Paying the interest on my loans.

Ok the time is here to start paying Sallie Mae and American Education on my loans. I have been sending AE 50.00 a month for awhile now. It is the required payment and does little to pay off any principal. In fact all it does is pay on the interest. I"m heading into the same boat with Sallie Mae this month. I"m mentally prepared in a way. Knowing that this does little to pay down any of the loan balance. But its a start to keep the collectors out of my hair and off my phone and out of my mail box.

I"m still learning the ways of ebay. So far I do manage to make 80-100.00 extra a month. This process is slow going so far and I do not want a household of stock to wait and get rid of.  I just do not have that kind of space. I have found that sourcing is great fun and I need to keep keep to a budget when out and about looking for items to sell. I'm putting myself on hold for a few weeks so I can get rid of some of what I have.

I also signed up for a flea market in a few weeks. Just to get rid of some I do not want to list on ebay. Some of the things that did not sell on ebay as well.

I sold a few books on Amazon also. Not much money to make there yet. I"m considering FBA but still researching to see if this is something that is for me and if I can make more money doing this. Those who do FBA seem to love it as far as  I can tell. But most sellers are seasoned sellers also and have a little to send out than I do right now. I also do not have the extra funds to go out a few times a week or once a week in search of good books and games to sell. I'll be learning the ways of Amazon slowly this summer in addition to ebay.

I'm also going to look into selling arts and crafts online. Etsy, ebay, facebook what ever. I went back to school to learn Graphic Design.  So I might as well take the little bit I did learn and put it to work. I'm going to dabble and learn. From working on my drawing skills, to making jewelry, to making dolls. Which I have made dolls in the past. I'm excited to make a few more again. I'm going to take some painting classes and find ways to sell my zentangle art. Either on cards, note books, t-shirts stuff like that.

And I work full time. I am off in the summer. So that is going to be my time to do all this stuff I need to work on. So far finding a summer job nothing is striking me as something I can work with. I'll know if something pops up.

So yea not great progress. I hope in a year I will see results in my efforts. I think it will take awhile to get up and going on any other money making venture, or job to see any results.

The key is not to give up. Never think this is not a possible thing to do.