My suggestion to you today is that when you get your paper back from the teacher or professor, don’t toss it. Don’t delete it from your computer and don’t toss out the disk.  Let your work carry on into other classes.

I can’t tell you the number of times I have used my work from one class in another class.  Here are some examples and ideas:

• For your English term paper pick a general topic such as eczema.  Later use that paper for science or health class.
• Use your psychology paper on schizophrenia for your health or sociology class.
• Save the video on weather that you made in technology.  Use it for your science teaching methods project and make your lesson’s theme weather.

I have even saved papers that I wrote in high school.  If I’m not mistaken, I was able to use a biography paper from high school in my college English class.  Most of the work had already been done, I just needed to add a few more things.

Keep your old papers and make corrections where necessary.  Even if you have to spend another hour adding more parts to the paper, it will still save you time.  If your school has a policy against recycling your own papers, then you can save time by keeping with the same topic. At least you’ll be knowledgeable about the subject and have your research notes to use.

Have you ever used your work or research from one class for another class?

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Post from: Thrifty Mommy

I started running again the the other day. My workout plan involves running on 5 nights a week between when the kids go to bed and my bedtime. Three of those nights are weekdays. I realized that this could save me some pretty decent money.

Instead of spending money on any number of food or entertainment related things, I now have three nights where I just will not have time to do much besides normal family time, nightly chores, and my workout.

Now running is as much a hobby for me as a health thing.

So I started thinking of other hobbies that I have that prevent me from spending money.

I like to read but prefer to buy used books or get them at the library. I read about 15-30 minutes most nights so books take me a fair amount of time to finish.

I have started to enjoy poking around at the yard. Things like mowing and, in particular, picking the weeds. I spend 1-2 hours a week and since I have a new push reel mower I don’t even have to pay for gas.

I like to write fiction. Every few months I’ll play around with a story idea for a couple weeks.

I like to watch movies. I used to see a movie virtually every week. With movies going for about $8/ticket plus popcorn, that would easily be $50/month. I use Netflix now and pay $13.99. I end up watching more than 4 movies most months and pay significantly less for treats.

Those are most of my cheap hobbies. What hobbies do you have that end up saving you money?

Thanks so much to Mike for today’s guest post.  He is the father of 5 year old twins and a new baby.  You can find him writing about IVF, raising children, raising a child with autism, and fatherhood.  I hope you’ll visit him at Be A Good Dad!

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