The Good News – People Are Still buying Jewelry

Hi everyone,

Like many of you, we sell jewelry at a number of art shows during the year.  Last weekend, we packed up and headed to Atlanta for our first show of the fall.  Considering the economy, we weren’t expecting great things.  However, to  our surprise, we had a very good show. 

As small business owners, and like everyone else, we’ve been watching the economy news with quite a bit of trepidation.  If you listen to enough news on TV, it will pretty much convince you that everyone in the country has run out of money and the economy has gone way down the tubes.  But lo and behold, there are still people out there with good jobs, who still have discretionary income. 

Granted, we have a wide price range in our jewelry booth, and most of the sales were items that were towards the lower end of the price spectrum, but there were people who bought 8 or 10 of the lower priced items. 

Cathy, one of our employees, theorizes that when things get really bad and people feel powerless to solve the problems that we are facing, they are still willing to spend $18 on a small jewelry item to make themselves feel better.  That, plus the fact that a lot of people were Christmas shopping, probably contributed to the fact that our show was every bit as good as any other show we have done over the past few years. 

So take heart – we know that many of you buy our products to make jewerly to sell.  The buyers are still out there, and people will always want jewerly, no matter what else is going on in the world.