income for me is still going great but I need to start focusing on this more. I’m looking into additional products and I really think that I can be doing better. I am also still looking into additional streams of income. I actually have a couple of new side hustles in the works and I can’t wait to get them started! A lot of you have asked me how you can increase the amount you make from side hustles, and my main tip is to NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK! I tell everyone this. The new side hustles that I have in the works are all from me networking with others.
Posts from my blog:
- Student Loan Update and $805 in Extra Income – My weekly update post.
- How I Live in a 400 Sq. Ft. House – My Minimalist Home – This is an awesome post by Jordann. A lot of you have been very interested in the small home that she lives in.
- Pursuing What I Love or What Brings in the (Stable) Money
Being healthy
I have been doing HORRIBLE with being healthy. I find this funny because this past weekend I have been asked by 4 or 5 different people about how being more healthy is going. Of course once I am on a bad streak, people are interested. Haha! Anyways, I need to get back on track. I haven’t run in a very long time or anything else. I also haven’t been eating very healthy.
Have you been doing well with your extra income, spending and being healthy?
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Trying to live healthy constantly is difficult. I have to let myself go every once in awhile too. I follow @BeFitMotivation which often puts up motivational images of people in really good shape and that gets me motivated to work out more lol. Congrats on your student loans progress, you're almost there. Most people take forever to pay off their debts accumulated in college but you've made it a priority 😀
I follow a TON of healthy people on Instagram. I agree, it does help!
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Happy Memorial Day! Enjoy the long weekend and congrats on deciding to make the switch to self employment!
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Thanks Pauline! 🙂
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Happy Memorial Day:-)
and a happy (but late) birthday!:-) I was a bit MIA last week, so that´s my excuse:-P
HAha you are fine. You have been so busy!
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Thanks for the shout-out, Michelle =)
And I'm so excited to hear more about making the switch to self employment. That's so exciting!
Welcome! And yes there will be tons of posts on it.
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Hi Michelle,
Wow, $1,582 in "extra income" for just one week is awesome. That's more than many people bring home in a month. Once the student loans are snuffed you should feel like a million bucks (pun intended!).
Cheers,
Ree
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Thanks! And yes I can't wait until my student loans are GONE.
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Happy, belated birthday! Glad you had an awesome weekend. I have been thinking of spending the weekend at the amish country and going to the winery. There are good deals on living social right now for this in my area. It would be a fun little weekend break! My spending is finally going pretty good. Feel like I am regaining some control! 🙂
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Thanks Alexa! That sounds like a fun weekend. And woohooo on regaining control 🙂
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I'm so on and off about being healthy – some weeks I'm great and some weeks I'm terrible! So you're not alone! 🙂
Glad I'm not alone 🙂
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Unrelated comment- every time I try to tweet, I get a bookmarklet window but it freezes. I'm using Google Chrome – anyone else reported this?
A lot of bloggers have said that Shareholic is doing the same on their website. I will have to look into something new. Thanks for telling me!
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Any pictures of your patio?? 🙂
I just posted a small picture on Instagram. I will try and take one tonight! 🙂
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The winery was a ton of fun! And I hope you ramp up your side income 🙂
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To your point on networking, I like you're strongly emphasizing that! Really, networking seems to be very important in terms of income generation in general – whether side income or career.
I agree! Networking is very important.
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Thanks Jordann!
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Congrats on making the switch! I hope to be joining you one day, though it won't be anytime soon. I've been doing well on the side income, really trying to make contacts and get the advertising revenue going. I got a monthly contract with a company last month so I'm happy about that. I had surgery last week so the whole "being healthy" is good…I think? haha we'll see how the recovery goes long-term.
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Thanks DC! I won't be doing this anytime relatively soon (at least I won't be announcing that on my blog so that I can be safe). And that's awesome about the monthly contract! Are you getting more into direct advertising?
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Thanks Katharine! Glad that you enjoy my roundup posts.
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Haha thanks! Glad that you have faith in me 🙂
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