I’ve been teaching for 10 years and, until last year, I always worked full time in the summer. Last year, with a 4 month old, we decided I
wouldn’t work. And I had an
incredible summer, but to be honest – I had a 4 month old! A 4 month old doesn’t really do
much… and because he couldn’t walk or crawl anywhere, he was very portable. I took
him everywhere. The beach, the pool, the
mall, out to eat… but THIS summer, I have a 1.5 year old. Things are a bit different now! We don’t go as many places because he’s so
active – going to the beach or pool is no longer a “sit and get a tan while the
baby sleeps in the shade” event. It’s a
“chase my baby around and make sure he doesn’t fall in the water” event. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything, and
I’m so blessed to have this time with him. Over the next 3 months, I'm sure we'll perfect our beach and pool routine. :)
As I said in my bucket list, I’m the teacher who
tries not to think about school during vacation, but does anyway. I can’t help it. I like planning, organizing, and
creating. While my little guy will be a
fun, and welcome distraction, I know I’ll also spend time thinking about
school. As my husband would gladly tell
you- when I’m thinking about school, I usually, inevitably, end up spending
money. Fabric, borders, construction paper, glue sticks,
scissors, BOOKS, materials for Pinterest projects I see... you know the list goes on and on.
I try to be good at looking at sales and being smart about
what I spend, but it’s inevitable that I’ll buy a bunch of things. Being a teacher can be expensive!
This summer though, I have a plan to both get what I need,
and make my husband happy. Last year, I
saw an ad for this secret shopper app called Mobee. I dismissed it a bunch of times, and might
have even marked it as spam at one point.
But then I got curious and looked it up – turns out it’s legit and pretty
easy to work. If you’re not
familiar with it, you should check it out.
It’s pretty easy to use – while doing normal things (getting coffee at
Dunkins or Starbucks, ordering pizza, shopping at CVS or Target), you answer a
few questions and take a couple pictures to earn points. After you earn enough points, you cash them in
for gift cards to places like Amazon and Target – and here’s why I’m blogging
about this – I was such a smarty-pants this spring, and cashed in for a bunch
of Target gift cards, that I’m saving for this summer. That way, I can buy what I need/want for my
classroom, and when my husband asks about it, I can tell him
that it was free. Because it was! I've hooked my entire family on the app, and now we're all competitive with each other about who can earn points fastest. Between our #FitBit competitions and our #Mobee competitions, our families get quite competitive! J
What do you do to help keep school costs down?
I won’t spam my own blog up with ads, but if you end up downloading
Mobee, I can give you a code that gets us both bonus points… :)
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