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By
Lesley Spencer:
Lesley
Spencer is founder and director of the
HBWM.com, Inc. Network which includes:
the national association of Home-Based
Working Moms (www.HBWM.com), Mom’s
Work-at-Home Kit (www.WorkAtHomeKit.com) the
eDirectory of Home Based Careers (http://edirectoryofhomebasedcareers.com), Mom's
Work-at-Home Site (www.momsworkathomesite.com) and
HBWM Canada (www.hbwmcanada.com). She
has a Master's Degree in Public
Relations and has been featured in
numerous publications including Forbes,
Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Home
Office Computing, Parenting, Business
Start-Ups, Family PC and many others.
She has been working from home for over
10 years and has two children ages 10
and 8.
By
Tammy Harrison:
Tammy Harrison
is the Independent Creative Representative
for HBWM.com,
Inc., a wife
and mother of four small children--who finds
that her multiple "mom jobs" can
bring a touch of information and humor to an
audience. Permission is granted for you to
publish the following articles, as long as
they remain "as is", including the
bio at the end of each article.
Click
here to contact Tammy
Budgeting
Basics
Bank This!
Our personal and business banking adventures
have been eventful, to say the least. I was
raised in banking, as my uncle was (and
still is) a banker. His daughter is now in
the banking business. I've heard the good,
the bad and the ugly that happens with
financial institutions.
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Budget Baby Steps
You are a two-income family, sharing and
spreading the wealth amongst yourselves. All
of a sudden, baby one comes along, and you
find your heart pulled in a different
direction than you ever imagined. Your
emotions run high, and you make a decision
that will change your life and the life of
your family forever -- you quit your job and
your checkbook has a heart attack!
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Create Your Own Window Envelope
Shades!
Save a little money with this easy
to follow do-it-yourself project.
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Home-Based
Help
Be Clear about Your Goals
Why do you want to work from home? Do you
know for sure?
I have been seeing and reading a lot of
information about why a woman would want to
work from home, and it has really made me
sit down and take notes about the real
reasons I have a home-based business.
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Being Successful at ANY Job
Requires Passion
I was responding to yet another desperate
plea for help the other day, when I realized
that people really do NOT take enough time
to chose a home-based business.
How can that be?
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Call Me: Telephone Tips for Working at
Home
While talking on the phone, be it to
clients, other publishers or friends; I find
that our conversation has a way of taking us
from the meat of the discussion to how one
balances life by working from home. Just
today, while visiting with a man who has
made the move from his home-office to an
office outside of his home, he inevitably
heard my kids in the living room (“The
alligators, Mom! We have to jump from the
sofa to the chairs because if we step on the
floor, the alligators will get us.”).
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Constructing
a Business
We live in a log house. The logs were cut
and prepared in central Missouri and shipped
here for construction. Before the logs were
put into place, a foundation was poured out
of concrete. After the logs were set,
windows, doors and all of the interior
features were added. This is, basically, the
same process that you would use to build a
traditional house.
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Financing Your Dreams
As I started working with our sponsor a few
weeks ago, it really hit me that women are
on the bottom of the finance chain. Not only
do we have a big strike against us if we
have been married and our credit report
doesn't reflect the joint financial efforts
of married people - we then have to deal
with the loss of individuality that
accompanies such!
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Make Time for
Your Heart and Make a Difference
One of the best things about working from
home is that I am able to leave my heart on
my sleeve. Do you know what I mean? I've
worked in offices where the boss determined
what local charities we supported, what we
did on our days off if there was a
fundraiser going on that we should be
involved in and where our donated dollars
went. My husband still has to endure this
type of treatment, when his employer sends
out 'giving slips' to their favorite
charity, with his paycheck.
Now that I'm my own boss, things are a bit
different!
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My Dirty Little Secret: I'm a Saleswoman!
There, I said it, and it is true! I am a
saleswoman, and I make my sales from home.
There is no better career choice for me, so
I am running through the streets telling
folks about my lovely life and how they,
too, can do what I do from the comfort of
their own abode.
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Successful Adventure
What is your definition of success? Is it
driving a pricey automobile? Is it not
having to worry about budgeting? Is it being
able to pay off your debts? Once you
determine your definition of success you
will be able to move through the process of
finding home-based work.
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Summer Work
Hours
I'm feeling it already. No, not the heat of
summer. Not the excitement of the kids to be
out of school. Not even the pressure to do
all of the things that other stay-at-home
moms do. I'm feeling the time crunch from
trying to combine summer kids with summer
work!
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Take a Trip - and Take
Notes!
One of the best things about working from
home is the freedom that comes with working
for myself. When I need to be the mom or
enjoy a day with my kids, I can turn the
computer and the telephone off and leave my
work behind me. When we want to travel, all
I have to do is load the laptop and cell
phone in the auto and embark on places
unknown!
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When Times are Lean
More than once lately, I have been
reminded that one of the uncertains in a
home-based business is lean times. No money
coming in, no prospect of money coming in,
and no idea how one is going to pay for the
ISP each month.
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Homefront
Humor
Mr. Whipple?
Every single night for the past ten
months, my middle daughter Cristen has
closed out her evening prayers with
"And, thank you God for helping mommy
get Grace out of her tummy."
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Parenting
Just a Spoonful of
Sugar...
I had a fight with a candy bar package the
other night. I had sent our daughter to her
Brownie meeting with s'mores, and she
returned with a whole package of chocolate
bars. I hid them from the kids, thinking
they would be a perfect midnight snack when
I was craving a sugar rush. I must have been
overly eager to taste the delectable
smoothness of the confections as it took me
a half hour just to get the package opened!
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Liberating
Yourself
I was enjoying a rare couple of hours out of
the house recently, attending a home party
for a friend. Most of the attendees were
women like myself, with small children and
stay-at-home moms. What they were not is
liberated women!
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Smile and the
World Smiles With You
by Tammy Harrison
I'm tired. Are you?
Tired of the complaining and whining!
I'm convinced that people complain as a
hobby these days, instead of quilting or
bird watching! I'm not
talking about simple aggravations. I'm
talking the core of those who are so
miserable that everything they say is
followed by them shaking their heads in
disgust and then adding an "I
wish..." statement to their
conversations.
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The Old
Saying is True...
I picked my two kids up from Montessori
school one day, and a dose of reality
slapped me in the face yet again. Two of the
teachers in the toddler room were splayed
out on the floor, with scissors and cutting
tools, making a large appliance box into a
wonderful castle for the kids to play with.
I gasped, and quickly left before the kids
could see what was going on.
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