Ticket Systems and Home Based Businesses

The other day, I went into Staples to buy some tickets. I had read an article on Parent Hacks about using a ticket system to monitor your child's TV consumption. I modified it to be reward system similar to what In The Trenches of Mommyhood commented in my advice solicitation post. Except that instead of using a chart, I'm using a ticket system that rewards her for doing her "chores" and allows her to redeem the tickets for TV time, a toy, Disneyland, etc... each reward requires a certain amount of tickets (kind of like at Chuck E. Cheese's-- so that she understands the concept).

It's working out pretty well for me. She L-O-V-E-S being able to collect the tickets. It's teaching her quite a few things:

• how to save
• what chores are
• how to count her tickets
• that tickets are priveleges that can be taken away...
• It also reduces the amount of times during the day that she asks if she can watch cartoons.

Things have definitely improved. I'll let you know how it goes.

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While I was at Staples, I picked up a magazine called "Get Rich At Home" . The cover story was "Home Based 100 - 100 Surefire Money-Makers to Run From Home". I thought quite a few of you would be interested in the article. Especially if your a SAHM or a Part Timer or maybe even a mom that would like to make extra money. I'm not going to list all 100 (you'll have to pick up the magazine for that) but I thought I'd point out some of the ones that I thought were pretty good:

• Special Events Videos/DVDs - get paid to make videos of special gatherings.
• Calligraphy Service/Special Invitation Marketing - get paid to address invitations
• Parties for Kids - This would be awesome for a lot of you party planning moms
• Keepsake Albums - Perfect for the scrapbooker (you can charge per page)
• Howdy Neighbor Service - Get paid by merchants to include them in your get to know the neighborhood package
• Computer Tutor
• Kidproof Homes
• 900 # Entreprenuer (this would be kind of funny)
• Child Care Center (I've thought about doing this before)

Well, the list goes on, but those were my favorite.