Sometimes the best thing you can do to help the world is to do something little, something to help people take a little more control of their lives, so they can work toward achieving their dreams and in turn help somebody else achieve theirs. During the last few months, I've been wondering how I can make more of a difference in the world, and I came up with a small idea.
Kristen's Guide is well known for all the free printables, but I've also offered higher quality printable and hard copy organizers, calendars, workbooks, planners, forms, and customized documents for sale. To ensure that people on a budget could afford such items, I've always set low prices, and even with those low prices I still made a respectable amount of money from those sales. Then I started thinking about people who couldn't even afford to buy those low priced items: kids, people without bank accounts, people who were counting their pennies.
I grew up poor, so I know what it's like to be limited to only free items offered by libraries, schools, government programs, and non-profit organizations while my more financially secure friends got to go shopping for high quality products whenever they wanted. But that was before electronic media. Of course we needed to pay for paper, printing, the overhead for the store that sold it, transportation, materials to produce tapes or CDs, storage space, etc. Those kinds of resources are limited. But in today's electronic age, it just doesn't seem right to keep an electronic document, a bunch of binary code that can be reproduced and distributed infinitely and easily, from financially challenged people.
So I'm no longer going to sell electronic printables. I'm giving them all away for free.
Go to
http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/index.asp to find out more.