No complaining .....

Today I was visited by 4 older people....as I watched them wander from room to room I realized time is short.  In the **** short years that I have known them I have watched them age.  I realize that our lives unfold daily right in front of us.  

We get so busy that we don't even see it... and then years later you are wondering where the time went.  Where has your mind and spirit has been?  We let it slip away, into the wind, like it isn't important.  We get caught up in the making a living world and we forget to live a full life.  

I was glad for the visit today, it made me rethink a few things, treasure a few more things and gain some respect for others...  I know I bitch and complain on here alot...  I don't mean to, but this is the only way for me to let go of the negative things that happen in the shop.  It helps me unleash into the universe the things that I have no control over.  So that I don't have to harbor the hurt, so that I don't have to cry over things that are so foolish and stupid.  

Today was a day that started with help from several people that love me.  They want me to succeed, not just with the store but with my life.  They know I don't get much time to myself and they helped with a project that was important to me.  It is not done but we are making headway and they will be back to help finish.  Then the visit from the older people.  They travel an hour and 15 minutes one way about once a month to swing by the store, to check on me, make a few minor purchases, say some kind words and hug me on the way out.  

Today I will be thankful for the visit, the kind words and the opportunity to think about the good things in life.  The fact that I do matter to my friends, and family, and to so very many of my customers that travel from far away to visit with me.  Today I will be thankful for all things that have been presented to me in my life.  I am fortunate to have owned my own business, I am fortunate that my family and friends help me and I am fortunate that I only have a few more years of mortgage payments.  Today I believe I will conquer the world and I am glad I don't always have to be or feel alone.  

Tipped Over

Please don't be offended by this blog, it is written strictly as a way to vent, a way to let go of the things I cannot change.. It helps me to not be in tears with every little thing that life throws at me as a business owner.  It is written so that others can get a good laugh ( or cry) and enjoy a smile, sometimes at my expense, sometimes at the expense of others. Read it, enjoy it and let it go...

Okay, so here it is...... I haven't posted in awhile because I thought people couldn't get any stupider!!!!!   Well that would not be the case this morning.

DON'T walk through my door and expect that I should want to sell your things.....  no matter what they are.  Don't expect that I shouldn't make anything on them.........and don't expect that I should make 1% of what you think your shit is worth.

I pay $$$$$$  thousands a month in mortgage payments to be in the location I am in.   I know that was my choice, I know I didn't have to have this location.  But right now it is this location that you want to sell your item.  Is that right for you?  I am sure that you think so, but in reality, it isn't YOUR convenience.  It is mine, one that I pay dearly for.  And just  because you think your item or items are worth money doesn't mean they are.  And yes, I know you know the going rate for the said item because you shop your ass off all over town pricing things so that you can figure out what to put on it for a price.  Oh, but you still have NOWHERE to sell it?   Well pay for a booth at a local flea market or antique store.  Pay monthly rent until you get what you want out of it, or sit outside every weekend at a booth at the flea....... What?  You don't want to do that?  Well I am sorry that doesn't seem to fit into your schedule.  You can't be bothered!  BUT YOU THINK I SHOULD SELL IT FOR NO COMPENSATION TO PAY TOWARDS MY MORTGAGE, HEAT, LIGHTS, AIR CONDITIONING SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE TO SHOP HERE.   Oh that is right, you don't really shop here you take pictures with your phones and go home and try to figure out how you can get it cheaper.... and sometimes you can, other times you can't but you still order it online  because you can't be bothered to haul your ass back to the store to pick it up from a LOCAL BUSINESS.  Plus since you just gave that local business shit because they want to make something off the item you wanted them to sell for you.... you think.... well nope serves her right, I will just order it online......  

Well Jackass, if you weren't so selfish maybe you could have made a little money and that local business could have too. Maybe you could have been doing your share at helping said local business stay in business..... Maybe just maybe that local business has done it's share for you already.....Oh, you don't remember the discount I so graciously have given you over the years on SEVERAL things....that is to bad because I DO.  You don't remember the delivery on things that we don't offer but I knew you needed help with so I did it for NOTHING!  You don't remember that when you couldn't pay for it all at once, that I took payments for you so that you could have what you wanted even though I had discounted it.  You know what else I remember, the time you came back to tell me about the pictures and proudly "Nope, I couldn't find it any cheaper online but I couldn't wait until I came back so I just ordered it  because it was easier."  UUGH!!!!!

What to hell is wrong with society when everyone thinks someone owes them something...... 

THE DAY THIS STORE IS PAID FOR IN FULL IS THE DAY EVERYONE WANTS TO HANG ON TO THEIR ASS BECAUSE SOME OF THIS STUFF IS GOING TO START COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH instead of coming out in a blog beneath tear stained eyes.

There rant done....now I can go back to work to try and make some other asshole happy!