One of the newer blogs to the Snowflake Revolution, Waiting For The Great Leap Forward, has recently started snowflaking and shares how she started.  It illustrates a great point that is often overlooked - it doesn;t matter how you start snowflaking, just that you start.  Thanks!

If you’ve been thinking about snowflaking but don’t know where to start - stop waiting.  Just take some money, any money, and start.  You’ll be glad you did!

Today’s tip is less of a tip and more showing snowflaking going mainstream. In the past few days, three “high profile” blogs mentioned snowflaking in one of their posts, either offhandedly or building their own spin into it. Check out these spinoffs and continuations of the snowflaking concept:

• Lazy Man and Money: Snowforting - Snowflaking the Emergency Fund
• Brip Blap: Wealthstreaming - Snowflaking Income
• Five Cent Nickel: Micropayments

Vive le Revolution! Snowflaking will be in the dictionary before we know it and will be a word everyone just knows the meaning of. Now to get these people to enter the Carnival of Snowflaking…

This week’s tip comes from Accumulating Pennies, the newest member of the Revolution, who reports on selling books on Amazon.  I haven’t used Amazon directly for this but I have sold unneeded textbooks through a number of different book buyback companies, and they provided me with many early snowflakes.

In the spirit of decluttering - go find some books to sell!

Every Wednesday features a snowflaking tip from one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find! If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week’s tip comes from Money Sucks, who uses timing to create more snowflakes. On the day before payday, they snowflake the remainder of their bank account into their savings account, as to not have that money just swept into their next paycheck. I do a similar thing, but I wait until the day after payday, because I am a nervous person. Use the timing of your money coming in to enhance your snowflaking strategies!

Every Wednesday features a snowflaking tip from one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find! If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week’s tip comes from Lulugal at How I Save Money. Her tip is to lower the interest rates on your credit cards. When I had credit card debt, this was a strategy I employed to my advantage, both getting my interest rate on my credit card lowered by calling and asking, and then also transferring my debt to a 0% offer. Lulugal also got her interest rates lowered - sometimes even more than once! She kept calling until it worked.

Remember, the worst they can say is no. What do you have to lose?

Every Wednesday will feature a snowflaking tip of the week found on one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find in our vast and knowledgeable membership. If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week’s tip comes from A Garden of Blessings, who talks about starting a garden to save money on her grocery bill, and then apply that savings as snowflakes to debt reduction. She’s been gardening as a hobby for a while, but this is the first year she is taking it on with a purpose to save money elsewhere. Great tip! Hopefully next summer I will be gardening for snowflakes as well!

Every Wednesday will feature a snowflaking tip of the week found on one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find in our vast and knowledgeable membership. If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week’s tip comes from Bible Money Matters, who in a post explaining the debt snowball, goes into snowflaking in detail as well as mentioning a few ways to earn snowflakes.  One I particularly liked was the selling of things on eBay.  I have done this in the past, as well as used Craigslist, and had very positive results.

What do you have that you don’t want or need?  Get rid of it, and use the proceeds to reach your financial goals!  And you’ll declutter at the same time, bonus!

Every Wednesday will feature a snowflaking tip of the week found on one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find in our vast and knowledgeable membership. If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week’s tip comes from Shana at Smart Easy Money, who writes about taking something you enjoy and turning it into some extra money in addition to your normal income.  For example, she pet-sits (although that isn’t all!).   I’ve also written about this recently, in that I am turning my taekwondo hobby into a source of more income for us.  So think about the hobbies you love - and ways you can monetize them!

Every Wednesday will feature a snowflaking tip of the week found on one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs. This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find in our vast and knowledgeable membership. If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

A timely tip comes this week from Beachgirl’s Budget Blog.  She recently completed her tax return and was getting a sizable refund.  She immediately earmarked this money for savings and debt reduction, two worthy snowflake targets!  Too often when we receive windfalls of this sort, we make plans for big purchases.  Snowflakes are not only small, they can be big too, and one big snowflake can really make a huge dent in your goals quickly!

Thanks Beachgirl for the tip! 

Every Wednesday, I am going to choose a snowflaking tip of the week I gathered from one of the Snowflake Revolution member blogs.    This may be a place to find snowflakes, a method to use snowflaking, or anything else I find in our vast and knowledgeable membership.  If you’d like a chance to be included, send links to your best snowflaking posts to me through the join page contact form.

This week, my snowflaking tip comes from Me Vs Debt, which is obviously from the name a debt reduction blog.  Amanda is an avid snowflaker and the tip I’m sharing from her blog is to snowflake rebates you receive.  She illustrates that in this post by snowflaking the money she got from a rebate on her cell phone (which the company actually ended up paying her to buy, bravo!) but this can be done for any rebate.  Think of it this way:  you’ve already paid out the money, the rebate check comes much later, so it is almost like found money.  And found money is snowflaking money. 

Thanks Amanda for sharing your tip!