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T-Minus 312 Days

Running a business out of your home has a lot of pros and cons.  Heavily weighing in on the pros side  is the convenience and cost savings, but the single largest con of running a product driven business from home is that products, or widgets in my case, end up everywhere.  I have piles and boxes of them in every room.  I’ll get them all organized and then they overcome me again.

I’ve made various vows that I will only allow them into one room and then I receive a large batch of widgets and they overflow the room.   I’ve relegated them to my home office, only to find out that after 8 hours in my home office for my day job, I don’t feel like spending another hour or two working on widgets in that same room.  I get so sick of that room aka prison cell.

I have a large outbuilding that houses a lot of my business related stuff but it’s not heated and only one small room is air conditioned.  I’m considering moving my enterprise out there but that brings up a whole host of other issues related to Internet access,  extra computers, cell phone reception, heat, the occasional mouse, and the general isolation of that building which is really creepy at night.

I know that the outbuilding is the ultimate solution but I’m hesitant to get sidetracked spending 10 or 15 hours getting it fixed up when I have so much else to do.  I guess it will rise to the top of the pile someday.  For now, I’ll just keep moving widgets around.  It’s a good thing that I really like them.