A New Adventure

*cough* *cough*  Wow its a bit dusty around here! Oh well so I'm back with a brand new adventure to chronicle. I have decided to start a website! I found a killer deal on an e-commerce portal last year and have been slowly planning my business for 2 years (with much trial and error).  I have expanded my initial vision of making hand-dyed costumes to include several retail streams of income. Now here is the perfectly crazy part. I have no money! I decided to move forward with this plan with exactly $22 in my pay pal account. So how am I doing it? One $20 bill at a time. I have a budget that puts all of our living expenses and minimum debt payments within Marco's salary. We live on base so the only utility we pay for is our cell phones and WI-fi (same provider). I cook our meals at home which is healthier and cheaper. Okay great you can live but, Rachel, you gotta spend money to make money so where is it gonna come from? Well starting today I have a part-time job at Bath and Body works. While some of that money will go to fund our emergency fund another portion of it will fund supplies and merchandise for my website at least for the initial start up then for the first many months whatever I make will go straight back into the business. will it work? I don't know but I am sick of waiting for my dreams to become a reality. It is time for action! Stay tuned for more exciting rants as I navigate domain registration, vendors, and made to fit costuming because sink or swim it is going to be a wild ride!