Stay at home mom's what do you do?

Question

I'm a mom to a 7 month old. I work currently but I'm finding it very hard to deal with my work right now. They keep changing my hours AFTER the schedule is made and generally messing things up. For instance I was only scheduled to work 4 hours last week I'm suppose to be part-time I told them 15-20 hours when they hired me and that was supposed to be no problem. Well anyways I was also on-call for 5 of the other six days last week. This makes it very hard to make plans or find someone to babysit. No one wants to babysit with only an hours notice and nobody wants to wait around all day to see if you have to work or not. So now I'm left wondering what I should do for cash since I'm obviously not going to be able to rely on my current job. I have another job lined up but I still want to do something on the side for extra money so I was wondering what you all do? I was thinking of possibly selling things on the internet on sites like ebay and craigslist but I wanted to see if anyone had actually had success in making money doing this? My plan is to either sell my kids old clothes or to go out and get great deals on clothes and then sell them for a profit. I can also sew and crochet. I was thinking about making baby items and selling them too. Any other ideas and I don't want any work from home internet deals either. I want to have my own little home business. I would love to be able to make $200-$400 a month doing this. The rest I can work at my other job that isn't s******g around and is right down the street from my house.

Answer 1

just this summer I started doing fleece blankets with crochet trim, and baby hats. I am going to do the local flea market in about 3 weeks, and a big craft bazaar in October. I sold one on E-bay, but it only got one bid and sold for like $14 and that included shipping. I have seen other crafters make generic taggie blankies and things like that.