Jan. 3rd, 2026

Counting

Jan. 3rd, 2026 12:19 pm
offcntr: (advisor)
We did our end of the year inventory this morning, which basically involves bundling Denise up in warm clothing with a clipboard and pencil, marking things down on the tally while I open every box and recite items and patterns. This will be necessary at tax time; in the meantime, it's a good snapshot of what I need to make to get ready for the new year.

Right now, I have exactly one dinner pasta bowl left. Three dessert plates. Five pie plates, six tall mugs. I have no covered casseroles, only one baking dish, a small square in woodpecker pattern. No small covered crocks, no tool crocks, no yarn bowls. One honey jar, one canister, one each of the three sizes of cookie jar. I'm entirely sold out of teapots, have been since Thanksgiving weekend. Down to one gravy boat, one covered pitcher, two creamers. I'm out of frog banks, though all the others are still good. Four incense dragons left. Three cat food dishes.

I still have at least one of every pattern of soup bowl, surprisingly, ditto todder bowls. Meanwhile, six patterns of stew mug are out of stock, and eight of painted mugs.

I would be frantically throwing pots right now, except I'm also down to less than one bag of clay until my ton order gets delivered, sometime next week. So in the meantime, I'm taking an enforced holiday, while figuring out where to start my next making cycle.

Numbers

Jan. 3rd, 2026 02:06 pm
offcntr: (Default)
I use Square to process credit sales, and also track cash, to make it easier to rectify the books at the end of the day. They also send daily and monthly sales reports, which I basically ignore, as I record everything to my ledger from the app at the end of the day or weekend. They also send an annual summary, which I never realized, nor, indeed opened, until today.

It contains some well, duh information: my best sales day of the week is Saturday, best sales month is December. Some useful information: My total credit/debit sales were up over $5000 from last year, which may explain why my inventory is so hammered at the moment. And some huh information: best sale day of the year was Friday, August 1, the first day of the Anacortes Arts Festival. (I looked up last years, when it was Saturday of that weekend.) And the best selling item: Tall mugs. 232 of them.

Wow.

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