You Gotta Spend Money To Make Money: a Lesson in Delayed Gratification

Before you read, it's--Shameless Self-Promotion Time!
Until March 25, 2015, buy Happy Badger products and SAVE 20%! Just type in HAPPY1 when you check out from my Etsy store: HappyBadgerInd.

I cannot wait until all this ice melts and people crawl out of their dens again, ready to throw out good stuff on trash day and to buy good stuff on the cheap from craigslist. This winter has been an absolute craigslist disaster--still haven't sold one item since the Pottery Barn Teen Desk Experiment.

I've lowered prices, so much that one smarty pants wrote, "Why so cheap?" I wrote back, "I need to move things out of my home, so buy it!" No reply, but I did immediately start getting unsolicited porn come-hithers. Salt in the wound.

Trip-For-Trash #3 (Ireland!) is coming up, and I am $2,000 short of my goal. The point of these trips is to pay CASH. But the weather gods have decreed otherwise, so...VISA, Baby!

My new Partner in Craft, Jonelle Greene, who sells her brilliant upcycled clothing under the name FREEload Apparel, reminds me to use my down time to prepare my Happy Badger brand for the summer's craft fairs in Philly and Trenton and Brooklyn....


Sassy! Love it! Visit FREEload Apparel on Etsy!

Other than making so much stuff that my burps now smell like Mod Podge, preparing for my vast summer sales has so far mostly entailed spending money.

THE CARD

Making a badger look happy and badgerish is harder than it sounds.

Here were my three best attempts:

#1: Heyyy, is that something edible in your hand? I want it, NOW.

#2: I visited Ancestry.com and discovered that Granddad was actually a Tasmanian Devil with ADHD... this explains everything!

#3: How do I keep my dentures looking so bright? Polident!

Interestingly, most of my Facebook Friends liked Badger #2. I'm still holding it in reserve, but I decided to salvage #3 by adding fangs.

Revised Happy Badger: I love sunrises, long walks in the woods, and eating garden snakes!
 

Fine. Then came digitizing the image. Turns out: I don't like digitizing. Pixels are evil. But I did come up with a reasonable image to send in to vistaprint.com.

Ever the good-deal shopper, I bought 500 cards for $20 (coupon!), then found that I had to spend $20 more to have them delivered (sigh). Aaaaand, here it is!

I'm shy about sharing my phone number...

 

How to attract customers at the Punk Rock Festival?

THE BANNER



60+ buckaroos to get it from Dream to Door. If you expand the image even more you can see that EVERY SINGLE pixel I assumed I did not have to white out has come back to haunt me.

I'm going to tell customers that she has fleas.

So, I'm $100 further in the hole, which irks. But, as I have written in the past, I Am Not An Accountant.

We will travel, and I will pay it off...probably by stalking your sidewalks at night, so start Spring Cleaning, Folks!



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