What’s all this then?!

It’s frightening to live in the time of a pandemic, but even more frightening to wake up daily whenever I feel like it, covered in cheese doodles on the sofa while unintentionally growing a beard. To counter this, I’ve decided (via intervention) to start a business. When you can’t find a job, I guess you make one.

We all think of products we wish existed, or wish were more like we thought they’d be. What you want doesn’t have to be approved or selected. It doesn’t even have to be exciting. We just have to figure out the best way to take a stab at it to see if we can do it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it’s either not cost effective or we both realize that I’m not smart enough to solve it. It’s still worth a conversation, right?

This all started for me from experiencing too many dead-ends and headaches myself in dealing with vendors who made it clear they either didn’t see enough profit in a project, or didn’t care to spend the time to help make it feasible. I get it. Companies profit more from a large run of products than my ideas about a belt buckle that can double as a phonograph needle…

I just wish they’d say they can’t or won’t do it, rather than say they will, yet never return my calls (I’m not bitter).

Anyway, I want to make it clear that while I work in the “industry”, and most of my work involves that, I am always inspired to try something new. I enjoy just making something work, and could care less what category it falls under. I’ve made aquarium parts, bookshelves, furniture ramps, tool caddies, VR shoulder harnesses, dishwasher replacement parts, firearm cases, espresso capsule caddies, pet collar name tags, and even my own Kindle holder. The stranger the better! (The Kindle holder is terrible, btw).

I enjoy the challenge of tackling something new, and I’m happy to make that “one-off” part you have in mind -or even manufacture your parts that you hope to sell elsewhere (you mealy-mouthed opportunist).

Have a blessed day and remember that we all weren’t meant to move mountains.

Now let’s get to work.