As everyone may know, living on a teacher's salary is hard. I had to get a master's degree just so I felt like I was able to actually move out of my parents house. Yes, I am 25 years old and I am still currently living at my parent's house. However, I am in the process of buying my first home!! I can't be more excited and scared at the same time.
Why am I scared?
I'm scared because I will be buying the house ALL BY MYSELF. I don't make much money and have to shell out $355 for school loans and $288 for my car loan every month. I did find a pretty nice house though and I could not be more excited about it. I'm also scared because there is not a second income to help me out.
Why is my boyfriend not helping me out?
First of all, we are not engaged or married so I don't expect him to help me out. My boyfriend is currently a pharmacy student at Ohio State University (3 hours away from where I live). We've been together for 8 years! Buying a house is something I wanted to do now. I don't know why but I get embarrassed when I have to tell people that I still live with my parents.
So what am I thinking about doing so I can comfortably buy a house all by myself?
I just got into couponing. It's like an addiction now. It's probably the best addiction you can get into if you coupon right because you pay such little money for things you actually need! If you want to get into couponing, go to YouTube and search for:
Jeff SavesWithCoupons,
ALittleBitSmall,
couponingstacy,
and Daisy Loves To Save.
Those are couponers that I follow but there are a ton out there. Basically, I watch the videos, take notes of the deals they got, find/print coupons, and go shopping.
Download:
Ibotta (Ibotta is by far my favorite. Use my code puuoyxl to help a girl out lol! You get $10 just to try it out.)
Checkout 51,
Mobisave,
and Savingstar apps.
These are all rebate apps.
(I actually made $3 by buying this stuff.)
I'm also in the process of trying multiple websites where they PAY YOU for testing their websites out. The websites I'm currently using are:
User Testing (I've heard this is the best one to use)
TryMyUi
Testing Time
User Feels
Most of these websites pay $10 for each test. Each test may take up to 20 minutes. Hey, it puts a little extra money in my pockets if it all works out. I will do a review on each later after about a month of using these websites.
I also have an interview for DaDa ABC. On this website, you teach English to Chinese students. Many students are around 5-6 years old which is perfect for me because I am a kindergarten teacher. I read that DaDa ABC pays up to $25 an hour. You work at least 2 days a week for at least 2 hours each day. The only downside is that there is a 12 hour time zone difference so I will either have to work very early (4am?) or late (9pm?) Again, I haven't started yet. I have an interview scheduled next week at 5:30 am haha!! We'll see how that goes. I will do a short blog about my interview if anyone is interested. Just let me know!
Even though it's stressful to live off of a teacher's salary, there are so many benefits for being a teacher. I'm really hoping everything works out good for me. If you have any tips to earn extra money or ways to live cheap, please let me know in the comments!
Thanks! Have a great day!