Personal blog of christian
writer & fallible mom
Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri
Katy is represented by
Greg Johnson at
WordServe Literary
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LateBoomer.net
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- Becoming Brenda Starr
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- Scattered
- That’s It
- So I’ve Finally Signed With An Agent. Now What?
- The Spoon
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- A Woman’s Train of Thought Has No Caboose
- However much we own, we are all still living on borrowed time
- After all, when restaurants shrink portions, they don’t shrink prices.
- As with everything in life, balance is key.
- Slow down, you move too fast…
- Yeah, I know. I have issues.
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The T-Shirt Off Our Backs
Times are tough everywhere, and as you know, even here at fallible we’ve had to resort to desperate measures to make a few measly bucks.
Not that coming up with t-shirt slogans and pitching them on cafepress.com is exactly an act of desperation, but still. Let’s just say it’s not one of our usual lines of work. And that, my friends, is precisely what makes it so darned fulfilling.
Because, you see, in a fit of pre-election fervor, we decided to revisit our brief foray into t-shirt sales, which we haven’t attempted once in the last eight years. Heck, we couldn’t even remember our log-in information, since we’d had no use for it after pocketing the cool $25 we made all those many moons ago.
So we came up with a few designs, posted them in our store, and right away we profited by a handsome $9.50. Not bad for seven or eight hours work, you say? That’s what I thought, too, until I clicked on a little noticed link I’d never noticed before—-the one that indicates whether or not you have any money due you from days long past.
Believe it or not, eight years ago some industrious soul passed through our humble CafePress t-shirt store on his way to fame and fortune. He ended up so inspired by our designs (in this case, I imagine “inspired” meant him thinking “I can do better than that!”) that he clicked on an affiliate link at our site and then started up his own business.
His own very extremely successful business!!!
Yes, people, what they say about the Internet is all true. Without lifting a single finger, you too can make a World Wide Web killing!
Sure, we’ve only made a grand total of $34.50 over the past eight years through our own creative genius, as expressed in designs we’ve personally sold at CafePress.
But the ginormous success of a guy we don’t even know earned us an additional…drum roll, please…$680.00!!!!! I know these days we’re used to talking in terms of billions and even trillions, but to my way of thinking $680 is still a great little haul.
To think this money has been sitting in our account at CafePress for eight years, just waiting for us to become motivated enough by the goofy things candidates say that we order the old t-shirt press fired up again.
“Spread the Wealth Around,” indeed!
- Wow! I'm inspired! Now if only those t-shirt slogan creative juices would start flowing...
Posted by Lisa on 11/12/08 at 02:47 PM
- Fantastic!
Posted by dora the explorer on 01/13/09 at 01:01 AM
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