My cr*ppy day...

scottishspendaholic

Hi everyone,

I don't know if anyone remembers me telling you guys this - but I am fairly crafty and have been really flat out in the last few weeks making things day in, day out for a craft fair - as well as keeping up with my eBay orders (also sell same craft on there very successfully as wedding favours and have been selling house junk etc).

Well said craft fair was today - and I made, wait for it....

-£150.00 approx

I can't believe it, I am so gutted. I sold 2 items - 1 to my friend who was sharing my stall (pity sale I think) and 1 to a little girl as a mother's day gift and made the grand total of £4 - and I reckon my costs are about £150-£155 including materials, hire of table, petrol costs for going to collect my friend etc etc.

Nobody was very successful (it was dead all day - wrong time of the month)and I truly believe that it wasn't that my items aren't nice or attractive as I manage to sell lots on eBay ( I don't mean this to sound over confident - but I do get lots of compliments about them and orders), the market was totally wrong - it was an antique & bric a brac fair instead of a craft fair - it was my misunderstanding and all the customers were very old and doddery and my items (and my friends') are quite contemporary.

Anyway - I've been working really hard selling old house junk on eBay and Amazon (as well as said crafts) to try and make the money to do this craft fair over the last six weeks or so and now today has just eaten up all my profit.

I feel really down - all my work on the crafts (getting up at 5am the last 2 days, painting day and night for weeks, working out prices, lifting and carrying, losing this weekend and countless emails, phone calls to set up the craft fair stall etc) and all the selling house junk on eBay (and we all know how boring and time consuming that is) - has been for nothing. I wanted to have so much extra to pay onto my Mint card and decided to speculate to accumulate with money from selling house junk on eBay.

I can carry on my selling crafts on eBay but I just feel that the magic has been taken out of everything and nothing is worth the effort anymore. What's the point? I just feel so deflated and penniless and down.

scottishspendaholic x

Broken_hearted

Hugs, at least you still have the option of selling on ebay. Some days just work out like that, next time might be better.

Reya

Oh, Scottish, what a horrible day Many hugs to you.

Have you thought about setting up a small website to advertise and maybe sell your crafts? Most ISPs offer some webspace with their packages, and with a bit of help you could get a page or two online, and that might help to generate more interest in your craft work?

nabowla

How awful. No wonder you're gutted.

Now's not the time to come up with plans to salvage the situation. Have a long soak in the bath, open a bottle of wine, find a bar of chocolate and curl up in front of a DVD. Box of tissues might be a good idea if you feel like a cry. Nothing wrong with that from time to time.

Tomorrow's another day and I'm sure someone here will come up with ideas about how to recoup your money.

LookingAhead

Oh dear....I can well imagine how gutted you must feel.

But the trouble is you just never now until you try things how they will pan out...life an be so spiteful sometimes (or at least it feels like that doesn't it?) where you are working your socks off to try and make a bit of cash but it goes t**s up leaving you worse off or just breaking even.

You can only put this down to experience I guess - never to book a stall at this time of the month during cold months (unless it's pre Christmas!). Not much of a consolation though is it...?

Good luck seeling the rest of your stock...maybe when the warmer weather gets here you can shift a heap load more stock at cheaper local fetes/car boots/school fetes etc?

I am sure (from what you say) it was nothing to do with your stock at all...and I guess there will be quite a few peed off traders up there tonight after a disappointing day.

(((Hugs))) and hope you feel better tomorrow. Best you console yourself tonight with a big glass or cup of something and a good film or whatever makes you happy...

auditbabe

So sorry to hear that things can only get better.

mom23

Big (((HUGS))) ss


I know i'm thick and have been meaning to ask what is a wedding favour?
(am going to go off and hide now till you've all gone!!)

queenofthedump

poor you what a crappy day but still there is a silver lining you can sell on ebay the stuff you have already made and have a few early nights.

twink

in my day wedding favours were little foil horeshoes or little sprigs of paper flowers etc that would decorate the wedding cake and when the cake was taken away to be cut up these favours would be put on a tray and given to closest women guests eg mothers sisters etc i still have some i have been given. Nowadays its more likelt to be little net bags of sugar almonds or a box containing a chocolate even the men get now eg a miniature of whisky i think every guest gets one now and likely to be be at their place at the table. hope that helps

twink

sorry i meant horseshoes now i am going to hide

Broken_hearted

Wedding favours, well we had the bags of almonds and matchboxes. They can be anything.