Duct Tape

Now that it's three days before Christmas I feel a little safer posting this. My brother-in-law is responsible for this post in part and I don't want him to necessarily see it before Christmas because this involves his Christmas present. He's distracted with family being in town, so I should be all good.

My lovely wife decided to do a home made Christmas this year. It was fun to do but has been super stressful and we decided that rather than starting home made Christmases in August or September that we'll be starting them earlier in the year. I was put in charge of making duct tape wallets for my brother-in-law. It's a bit of an inside joke as he lost two of his on a two day stay up here with us. I figured I've always wanted to learn how to make things out of duct tape just for kicks so I did. After I my fourth or fifth wallet I nearly perfected a design I liked and started making the rest that way.

So I brought one in to show it off at work, and my coworkers wanted to buy some from me. And then more wanted to buy some from me. I started a week ago and I've sold nearly 20 wallets so far with 6 more orders on the way for after Christmas at a minimum. Every day new orders are made. It's absolutely amazing. So, last weekend I got to thinking, maybe I should start a duct tape wallet/purse business. And I'm going to. I'll set up an online store on January second of next year and I'll proceed to code my own website where I can sell them custom made rather than have everything already made. I like the idea of flexibility with the fabric of wallets. With the online store I'll have set prints and sizes you can by. Through my website, you can design your own wallet from the forms I've created and I'll build it after it's ordered. Sure it'll take a little more time to get the wallets out, but it'll be made exactly the way you want it.

I just made my first duct tape purse yesterday. It needs some modification, but I'll get it to a point where it is sell-able. I've also figured out how to make bracelets and things like that. :-) I'm stoked. It doesn't bring in a whole lot of income, but it's enough to support my new hobby!