10 Fun Halloween Traditions and Greening Your Halloween

Please enjoy my article about 10 Halloween Traditions you'll want to try with your own kids, followed by the link to Greening Your Halloween! 

Don’t you just love Halloween?! It’s exciting (dressing up and sugar!) and scary (trick-or-treating in the dark!) … and a little bit gross (pumpkin goo!). My parents started Halloween traditions with me, and my mom still calls every year to make sure we know when the Charlie Brown Halloween show is on. Like me, I’m sure you enjoy discovering new traditions with your own kids, like “booing” and going to a Trunk or Treat. Read on for 10 Halloween tradition ideas, and don’t forget to take lots of spooky pictures!

Trunk or Treat 2012

The Heart of the Home: Creating the Kitchen of Your Dreams

The kitchen is the heart of the home, and with it being such a well-used room it’s no wonder there’s so much emphasis placed on it from a home decor point of view. Whether you want to make your life more functional or you want to boost the value of your home for when you sell it either now or later down the line, renovating the kitchen is a smart move. Here are some of the ways you can update the space.

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Clear Out The Old and Decide on the Layout

First things first is to clear out the old to make way for the new. Turn off the plumbing and electrics and remove all of the old appliances, units, and worktops. Now is the time to decide on the layout too, if you want to go open plan or make the space larger it’s a case of removing or moving walls around. You could go with fully open plan, or perhaps an archway if the wall you want to remove is load-bearing and therefore difficult/ expensive to move.

Swagbucks "Three for Fall"

If you haven't tried Swagbucks before, you can get a bonus $3 for signing up during October as part of their Three for Fall promotion. Swagbucks is a rewards site where you earn points (called SB) for things you're probably doing online already, like searching, watching videos, discovering deals, and taking surveys. Then you take those points and exchange them for gift cards to places like Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, Target, or PayPal cash. 

When you sign up through me this month, you can earn a $3 bonus! Here's how: 

1. Sign up using this link 

2. Earn 300 SB total before 11/1/17. You'll get a $3 (300 SB) bonus for it! 

3. If you want even more bonuses, you'll get a $10 (1000 SB rebate) bonus for making your first shop purchase! That's in addition to the SB you earn for every dollar you spend. 

That's it. It's super easy, and Swagbucks is for real. I use it myself, and I've earned 97,221 Swagbucks, which translates into almost $1,000 :-)

Swagbucks Halloween Sale

Now that Halloween is almost here, Swagbucks has increased cash back at a big group of their Halloween-related stores, so you can earn cash back while getting costumes, decorations, and more for the end of the month. Just click here to see the deals, and sign up for Swagbucks (if you haven't already) to start earning cash back in the form of SB points, which you can exchange for gift cards or PayPal cash. 



The sale is going through October 31st, and if you sign up through me, you'll get a 1,000 SB rebate ($10) after your first shopping purchase through Swagbucks!

Top profitable ventures that can turn into a family business

Having a family business is an amazing way of preserving the future not just for your children but their children as well, and pretty much a long string of generations of your family following afterward. It not just creates security for the future, but it also gives you peace of mind in astounding proportions. However, while starting a family business is an amazing idea, not all business ventures are great as a family business. If you’re interested in turning your hobbies into a business you can share with your family, take a look at these suggestions.

A band

Sure, a band doesn’t sound like a secure business idea, and it’s surely not something that can easily be passed down to future generations. However, if your family has a gift for music, loves music and pretty much surrounds itself with music, then starting a band might be one of the most enjoyable experiences. You can start off small and make your way up. You can aim as high as you want regarding how big you want to become or strive to become because there’s nothing stopping you form trying to become famous if you’re not satisfied with just playing small venues.

A farm

A farm can be a great family business because it holds an astounding amount of lessons about hard work. If you would like to live in a rural area where there’s clean air, and your family loves animals, for instance, a farm might be a great business idea. Your family can sustain itself off the land and sell the produce of different kinds. Next, there’s taking that money and reinvesting it in farming equipment and getting even bigger. Your children can learn a great deal from this sort of experience, about hard work and responsibility. It’s a good way of making sure that they grow up with a sturdy sense of responsibility and that they know what hard work is but also what it feels like to reap the rewards of that work at the end.

A restaurant

This is probably the most common family business idea because there are many families that are already doing it. Opening up your restaurant can be a challenge, but if you’re a skilled cook, you can make quite an impression on the local clientele. Today’s restaurant equipment financing solutions make it easy to get started. Who knows, maybe after a while the word will spread and you’ll have customers from all over, coming to taste your famous pie, stew, salad, what have you. It’s a great family business because every member can pitch in and lend a helping hand. There are many jobs within a restaurant so there’s something for everyone and it helps your family feel more like a team and encourages working together.

A website

This is probably the least expensive business idea because it can all be done from the comfort of your own home. If conflicting school schedules and things like that would make other business ideas way more troublesome, you don’t have to worry about a website in that sense. That’s because a website can be easily managed from home at any hour, making it a much more convenient venture. It can be a website about anything, meaning that it can be a family blog or it can be an online store which sells different things. You can engage your children in learning about business by handling sales while you take care of the delivery part.