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Rule Number Five

Tri-CAP
January 12, 2016

In construction we have a saying – don’t forget rule number five! This rule follows rule number one (Do the best job possible); and rule number two (Always keep your word). Skip rule number three and number four and go directly to rule number five – Get the Cash! For many of us getting enough cash to pay all of the bills is an elusive target – some months we just fall short no matter what we do. When we started the Tri-CAP blog last year, there was a promise to do a story on making extra income – and here it is.
Increase Income

A) Look for a part-time job.
B) Go back to school, take a targeted course to improve your job skills and improve your opportunity to be hired.
C) Create a new or updated resume and cover letter.
D) Talk to the Work Force Center nearest you; check in with temporary work agencies to help locate part-time work.
E) Volunteer at local organizations, this helps you network and meet people, remember that companies like to hire busy, motivated people. You can’t meet people if you stay home and don’t engage.
F) Get the word out to family, friends and church that you are looking for work – network!
G) Consider baby sitting or day care; consider renting a room in your home for extra income.
H) Turn your hobbies into income and start a small business.
I) Use your car or truck and be a driver for hire.
J) If you like to garden, expand your operation and sell your veggies at your road-side or at farmer’s markets.
K) If you are really good at something, teach a how-to class and charge admission.
L) Check out all of the opportunities to make money on the internet – you could buy and sell on the internet (example: Craig’s List) and make some good income. (Go to Google and type in “extra income”). This will introduce you to a multitude of possibilities, many of which can be done from home on your own computer. (Or go to the nearest work force center or local library for computer/internet access).
M) Check out all of the programs with Community Action and other non-profit community organizations.
N) Go through your home/garage inventory, and have a yard sale or garage sale. Most people have hundreds of dollars of goods they are not using – turn them into cash! Do it once a year – it can be fun and profitable. It’s also a good time to sell your arts and crafts, woodworking items, antiques or paintings, handmade quilts, or canned items such as pickles and jars of jelly.
O) Advertise with flyers for services that you can provide, such as handy-man services; yard work and mowing; snow plowing or hand shoveling of driveways or walk-ways. You could also charge to help people grocery shop (many people have a hard time getting out for groceries). Get their list and get their groceries – help others as you help yourself.
P) Charge for house sitting or checking on people’s seasonal homes while they are away.
Q) Sell your services for house cleaning. (Great business opportunity in this field).
We at Tri-CAP wish you the best year ever in 2016, and we hope you can master RULE NUMBER FIVE!
Energy tip for January: Find the air leaks in your home and do your best to seal them with caulking or insulation. How? Take a small container of water and wet your finger. Hold hand by and around windows, doors and electrical outlets, and around any other suspicious place, and you will feel the cold air coming in. If around an outlet, buy the cheap kits at any hardware store to place behind your outlet cover; caulk around windows; put new weather-strip and door sweeps on exterior doors. Check your rim joist in the basement, and if leaking cold air, insulate with spray foam or fiberglass insulation. Check around your attic scuttle hole, and make sure it is insulated and sealed. (Attic scuttle holes are notorious for costing you heating dollars, as all the heat in your house rises to the top). Remember this, if you can’t find a way to make more income, work to protect the income you have by sealing the air leaks in your home.
January 2016 Blog by Stephen Bjorklund

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