Spent this weekend exploring possible markets and have decided to start with Wellingborough market( Northampton). Its busy but not too busy so I should be able to handle it. Also it is possible to become a perm reasonably quickly. There is no one selling my kind of products there either. I am also interested in Donnington market which is one of the biggest in the Midlands but to do that one I will need to buy a stall which is a minimum of £135 and really I also will need a van not a tiny Fiesta!. I cant wait now till next saturday so we can get going. Will be needing to buy some thermals tho by the looks of things. This really could be the beggining of my new life. my main problem discovered from my only other local village market is I cant add up! I really need to find or buy a new calculator. I have several but no idea if I will find them in time. Anyway got to sort this one by saturday to avoid the embarrassment. I am still waiting for my stock to be delivered too and have a backlog of orders for bath bombs which I cant fulfill. Luckilly the guy who placed the order will wait a little longer but its a right pain. I dont really want to change supplier after the last time when the ingredients were second rate and I ended up throwing loads of stock out cos that is just expensive. I have a real problem with this tho. If the order doesnt come by thursday we are going to be very short of my very popular mini bath bombs.
Tonight I have my last website lesson. I have to decide whether or not to do the second bit. I am very keen to do so but what if it runs on a market day. Assuming this gets seriously going by February ( as in I will be able to quit my boring hateful job!)I may end up not completing the second bit and that will be waste of money. On the other hand if I do complete it I will be in a much better position regarding building my own website from scratch which will save me hundreds or possibly even thousand of pounds which I dont have! I have actually managed to put a web page up. Its a bit rubbish really but has a link to my ooffoo advert. Atleast now if anyone goes there they will know where to go to buy my soaps!
This is about me finding myself and the story of how I have changed my life, become self employed and how I developed the products which are now my livelihood. Its the story of all the trials and problems and wonders of life that happen. I cannot even think what it would be like to return to the me of 2008 now and altho I am very poor really financially I am so very much happier and quality of life is so much better. And I am closer to being free than ever before in my adult life.
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