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Working from home cuts out alot of expenses, yes. But also consider that working for home may be more practical when all your business is online. Having customers come to your house is another burden. Also if i want to vinyl up a customers vehicle, then now i have to have a dedicated garage/shop at my home for it, and still have customers coming to my HOME. In the future when i own my own home and land, ideally it would be great to have a garage/shop like this on my property, still keeping home and business separate. I want to have a local store front for people to browse some merchandise, hard to do that out of my house. Now Skeeter says she does all her business online, thats awesome, but even tho 80-90% of my business sales comes from online currently, its not enough to do full time. And i really don't know what to do to make the income she does online. I have ebay and etsy, but they are so limiting and so much fees.. My own website is much more flexible. .but isn't reaching enough customers. It's April 7th, and ive already had $437 this month go thru my site. And about $3800 this year. At this rate, this year will be a good profitable year, if i stay at my current location with the current lease expenses. If i get this larger place, yes i will have more expenses, but i also open the door to more sales and winter sales too. Its a tough choice. I have also considered closing up the store, putting all the big stuff back into storage and working with back from home until, 1. The owner renovates that shop. I can save up more money. 2. Until the wife and i find the perfect house that can accommodate my business.

true, but i dont want to start buying tools for home construction...i have too many tools for automotive/motorcycle stuff already..lol I still have time to think about this shop, and still gotta talk to the wife, and we will keep looking for a house that could work for my business as well...

yeah but i know nothing about fixing up a house...i can paint thats about it. and replace door knobs..lol.

thanks... we have been looking at a few houses, her parents who live about an hour away, are in the process of selling there parents home they bought before their parents moved into an apartment in town, and once that house sells, they will be setting aside some money to help us purchase our 1st house. The few houses we have looked at, had only either a 1 car garage or no land to even really add-on. Another house i thought had potential, had a 2 car garage plus a large detached shed/garage, but the house only had 2 bedrooms on the main floor and 2 in the basement, wife didn't like that.

i understand this..but finding the right place is impossible around here...and alot of houses are either right in town with no room and no garage, no yard. or its way out in the country where its impossible to get internet. Plus the wife wants to build a house, but that's never going to happen.

i dont know how many hours, considering i work 40-45hrs full time at my other job, i probably put in about 15 hours a week or so give or take. I would love to find and buy a house large enough to accompany my business, but thats not gonna happen right now. My current house is way too small.

where are these leasing companies?

well i have been doing this now for about 4 years, i have YET to pay myself a wage..every penny goes back into the business, whether its buying more supplies, more equipment, or advertising. All i know is, my first year in business, i had bought my cutter and lots of vinyl, had $3500 in expenses and only had $400 in sales. My second year, i had added a shirt and hat press and bought HTV vinyl, shirts, hats, etc, and had about another $3,000 in expenses, but had about $2500 in sales. My third year, i had another $2,000 in expenses and had about $4500 in sales..so an actual profit. My 4th year, i opened up my small store, bought a sub dye printer and lots of sub dye blanks, lots of shelving and work benches and other stuff i needed for the store. I finished my 4th year with $8,000 in expenses and $11,000 in sales..so a mere $2,0000 profit. But now that i have alot of the equipment and supplies, this 5th year, the biggest expenses will be rent. So if i spend, lets say $6,000 in expenses or so, and still only do $11,0000 in sales, thats still a $5,0000 profit. That's coming a long way from the $400 in sales i started out with. and keep in mind, this is only PART TIME..i still have my full time job, and the goal is to eventually do this full time

thanks The way i figure it, i have 80% of the equipment and supplies now that i need, minus screen printing stuff. I have my cutter, i have tons of vinyl, i have my dye sub printer, i have my heat presses, i have all my shelving and work benches, i have a good supply of shirts and hats, i have a good supply of dye sublimation blanks, all this has eaten away at my profits, but thats inventory and supplies. I had over $11,000 in sales last year, but had over $8,000 in expenses for all that including current rent. So now since i have all my equipment, profits will increase as i only need to restock on inventory i sell.

The owner of the building and land, a young guy, he is probably about my age 31-ish, He bought all the land and the building, he used the building for storage while he built his new building in the back...he does welding etc. Right now he is still working on the interior of his new building and said he would start getting this building ready too if i wanted it. I told him i would need to make a decision before June 1st cuz thats when i will have to sign another 1 year lease at my current place or not. And like i said, this place isn't down town where there is alot of foot traffic, its along the two major roads in and out of town. Even being downtown where i am now, i am not getting much traffic, i am stuck around the corner of the block..i only get a few walk-ins and i have even had people ask me about doing vehicles this winter, which i wasnt able to do cuz i havent got a place to do it in the winter. We would split the internet and garbage services too.

Ive got a customer that wants a design onto this Airflux shirt. I don't have a clue what material this is...doesn't say cotton or polyester anywhere... Will HTV work on this and whats the best heat/time settings?

This is 22.50 x 75 several colors..651, cream, black, brown, and gold.

One of these mirrors is actually sandblasted..the other is just etch vinyl...which i am really like...alot less work, same effect.

not everyone can cut vinyl either...lol. Most people are gonna hang these in their house...and will never know the difference. This mirror was too big and nice to stick into my cabinet and blast it tho

Did this for my mother-inlaw to give to her son who is getting married in May.

Ok how do u do that?

What is this? Details please..pics of examples..?

I will keep my eyes open for ones like that..but these cheaper ones are well..more affordable lol..and i can still make some $$ of them. Normally resell them anywhere from $25-30.

Ive been told to blast from the back before...but all the mirrors ive gotten are impossible to do that without tearing it apart and regluing and fixing it.

No..dont thank me...before u know it you will be hooked and blowing lots of money on it lol. Yeah i get these mirrors at the dollar store..bought about 40 total..lol. just sold one on ebay for $27..

Negative, the top one, with the black/silver frame is the vinyl..the bottom gold frame is the sandblasted one. damn near 99% the same effect, 100x easier to do, no wasted material either. The sandblasted one, i reversed weeded it and used as a stencil, so the vinyl all eventually went into the garbage. Will probably keep doing this etched vinyl for mirrors from now on, and only do sandblast stuff for glass mugs etc.

Yeah had a sheet covering the whole thing... and 60 minutes has to be way way too long...damn...the shirt would probably catch fire. No didnt cut the paper, used a full 8.5x11 sheet

thanks...just want to figure out what caused that so i can prevent it from now on.

Also with the cobra inks they will settle, and you"ll need to shake them up when they sit for a long time. I shake mine up once a week and do a head cleaning too if i havent used it all week by Friday.

Why are u wasting paper for purges?If your colors aren't coming out right, are u sure u were printing on the correct side of the paper? Also Cobra has certain colorprofiles too, u gotta use them and the correct one for whatever ur pressing onto. Theres alot of printer preferences and settings u gotta make sure are correct or it will print low quality.