On the Move
I swore I’d never, ever do it again, but here I am, moving my business again! We have been using every square inch of the area that I’ve been renting for over ten years and there’s just not a speck more of space to be found. Our gift basket inventory has us bursting at the seams, so when a place opened up just down the street with a nice back room that will be perfect for building our gift baskets and a selling floor that’s set up much better than what we have to deal with now, I just had to take it. It almost seemed destined to be.
Of course now, in the midst of the madness of packing whatever we can move while still remaining open, arranging for all the services (telephone, electricity, alarm system, etc.) to be shut down or relocated, getting the new store ready, trying to assure that we will have enough help on hand to move the showcases, shelving units, etc., I almost wish I’d never seen that “For Rent” sign! On top of everything else, I’ve developed a severe case of “sticker shock”. It is astounding what people charge to move a few door switches and an alarm panel or to take a sign down from one building and put it up on another. One of these companies wants to charge $145.00 just to have one of its employees walk into the town hall and pick up a permit (and that doesn’t even include the price of the permit itself)!
Hopefully we’ll be out of crisis mode in a couple of weeks and life will return to some semblance of normality. In the meantime, the veggie garden is being neglected and the insects are having themselves a feast at our expense.