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Use the Winter Break to Stash Some Cash

Obviously, one way to earn some money is to get a part-time job. Holiday or seasonal jobs over your break or January term are also good ways to make some extra money without cramping your studying style too much. For the first couple weeks after Thanksgiving, you may find yourself in a little bit of an exam crunch, but after your tests you won’t have to keep your mind on anything but the money you’re making. If parents have time to do a part-time seasonal job as well, you could easily put $2,000 to $3,000 toward the college kitty in a little over a month. If you already have one, you can always offer to work extra hours, try to pick up a…

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Obviously, one way to earn some money is to get a part-time job. Holiday or seasonal jobs over your break or January term are also good ways to make some extra money without cramping your studying style too much. For the first couple weeks after Thanksgiving, you may find yourself in a little bit of an exam crunch, but after your tests you won’t have to keep your mind on anything but the money you’re making. If parents have time to do a part-time seasonal job as well, you could easily put $2,000 to $3,000 toward the college kitty in a little over a month.

If you already have one, you can always offer to work extra hours, try to pick up a shift here and there or impress your boss and shoot for a promotion. If nothing else, your willingness to work and your diligence should net you a raise (one would hope!). If you’re pretty sharp, and let’s make that assumption based on the fact that you’re in college, you can put up flyers offering to tutor K-12 students and help them out with whatever your best at, whether it’s math, science, English or Spanish. An hourly rate of up to $20 is certainly not unheard of, and you should be able to work a tutoring gig around your existing class schedule pretty easily once classes start up again.

Another way to get some extra cash is to have a garage sale. Face it, much of the stuff you’re leaving behind is stuff you most likely will not use again. By the time the holidays roll around you have a pretty good idea what things are extraneous to your new college life. Or if you’re more motivated, start an eBay business and clean the clutter out of your (or your parents’ house). Let someone else enjoy the old lava lamp from your room while you earn your degree. With that fancy education, you’ll be able to get a job that will pay you enough to buy two lava lamps. New ones.

Dig a Little Deeper

Apart from the traditional part-time jobs and other methods of earning money that are out there, you can also try a few avenues that are not only more flexible time-wise but also tend to be less tapped out than the job market. One avenue you could explore that could actually be fun is to be a secret, or “mystery” shopper. Many legitimate companies, like National Shopping Service, will actually pay you to eat out at restaurants or buy groceries that you get to keep. You definitely won’t get rich doing it, but it’s fun and the combination of money earned from the work and the dollars you could save on food and entertainment expenses could go some way in padding your bottom line.

In a similar vein, if you enjoy television and radio, you and your family could apply to become Nielsen households. You don’t really have to do anything differently except wear or carry a small device that monitors what you watch on TV and listen to on the radio. They are somewhat selective, but if you are accepted, each member of the household who agrees to wear the device receives a small monthly stipend that, if pooled together, could amount to an additional $1,000 or more per year that can be funneled toward college expenses.

Bottom line, if you think about it, is that every $20 extra dollars you put aside per week amounts to an additional $1,000 per year in savings. Think about how you can make an extra $20 or even $40 per week. Collect cans and bottles and redeem them. Donate bodily fluids (certain fluids can actually be quite lucrative), if you’re old enough to do so. In four years, you won’t miss the plasma and you’ll love not having the extra principal on your student loan bill. I know it sounds (and is) a little outside the norm, but hey, college is supposed to be an experience right? Think about the stories you could tell your grand kids about walking to class uphill both ways in 40 feet of snow with an IV drip attached to your arm, draining you of precious bodily fluids. That alone is worth the light-headedness.

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Use It Until It Breaks?

Jerry writes in:“I was reading on another blog about replacing things that work with better versions of the same item like clothes hangers. To me, it makes more sense to just keep using something until it actually breaks, then replace it, but that’s just my sense of wanting to get every last drop out of something I put my money into. What do you think?“Although Jerry didn’t mention the blog article he was referencing, I would guess that he was talking about “Does It Ever Make Sense To Replace Something That Is Functioning Properly?” over at One Frugal Girl.Anyway, Jerry makes a valid point and asks a good question. At first glance, it makes good frugal sense to continue to use an item …

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Jerry writes in:

“I was reading on another blog about replacing things that work with better versions of the same item like clothes hangers. To me, it makes more sense to just keep using something until it actually breaks, then replace it, but that’s just my sense of wanting to get every last drop out of something I put my money into. What do you think?“

Although Jerry didn’t mention the blog article he was referencing, I would guess that he was talking about “Does It Ever Make Sense To Replace Something That Is Functioning Properly?” over at One Frugal Girl.

Anyway, Jerry makes a valid point and asks a good question. At first glance, it makes good frugal sense to continue to use an item until it is no longer functional. Otherwise, as Jerry says, you’re not extracting the full value from that item. I am completely on board with using an item until it’s no longer usable.

The question, to me, really is about replacement. I do not think that the best time to replace an item is when it is no longer functional. In that situation, you ideally need something to perform that task that is functional, which means that you have a pretty small timeframe to make a purchase.

Ideally, when you’re buying a new item, you’ll take advantage of two things.

First, you’ll have a research opportunity. You can spend at least a bit of time figuring out what the best version of the item is as well as perhaps the best “bang for the buck” version of the item is. You can figure out things like that from reading Consumer Reports or other reputable publications and asking around in your social network.

This is an opportunity to really figure out what it is that you’re buying and isolate it down to a few options that will really work and solve your problem.

Next, you can look for sales and discounts for those specific items. This can take time, but it’s well worth it, especially if you’re shopping for a pricier item. If you can shave $50 off of the cost of the item you’re buying, it’s well worth a few internet searches every few weeks for a while or checking out sales flyers.

The end result is that you wind up with a quality item that will last for a very reasonable price.

The problem is that this process takes time. Although you can do the research fairly quickly if necessary, it does take time to wait on a sale.

If you’re buying out of necessity, you can’t wait for a sale. You’ve pushed yourself into a situation where an immediate buy borders on necessary.

Thus, for me, I try hard to identify items that may fail in the fairly near future, but still have life left in them. Those are the items that I focus on for the buying process.

If a sale on the right item happens to come up before I need a new version of that item, I’ll still go ahead and pull the trigger. Then, I’ll take the new item and store it for a while until the old one fails. I’ve done this with blenders, umbrellas, and pots and pans, among other items.

This works even for inexpensive items, like clothes hangers. If you’re like me, you’ll eventually bend a wire hanger enough so that it doesn’t hold an article of clothing well or you’ll accidentally break a plastic one on occasion. Thus, if I ever notice that our hanger count seems to be getting low, I’ll just simply watch for a sale on them and add them to the mix.

Occasionally, I’m still pushed into situations where I have to make a quick replacement purchase, but I don’t like to be in that situation. A little bit of advance planning, as described above, can help you avoid it most of the time.

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An Experience at the Store with My Three Year Old Son

A few days ago, I found myself at a store with my three year old son. I had to stop in and pick up a few items because we had some extended family members visiting us.So, the two of us strolled through the store. He’s decided that he’s too big to ride in the shopping cart, so we have a simple rule that he has to either hold my hand or hold onto the cart while we’re in the store.Almost immediately, he asked to visit the toy section. I told him that if he was good, we could visit the toy section for five minutes on our way out of the store. That seemed to please him, so I found the items on my shopping …

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A few days ago, I found myself at a store with my three year old son. I had to stop in and pick up a few items because we had some extended family members visiting us.

So, the two of us strolled through the store. He’s decided that he’s too big to ride in the shopping cart, so we have a simple rule that he has to either hold my hand or hold onto the cart while we’re in the store.

Almost immediately, he asked to visit the toy section. I told him that if he was good, we could visit the toy section for five minutes on our way out of the store. That seemed to please him, so I found the items on my shopping list and put them in the cart while he behaved himself.

Because he did so well, we went to the toy section. I told him on the way there that we were only staying for five minutes and that we weren’t buying any toys today.

I bet you can guess what happened.

Very quickly, he found the single toy he wants most in the world – a Transformers Rescue Bot (which is a simple transforming robot toy that three year olds can easily manipulate). He spent the whole five minutes sitting there studying this toy and trying to play with it through the packaging.

When I told him it was time to go and that he had to put the toy back on the shelf, he went into meltdown mode. He pulled the “going limp” trick. He cried and shouted.

I promptly picked him up, put him in the cart, and left the store as quickly as possible.

There are a few things worth noting here.

First, there was no way on Earth I was giving in to his request for a toy. It simply was not going to happen. I made it clear to him that there would be no toys bought on that day and I stuck to my word.

Second, once he became upset and refused to leave, my goal was to exit the environment with him with as little fuss as possible. Again, there’s no negotiation here. He was allotted some time to look at toys and that time ended, so we leave.

What I’ve found is this: if you stick to the enforcement of these kinds of rules when they’re young and easy to carry, they abide by them much easier when they’re older. I sometimes had meltdowns like this with my other children when they were younger, and I responded by picking them up and removing them from the situation. I cannot recall the last time either one of my older children had such a meltdown.

In the end, though, this type of situation is all about learning impulse control, something that can be a struggle all throughout our lives.

One of my key roles as a parent is to give my children the cognitive and emotional tools they’ll need to be successful adults.

Throughout their lives, my children are going to find themselves in situations where they’re going to desire some material object. They’re going to want it so badly. They’re going to want to buy it now.

If they give into that impulse repeatedly, they begin to set up a pattern where they do not have to wait for material gratification. They view “having it now” as normal, and when it becomes possible for them to spend their own money (or their own credit) in such a way, they’ll continue that “have it now” mindset and spend with reckless abandon.

I did it myself, as have countless other adults out there who dug themselves a healthy debt hole.

Children are going to want things. The job we have as parents is to teach them to control those desires in an effective way that won’t lead them to financial ruin down the road.

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