$100 Extra a week Challenge …. UPDATE

Hey Everyone! I am excited to announce I am going on my second week and I am on target! I am at $255 on day 13.

How I did it:

My first sale was a dinning room table my husband and I redid this past summer. I purchased a 3 piece set (a hutch, a buffet and a dinning room table) from Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I already had a dinning room table so I stripped it and stained it last of course. I was so excited to find my buffet I was in heaven working on it turning into a shabby chic master piece. Anyways, after I finished the furniture I wanted for my house I did the table and started to post to sell. Well winter came along and it is TOOOOO cold for me outside so I kind of forgot about it until our challenge started, so I posted it on craigslist.com. Within a week I had it sold for $150!

My second week and my sales have nothing to do with furniture. I teamed up with a couple of ladies and taught an Essential Oil Class. At the class we taught everyone how amazing oils are, what they can do for you and your family and then we sold products we had made out of our essential oils. For Christmas I had made lotion bars, healing salve, sleep sticks, and zap a zit sticks. SOOO I had a lot left over so I really didn’t have to do anything special or spend money on making more. I had also made travel cases for my essential oils, so I displayed them and sold them made to order for anyone interested. I did $78 in sales with stuff I had already made.

My last bit of MONEY I made was with swagbucks.com . I didnt have to spend anything to make money here either! I took a few surveys while on the couch, typed in a few codes here and there when they popped up on my app. I had enough points after two weeks to get a $25 gift certificate for Restaurant.com . How perfect is that money for a date night!!

How are your NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS GOING?

$100 a week EXTRA Challenge

Dec30

So this year I am making a new kind of new years resolution… $100 a week from cleaning out my closets, bins, boxes, selling things I’ve made and finding other little ways to make a little extra cash.

The rules
I cant count anything that I already receive. (Rent, Paychecks etc)

I don’t have to do exactly $100 every week but if I have one week $50 and another I do $150 that it averages out.

My Plan of Action So Far:

Craigslist.com
Facebook garage sale sites
Etsy Maybe with my crafty stuff on it – I’ll Link my store after I start it
Ebates– When ever I shop online I will be sure to use Ebates. They have this awesome little button that can be added to my browser window so I don’t have to remember to go through their website first.
SwagBucks– Looking to waste a little time to earn gift cards and other fun rewards. Works sort of like ebates when you are shopping, you can download a button for the browser window, take polls, watch videos and more. Check it out.

What kind of things do you do make extra cash?

My obession … Essentiall Oils

Dec21

So it seems like they are all of sudden popular, the “in” thing, a fad but the truth is they have been around a couple thousand years. Baby Jesus was brought Frankincense by one of the wise men, enough said.

I have always had an interest in holistic healing and always willing to try something new. I grew up with herbs and such so why not try other areas… Which is ironic because I feel like I have so many health problems. Well thanks to pintrest I have been reading, researching and playing with them for a bit now and it is so much fun. To learn what Oils help with just about everything is amazing and addicting. One of my personality treats is a “healer or helper” I never really thought to much about it until recently that I really do enjoy helping people. I just never wanted to be a doctor or a nurse. I love the oils because I can help the people I love and care about feel better and be healthier with out taking OTC drugs. And there I go again about a year a ago you would be laughing if I said that thinking it was a joke. I was always taking something to feel better weather it was my stomach, head, back, heart, anxiety, ADHD, thyroid etc.

So i guess it started with research then signing up with two companies at once. Why not jump all in right!

I Haven’t taken ibuprofen in over two weeks. Every time I have a headache I rub peppermint on it and its gone. I had a cold coming on so grabbed some flu bomb… its simply amazing… skin tag, ingrown hair on my head, even an ear infection. I have seen it reduce blood pressure in minutes, make a rash go away and

If you are interested in learning more click here.

Things I love to make with Essential Oils check out my PINTREST BOARD HERE.

Disclosure: I am not a doctor, I am not saying these cure diseases or make you supermom. You should use with caution and make sure you tell your doctor you are using essential oils.

So I want to hear … What are your thoughts on essential oils?

Welcome to my blog grab a seat lets chat

Dec15

Hi my name is Tonisha but my friends call me T. That has been a nick name of mine since I was little and its a little easier to remember. So a little about me, I am an introvert ADHD busy body that likes to take on too much, I take too long to make decisions and I love learning. My brain never stops which is exhausting for the people around me (just ask my husband lol), I have a million and one new ideas everyday that I just can’t fit in my schedule (even though I bought a bigger planner). I am constantly on the hunt to become a better person, mother, wife and friend. I feel like some times I go so fast life is just getting out of control and well we all know I like control. Who doesnt right?

This brings me to why I am doing this. Why am I writing a blog when I cant sit still long enough to watch a 30 minute show. I want to become better organized, focus in on who I am and get feedback. What better way than sharing my life with the word like an open book? With honing in on these things I want to become a better mother to my son, a wife to my husband and a better person in general. Sometimes I feel like we loose site on what is important and now its my time to make time for what matters. These are all things I hope that this blog brings to me.

So what exactly will I be blogging about? The mommy fast lane! Flying through life finding what is important to me and my family and bringing you along for the ride. We will be talking about being a

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DIY Projects & Kids Crafts

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$5 Christmas DIY Decor

Dec15

We recently made these Popsicle snowflakes in just a few hours we had some fun holiday decor! When I say we I actually mean my husband and I made them (is’t he amazing) I try to do crafts with the little guy almost everyday and it usally turns into me doing all the work while he starts with me, then breaks something, then runs away with something I need. So we have a lot of fun !

Everything I used to make this we had on hand
Your Will Need:
Popsicle sticks
Hot Glue/Hot Glue Gun
Paints.. I used acrylics bought a gift pack with a ton of colors in it
Glitter Spray
Fishing Line

Here is a photo of our snowflakes in the process of. We also made some Christmas tress to decorate another day and some ornaments to give for presents.

Have you made Popsicle snowflakes or something else AWESOME out of Popsicle sticks I want to hear!!

The Mommy Fast Lane

Traviling at the speed of life