Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Essential Oils



After doing a ton of research and decided to go with Young Living Essential Oils. I like that they own their own farms and monitor every step of oil production. I trust Young Living seed to seal process.


Want to give it a try?  You can get it 2 ways.
1. Wholesale Member
2. Retail Customer

I recommend Wholesale Member even if you're a beginner. Get 24% discount off every product. you don't need to "sell oils". You do have the option of sharing oils with your friends/family and have opportunity to earn commissions and participate in promos for free oils. If this is something you're interested in I can help you get started.

What do you need to get started?
You begin as a wholesale member by purchasing the enroll kit. There are options to choose from. I only recommend the Premium Starter kit that comes with the diffuser. If money is an issue, I'd recommend saving up for it. It real is the only one with the best value and help you start practicing using Essential Oils. It's the only kit that gives you the Everyday oils kit. The Everyday oils kit will give you endless options to treat your family. It retails over $300, but as a wholesale member you get 50% off.

INCLUDED IN PREMIUM STARTER KIT

- 5ml of the following Essential Oils

  • Lavender 
  • Peppermint 
  • Lemon 
  • Frankincense 
  • PanAway 
  • Melaleuca Alternifolia 
  • Thieves 
  • Purification 
  • Stress Away 
  • Joy 
  • Citrus Fresh
- Home Diffuser ($96 value, I use it everyday)

- 2 Ningxia Red 2oz sample

- Aroma Glide roller fitment (to turn any bottle of oil into a roll on)
10 sample packets total of (lavender, peppermint, peace & calming, lemon, thieves) to share with family and friends

READY TO SIGN UP?
  1. Click over to Sign up Page
  2. Select "sign up as young living wholesale member"
  3. The "Enroller ID" & "Sponsor ID" should already be filled in . If they aren't my ID is 1586885 You can fill in with this number.
  4. FIll out your name, address,  and all your information. (The reason they're asking for your SSN is for tax purposes. If you end up making more than $600 a year selling Young Living products. You'll receive a 1099 in the mail by law. Young living never shares your information with anyone.
  5. Create a password & pin.
  6. Select a kit (I recommend the PREMIUM KIT)
  7. OPTIONAL you can sign up for Essential Rewards. It is not a requirement to be a Wholesale Member. This is a rewards program you can opt to start earning money back to help pay for oils. 
  8. Agree to terms & Conditions. Don't forget to click: CONFIRM.


CONGRATULATIONS!!! WELCOME TO THE  AMAZING WORLD OF ESSENTIAL OILS!!!


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

DOES SIGNING UP MAKE ME A 'DISTRIBUTOR'?
Nope!  You are not required  to sell anything at all to anyone. When you become a wholesale member, you get a special link that you can share with friends and get credit from their purchases, but there are no minimum sales amount at all. in fact, 90% of the wholesale members in Young Living don't do the business side at all. They are buying from Young Living because of the quality alone.

AM I REQUIRED TO MAKE A MINIMUM PURCHASE EACH MONTH?
There are absolutely NO minimum monthly purchase requirements. To remain a wholesale member, you have to make $50 worth of purchases per year to keep you r membership. But if theres' a ear that you don't make a $50 purchase, you can reinstate your wholesale membership discount by just placing a $50 order.

If you do find yourself making regular purchases each month, then young Living has a rewards program (called Essential Rewards) where you can make a nice percentage back in product credit each month on all of our purchases. So that's a neat program to join if you find that you "want" to purchase regularly (but it's not a requirement for being a wholesale member)

WHY SHOULD I BUY FROM YOUNG LIVING INSTEAD OF OTHER ESSENTIAL OIL COMPANIES?
It does seem like new essential oil companies pop up every day. I can't speak to the quality of other companies, but I can say that Young Living was the only company in my research of essential oil companies that could answer all of my questions about purity in a way that was satisfactory to me. 

Young Living was the only company that has their own farms, could absolutely guarantee that no pesticides or herbicides were used in the growing of any of their oils (they do their weeding by hand), has their own testing equipment (they do in house & 3rd party testing, which test whether chemicals are synthetic or not). 

HOW WILL I KNOW WHAT OILS ARE FOR WHAT?
One of the benefits of getting a starter kit through this promotion is that you also get to join our private facebook group that's specifically for questions about essential oils!

Monday, May 13, 2013

tomatoes

Last year was the very first time in my life I have planted tomatoes. My hubby built me a raised bed last year and I planted a few cherry tomato plants. It was fun to go out everyday to see if any cherry tomatoes were growing.

This year I thought it went so well that instead of planted 4, I'd plant 11 in the same amount of spacing. I knew there were rules on how close you could plant them, but I thought hey...the more the merrier. Plus I want to plant as many tomato plants as I can so I can make salsa and hopefully tomato sauce. My goal really is to become self-sufficient as much as possible. I'm hoping to grow things that we eat a lot of. We eat salsa at least once a week, and tomato sauce once a week as well. So we'll see how much salsa/tomato sauce I can generate with 11 plants. 

I planted a few different kinds of tomatoes. I planted one row of hybrids and one row of heirlooms. I didn't know till after I brought them home what the difference was. According to Lowes.com: 

Heirloom tomatoes are old varieties grown from seed saved from season to season. Heirlooms are a category unto themselves. They tend to be less disease resistant and "wilder" in appearance. Fans insist that their flavor and uniqueness make up for any disadvantages.
Hybrid tomatoes are developed to give growers the best characteristics of all varieties. Fruit size, crop yield and disease resistance are all traits of hybrids.

When I first planted the tomato plants I put the cages on them so they'll go big and tall in the cage. I put the cages on them just the way I bought them from the store with the big side down....until I posted my proud picture on facebook and one of my more experienced gardener friends asked me what my secret tip was to putting them upside down like that. Ha! I had no idea they were upside down. How embarrassing! I turned them around the right way.

The tomato plants after I first planted them with the cages the wrong way...


My eldest child posing with the tomato plants with the cages the right way.




They've been growing for 1 month and I'm seeing so many tomatoes growing! I am now starting to understand why the guidelines are to plant the tomatoes a bit apart. They are getting so big, I am having a hard time seeing in between the plants.