This Sugar and/or Coffee Scrub business is doing really well. And all of this is very exciting and inspiring because I hadn’t thought anything about it until a few weeks ago and now I’m juggling it along with everything else i do full-time. And sales are great and the potential is huge and this is a perfect time of year to see if it has a place on a niche market and it’s good. I’m grateful. And excited.

The problem with all of this is that it’s um… a business. And I’m about the least business-minded person on the planet. I don’t do well with numbers, I don’t do well with ripping people off for more profits, I don’t do well with keeping up with files and inventory… THIS IS NOT MY FORTE! And I know that this isn’t even a huge business [yet] but it’s busy enough that I’m shopping around for wholesale supplies and setting up meetings with retailers and now I’m having to think about opening a whole extra checking account just for the scrub and what if I have to get a business license and then I’ll have to file taxes and ohmygod I don’t even know how to do basic-normal-people taxes… :::panting:::

I’m really trying not to get ahead of myself. I really am. I’m just making product as it’s being sold, making a few extra to sell while I’m out and about, etc. I’m going to do a small festival next month as a vendor (one of my friends offered me a free vendoring spot to try out my product in a basic-shopper environment) and if that works out then I might make myself a staple at the local farmer’s market this season… and maybe I’ll try to get myself in a couple local shops. But that’s IT for right now. Because if this thing gets huge and I get ahead of myself I WILL implode and I cannot handle that kind of stress at this age because I already have a child and we’re looking to buy a house and I really want to go back to school because making scrubs isn’t my passion and I’d like for it to be a means to achieve my higher goals but if I get swept up in all this then I’ll never do what I really want and I don’t believe in selling out like that even if this has potential to get really big because I don’t think that’s a worthwhile way to spend ones life and… :::panting:::

So I’m just taking this one step at a time. Tonight I will file my paperwork, balance my ledger, ready my packages to make a shipment tomorrow and go to bed. And I will not hyperventilate into a bag again.