Surviving FT Working Stay At Home Mum

Yes, transiting to a full-time stay at home mum. Not that I wasn't a stay at home mum back then, I was. I'd spend money on things like Grab (food or transportation), buying ingredients for my small beverage business and other sort of every day essentials at home. When I juggle being a stay at home mum, spending money and saving money I realized at some point, I became worried.

Since I would be staying home and doing the mother/wife duties. I might as well go for 'drop-ship'. I started to search on online engines about available drop-shipping vacancies and join a team. That particular team was focusing on beauty products, then I decided to join 2-3 other teams. By then, I become a reseller of foods, beauty products, halal supplements and Islamic learning tools.

I may not have 100 sales per day, I may not earn 50% of commission after a sale, I may not profit $1000 a month and that's all okay. I aim to provide these customers an ease, a satisfaction most importantly, leave them a great impression and expression during their sales with me.

Staying home & earn commissions sounds great to you, but also it requires sacrifices. In fact, all work requires any kind of scarification, be it your time, your money, your efforts even your phone battery(in my case). Occasionally, we're required to 'spam' posts and add more 'friends' so that people are aware of what we're selling and from there you need to hook viewers' attention during the time spent scrolling on their phones.

Tip #1: I sacrificed some subscription to automatically posts today, tomorrow and into the future. Which saves me some time in case I may be attending family-related events, who knows right?

Then I take some time to adjusts the comments section, make it more "me" than to just copy-pasting raw material. After I've earned some profit or have extra cash flow with me, I began to buy the products myself. I tried them on personally and give my own thoughts, and from there I get my own ideas to draw people to the product that I'm actually using.

Tip #2: I'd be honest in my posts, and tell my friends and family that I legitimately, bought and tried the product for myself.

At the same time, that leveled up my confidence to a step higher, because I learned and understood the product even more and in time, it felt like I'm selling 'my' own product. Build a bond with what you're selling.

We're all not perfect, I'm not perfect, I have my great days and lazy days, busy days and special days. With all these days, the leaders of the teams will keep pushing you to promote despite you busy days! Posting and promoting about 100 products can consume the time equivalent to a whole 2 days! Once, I didn't sleep during those days, was so engrossed and focused on making the accounts neat and tidy for the visitors to see. But what's done is done.

Tip #3: Make a schedule and reminder. Doesn't need to be a physical one, try to remind yourself. Post a few in the morning, post another in the mid day and another in the night and the rest of the day is a breeze. Set a schedule of what you have to do at home. Let yourself be the boss of you, not the virtual selling.

Make time to cook, attend to the children, do the house chores, most importantly not to forget your meals, don't need to be a big meal, a meal just so you don't starve yourself from being a busy bee. Also, make time to take short naps, to refresh you mind and eyes.

Tip #4: Family matters, the golden rule above all, family matters.

From these hustle, I was able to enroll Basic Food & Hygiene Course, to benefit my sole beverage business. Which from what I remembered, I do have some customers from the opposite side of Singapore from where I am, and I'm planning to expand my area of business, keen to join me? Find me! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 

e-Raya during the circuit breaker 2020

Here’s a video update on this year’s raya. We are all encouraged to stay home, especially during the Hari Raya. There were no visits to families’ and relatives’ houses. Sadly, it was quite a short and brief raya for the first day. We arranged a video chat first using Zoom, then it was kinda complicated then we switched back to the normal Whatsapp video call just in groups. Haha! It was unsynchronised, first we had the video chat with my husband’s side, and while we were at it, my family decided to call up too! And then our garage friends, and the kids... they just sat down on the sofa, watching the tv, not engaging much with the e-raya. Then, our phone cameras are up, polaroid is out, nikon camera is on and we take our usual family pictures but this time, with our cats and friends who had been staying with us during the circuit breaker and lockdown.

The foods.. let’s not forget to talk about food on Hari Raya. Usually every other year I would stay up in the morning and cook all the rendang, kurma dish, masak merah and lontong. Just not this year. Even our kueh, baked some honey cornflakes as usual and tried baking nutella pods, but it all got wiped out even before raya. 

Here’s an animation of mum dad and a whole lot of monsters. Hahaha 😂

Counting the days..

Tonight's henna party reminds me that she's left with a few days until she'd become a Mrs. A day which we will celebrate to a new family member, a new family branch and to future areas of discussions. When everyone used to live under one roof, we witness their well being, if they'd eaten, went out, up all night with their computers, went to school, not home, had a fight, birthday gatherings, eating on the floor with newspapers altogether. Now, we will start to ask 'how are you?', 'where are you from?', 'what do you do every other day?'.

I still remember how we will always be in the toilet together, walk to the shop together, sleep together, steal together? iron our hair together, literally using an iron, how we used to pretend we were sleeping with our favourite wrestling stars but it was just our bolster, our skip-school days and head to Marsiling CC for karaoke, the times where we sneak out to loiter around the house at night and sssssloooowlyyyy minding every step we make just so our parents or brothers can't hear us, our moments swimming in the small bathroom by covering the drain hole with a towel.

Looking forward to your wedding, beloved sister 💖 Don't worry about anyone else, only think about what makes you happy first.

Qasya's first collage with MS Word

Qasya reached home and showed me a worksheet he'd received in school. He's going to present a 'show and tell' in class next week. Tokpik: Diri Saya.

Since I'm planning to print something tomorrow, I might as well help to complete his homework early. So I decided to use this opportunity and guide him to create a collage for his school work.

ps: Sorry that we didn't think about doing it like this back then Fina (^-^")

Feline Gifs

Singamoto Trackday Round 2

The editing, vetting, compiling and making is finally done. We've been busy for the aftermath of fatigue, visitation to the hospital for an x-ray, to making kid's morning for school while still going through the media process. Mood: Hungry and sleepy, but I can't go to sleep now(11.53am), I still need to take a shower and fetch the kids from school in the afternoon(1.30pm), and that's soon.

Kudos to the team! Love the thrill, fun and enthusiasm during each event. Most importantly, get well soon to my husband who was one of the few that got into an accident during the event. Rest well baby, I'll stand by you 😉, don't give up. Fall 3 times, get back up 4.