The Work at Home Scam Blog

Good question, glad you asked! First let me tell you a little about myself.

In 2003, my daughter was a year old, and I had recently quit my part-time job because my husband had changed jobs and our schedules would conflict. Rather than trying to find a babysitter and probably spending most of my meager wages to pay for it, I decided to stay at home.

After a few months, I started thinking about things I could do from home to help with the bills. I had limited transportation (we lived in a rural area and only had one vehicle at the time), so I thought I would see what the Internet had to offer. I ordered a book of supposed work at home opportunities. There were home assembly jobs, envelope stuffing jobs and the like. I sent off for information on some of them. The envelope stuffing jobs just sounded fishy, so fortunately I didn’t waste my money on them. But I did send money to some of the home assembly companies. What followed was a tiresome cycle of buying supplies, making samples, sending them in, and receiving letters that my work was not up to their standards.

I wasted money that I couldn’t spare and learned a valuable lesson: When you’re trying to work from home, there are scams every way you turn!

My work at home efforts didn’t pay off quickly enough, as my husband lost his job, I had to get my Internet cut off, and we were evicted. If only I could have found a legitimate and lucrative opportunity, the next few years might have turned out much better.

Fast forward to early 2006. Hubby and I both had steady jobs making decent money. Not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but much better off than we had ever been in our five years together. But my job was the pits. I worked 12 hour night shifts at a factory that was rumored to be going overseas within the next few years. It started off tolerable, but got progressively worse. And my daughter had to stay with my in-laws during the day while I slept. They were nice enough to keep her free of charge, but I felt like they were raising her as much as I was. I wanted something more, a job I could enjoy and still be able to raise my daughter myself.

So I set out once again to start working from home, this time much wiser and more leery from experience. I bought TBA Deals, an established resource site for work at home moms, and opened Daydream River Gifts, an online home decor and gift store. I signed up for some affiliate programs. I’ve applied for some part-time telecommuting jobs. And I quit my factory job. I’m still not making a great deal of money, but so far I’ve managed to (for the most part) avoid scams.

So, I started this blog to help keep other work at home moms from losing money to unscrupulous people and companies. To help show them how to separate the legitimate jobs and opportunities from the wastes of time and money. And hopefully to help more moms be able to stay at home with their children. Stay tuned for lots of helpful tips!