Beyond Your Piggy Bank
by C.C. Owens You pass them every day, quiet little buildings with empty parking lots. People rush by them heading to McDonald’s or the grocery store, but every once in a while a person enters. What is this mysterious place? A bank. If you’ve never visited one, it may not be what you expect. There are no piles of money on the floor, no rows of piggy banks lining the walls. They’re fairly boring places if you don’t know the secret. You see banks hide the hum of money at work. Your home piggy bank will hold your money, but the amount will never change unless you add to it or take some away. The bank down the street will help you grow your money, even if you never put another dime in it. How do banks do this? They put your money to work. When you open a...
Read MoreSeed Starters
By C.C. Owens Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both. –Ecclesiastes 11:6 (NLT) I love plants. In the summer, I like going into the garden to pick vegetables for dinner or pull an apple for a snack. It’s wonderful to see food grow from such tiny little seeds. But plants can also be frustrating things. Those seeds take time to develop roots. A lot happens under the soil before the first green leaf is seen. It takes even longer for blooms to develop and food to come. Perhaps that’s why God tells us to do many activities, not just one. He doesn’t want us to get frustrated while we wait. Now, I’ve been talking about seeds in a garden, but we...
Read MoreFunny Money, A Poem
by C.C. Owens I had a quarter in a jar. It told me it was blue, and so I placed another there and one coin became two. The two coins talked and rattled loud this jar beside my toys, and so I put a dollar in to muffle all their noise. But soon the dollar joined the coins. It crinkled and it crunched. So I placed two more bills inside and quickly went to lunch. When I returned, the bills hopped up. The coins tapped out a beat. And then the jar was hopping on the rug beside my feet. I grabbed the jar. It wouldn’t stop its strange and bouncing dance, until I pulled each coin I had from pockets in my pants. And now the jar sits still as stone. It has all of my money, but if I get a quarter more, it will start acting funny. So be well warned, these money jars are not...
Read MoreGrowing $$$
by C.C. Owens Money doesn’t grow on trees, but you might be able to grow it in your back yard. If you are looking for a way to make money this summer, try planting a garden and selling what you grow. Sound like too much work? Consider this: After your garden is planted, your main job is to water and weed the plants until harvest time. You can do this in 30-40 minutes a day. (Most gardens will take less time.) Then, you have the rest of your day free. Gardens cost very little to start. The average veggie or herb plant can be bought for $2-3. Remember that money you’ve been saving in your piggy (or squirrel) bank? Here is a chance to put it to work. Gardens have great Net Gain – that’s the money you’ve earned after you cover your expenses. In the...
Read MoreMoney Can Work? Who Knew?
by C.C. Owens He sat in the corner of my room, silent and greedy, taking every penny I had. His tiny hands stretched forward as if to pluck the dollars from my grasp before I could even reach him. He was vigilant. He was a hoarder. He was my piggy bank. Actually, he was a plastic squirrel. He had a slit in his back that took money easily and a base plug so small I could barely squeeze out a quarter. My squirrel was good at helping me save money, but I was never quite satisfied with this arrangement. I wanted him to do more. I wanted him to help me make money. Unfortunately, I spent way too much time reading fairy tales. The stories were great, but everything happened by magic. What was I to do in the real world? How was I to make money without a fairy godmother...
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