extra money coming!!!!!

**danni** · 03-08-2006, 03:23 PM

A friend called this weekend and told me that her maternity leave is ending next month and her hubby just quit his job. She was wondering if I would babysit for her. She has 2 little girls one is 3 yrs old and the other is 4mths. The baby is really happy and the 3 yr old is only 6mths older than Emily, so they entertain each other. I told her that I would do it and I would charge less than the daycares charge, but I won't give receipts. This way it doesn't raise us into the next tax bracket.
Right now they are both job hunting so I am babysitting a couple days a week for interviews and stuff. Once they are both working I should be making between $200-$500/mth. It depends if they end up working the same or opposite shifts.
I am sooo excited the extra will go directly to bills and the renovation fund.

guest7 · 03-08-2006, 03:37 PM

I see dollar signs!!

**FrugalMomof3** · 03-08-2006, 05:29 PM

Wow thats great! Good Luck!

**NoDebtMom** · 03-09-2006, 09:19 AM

Cool.. babysitting can be a great way to make $$. I'd like to get a couple of kids to watch (and play with dd.)

**CanadianTreehugger** · 03-11-2006, 08:28 AM

Originally posted by danni
A friend called this weekend and told me that her maternity leave is ending next month and her hubby just quit his job. She was wondering if I would babysit for her. She has 2 little girls one is 3 yrs old and the other is 4mths. The baby is really happy and the 3 yr old is only 6mths older than Emily, so they entertain each other. I told her that I would do it and I would charge less than the daycares charge, but I won't give receipts. This way it doesn't raise us into the next tax bracket.
Right now they are both job hunting so I am babysitting a couple days a week for interviews and stuff. Once they are both working I should be making between $200-$500/mth. It depends if they end up working the same or opposite shifts.
I am sooo excited the extra will go directly to bills and the renovation fund.

Danni,

Thats Great!! I just started babysitting two wonderful boys this past week. Its only 4days a week but I already made 125.00 so far. The boys are 17months and 4years old.
I love it because it not only earns me some extra money but fills that mothering part as my own son is 17years old and lives in the U.S.
I'm taking my first cheque and buying a freestanding pantry from Canadian Tire today and the next three months worth of cheques will go towards my stockpile. After that then I'm placing it in my ING account as dh's EI ends in August.

**danni** · 04-08-2006, 12:47 AM

They are going to pay me at the beginning of every month. So in March I made $240 extra. I put $200 in our reno fund and used $40 to get some milk and fruit.
They ended up both getting daytime jobs, so the first week of April and I've already made $120!!