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Do you Stash? I just started.

09 Friday Dec 2016

Posted by Aimless Amy in Household, Technology

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Investing, Investment App, Mutual Funds, Stash

The experts say that you need to start investing for retirement by the time you are 30. I’m well past 30 and haven’t saved a single dime. Isn’t that horrible?

The Best Way To Predict The Future is to Create It
I know I should. I’ve always mean to and sometimes I even do, or at least I try to. But life happens and it seems like every time I start to get ahead, something blows up.
Recently however, I discovered an app called Stash. They have a 30-day free trial so I decided to check it out.

Basically, it’s an investment app. You put money in your account and use that money to invest into various funds.

I intended to start out slow with $5, the minimum required to invest in a fund. However, I messed up by clicking buttons without reading and ended up with $15 instead of $5. Still, $15 wasn’t bad so I went ahead and pushed forward.

With my $15 Stash balance, I spent $5 on three different funds.

Yes, I know investing $5 in something isn’t going to make me rich. But that wasn’t really my point. I was just trying to learn how it all worked.

After two weeks, I put another $5 into my Stash account, and then invested that in another fund.

At the end of the month, I seen a small return on all my investment funds, except for one. I picked “All That Glitters” because someone once told me that investing in things like Gold and Silver during times of political turmoil was a good idea. I put $5 into my fund during the Trump and Clinton election. So far, that fund is down 2.16%. Guess that’s what I get for listening to random people about investing.

Overall though I was still ahead, making more than I invested, so I put another $5 into my Stash account. This time, instead of finding a new fund, I put it in a fund that I had previously invested in. The Raw Earth fund had the most gains so now with a $10 investment into Raw Earth, I’m happy to say that I am showing a 4.27% growth.
By investing small amounts, $5 or $10 here and there, it makes saving money easier. My sister invests 4% of her check every month into her retirement account. That’s only $250 a month, and I know I should do that too but I just don’t. I’m sorry I’m just not that responsible.

Instead I’m going to try it this way. I’ll put $5 in every time I have a little bit of money. During the first 30 days of using this app that turned out to be $30.

By the way, you can find the Stash app in iTunes. It’s free to use for the first 30 days and then after that it cost $1 per month.

If you don’t know anything about investing, don’t worry. They make it easy.

  • Step 1: Deposit some money into your Stash Account
  • Step 2: Tell it something you like. ie: Movies, Jewelry, The Environment (You have a long list to pick from)
  • Step 3: Invest the money you put into your Stash account in one of the suggested funds.
  • Step 4: Wait and watch your money grow.

You won’t get rich overnight but it’s nice seeing that $5 you put in turn into $5.10 and then $5.43 and then eventually who knows how much.

This isn’t really meant for short term earnings. It’s about the long haul. Put some money in today, invest it and forget about it. Over time that $5 will grow. It will one day become $10 or maybe even more.

The point is, that you do something. Nobody ever really has a lot of spare money lying around but you have to try and saving money and investing in your future with a mobile app like Stash makes it a lot less painful.

If you put just a tiny bit of money in your Stash account every time you can, it will start to add up over time.

Update: In the end I used the app for 90 days, which ended up costing me $2 since my first 30 days were free. I ended up making a 1.46% return on my total investment. Since I actually made more than I spent I call it a win but even better, it actually forced me to save money that I wouldn’t have otherwise done.

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Make Your Own Wild Strawberry Lip Gloss

13 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by Aimless Amy in Health, Household

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Crystal Light, DIY, DIY Lip Gloss, Homemade Lip Gloss, Lip Gloss, Makeup, Wild Strawberry

A couple of years ago I made a post about how to make your own lip gloss.

Well now I have a variation on that old recipe that you might like! Anyone who knows me, knows I’m addicted to Crystal Light smoothies so when I came across this recipe for lip gloss using crystal light, I had to share it with you!

crystal light wild strawberry

First gather what you need …

  • A Packet of Crystal Light Wild Strawberry
  • Vaseline
  • A lip gloss container

Any small jar with a lid will work but you can also get specific lip gloss containers at Amazon. You can get 50 of them for $10. You can also get them at any craft store.

lip gloss container

Put one cup of Vaseline into a small microwavable bowl and heat it for about 30 to 45 seconds. This will make it easier to stir. You don’t want to heat it for to long because if you do, it will turn it into liquid. All you are looking to do is simply soften it, not liquefy it.

Now open you package of Crystal Light and pour it into the bowl of heated Vaseline and stir it well.

Now put the mixture into your lip gloss containers and enjoy!

I should note that this works with all flavors of Crystal Light but the two best flavors are the Wild Strawberry and the Pomegranate.

 

 

Who needs weeds when you have Dawn?

07 Saturday Jun 2014

Posted by Aimless Amy in Household

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Dawn Dish Sap, Epson Salt, Homemade Weed Killer, Round-Up, vinegar, Weed, Weeds, Week Killer

I seen this little gem on Facebook. WEEDS BE GONE!!

dawn dish soap

Basically you combined Dawn dish soap with vinegar and Epson salt and it becomes an insanely effective weed killer, without the toxins of the commercial products. With this you’ll never need to buy Round-up again. Not only is it more effective, but it’s also cheaper!

  • 1/4 Cup Tablespoons of Dawn dish soap (the blue original liquid bottle)
  • 1 gallon of white vinegar
  • 2 cups Epson salt

Mix it in a watering can, stir well. This will kill anything you put it on.

 

Use lemons to refresh your fridge!

18 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by Aimless Amy in Food, Household

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Lemon, Lemon Juice, Refrigerator, Remove Odors

Every since I wrote my first story about things you can do with lemons I have just been fascinated to find all the other neat and fun things that lemons are good for.

Did you know that lemons can help you fresh up your refrigerator? It’s true and it only takes 3 easy steps ….

  1. Take a lemon and cut it in half.
  2. Squeeze the juice from one half on a small cotton pad or a small sponge. If you use a small sponge, please make sure it’s a new one. Don’t use a used sponge.
  3. Now place that in your frig and it will remove stale odors while adding the fresh lemony scent.

Want to get more juice out of your lemon? Before you cut it open, hit the lemon repeatedly against a counter. By smashing the inside structure of the lemon, you make the juice easier to extract once you slice it open.

Make Your Own Lip Gloss

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by Aimless Amy in Health, Household

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DIY Lip Gloss, Flavored Lip Gloss, Kool-Aid, Lip Gloss, Make Your Own Lip Gloss, Vaseline

Flavored lip gloss is expensive but if you are like me and L-O-V-E cherry flavored lip gloss then you don’t care … you just have to have it. That’s why when I found this recipie for DIY Kool-Aid Lip Gloss I was like OH YEAH!!

kool-aide lip gloss

First gather what you need …

  • Kool-Aid packets (I like cherry but grape, strawberry and other flavors work, just pick what you like best)
  • Vaseline
  • A container to store your new flavored lip gloss — any small jar will work really but if you don’t have anything at home you can get something perfect at any craft supply store. Just remember to pick something with a lid.

Directions on how to make it …

Put one cup of Vaseline into a small microwavable bowl.

Heat it for about 30 to 45 seconds, making it easier to stir. Be careful not to heat it to for long – you don’t want it to turn into liquid. The Vaseline in the very bottom may liquefy, but the key is to just get it warm enough to stir.

Next sprinkle your favorite flavor of Kool-Aid into the bowl of heated Vaseline and stir well.

Now put it into your container, and enjoy!

Make your own paint

12 Monday Aug 2013

Posted by Aimless Amy in Family, Household

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Arts and Crafts, Food Colors, Kids, Paint

My sister loves to do arts and crafts with her kids but as any parent knows paints can be expensive so today when I found this great recipe on facebook to make homemade paints, I just had to share it. You can get the bottles you use at any craft store.

The recipe is simple …

  • 1 cup of Salt
  • 1 cup of Flour
  • 1 cup of Water

Mix together and then add in food coloring to get the various colors you want.

homemade-paint

How do you make lemon candles?

28 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Aimless Amy in Household

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Candle, Handcrafted, Homemade Candle, Lemon, Lemon Candle, Tea Lights

My mother has a big lemon tree in her yard and the last few years it seems to have gone a little crazy and has exploded with lots and lots of lemons. So when I found these pictures of lemon candles I knew I had to try this out.

To make a lemon candle you simply take a large lemon and cut it in half. Clean the lemons out and place two tea lit candles inside, or if the lemon is rather large than three might be best. What I did was melt the was of two of the candles then poured that in the lemon on top of the one candle with the aluminum. It filled it up perfectly and that was that. I had my perfect lemon candles.

lemon-candle-1 lemon-candle-2 lemon-candle-3

The Pepto Bismol Face Mask

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by Aimless Amy in Health, Household

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Beauty Secret, Face Mask, Home Remedy, Pepto Bismol

Pepto-Bismol is well known for soothing your sour stomach but did you know it can also be a great face mask?  In the same way that Pepto-Bismol breaks down oil and acids in your digestive system, it breaks down any on your face.

face-mask

Pepto-Bismol contains an ingrediant called bismuth subsalicylate – a common ingredient in facial creams.  Salicylate is also used in over-the-counter acne products to gently exfoliate areas that are more oily, or built up with dead skin, black and white heads.

This is a great home remedy that very few people know about.

To create your Pepto-Bismol face mask you put about two teaspoons of the pink stuff on your face, and then let it dry.  Leave it on your face at least 15 but no more than 30 minutes.  Rinse it away with warm water.

Your skin should feel much smoother, now that you have gotten rid of some of the built up dead skin and given your face a deep cleansing and dried up some of the excess oils.

A word of warning though, you should be careful as Pepto-Bismol can irritate sensitive skin.  You also don’t want to use this too often.   Some would say no more than a few times a year.  This isn’t something you want to be putting on your face all of the time.

Pepto-Bismol Face Mask

Great trick to clean your microwave

18 Friday Jan 2013

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clean, microwave, vinegar

My microwave really is so nasty.  I clean it out but even still, with age it just needs something more and normal washing doesn’t seem to work.

Then thanks to someone on pinterest I found the perfect solution.   I couldn’t be happier and believe it or not, this little trick actually works insanely well!

What you do is get a bowl and fill it with 1 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of hot water.  Mix it together and put it i n the microwave for 10 minutes.  This mixture will heat up and steam clean your microwave.  It cleans up all that dirt and scum, even what you can’t see and that means it removes the funky smells that some older microwaves have, namely mine.

microwave clean

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