Side hustles September 2018

The great thing about doing side hustles to generate extra income is that you can hustle on your own terms.  The more hard work, time, and creative effort you put in, the more extra money you can make.  You can hustle as little or as much as you want, whenever you want.  It’s your extra money, and you can choose how you want to spend it.  Instead of focusing on what ideas don’t apply to you, try focusing on different side hustle ideas that you can implement to work for your situation.

Once a month (usually on the 1^st), I like to post a short summary of our personal and financial situation for the previous month.  Here I’ll share some of what’s been going on with our lives and our side hustles. 

Welcome to October!  How was your September?  It’s been quite a month for us. 

A few months ago I had SMILE laser treatment performed.  Since my prescription was so high prior to surgery, the results of my first procedure were not 100%.  Earlier in the month I had an enhancement refractive surgery procedure done called Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) to completely correct my vision.  PRK is an older type of laser procedure that has been around for over 30 years.  The difference between PRK and modern laser procedures such as LASIK and SMILE is that PRK results in a much more painful and slow recovery period.    

Due to the slow recovery period of my eye surgery, my wife and I both took off some time from our work.  We were both out of the office for 10 days, which gave us plenty of time to live like we were retired!  We spent so much time trying to keep our kids busy.  We did plenty of dancing, singing, playing, walking and exploring.  

I made some sea creature flash cards for my son to play with:

The great thing about visiting places during the week was that there were so few crowds.  We went to the Discovery Science center, where our son loved exploring the different exhibits.  

We also went to an indoors children’s playhouse where our kids were the only ones there for the first few hours.

Here’s our monthly summary of side income that we have generated in the previous month of September.

Cash Back

On 9.5, I received $10.23 deposit in my Discover Cashback Checking account.

On 9.5, I received a $1.25 statement credit in my AMEX Blue Cash Everyday credit card from AMEX Offers.  This promotion was for 10% cash back on purchases made at supermarkets up to $20 in cash back. 

On 9.7, I received a $15 statement credit in my AMEX Blue Cash Everyday credit card from AMEX Offers.

On 9.23, I received a $14.50 statement credit in my AMEX Simplicash Business credit card

On 9.25, I received a $3.75 statement credit in my AMEX Blue Cash Everyday credit card from AMEX Offers.  This promotion was for 10% cash back on purchases made at supermarkets up to $20 in cash back.  I love these AMEX offers!     

Survey Income
On 9.4, I received a $15 check for doing a survey with E-Rewards Medical

On 9.25, I received a $20 check for completing a medical survey with My Impact Network

Rental Income

On 9.5, we received a net profit of $430 from our rental property.

Monthly Totals:

We earned $44.73 from cash back
We earned $35 from survey income

We earned $430 from rental income

All of this totals $509.73 from our side hustles for the month of September.  This was a pretty slow month for side hustle income for us – we were too busy having fun!