Our Own Adventures

How many times have you caught yourself daydreaming about quitting your 9-5 and making tons of money—or at least enough to cover your weekly coffee stops? If it’s more than once then this post is for you! Here are 4 creative ways to make money online.  1. Start a blog and advertise for other people.  While this isn’t the easiest or least time consuming way, it is one of the most consistent. Once you have plenty of followers, you can advertise for other businesses and make a small amount of side cash. Plus, you get to pick your content and write about whatever you’d like. Pick a niche and start sharing your thoughts.  2. Design journals or planners and sell them on Amazon again, not the least time consuming but something that is fully customizable for you. It takes a little advertising to make massive sales, but for any of you creative folks, it is a fun and relatively easy way to make some side cash.  3. Design t-shirts and sell them.  Again, rather creative, bu...

I was well into adulthood before I realized how important a budget is. Nevermind my parents pounding the idea into the ground--I just didn't get it. It seemed so stuffy and unimportant. I had money, I spent money. End of story.  I've since learned that budgeting is like style--personal and highly customizable. Since being married, Kyle and I have tried and tested just about every budget style out there, and I'm here to give you the highlights.  1. Cash Budget While not for everyone, this was probably one of the best and most successful budgets we used--for a short term goal. It's not something that I would typically recommend as a long term budget, but if you're needing to meet a heft goal in a short amount of time, the cash budget could be what works.  There are multiple ways to make this budget work, but the the one that stuck for us was putting all of our regular dependable bills on autopay, and then budgeting out all the variable expenses in cash. We had five ca...