Sep. 5th, 2025 08:11 am
Christmas plans
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k2daisyI hope this isn't completely nuts but I am temporarily adding a new booth for 3 months just for Christmas.
Here are the pros:
1. The manager is giving me a great deal on the rent. It helps her so she doesn't have to worry about bringing in a new vendor during our busiest season, and of course it makes it much easier for me to make a profit.
2. I already have enough display fixtures in my basement so I don't need to buy anything extra.
3. I have an insane amount of Christmas inventory. At least 12 full shelves in my basement. I couldn't sell any of it last year because I was in Florida, and I had been stockpiling. It will take me years to sell it all.
4. It was going to be a massive logistical challenge taking things out of my current booths to make room, and now I don't have to. So I don't lose potential sales on those items. And it cuts down my work in half -- I only have to concentrate on setting up/tearing down 1 small booth, not 2 or 3.
5. Hopefully this will go a long way toward my basement project in terms of selling off my excess inventory. I am even going to put price tags on the fixtures (the shelves and tables) and maybe sell some of them too!
6. Will be a good distraction during this first season without my parents. They both died around the holidays last year, so it's all I would be thinking about otherwise.
Here are the cons:
1. It's a lot of extra work.
2. I had other projects queued up for September but now it just needs to be pricing ornaments 24/7!
Yeah, it will be worth it. Cha-ching!
Here are the pros:
1. The manager is giving me a great deal on the rent. It helps her so she doesn't have to worry about bringing in a new vendor during our busiest season, and of course it makes it much easier for me to make a profit.
2. I already have enough display fixtures in my basement so I don't need to buy anything extra.
3. I have an insane amount of Christmas inventory. At least 12 full shelves in my basement. I couldn't sell any of it last year because I was in Florida, and I had been stockpiling. It will take me years to sell it all.
4. It was going to be a massive logistical challenge taking things out of my current booths to make room, and now I don't have to. So I don't lose potential sales on those items. And it cuts down my work in half -- I only have to concentrate on setting up/tearing down 1 small booth, not 2 or 3.
5. Hopefully this will go a long way toward my basement project in terms of selling off my excess inventory. I am even going to put price tags on the fixtures (the shelves and tables) and maybe sell some of them too!
6. Will be a good distraction during this first season without my parents. They both died around the holidays last year, so it's all I would be thinking about otherwise.
Here are the cons:
1. It's a lot of extra work.
2. I had other projects queued up for September but now it just needs to be pricing ornaments 24/7!
Yeah, it will be worth it. Cha-ching!
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