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Pardon me, but you're stepping on my budget!

December 12th, 2009 at 05:01 pm

Our shop week runs from Monday to Saturday and the shop needs to bring in $445 a week to pay rent, utilities, buy food, etc. Consistently it brings in more than that and has since shortly after opening. But this week is troubling. For the first time in almost two years it looks as though the shop won't meet that minimum for the week. We're short slightly less than $100 and although it isn't time to panic or even worry it's a little disturbing.

For the last two years the shop did very well between November and January but it doesn't look like that's the case for this year. Most of the December bills have been paid, we won't go hungry or heatless, we do have an emergency fund, but still...

It's wreaking a little havoc on my mind! At this rate, that $2000 surplus we had last month won't be duplicated in December. However, even though I didn't expect that duplication I did expect to 'crack the nut', as the man person calls it, this week and hoped for a nice surplus to start off the new year.

So, to you people who aren't coming to our shop (like they read this, ha!):

Pardon me, but you're stepping on my budget!

Rant over. Smile

2 Responses to “Pardon me, but you're stepping on my budget!”

  1. thriftorama Says:
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    Hmmm. I wonder why business is down? Last year was just as troubling economically as this year. Maybe folks are just really cutting their extra spending before the holidays. Maybe it's just a blip.

  2. DeniseNTexas Says:
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    I don't know why but I suspect its just the economy in general and the shops that often refer people to us for repairs are slow, too, so they're trying to push sales rather than refer so many to us.

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