I really hope none of you are like me. I have to ask my wife a million times what pants go with what shirts. My two year old son can pick out what clothes he wants to wear, and guess what? It matches. My two year old son knows what colors coordinate and I still can’t seem to figure it out. (more…)

I was sleeping just fine tonight until my son woke up crying.  He’s two years old.  He woke up because he was cold.  I went in his room and put a sweat shirt on him and then covered him back up.  I tried to go back to sleep, then my mind started working like it does.  I lose so much sleep just because my mind won’t shut off!  Does anyone else have this problem?  What do you do to go sleep?  I’ve found that if I listen to my ipod that it usually puts me to sleep, but sometimes that doesn’t even help. 

If your business has grown to the point where keeping track of sales is getting tough, you probably need to purchase some sort of accounting software. We bought Quickbooks in 2006, but it sat around until recently. We never really took the time to learn it. Now we have it installed and we are now picking up on the basics. What I like most about Quickbooks is it pretty much centralizes everything. When a new customer comes along, you type in their info. You can quickly make them a quote and then email it straight from Quickbooks. The customer will recieve the quote in PDF format. After plugging the customers information in, it is easy to make to receipts and quotes.

When we create receipts for customrs, we will place tracking numbers associated with their order in the memo line. Just in case a customers calls back later and asks for their tracking number again, we have it in a centralized location where it is easy to find.

The only downfall that I see with Quickbooks is that importing Paypal sales isn’t a super easy task. There are programs out there that you can purchase to make Paypal importing easier, but they charge you a monthly fee. I just get tired of paying monthly fees for every single little product that I need to run my business. So for right now, we will live without the Paypal imports.

If you are in need of an accounting software, feel free to visit our store. You can pick a used or new software for pretty cheap. I would be interested to hear from others who are using a different accounting software then Quickbooks. What do you like about your software? What do you dislike? Have you used other software before?

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Seriously, it is. Almost this whole weekend we have been under a blizzard warning. I took a picture down my street on Saturday. You can’t even see to the end of the road.

For the most part, I like it. I don’t mind shoveling the snow off my sidewalk too much. The only thing that I didn’t like this weekend is that I had to dig out a whole in the snow bank tonight so I could put my trash can out for the trash service on Monday. The snow bank is probably 4 foot deep.  In the picture the snow banks were just starting to pile up.

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