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farmers markets maybe?  
 
the thing i did was reduce my expenses, i home cooked everything including bread, granola bars ect, washed my own cloth dippers and i mystery shopped for my date nights :D

I've been looking at cutting down the costs of our groceries. Making things from scratch has also been on my to do list. As for the baking, I'm not a strong baker and I lack self control with sweets hahaha! Gotta taste test you know. I feel the temptation to just eat all of it would be too great. Also not too sure about specific rules on selling baking out of a home kitchen! But hey it's something to look into for sure. I've been wondering about doing some data entry too, but I'm nervous about some of these things being legit. Anyone ever tried that and had success??

I had the same dilemma, but I had to be open to ideas. As much as I wanted to stay home, I ended up doing house cleaning and baby sitting for people. You could charge $20 an hour doing house cleaning. I posted an ad In News in a Minute saying that I would do house cleaning and what I charged and that it was a minimum of two hours. I got responses. You could also look for baby sitting jobs. Some might let you take your children with you to their place and some might drop their children off at your place. Eventually, you and your employer become friends, I found. Worst case scenario, you could ask your parents or relatives to look after your wee ones while you go do housecleaning. Back to babysitting, I found a few people on Ebrandon looking for before and after school. Most people pay $15.00 an hour. I hear ya!!

Seems this comes up very frequently. Why not all those that want to stay home open up to a daycare and take in some extra kids?

I never thought to advertise in news in a minute! I'm so very open to cleaning people's houses. Thanks for the idea.

Be extremely careful with home baking. Alot of people who have been posting on swap and shops groups are getting reported and health inspectors shutting them down.

It’s not so simple or black and white.  
 
To open a home daycare, there are rules to be followed. It’s opening a small business and not everyone is cut out for that and not everyone is cut out to look after multiple children. Not everyone realizes the toll it takes on your whole household and the house itself. It’s a lot of paper work and precise bookkeeping. It takes money to have a business and be able to pay your taxes and CPP at end of year.  
 
If staying at home to make “easy and quick cash” is the main reason one is opening a home daycare, I would strongly advise not too. It really is no different than opening a business. You must be able to write up fair and clear contracts/policies, deal with clients that may not be so polite, chase after your money, handle sticky situations and sometimes confrontations. There is no one to pass on ANY part of the workload, it is all on the one person and some just don’t have the right personality to handle all that comes with having a daycare  
 
 
 
JMHO