It's Time for the 2024 Annual Clearance!

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My shop is very small, only 725 square feet! Everything is organized in little ziplock bags in little clear bins and it takes a whole day to count everything to make sure the inventory is correct. Every year I painstakingly count inventory, read reports, and assess what designs I need to let go.

Once all the counting is done, I have to decide what designs to let go. Some designs I give years before finally deciding to let them go. It could be that a material got discontinued, or maybe a particular design is a little too tricky to make. Sometimes I am tired of looking at it, or other times it simply doesn't sell very often. Creating something new is a lot of work and I have a really hard time pulling designs from my offerings. I used to have over 300 active styles at once, but it's just too overwhelming to keep track of. 

So once a year, I gather up all the designs that didn't do so well the year before, kiss them on their foreheads, put them on sale and let them go.