I bit the bullet again

Credit Cards are awesome for a small business - you just have to pay them off. If you can't pay the card (s) off quick - keep transferring balances.

Shit, I started a company on a credit card. It beat the shit out of a bank, and it was paid off in 2 months.

 

Sly - I don't know...ask one!

VA49er & Meatpile - Thanks, but I don't use credit cards. I can sse the value of using them for some business purposes and whatnot, but I prefer not to use them for my purchases (unless it's an emergency or a necessity and then I pay them right back off).

Honey - Thanks I seriously considered the garage, attic, and every other place I could possibly think of. In the end I bought 10 3-drawer units and a label maker - thought that would be plenty - and planned to place them in the garage for a start.

Go Figure...I've been sick (saw a MD on Monday) - my manager threw a fit on Tuesday because I came in and kicked me out of the office and telling me she didn't want to see me Wednesday either. Here's where all that plays into the business. I got a call Monday that the carpet I ordered was in (a week early) and the installers were ready to schedule installation. Originally I told them to wait until next week, but since I was being confined at home, I called and they said they could come out Wednesday.

So yesterday the installers show up bright and early (I had the whole house re-carpeted), and not two hours later here comes a UPS truck with a delivery for me...OMG...the STOCK!!! Apparently I bought more than I thought I did (some things are still on back order) and I thought the items would be smaller (for some reason I trusted the catalog measurements). Nope. Bigger. Much BIGGER. So I spent the day yesterday in my garage, amidst all of my furniture (removed for the carpet installation), checking in and organizing my inventory. Everything is packaged for resale, so some things are still in plastic bags, some are in their own display canisters, while others came with hang loops for hanging displays. The drawers work great, except even though some things don't need to be in drawers now (freeing up drawer space), I didn't buy enough. I seriously bought out one area Target store's supply of these drawers, guess I'll hit up another one and buy out theirs too.

Round-a-bout and we're back to the storage issue again. Since I've just had the carpet replaced in every originally carpeted room in my house, I've decided not to smoke inside so the carpet doesn't get the smoke smell, and I'm smoking in the garage. Great! Issue solved! Store it all inside now! Ummmm...where the hell do you store massive amounts of drawer units when you have a house already so full of furniture that there isn't a single wall of space available?

Note: I'm still at home sick, sounding worse but feeling much better. I called in to work today and was threatened again not to come in. They want me out until next Monday (we'll see). In any event, I'm here playing musical drawer units trying to house this crap. For now it's taking up space in my bedroom, but it can't stay there for long as I'm still moving odds and ends back into my house from yesterday and the space's previous occupant will return. This SUCKS.

 

Derby, good for you for having the guts to start something up!