After finding myself on my last few bubble mailers, I finally decided that I had to pony up and buy some boxes. I've been buying the bubble mailers at an office supply store, one 12-pack at a time. I just figured out the price per mailer for the first time, and I am nauseated...$1.42! Further confirmation that boxes must be purchased from now on. And anyway, I prefer the look of shipping things out in boxes.
I looked around at a number of shipping supply websites, and the problem I had was that most had a high minimum order or the prices were too high, or some combination thereof. Finally, though, I stumbled across AM Shipping Supplies. They don't have minimum orders, and they manually calculate the shipping on each order so it's very accurate. I found the boxes I needed for just 24 cents apiece, and the shipping (FedEx, estimated to be about 2-3 days) was very reasonable too at a little more than $14. So now I'll be shipping my items out in nice new boxes that each cost me 39 cents rather than those ridiculous bubble mailers. I may even be able to lower my shipping prices (although I have to weigh things in these boxes, the weight may even things out).
I normally have trouble bringing myself to spend money on things like this (see the post about ordering my business cards), but this was easier, probably because it's such a great deal.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Long time no blog.
The detail-oriented among you will notice that I haven't blogged in quite a while. There could be many reasons for this.
Was I too busy? No, not really. I've been working on my shop a lot but not any more than I was when I started this blog.
Was I without internet access? Nope. And anyway that's what libraries are for, right?
Was I sick? No, not any more than usual anyway, and not enough to prevent me from blogging.
So what was it? A political protest? A long vacation because I really really needed one? Did I somehow get myself banned from my own blog? No, no, and not really but almost on the last one, seeing as it had been so long since my last visit here that I forgot my password.
The simple fact is that I have always found it hard to figure out what to write about, and for the past month I just had absolutely no motivation to blog. No topic in mind? Eh, okay, put it off a night. Repeat that a few dozen times, and here we are.
And that's the end of it, because I still have no clue what to write about but I still have the satisfaction of saying I wrote SOMETHING. Right now that's enough for me.
Was I too busy? No, not really. I've been working on my shop a lot but not any more than I was when I started this blog.
Was I without internet access? Nope. And anyway that's what libraries are for, right?
Was I sick? No, not any more than usual anyway, and not enough to prevent me from blogging.
So what was it? A political protest? A long vacation because I really really needed one? Did I somehow get myself banned from my own blog? No, no, and not really but almost on the last one, seeing as it had been so long since my last visit here that I forgot my password.
The simple fact is that I have always found it hard to figure out what to write about, and for the past month I just had absolutely no motivation to blog. No topic in mind? Eh, okay, put it off a night. Repeat that a few dozen times, and here we are.
And that's the end of it, because I still have no clue what to write about but I still have the satisfaction of saying I wrote SOMETHING. Right now that's enough for me.
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