Staying Home and Making Money

Have you considered becoming a stay at home mom, or even a stay at home dad? The cost of going to work sometimes adds up to more than you could save as a stay at home mom. Take the cost of daycare for example. The average cost of child care for an infant can range from 400 to over 950 dollars per month depending on the location and type of facility. If you are a mother with two or more children, you can double or triple that number. The cost of child care can quickly have you working an entire week out of the month just to cover the cost of daycare.

More than just the cost of monthly child care, if you are considering being a stay at home mom, you are probably also weighing the pros and cons of the emotional drawbacks of staying home with your kids or taking them to a sitter or daycare center. On one hand, you may feel some form of guilt or hesitation leaving your precious babies in the care of someone else. On the other hand, they can learn valuable social skills. And let us not forget that moms were an individual before they had children. How do you feel about becoming a stay at home mom? Do you embrace it or do you want to continue in your career?

How do you have the best of both worlds? Well, by now you are an experienced woman at multi-tasking your make-up and dressing a 2 year old. So why not have a career and be a stay at home mom?

Mystery shopping is an option that allows a stay at home mom or dad the luxury of working from home, or making a quick trip to a local store at their convenience. In some cases, a mystery shop of a local department store would allow a stay at home mom the ability to take her children with her. Testing a sales associates ability or willingness to help a mother with tots in tow is definitely a good measure of true customer service. Other jobs that a stay at home mom may be able to incorporate in-between nap time and snack time are consumer surveys online or via mail.

Secret shoppers can be compensated in several ways, with a flat rate per completed shop, with a free service or by a combination by both. An excellent find for a stay at home mom would be secret shopping a portrait studio and receiving a few complimentary family photos or a discounted deal.

Other options that do not require any travel are telephone mystery shops. This would be an ideal secret shopping career for a stay at home mom because she would not have to leave the house or pack up the kids to complete her assignment. To become a telephone secret shopper, you should never have to pay a membership fee or training course fee. The mystery shopping agency should give you all the training necessary to become a shopper for their business.

As a stay at home mom you are sometimes Commander In Chief in times of warring children, Medicine Man when the little one falls down and bumps his knee, Chef Extraordinaire during lunch time and Guardian against closet monsters. Adding a little income by way of secret shopping is an option for anyone, including the stay at home mom.

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