Weekly Update

So after looking over my budget it has come to my attention that I need more than just a part-time job, go figure right. While I am doing everything I can with mowing lawns, selling things on ebay or amazon, trying to work basketball camps. The fact remains that I need more money coming in. Can I transfer debt around for awhile to stay alive, probably, but I need something that works for 40 hours a week. I need to go on another job hunt. Selling the car is in the works, however I have not received any calls from the listed price. The price I put is probably to high, but that is what is needed to pay off my car. I am considering going to a Ford or Toyota dealer and trading in the vehicle for a cheaper car. This way I can save on payments, insurance, maintenance, and probably gas. I want to have a different vehicle by June 15.

Overall I have spent to much in gas money. I did a great job last month keeping my total under $100, but now this month is over $150, not good. I need to either watch it more closely or come up with a different way to budget the $100 that I have planned to spend.

Another money transgression I have made is I went over my cell phone bill(terrible I know). I usually have bonus minutes to cover this so I don’t give it much thought, but I ran out on the last month. I went $70 over, but with a simple phone call I was able to save half. So one phone call saved me $35. I will do my best to get rid of the entire total, email or even another call, it’s not like it could hurt anything.

Making Extra Cash thru Amazon

After going through some of my business ideas, I realized that I needed to make money now. Alot of my business ideas are more for building up a business. Most of us want instant gratification, I want it now type of attitude and I am no different.

After reading a financial blog Get Rich Slowly (one of my favorites), I came across a good article giving a couple of ideas for making extra money. One thing that I had plans to do, but just needed a little motivation was to sell my books that I had either bought or had been given as a gift(I don’t really believe in buying books, but more on that later). So I decided to post them on Amazon.

Putting them on Amazon was a fairly easy process. You need a seller id/account which I already had from some of the Amazon links you see here. Next was to list the books. All you really needed is the title or ISBN number and to put a price on them. I know everyone wants to get what they paid for the books, but I went with the method of put the lowest price listed.

Now Amazon gets a commission for selling your book on there forum. They charge a certain amount for shipping to the customer and give you a reimbursement for what it will cost you to ship the product(I will give more detail as I sell the books). So maybe you only make $2 or $3 dollars, but how many times do you read a book. Plus I am willing to bet your local library has the same book that you can read again.

Sales update. I posted about 20 books yesterday around 6 pm and before the night was over I sold 4 books, so to me it already has been worth it. Now I just have to figure out the cheapest way to send the books via USPS.