Next weekend is Small Business Saturday. If you haven’t heard of it, the day is being sponsored by one of the world’s largest banks. However, let’s try and ignore that rather hypocritical note for a moment and focus on the half of the glass that is full. Small Business Saturday is, at its core, a great idea and should be supported. The national campaign is a drive to get consumers to go out by the millions and spend money for one day at small local businesses. What’s not to like about that?
As many of you know this page is dedicated to crafting and making things at home that you can resell, hopefully, at a profit. You don’t get any smaller than that! They used to call it “cottage industry” for obvious reasons. Now as a crafter I need supplies to make things and there are two main options – the internet or local shops; and unfortunately the local specialty shop, where the clerk is the owner and knows your name and everything they carry in the shop and what it’s used for, is disappearing from just about every town in America. The internet is fine but it’s also full of many unknowns and then there’s the pesky problem of paying for shipping. Who wants to pay four dollars for quilling papers that will cost five dollars more to be shipped?
As many of you know this page is dedicated to crafting and making things at home that you can resell, hopefully, at a profit. You don’t get any smaller than that! They used to call it “cottage industry” for obvious reasons. Now as a crafter I need supplies to make things and there are two main options – the internet or local shops; and unfortunately the local specialty shop, where the clerk is the owner and knows your name and everything they carry in the shop and what it’s used for, is disappearing from just about every town in America. The internet is fine but it’s also full of many unknowns and then there’s the pesky problem of paying for shipping. Who wants to pay four dollars for quilling papers that will cost five dollars more to be shipped?
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