Or like the woman in the grocery store on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving at 8 pm. She was standing in the aisle, shelves picked pretty clean, complaining that the store was out of canned turkey gravy! The nerve!
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Of course the store management KNOWS that some things (like the gravy you mentioned, or cranberry sauce) sell in large quantities before Thanksgiving and Christmas, but hardly any at other times of the year. Because of this, they WANT to run out at closing time on the day before the holiday, but they tend to err on the side of caution (from their viewpoint, due to low margins it's better to miss a few sales by running out early than to be stuck with excess inventory after the holiday).
The moral of the story is to buy seasonal items EARLY, while the store still has stock.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Ya know, TG is close enough to XMAS that I'd just order all I felt I would need for BOTH holidays in time for TG That shit lasts a long time. I'd let it run low once we got close to XMAS."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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It's like the people who whine and bitch at me because I told them back before Halloween that big custom quilt orders take time.
Yet every year I get emails around the second week of December demanding that I make them a big complicated quilt - oh and they need it before December 20th, thanks so much.
Then get capslock rage-y when I tell them no. "But you said....!!!" "No ma'am, I told you that Queen size quilts take me about 6 weeks to make and you'd need to let me know early. Besides, I have other orders ahead of you that I am finishing up."
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Quoth Kanalah View PostIt's like the people who whine and bitch at me because I told them back before Halloween that big custom quilt orders take time. ..."No ma'am, I told you that Queen size quilts take me about 6 weeks to make and you'd need to let me know early. Besides, I have other orders ahead of you that I am finishing up."
"Whaddaya mean, this project will take six weeks?! I can go to VoldeMart and buy one right now!" Yes, you certainly could, but it won't be as pretty or as comfortable as something a good crafter can make by hand. And it definitely won't be personalized the way you want it.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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Actually at Really Big Craft Show this year I was apparently the ONLY handmade quilts in the entire show.
So I got a lot of people wanting custom stuff and they seemed to understand that a custom quilt from me means that they get exactly what they want. King size quilt with neon yellow sunflowers? Sure. Queen size with giant green and blue sea turtles? No problem.
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Quoth Mondestrucken View PostOr like the woman in the grocery store on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving at 8 pm. She was standing in the aisle, shelves picked pretty clean, complaining that the store was out of canned turkey gravy! The nerve!
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