Extra income ideas for new moms and sequencing moms

5 great extra income ideas for stay-at-home moms

If you're a stay-at-home mom, returning to the work force doesn't have to mean getting dressed up in the morning or making a long commute to corporate headquarters.

Here are some profitable work-at-home jobs utilizing skills that moms already use on a regular basis or that can easily fit into a stay-at-home mom's schedule.

Best of all, you can do these jobs from the comfort of your home office and some even in your PJs.

Children's party planner

All you really need is a planning book and a telephone. If you specialize in a certain type of party, like dress-up tea parties or wild animal parties, you'll want to lay in a stock of costumes and makeup for guests to put on.

Daycare Provider/ Home-based preschool

The business can be full-day care, drop-in care, extended care (for parents who may be out-of-town for a period of time), after-school care, or night-time care. A special type of daycare service is one for seniors, rather than children.

Starting a daycare operation in your home can cost from as little as $500 to as much as $5,000, depending upon how much equipment you need to buy and remodelling you need to do to meet licensing laws.


Gift basket Maker

for this business is your endless creativity and imagination.
The gift baskets that people buy, depends on the market that you are going after. Find out what the most popular gift baskets are for your target market.
To give you a rough idea of how wide your options are, here's a short list of popular gift baskets :

New baby
New moms
Pet products
Holidays
New Year
Valentine's Day
Golf
Graduation
Mother's Day
Father's Day
Birthday
Wedding
Anniversary
Get Well
House warming
Romance
Chocolate Lover's
Wine Lover's

Professional organizer/Household Organizer

As a professional organizer, you could earn a starting salary of $35 to $50 per hour or more, giving people ideas to help them get organized, or doing hands-on organizing yourself.

Here are just a few of the types of projects that professional organizers are needed for. Which ones can you imagine yourself doing?

Controlling clutter
Developing filing systems
Space planning
Storage design
Time management
Your organizational skills can help people find what they need and get things done on time without stress

Check Anorganizinghand.com, she does an hour on marketing, including attending industry-related conferences and networking events.

Interior Decor/Space Planner:


Seamstress

If you are at all handy with the sewing machine, you can start up your own business sewing for other people. You could offer Professional Affordable sewing/Seamstress/Alterations Service.

The sewing business covers a variety of related fields. You can focus on alterations and garment repair, to sewing custom made clothes, costumes, draperies, curtains and quilts. You can also work on embroideries, knitting and crocheting. Some others concentrate on sewing bridal clothes, while others choose tailoring as their specialty.

Other Sources where you can gather more information about Sewing as a Home Business:

Home Sewing Association http://www.sewing.org
American Sewing Guild http://www.asg.org
International Machine Collectors' Society, http://www.ismacs.org
Professional Association of Custom Clothiers, http://www.paccprofessionals.org
The Applique Society, http://www.theappliquesociety.org

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