Hello Friend, 🔥 Don't miss out! 🔥 – Get ready to celebrate because TPT is turning 20! On Tuesday, September 29, you’re invited to the one-day-only event where you can save up to 30%*** on classroom favorites. Fill your cart with the best deals to date. It’s the perfect time to grab those wish-listed resources and stock up for school lesson prep or homeschooling needs. Everything in my store will be 30% off when you use the promo code at checkout! Use Promo Code - 20YEARS Get ready by checking...
3 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Friend, I just signed up to sell at a local craft show. It's been a few years since I have done this. I can not believe how much it costs to have a space at a craft sale! I had to pay $125 to have a space to hold three 8 foot tables! Now I remember why I love selling on Etsy! At the same time of year in 2018, I did a Craft Show that I paid $45 for a space at, but I did not even make my table fee! I put the products back on Etsy and got a sale for $48 worth of product within hours. My...
6 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Friend, How are you doing with your outgrown kids items? Well, this year it seems I am busier than usual even though we are down to only 6 people living here! But I do need to go through the kids' outgrown items soon. Yeah, it's a big, tough job. I tell the kids we are getting rid of 10%. (or if it's been a while, or if we are moving - it might be 30%) I tell them what types of things need to be decreased. It seems like it's always stuffed animals. Those things somehow multiply in my...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Friend, Have you ever thought about buying out a whole rummage sale or a large lot an an auction, or an entire garage full of stuff? There is a television show called Storage Wars and in that show, they buy abandoned storage units that the owners were not able to pay for. My family has done this as a side business. The history on one unit we bought was that a woman died in a nursing home and did not have family alive or ever marry. She was a crafter and had a moving company pack up her...
17 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Friend, It's time for me to share my recent decluttering "win". I finally had enough money for the perfect container to motivate me! The Problem After seven years of living here (I always do "severe" decluttering before a house move as I tell myself, "less to move, less to move.") and keeping items out of some abandoned storage units (see post below), plus my own "sale finds" - I had somehow acquired twenty 18 gallon storage totes worth of fabric and yarn! Even if my Etsy shop was 4...
22 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Friend, To thank you for continuing to read my newsletters, today I am giving you a coupon for 30% off your next purchase in my Etsy shop. You can click the link to the left or go to my NeededInTheHome shop on Etsy and use the code "LOYALVIP30" at check out (one time use per customer). I ship physical products to US only, but have lots of printables you may enjoy if you live outside the US. 30 Year Wedding Anniversary Yesterday, was our official wedding anniversary. It's pretty amazing...
23 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Friend, To thank you for continuing to read my newsletters, today I am giving you a coupon for 25% off your next purchase in my Etsy shop. You can click the link to the left or go to my NeededInTheHome shop on Etsy and use the code "LOYAL25" at check out (one time use per customer). I ship physical products to US only, but have lots of printables you may enjoy if you live outside the US. Update on my three adult kids moving out in August (ICYMI - or if you are new to my newsletters -...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Friend, 🔥 Don't miss out! 🔥 – the Teachers Pay Teachers site wide Bonus Sale happens August 25 to 26. It’s the perfect time to grab those wish-listed resources and stock up for school lesson prep or homeschooling needs. Everything in my store will be up to 25% off when you use the promo code at checkout! Use Promo Code - BTSBONUS26 *Not interested in homeschooling or activities to do with your kids? Just click HERE so I don't send you these type of email. You will still get my recent...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello Friend, We did a little two night get away around Taylors Falls, St. Croix Falls, and Hinckley, Minnesota over the weekend after dropping four kids off with relatives. It was to celebrate our 30 year wedding anniversary (which will actually happen in September - but that is a busy time for our family). Here is a photo of my husband, Mike, and I at a beer garden in Taylors Falls with our root beers (and cups to keep out insects). Over the weekend, we reminisced on all that we have been...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read