Happy new year! It's the final side hustle income report of 2018 AND my 2018 wrap up post! Rest of the year’s reports: January’s Side Hustle Income ReportFebruary’s Side Hustle Income ReportMarch’s Side Hustle Income ReportApril’s Side Hustle Income ReportMay’s Side Hustle Income ReportJune’s Side Hustle Income ReportJuly’s Side Hustle Income ReportAugust’s Side Hustle Income ReportSeptember’s Side Hustle Income ReportOctober’s Side Hustle Income ReportNovember's Side Hustle Income Report Amazon Finally got back to me with a cryptic message (albeit from a seemingly real person) basically saying “suck it.” You can read more in my Merch category but if you don’t…

Happy holidays! Things have been crazy over here, being pregnant and all. I went from doing nothing but watch Saturday Night Live reruns in the fall to embarking on an entire site redesign and rebrand right before Christmas! As you all can see, Saving with Spunk is now Modern Frugality! The transformation is almost complete and I am so happy with it. There are still some kinks so if you see any feel free to leave a comment here and I'll get on it. And thank you! And even though I still have one more 2018 income report to do…

This update is going out late this month but with very good reason. Many things can change in the course of a month. on November 5th I was featured in an article from Money Magazine (Time Magazine's finance publication) about Merch by Amazon. Well, two days later I get an email from Merch saying that "after further consideration" my account has been reinstated. Huh. So what does that look like? Only 7 of my 150 shirts look like they're going to go back up. However, those shirts have been in "processing" purgatory for over a week. Amazon also paid me…

I've been really hesitant to do this update! You all know why. I did email Merch after my termination and gave them all the facts without any of the sob and they still decided to keep my account terminated. So this will be my income report without that income. I'm still selling shirts on Etsy but it's clearly not the same. Meanwhile, I'm working on another website. Instead of designing T-shirts that serve no purpose in the great scheme of things (except to pad my bank account) I want to design helpful things that align with my passion: helping people…

This month was a month of really hard lessons learned and they're causing me to rethink my whole online business strategy. First: My Merch by Amazon account has been terminated. Last night I had 8 shirts taken down for copyright infringement. Amazon is super strict about copyrights. I've had designs taken down that were original designs but were deemed too close to another design or some trolls get "report to Amazon" happy. I don't object because my strategy has always been lay low and fly under the radar. But I'm guessing those take-downs caught up to me because by the…

Guess who's back? Back again! Sorry not sorry for getting that song stuck in your head. Here we are again with another installment of "what I made outside of my full-time job!" Here's the rest of the year for reference: January's Side Hustle Income Report February's Side Hustle Income Report March's Side Hustle Income Report April's Side Hustle Income Report May's Side Hustle Income Report June's Side Hustle Income Report Previously I haven't had a goal with these reports. I just wanted to share what you could realistically expect to make doing a few of these things and track my…