What do you do when disaster strikes your life and your store?
Over the past few months we've had the following problems with our home (which means we had the following problems with our store since it's in our basement):
1. The Air Conditioner broke during the hottest week of the summer. Talk about a miserable work environment. Hot, humid and totally steamy!
2. The basement flooded - ruining our carpet and causing some mold to start to grow. The water, luckily only damaged a few store inventory items. But I was forced to empty out our basement and move it to the garage - this was no fun ... and the lack of air conditioning only made it less fun.
3. The Garage Door stopped functioning. It's pretty tough to operate your temporary store out of your garage when it isn't opening or closing.
4. We had an ant infestation in our kitchen. Which is just gross.
All of these things on top of having a 3 month old, dog, rabbit, as well as both my wife and I working full time at our regular jobs and maintaining the day to day chores and upkeep of our home ... while trying to go out and buy store inventory and list items ...
Let's just say it's been trying.
I learned today that ...
5. My iMac's motherboard is fried and it would be about $1,000 to replace it. That's a lot of pairs of shoes to be sold on eBay!
So what do we do when disaster strikes? You take care of your shit. That's all you can do!
1. We had the air conditioner replaced and the home is now comfortable to live in again.
2. After fixing what we could with the problem outside where the water seemed to be coming in, we tore out the carpet in our basement, dried everything out, bleached any mold areas we found, replaced soggy parts of our walls and re-carpeted the basement with cheap indoor/outdoor carpet. We moved the shelves and the store inventory down stairs and are back in business now.
3. We were able to figure out what was wrong with the garage door ourselves - a sensor was bumped and just needed to be re-aligned. That was a small miracle that we didn't have to replace that as well!
4. Killed the ants. Sorry guys.
and...
5. What can you do? The computer was from 2008. I'm just thankful that we were able to salvage our photos and music and data. Going to store that stuff on an external drive and work off of my wifes laptop for now - we were lucky we already had a back up computer - which is a good point - always have a back up plan for you store.
Happy Hunting!
The eBay Freshman
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