Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

Urrrgggghhh, I'm ill I started on the antibiotics yesterday afternoon and by early evening had a temperature, swollen tonsils and swollen glands. Not sure if it's side effects or whether my body has just decided to take advantage of me feeling a bit under the weather anyway, but this is the first time I've been ill in six years and I'm not impressed!

I've struggled into the annexe anyway to do the orders and wait for the courier, though Frasier's pretty good and he'll probably collect even if I'm not here. Better safe than sorry though. That's the downside of being a one-woman business, being ill isn't really an option.

gingababe

Oh no ! Hope you feel better soon!

I know it's hard you need to rest & recharge !

Sending you hugs & pixie dust for a speedy recovery
Xxx

cazmanian_minx

Thanks Gingababe, it obviously worked because after an interesting day watching the world spin around me yesterday, I woke up this morning with just a headache and a sore neck and am feeling much better

Another NSD yesterday for 12/31 and this morning's PAD was a rounding payment to the Tesco card. I thought I hadn't sold anything on my personal Amazon account for a while, so I logged in and found to my horror that someone had left me a 1 feedback because they didn't like the game they'd bought, so my ratings looked absolutely terrible. One swift email to customer support later and it was removed for being in violation of their feedback policy ('entire feedback is a product review'), so hopefully I might get the odd sale starting to trickle through from there again.

I'm under instructions from Mr Minx to take it easy today, even though I'm feeling much better. I'm going to do the orders and then have a nice quiet day booking on some stock which arrived on Monday and playing around with making up some bracelets to sell as make-it-yourself kits - I bought some from a reputable European company and have been very disappointed, they don't even come with instructions and the packaging looks cheap. They're not even worth the £2.70 I paid for them, let alone the £5.99 RRP, so I'll try and shift them quickly at close to cost price and put the money back into something else.

PinotGrigio41

Found you !!! Infact stumbled up on you quite literally.

Not read anything yet as must rush to work, but I will be back !!

Pinot xxx

Wordsmith

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

I'm under instructions from Mr Minx to take it easy today, even though I'm feeling much better.

Sounds to me like Mr Minx knows best - so do as you're told!

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

I bought some from a reputable European company and have been very disappointed, they don't even come with instructions and the packaging looks cheap. They're not even worth the £2.70 I paid for them, let alone the £5.99 RRP, so I'll try and shift them quickly at close to cost price and put the money back into something else.

Could you repackage them and include instructions of your own - and then charge £5.99? If you do your own instructions and they look good (as well as are easy to follow, of course) people might keep them for other projects ... and as they will have "Provided by Cazmanian_Minx" written all over them, it will be good advertising as well.

cazmanian_minx

Wordsmith wrote: »

Could you repackage them and include instructions of your own - and then charge £5.99? If you do your own instructions and they look good (as well as are easy to follow, of course) people might keep them for other projects ... and as they will have "Provided by Cazmanian_Minx" written all over them, it will be good advertising as well.

I was about to say no, because there's so little in them that they'd look pathetic in even the smallest boxes - but it's actually a genius suggestion, I can put two bracelets or a bracelet and a necklace into one box, charge enough to make a small profit and not feel like I'm ripping people off. Thank you :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

cazmanian_minx

I took the orders to the post office and felt distinctly odd (well, odder than usual ) when I got back, so I've had a quiet afternoon on the sofa watching the golf and fiddling around with some beads.



I'm thinking the components for both those (50 crystal beads, 10 charms, 10 split rings and 1m of stretch beading elastic) in a bead storage box with instructions might sell. I'm having a logo designed for the potential wholesale part of the business and these will be the first items to be sold under it, so once I've got that I'll put some on Amazon and see how they do.

cazmanian_minx

Scores on the doors day

(last week/this week/ + or - amount)
Business
Overdraft: -£2185.67 / -£2173.42 +£12.25
Barclaycard: -£8999.00 / £8750.00 +£249.00

Business total: -£11,184.67 / -£10,923.42 +£261.25

Personal
Overdraft: -£3335.00 / -£3274.00 +£61.00
Tesco card: -£1785.00 / -£1865.00 -£80.00
Egg card: -£3470.00 / -£3470.00 no change
Dental loan: -£1250.00 / -£1000.00 +£250.00
Post Office card: -£790.00 / -£790.00 no change

Personal total: -£10,630.00 / -£10,399.00 +£231.00

Grand total: -£21,814.67 / -£21,322.42 +£492.25

It's looking artificially good at the moment because in the first 10 days of August I'm going to be paying out £3,750 in drawings and VAT from the business account, which will put me back quite a way. But sales are still on course to have funds available when needed, which is good.

Wordsmith

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

I took the orders to the post office and felt distinctly odd (well, odder than usual ) when I got back, so I've had a quiet afternoon on the sofa watching the golf and fiddling around with some beads.

Hope you feel better today.

That was not "fiddling around with some beads" - that was WORK, and when you were poorly sick! Complete dedication to the job, I say. Good luck with thier sale.

cazmanian_minx

Back from town and quite frankly scary £116.92 in Tesco :eek::eek::eek::eek: That's what happens when I let Mr Minx loose in the big on in Wick when he's just decided to take next week off... I don't mind going halfers on his whisky, but I draw the line at blu-rays and since I didn't have anything extra for me (sometimes if he buys a film I'll get a book or some magazines to balance it out), he's going to be paying me £65 for this week's shop!

The Tesco card statement has been generated, so today's PAD was the minimum payment plus a rounding payment. Total interest paid this month was £109.20 on the personal debts and £127.22 on business plus whatever the bank charges me for the overdraft, but that's billed quarterly. So £236.42 plus business overdraft, which is a horribly big chunk of money to be throwing away

Yesterday was another NSD, which makes 13/31. I'm wondering if my car will hold out for refuelling until we go to Inverness on 3rd August. I've got just over 300 miles left in the tank and Mr Minx has taken next week off, which means I can probably get him to take the post for me a couple of days. So that means I only need to do 120 miles in post office trips and 110 miles to Inverness a week on Friday and in theory I should be able to hold out and get cheaper diesel in Sneckie. Mind you, I'm then going to Inverness three times in the space of a week, so it's not going to last long!

Mr Minx has just stuck his head through the door to say he's put £58 into my bank account already. Bless him I explained about the blu-ray accounting and he said he'll give me the rest in cash!