Debt Help Ideas

Are you looking for creative ways of earning money with a work at home craft job?

Are you able to knit? If so, you may well be able to launch a successful work at home craft business like knitting for a profit.

Knitted and crocheted products are enjoying an upsurge in popularity and the knitting stores seem to be quite busy, even on days other stores have few customers. The patterns available are quite stylish and the yarns are often gorgeously soft.

The good yarn is not cheap, and it can take quite a while to complete a project, so you will have to be sure you charge an adequate amount to cover your expenses. But if you market these items to well-paid executives, online, with good key words (seo optimization), you should be able to find customers who have more money available than time or skills to make their own.

If this is something that interests you, check out these eBooks:

Knitting for Profit – a complete knitting business success manual in downloadable E-book format. It’s “jam-packed with all the methods previously known by only a small handful of successful knitterpreneurs. This program contains the author’s FIVE strategies for making money from knitting (based on the techniques of real knitterpreneurs) and all the information you’ll ever need to help you make money from your passion of knitting. This ebook comes with a 60 day, no-risk, unconditional 100% money-back guarantee. Can’t beat that!
These two are more generic for starting a craft business in general:

Profitable Crafts Vol. 1 – A Kindle eBook with “Proven Techniques To Help Your Craft Sales Soar! Gain Confidence As Profits Explode!”

How to Start Your Own Craft Business is a comprehensive craft business guide written with the novice in mind. And this eBook comes with a 100% money back guarantee – you have 8 full weeks to decide if it is a worthwhile investment for your new business!

Earning money with a work at home craft job such as knitting is not easy, but it is very do-able. It is NOT a get rich quick business. It is, however, a business that can help you earn money at home as you strive to work for a profit, and do something you love, while taking care of your family.

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When my kids were young, I was interested in earning money at home so I started a desktop publishing business and was able to earn money typing at home. I didn’t get rich, but it did help with the bills and I was thrilled to be making extra money at home and have a flexible schedule since I had to take one daughter to therapy due to an injury to her wrist.

I focused on resumes and college papers and stayed fairly busy. I still remember walking all over the college campus putting up flyers (make sure you get permission from the school office first). As a 30-something, I felt a little weird hanging up posters at the school, but it really paid off. I had a steady flow of students who needed their papers typed and one teacher who used me fairly regularly until we moved out of state.

My favorite resource book at the time, which I still have in my collection, was Resume Pro by Yana Parker. I loved her resumes and so did the people who hired my clients, not to mention my kids’ business teacher in college. She gave them an “A” for the resumes I helped them prepare, using Yana Parker’s book.

I don’t currently earn money typing resumes at home as a business, but I am occasionally on call for my kids and their friends and that’s still the first book I turn to. It’s available as a used book from Amazon, among other places, and is a terrific resource for those interested in being able to earn money typing at home!

Up till now, I’ve mostly focused on practical and creative little and big ways to save money as we work towards our goal to eliminate debt. Another way to to work towards that goal, however, is to add money to the budget. When my kids were little, I was always on the look out for jobs for moms who want to stay at home. It was never easy, although I did find a few. That was all before the internet though.

Nowadays, thanks to the internet, work from home jobs for stay at home moms abound. Some are good, some not so much. I’m going to start a new category, Stay at Home Jobs. I’ll be sharing what I’ve done in the past, along with what I’ve been learning over the past few years about the reality of making extra money at home.

I’d love to hear from you as well. Have you succeeded at making extra money at home? If so, we’d love to hear your comments. If you’ve tried unsuccessfully, that would be good to know as well.

So pull up a chair, grab some coffee and a donut, and join me in this ongoing journey to find creative and practical ways to save money, including  earning money at home ideas, and together we can have fun as we work to eliminate debt.