This Week in Our Store

This past week has been particularly difficult because we have no internet service at our house! We are in the process of switching from what was essentially dial-up to actual broadband, and switching internet service providers as well. It's been about a week without internet service so far, and the new service won't be installed until Friday. We have had sales, but haven't listed anything new since we dropped our old, slow service. We could have set our store to Vacation Mode during this internet-less gap, but we opted to keep it open. (The slowness of the summer has left us hungry for any sales we can get.)

During this time, our days have started with getting kids to school, then parking outside of fast food restaurants to hop on their free WiFi. Once we answer any messages, and see what sold in the night, we go home to pack and weigh. Then, I drive to the public library to pay for shipping labels and save them on my computer. After that, I go back home to print and attach the labels. Only after all of that running around can we then drive packages to the post office.

I realize that it would be entirely possible to continue listing during this period. We could write listings and take photos at home, then do the rest of the listing at the library. However, it just seems too frustrating to me. When listing, I like to be able to have an item right in front of me just in case I need to reference it once more. Tonight, we are going to try listing some stuff from my brother-in-law's house.

While the lack of internet service at home this week has been entirely frustrating, we're still getting most of our eBay work done. I can not wait for Friday to come so we can get back to business as usual!

The best part of this past week is that we have now sold a total of three handmade aprons! Two have sold on Etsy, and one has sold on eBay.

Well, back to work!

-Ashley