I’m taking a Tyler Durden mental approach to this business thing, more from necessity than from wanting to seem hip.

For me, this sugar scrub business is a lot of fun (well, the developing-of-products is moreso than the filing-taxes-and-paperwork), but it isn’t my passion. It’s a great product that I’m proud of and would encourage anyone to buy if they’re in the market for that sort of thing because I really think it trumps a lot of the competition for exceptional quality and price (except Skin and Tonic. She’s got an amazing product, fantastic, innovative scents, great prices and a sparkling, rad personality to boot. I’m glad we’re friends or I’d be terrified of her as a competitor.), but it’s not what I want to spend my life producing or working to share with the world. I don’t stand behind quasi-pricey bath and body products nearly as strongly as I stand behind so many other things.

I’m going to have to go into detail with this in another forum because my personal opinions about capitalism and consumerism shouldn’t be made public when I’m trying to launch a business, but my plan/objective is to make the scrub company successful enough to support our life’s dreams. I want to go back to school, my husband wants to start a company and we both want to take the Bear to see the world and own some land and work to live off the grid eventually. Ideally, the company would become a wild success and I could sell it for a bundle of dough and spend my life going to school and writing and wandering the globe with my family and working wherever I want to, but for right now, my goal is to make it a thriving side-project to my main agenda that will eventually include everything I just mentioned.

Like the Paper Street Soap Company, Yum in the Tub is only serving to fund something much bigger and more important, although I’m not planning on blowing anything up.