Somewhere along the way, selling stuff turned into managing stuff.
Nobody warns you about this part.
You start reselling because you like finding things. The weird things. The beautiful things. The I-have-no-idea-what-this-is-but-it's-coming-home-with-me things. Those things you just can't allow to end up at the dump.
Then the stuff starts multiplying.
There's a pile waiting for pictures. A pile that already had pictures but somehow never got listed. Listings that need fixing. The spreadsheet you haven't updated since Tuesday-ish; or was it last month? Photos on your phone. Photos on your computer in three different folders. Receipts tucked somewhere very safe, which means you'll never see them again.
And then you hear that amazingly addictive cha-ching from your phone.
Something sold!
Wonderful!
Except now you have to remember where you put it.
Was it bin 014? Or maybe it was 041?
There's also a suspiciously unlabeled box in the closet...
At some point, you realize you're spending an awful lot of time keeping track of the business instead of actually running the business.
That's the problem I kept running into.
And that's without even mentioning the times you get started on something, something shiny catches your eye, and suddenly you're doing something completely different with absolutely no idea what you were doing before—or where you left off.
There are plenty of tools that can help me list something, track a spreadsheet, edit a photograph, or manage one little piece of the puzzle. The problem is, they almost never work together.
And heaven forbid you forget to update one of them along the way.
I wanted somewhere to keep the whole puzzle.
That's where Keeper's Cabinet started.