The Power of You: Earn $50,000 Per Year from Home

By Diana Mill

The Power of you

Earn $50,000 per year from home
Is an in-depth look at the value of the work that you can do from home to raise your standard of living.
Just because you do not have a paid job does not mean you are worthless and unable to improve your standard of living or help others. There is plenty you can do If you want to.
This book has an in depth look at the value of some of the jobs you can do for yourself to raise your standard of living as well as ways to Reduce your costs, Maximise your savings, Validate yourself by cutting out the middle men and doing things for yourself you will be amazed at how much you can do and how empowering it is.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris NZ
• Release date: Oct 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781499097481

Diana Mill

Diana Mill was born in 1961. Raised on a large sheep and cattle station in the back blocks of the east coast, she was sent to boarding school in Hawke’s Bay at the age of 13. In 1980 she went to Massey University to do a Bachelor of Science. Diana has had a number of very diverse jobs, working as a cook, clerk, librarian, teacher’s aid, entomologist, groom, encyclopaedia salesperson, counsellor, painter, manager, company director, etc. She has started several businesses by herself. Her first business venture was runner up in the Air New Zealand enterprise regional awards and was featured on the programme “Money Go Round. Great Great Great Niece of John Stuart Mill who was famous for his work ode to liberty amongst others.

Book preview

THE

POWER

OF YOU

EARN $50,000 PER YEAR FROM HOME

DIANA MILL

Copyright © 2015 by Diana Mill. 706088

ISBN:   Softcover         978-1-4990-9747-4

              EBook             978-1-4990-9748-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Rev. date: 10/06/2015

Xlibris

0800-443-678

www.xlibris.co.nz

Diana Mill was born in 1961. Raised on a large sheep and cattle station in the back blocks of the east coast.

In a remote place to live where self-sufficiency was required in most aspects of life. The nearest shop was half hour plus journey via gravel road. The nearest neighbour was a good 15 minute drive away.

Diana was sent to boarding school in Hawke’s Bay at the age of 13. In 1980 she went to Massey University to do a Bachelor of Science. Diana has had a number of very diverse jobs, working as a cook, clerk, librarian, teacher’s aid, entomologist, groom, encyclopaedia salesperson, counsellor, painter, manager, company director, etc. She has started several businesses by herself. Her first business venture was runner up in the Air New Zealand enterprise regional awards and was featured on the programme "Money Go Round.

Diana is a Great Great Great Niece of Niece of John Stuart Mill who was famous for his work ode to liberty amongst others and has always found a great deal of irony in how women of the east coast were treated in her formative years.

Diana sincerely hopes this book will help improve your way of life.

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my wonderful children who inspired me to write it for them, To my dear friend Trish who encouraged me and to all people struggling to find the work home balance

FOREWORD

While researching other peoples ideas on money I came across this quote from Abraham Lincoln:

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot further the brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and encourage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves."

And still his words ring true.

CONTENTS

Section 1

The Value Of Your Work

1: The Cost of Working

2: How to Earn $50,000 + per year Staying Home.

3: Family versus Money

4: The Need for Money

5: Staying Home versus Going Out to Work

6: Superwoman whose Fantasy is she Really?

7: Women Who Stay At Home Resent Women That Work

8: Women who Work Resent Women who Stay at Home

9: Making a Home

Section 2

Ways To Save Money

10: How to become Wealthy:

11: Budgeting

12: Buying Bargains.

13: Banks

14: Cars

15: Credit Cards

16: Desperate Measures

17: Don’t be a Sucker

18: Entertainment

19: Gambling

20: Gardening

21: Holidays

22: Home Renovations & Maintenance

23: Housework

24: Housing

25: Investing Money

26: Know Your Rights

27: Pests

28: Power Saving Tips

29: Insurance

30: Mortgages

31: Retirement Savings

32: Stain Removal

33: Supermarket Shopping

INTRODUCTION

As a stay at home mother I really struggled to find anybody to value the work I did from home.

I did a lot to raise my family’s standard of living but found it very frustrating how little the work I did was valued by anybody.

I remember going to my daughter’s school and being asked by her 9-year-old classmate to come along and meet kestrel the guide dog.

I’m sorry Id love to but I have work to do I said:

Oh where do you work?

I work at home I replied.

OH, you are just a housewife! was her disgusted response as she walked off.

You had more status with a job cleaning toilets for $6.50 per hour than you did being a housewife.

Ask any economist – they all say that unless you have a job that earns money, your work is of no economic value.

The more generous economists may add that it is because it is to hard for them to quantify the work you do.

Even the feminists are sucking women into thinking that the only way for them to have value and be fulfilled is to have a paid job.

Have you ever tried going out to a function and telling people that you are a housewife?

I used to find it tended to kill conversation so effectively that I was tempted to tell people I was a brain dead moron, just to see if I got a better reaction.

I am totally feed up with this attitude and very worried about where our society is heading.

I also worry about how much people are being sucked into the belief that the best financial options are for them to get a low paying job so they are totally overworked and over stressed, and unable to provide half as much emotionally, financially and educationally to their family as they could if they weren’t working.

Women these days have the opportunity to do whatever they wish, the choice of what to do is theirs and theirs alone, or is it?

While I strongly agree with women being capable and able to join the workforce in whatever capacity they see fit, I feel that women in our society are more condemned for their choices than ever before.

People are bombarded with messages that imply that what they create is inferior to what they can purchase

It is time we as a society recognise and validate all the wonderful work people can do at home and help them in their endeavours things will only go from bad to worse.

With the advent of women’s lib came the attitude that women were either for or against it and anybody who elected to work at home was obviously against it and therefore an enemy.

This book tells people how they can be thousands of dollars better off by working smarter not harder to get ahead. Among other things it goes into detail how much money you can earn and save by working at home instead of working for somebody else.

I have been reading extensively, books that look at money from all sorts of angles along with a number of feminist books. While I have found some that will acknowledge that women can earn more in terms of dollars saved than they can by being employed, I have seen none that spell out the economic advantages of the various jobs they can do at home.

Furthermore of the few that do acknowledge housewives’ productivity most seem to concentrate on their productivity in terms of childcare, cleaning, and cooking. Few look beyond that to what other jobs a housewife may be capable of. Many people think of being a housewife as a boring job with no challenge and little stimulation. While I agree it can be an isolating position, I think it can be as stimulating and challenging a position as you choose to make it.

Before women’s lib came along, society thought of men as going out to work while the woman stayed at home and played. Then in the early eighties women like Penny Perrick further undermined the role women played at home. In her book ‘Woman Power A Practical Life guide For Working Women she categorised housewives as women who spent their day making their ornaments sparkle, cushions eternally plumped then she said housewives spent the major part of their day attacking the paintwork with a damp cloth! Their husbands were of course considered their bread ticket for life because she deemed It impossible to combine full-time housewifery with a job or indeed any serious outside interest!

I had a large organic garden and grew lots of fruit and veggies, which I bottled, froze, preserved and turned into wine. I kept chooks, cats and breed fish for a hobby. I knitted, sewed, painted, did ceramics, pottery, leatherwork, and most types of craftwork. I designed, drew the plans, and helped build a whole second story to my house. I tramped, I skied - both on water and snow, I was an expert organiser and problem solver. I hated to shop but was very good at making the things I saw in shops that I liked. I could go on but you get the picture. I raised the standard of living for my family by cutting out the middleman and doing things for myself, which I found very satisfying and would easily equate to earning $50,000 per year.

Although I didn’t earn cash, the work I did allowed my family to have a very high standard of living. In 6 months my family and I would spent 6 weeks away on holiday - in Taupo, Melbourne and the South Island, as the ski season started we would spend many weekends away skiing. We ate better food than most restaurants could provide and shared a bottle of quality wine most evenings.

My children all excelled at school and although my husband earned a little more than average, it is not that much more.

Nobody has ever stopped to really look at how much people can contribute to their family’s wealth by working from home,

It has now become so unfashionable to be a housewife that few women are brave enough to state that as their occupation many preferring to be called a home executive instead.

While in Melbourne years ago I saw a sign by the duck pond in the botanical gardens, which asked people to refrain from feeding the ducks. The sign told us that by feeding the ducks the ducks learnt to become so reliant on people for their food that the adult ducks didn’t not pass on to the younger ducks how to find food for themselves. So the moment people stopped feeding them, instead of simply reverting to their traditional diet, they died from lack of food. I think society is heading that way too. I think people are becoming such consumers that they are forgetting how to do the basics for themselves.

Look at how many people say with pride these days that they can not cook?

It is now 12 years since I wrote those words and from what I see stay at home mothers have gained a degree more of respect from society as society seems to be valuing the role of raising children more that it was when my children were little. Though one of the ways they do it is by offering more free child care which allows more women to join the workforce.

Aside from a few pockets of new age Hippy types most of the population still does not seem to grasp the value that people can contribute to their families by working from home. I have had some people comment oh but you are lucky because you are able to do that most people can’t

Rubbish, read the book and see how valuable you are and how much you can contribute to the standard of your life doing unpaid Jobs

SECTION 1

The Value Of Your Work

1: THE COST OF WORKING

Bookimage1.tif

CONFUCIUS SAY Man who truly enjoys his work never has to work a day in his life.

Money, a necessary evil the