When Allison told me that she was thinking about starting her own business in Raleigh, she asked me if I would do her bookkeeping for her. I told her that I was very flattered, but I really do live too far away to be comfortable doing that for her. Sure, we’ve been friends a long time, but I suggested that she contact her Raleigh CPA Carson Thorn for a recommendation for some kind of local bookkeeping service. I told her that if he said that he thought it was “doable” even at this long distance then I’d give it some thought.
Category: Business and/or Work
One of the things that upset me a lot when I was an adolescent in high school was the fact that the girls were not allowed to take shop, they were required to take home economics. And boys were not allowed to take home economics, they were required to take shop. I have always wanted to learn more about tools and what they are used for, and how to use them. I’ve always wanted to know how to build and fix things. I like to think that I’m a reasonably intelligent person, yet when my hubby told me that he needed to buy some special threaded inserts to repair something in his shop I felt really stupid that I had no idea what threaded inserts are, or how they are used. I looked them up online and still don’t quite understand. I think I’m going to have to tell my hubby that I want to see what it is he is working on and how threaded inserts are used.
Like most people, every night I empty my pockets and if I have any loose change I put it in a jar on my dresser. Eventually that jar gets pretty full of coins, so I bought a big ceramic piggy bank at Target for $10 and now I put most of my change into to the piggy bank.
Today even that big piggy bank became full, so I called my bank to ask what is the proper process for bringing in loose change and exchanging it for cash? Would you believe that they told me they don’t do that at my branch? They said anything more than a roll of quarters – that’s ten dollars – must be deposited to my account. The only way I can bring a large amount of loose change into the bank and exchange it for paper dollars is to drive all the way downtown and take the coins into the main bank where they have the only change sorting machine. They will sort it while I wait and give me paper dollars for it, but they prefer to deposit the change and not have the customer waiting while they do it.
This is why banks are getting such a bad reputation for customer service. Money is money and banks are supposed to be in the business of handling money. If I bring legal U.S. tender into the bank and ask for them to exchange it for a different form of legal tender, they should be falling all over themselves to provide that service for a customer.
My husband has been telling me that he has been thinking about having a graphic artist design a logo for his repair shop that he is planning to open up. He is interested in having the logo embroidered on the back of some jackets, on the front of some polo shirts, and even ordering some personalized hats to advertise his shop.
I like the idea a lot, but I’m not quite sure what style hats to pick out. Or even what color. I’m thinking along the lines of a blue background and orange stitching for the embroidery. Since they are contrasting colors I think that would look really good. One of the things that concern me about all of this is whether or not there is a minimum order requirement. I really don’t think that we are going to need three dozen hats.