Nothing much happening over here after my aunt’s burial, the water supply is becoming more scarce and the water pumps are drying. The nearby water station can’t supply enough water anymore to their customers so some people are running towards us to buy drinking water, my mother didn’t stop getting purified water in town because we use it for drinking too.

The printer I have bought last year for my family was broken, the paper suddenly jammed and it stopped printing after it prints more than one hundred pieces of program for clan reunion. My family brought it to the repair shop but was told that the printer has 50% chance to be repaired, the repair man could open it and try to fix but we have to pay ₱500 either it is fix or not for his labor so my mother brought home the printer unfix. The repairman suspected that the sensor was broken and if a sensor was need to changed he advised  my family just to buy a new printer because the broken part will cost a brand new printer, he also added that Brother printers are good but they sucks in some aspects, most of the Brother printer brought in his shop has the same issue.

We accept program making and printing and the program for the grand reunion was the first one this year, it wasn’t that profitable but a little something is better than nothing.  We earned ₱1,000 for this transaction but I didn’t get hold any of it since we have bills to pay, it was summer time and the fields are dry so my father can’t plant rice grains in the small field he is minding.

So today, our one source of income at home is dead and it will only resume when we buy a new printer. I have told my family that I can’t shoulder the cost of a new printer again since I have bought the previous one, it is going to be their turn to buy a new one this time which I think is just fair since they’re the one who collect the earnings from printing and program making.

Earning money from home is possible if you know how to work with it. My family is accepting research, photocopying, typing and printing job at home. I think it helps that I worked in internet providing company with internet shop a long time ago where my sister stays at my work during lunch break and there are times I let her work with me or as substitute when I am not feeling well and she has no class schedule in school.

When I sent home my old sluggish laptop, they bought a cheap printer to accept photocopying, typing and printing jobs.  The earning per day isn’t big, there are times there is and there are times there’s none.  It is expected because our house isn’t in town nor in front of a school, people who need things to be photocopied or printed just came when they need it. The earnings which is sure is the $2-3 earnings per week from printing service program for the church beside us and the same amount monthly for the electric cooperative in our barangay.  Isn’t big but it is one of the business that we though nobody can copy since not everyone knew how to do it.

The old cheap printer they bought is already worn out, there are times it stops printing and you have to hit the printer hard so it will run. When we left South Korea, I have send J’s printer home, they were able to use and have the ink converted to CISS but it didn’t take long because the cartridge stop working, it was initially dried up when it arrives to them and someone they knew just made a way to fix it but since the cartridge is only available in Korea the printer became useless. It was just left in the corner to collect dust.

When I am able to earn enough money online to buy a printer and I found a huge savings from an online portal, I bought a new printer to be use in our small business so there will no pain in the ass when the old printer stops, and my sister will not refill a lot anymore. The printer I purchased online is Brother DCP-J100 Multi-function printer, at first we thought it can copied legal size paper since it has 200-400% reducer but it turns out it only caters A4 size paper. The printer is CISS ready and by passing the close printer error is easy.

Well so far, within almost a month since we bought the printer we already earned almost $10, quite small but a little something is a blessing and it is better than nothing, isn’t it?  This little something is helpful to buy small things especially when my father doesn’t have a job. If your house is in town and near a school you can do this business too and surely your earnings is much bigger than what we earned at home. You might earned $10 per day or more if your location is good.

So far this is the home-based business that our neighbors can’t copy yet, but who knows in the future.