The Mix Tape Mom

 Track 6: Vinted - Selling Made Easy Hello readers!  Who else has laundry that somehow multiplies by the day and then you realize that you are washing clothes over and over but your kids aren't even wearing them?  I swear, if my girls don't wear clothes anymore, they wind up on their bedroom floor and then when it's time to do laundry again, they just toss the items back into the washing machine!   We used to donate clothes by the trash bag full to Goodwill and I still will on occasion and will definitely donate gently used household items, however, thanks to Vinted's Marketing Team, my girls were drawn to their commercials.  They love the girl dancing in her new (to her) cowboy boots and the little girl playing the drums while **cha ching** noises are playing.  The commercials got us interested in the app and my 11 year old daughter took the initiative to start selling some of her clothes through the app.  The app is very user friendly.  It ...

Track 5: Youth Sports Hello Readers!  Today's topic is Youth Sports....do you love them or hate them?  This is such a hot topic on community pages because it seems like the amount of youth sports your child is involved in, somehow is a badge of honor for the parents.  I don't get it!   Our family is heavily involved in sports with two of our kids still playing youth sports.  We are involved in multiple sports over here, including football and boys basketball (neither of these are at the youth level, our son is in high school and only plays for his high school team).  We also play volleyball (at the local recreational level), basketball (at the local/community travel level), and softball (at the slightly bigger travel level).  I love that my kids play sports, it teaches them life lessons well beyond the court, field, and diamond, however the amount of money and time that youth sports are costing families is ridiculous.   My 13 year old da...

Track 4: Growing a Following  Hello readers!  OK, I am trying to build something that I can use as my creative outlet, a personal release for feelings that I cannot always express to the people in my local life and something that can gain enough attention that I can use it for good.   I'm trying to build a following on Instagram.  When I first started using Social Media it was an online diary.  I started on Facebook when it began, back when you needed a college email address and you waited patiently for your college to be added to the Facebook data, meta, whatever Mark Zuckerberg was doing in college dorm room to make it what it became.... However, the purpose of Social Media has changed from being an online diary to the leading form of advertising.  I'm a mom in her 40's, I'm not ignorant to how tech works, I know how the internet works, but I'm in a generation where after high school or college, we went out and found in person jobs.  Now, those ...