Making progress...

I'm still working on getting my shit together. Honestly, it may take a few more days, but I'm getting there. I had the worst ever week in sales. I literally made nothing on my dolls. Nothing! I made back what I put into them and that was it. This has never happened to me in the six years I've been selling them. I'm not sure what to think. Do they suck?? Is it just a bad time of year?? Is the market getting flooded?? Maybe all of the above. Rather than spending too much time on what I don't know, I'd rather focus on what I do know. And what I do know is, I need to make money. It's either that or attempt to cut our expenses back...way back. The problem is we're spoiled. We were DINKS for so long, that we got used to pretty much buying whatever we wanted when we wanted it. (for those of you who don't know, DINKS=double income, no kids). To go backwards is, well, hard. So, again, I need to make money. I won't be rushing out to find a real job right away, however. I'm going to hope last week was a freak occurrence and things will pick up and get back to normal. I'm going to hope...

Here's some humor mixed with truth, for all of us who are 30 something and over. Hope you get a kick out of it...



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested
for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored
lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

(Okay, so we did have Atari and a Beta VCR eventually, but not during the early years ;)