Steady as she goes

They have started painting in the store. Seems like there is still so much do before we can even get in! We are making lists of things to do and buy. Next week we should start ordering product for delivery. As soon as we can we will move all non-essential things over. I've been drawing up a floor plan on graph paper. I hope I don't use up the whole tablet of paper! lol! Some electrical will have to come down through the ceiling for power to tables set up away from the walls. We also have to get pegboard to set up a area for the swords and other wall items.

Yesterday we checked out a local display store. I didn't find much I could use. They had some corner shelves we could use, but they wanted $155 each on them. I have them in a catalog here for $89. Maybe I can even find something local for less. I also need a shelf at least 24 inches deep to display our chess sets. I'm thinking I can get something at Lowe's or Sam's for that.

Our weekend sales were ok. There were a lot of people here, but since the weather was nice the parking lot was full of outdoor vendors and left little room for parking. Also, people were mostly looking and not spending. We surely could use the sales now to cover our regular expenses and the moving expenses. Sales may be slow the first month at a new store. We will initially be spending a lot of money on product, moving, display, advertising, etc. If sales don't cover the expenses, it comes out of our pockets, which are very empty themselves! That's the scary part. The optimistic view is that we will be very busy and sell so much product that we can pay the bills, buy more product, and maybe get a little money for ourselves! And we hope to expand to more stores and start hiring people! Perhaps when we are like 80 we can sit back and let the kids run the stores and live off our owner salary! We can all dream, right?